We performed a comparison between Pentaho Business Analytics and TIBCO Spotfire based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two BI (Business Intelligence) Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of Pentaho is the Tableau report."
"Pentaho Business Analytics' best features include the ease of developing data flows and the wide range of options to connect to databases, including those on the cloud."
"Pentaho is an analytics platform that can be used when an organization has a lot of big data storage systems already installed and needs to manage and analyze that data. It has a specific use case for unstructured data, such as documents, and needs to be able to search and analyze it."
"I use the BI Server, CDE Dashboards, Saiku, and Kettle, because these tools are very good and highly experienced."
"Easy to use components to create the job."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"We were able to install it without any assistance from tech support."
"Data discovery is very simple."
"The ability to connect to many different data sources is one of the key features. The other would then be the different ways in which that data can be visualized."
"I appreciate Spotfire's range of visualization options, advanced analytics features, and seamless integration with other TIBCO products."
"We used it pretty heavily in gathering data, which goes to our VPs. They are able to base their next revenue planning based on this metric. So, it has been invaluable."
"It’s stable and straightforward."
"It allows users to quickly analyze data from a variety of sources and visualize it with powerful, interactive graphs, and charts."
"R and automation services."
"The most valuable feature is the map visuals that help us connect to the geo-specialized data which is more advanced than other solutions."
"Logging capability is needed."
"Version control would be a good addition."
"Pentaho Business Analytics' user interface is outdated."
"Deployment is not simple. It is not simple because we are dealing with a lot of data; we are dealing with a lot of storage. So, it's not a simple process."
"Pentaho, at the general level, should greatly improve the easy construction of its dashboards and easy integration of information from different sources without technical user intervention."
"We did not achieve the ROI. The work delivered to users had lesser value than the subscription cost."
"Another concern is that Pentaho is not customizable or interactive."
"The repository should be improved."
"I would like to see the visualization library in this solution expanded, so that I can increase what I can offer to our clients."
"The handling and consumption of realtime data could be improved."
"One aspect where Spotfire could improve is its global recognition, especially in terms of support."
"The data compression has room for improvement."
"The initial setup can be difficult."
"The design of the UI could be improved."
"Compared to competitors, the UI is quite dated."
"When you do the data loading, it is slow."
Pentaho Business Analytics is ranked 21st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 42 reviews while TIBCO Spotfire is ranked 13th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 66 reviews. Pentaho Business Analytics is rated 8.0, while TIBCO Spotfire is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Pentaho Business Analytics writes "Flexible, easy to understand, and simple to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of TIBCO Spotfire writes "A robust BI tool, with good dashboard features and adverse event tracking". Pentaho Business Analytics is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Databricks, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, SAP Crystal Reports and Tableau, whereas TIBCO Spotfire is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Qlik Sense, QlikView and Amazon QuickSight. See our Pentaho Business Analytics vs. TIBCO Spotfire report.
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