The repository should be improved. There should be the possibility to have versioning, to make it combinable with some Git repositories or something like that, to check out the processes and make sure it has a traceable history.

The solution could really be improved. There are too many bugs in our version.

To implement a logic we may need to use several components. In other tools such as Informatica, equivalent logic can be implemented with lesser components. To set the Java memory size, the configuration has to be changed outside the tool; it will be easier if everything can be handled within the tool.

There are no easy guides to implementing metadata injection. Templates and sample jobs could be provided for customers who need to leverage metadata for standard processing across multiple databases and tables.

The product to me is not as user-friendly as other players in the market.

It also still needs improvement in the reporting module. You will need to search for  deployment examples or need to have a first demonstration to make it ready for your specific needs. The adoption and learning will be another challenge if you are already using other solutions. If that is the case or your challenge then I will recommend buying the Enterprise edition from Hitachi Vantara as full solution with installation, deployment, and migration from your existing product.

Pentaho Business Analytics is not a good tool for visualization. We have many issues surfacing.

Another concern is that Pentaho is not customizable or interactive.

It needs to improve scheduling for the integration aspect. Pentaho Mondrian (cubes) should allow snowflake schemas

In the reporting tool, I would like to see what code it generates. As of now, there is no provision to see the underlying code of the PRD file.

Pentaho has a solid foundation and decent user interfaces. They are lacking, however, in the tool space for data exploration/presentation. The recent Data Discovery trend put a lot of strain on visual data analysis tools suppliers and Pentaho has chosen to strengthen their data integration features, aiming for Big Data and Hadoop growing market. The work on visual data exploring tools was then mainly left for the community to tackle on.

So, there is room for improvement regarding graphical interface for data exploration and presentation. Please note that there is no wanting for decent tools, only that the tools are not as sharp and as beautiful as QlikView, for instance. Pentaho delivers, no question, it only does not pleases the eye that much.

For those that run the open source community edition at times it can be difficult to find updated references for support. Even for companies that use the Enterprise Edition finding useful resources when a problem occurs can be difficult. Pentaho driven best practices should be made available to both the Community and Enterprise users to motivate and empower more users to use the solutions effectively.

Pentaho Business Analytics' user interface is outdated. It's also limited in out-of-the-box features, which forces you to develop features yourself. There are also some problems with having to update metadata manually, which I would like to see Pentaho fix in the future. 

I think that Pentaho can improve a lot its UI interface and its tool for dashboard maintenance.

Debugging and logging needs to improve. Not all the time debugging gives the accurate picture of what is going wrong with the jobs or transformations.

I would like to see self-service analysis and front-end tools.

The "self-service" feature of all BI tools deals with let final user (normally not tech one) do his/her work navigating data in a freely and not organized way.

Is exactly the opposite as create and manage a DW where data, metadata, are known and processed before.

Normally, traditional BI tools are more complex and complete managing traditional DW and in recent years other BI tools (like Qlik and Tableau for example) appears to fulfill this features.

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.

Since most of our projects start off as a proof-of-concept with the Community Edition version of the products we found that the differences between the Community- and the Enterprise Editions are too big on certain levels. It would be a big gain if the Community Edition version would be a full representation of the Enterprise Editions making it easier to move on to the Enterprise Edition and support.

It's still not user friendly or robust enough for our needs.

The presentation of data and reports. Pentaho have made a lot of improvements in the newer versions, but it's still an area of improvement when compared to other products in market.

- R Script

QueryByExample Portal support for Liferay No collaborative BI Auditing / User-Profiling is available only in Enterprise edition

• Logging capability.
• Version control would be a good addition.

The ad-hoc reporting needs to be improved.

There are issues with Java code and sometimes we have to fix it or apply work around.

1. A few steps in PDI like Database Join can be fine tuned.
2. Work could be done on roles and securities.

The dashboards and reports could use more improvement to show more data and to provide more analysis.

Mobile Responsiveness of BA server should be improved.

Analyser and interactive Dashboard should be accessible via Dashboard.

• Populating Cube
• Data Mining

More built-in features, better version control integration, online tutorials.

The OEM license pricing is quite expensive. Enhance the authentication and authorization part.

It's not flexible for an enterprise database.