It's Hitachi, Hitachi Data Integration, formerly known as Pentaho.

I'm a partner with Pentaho/Hitachi and I'm a consultant.

New users should define some style guides to have a common implementation and documentation in the processes to handle and maintain it in the future. They should maybe use some modular approaches so that everything goes in the same direction. You should create reusable assets to make it happen.

I would rate the solution at an eight out of ten.

Pentaho seems to be popular in Europe and Canada. Talend is popular in APAC region. Informatica is popular in the USA. You may want to consider the availability of technical staff and support in your region before choosing ETL software.

No, not yet any.

I do not recommend Pentaho, I rate this solution a five out of ten.

Research it and know your needs.

Pentaho is a good choice for Unix/Linux environments. The integration tool is quite good. The configuration for cubes is quite simple (XML) and it is very simple to configure dimensions, factual and calculated data. although, we use a Mondrian emulator (Sinatra) for our solution implementation.

It's moderate to use, learn, and implement. It's nice and you should use it.

Pentaho has a huge potential to deliver quite a lot of BI value. But on those days when BI is regarded as a simple multidimensional analytics tools, it seems a bit bloated and off the mark. It is so because Pentaho is not aimed to be flashy and eye-pleasing for a commomplace reporting monger (reporting is the farthest you can get from BI and still smell like it), and it requires a bit of strategy to allow for ROI. If you are looking for tools for immediate, prompt, beautifull remmedy, Pentaho might not be your pick. But if you know what you want to acomplish, go on and try it.

Pentaho offers a community edition which is an open source solution and can be downloaded for free. The community edition truly gives most companies everything they need but your solution needs are matched with your business needs. As a cost cutting option Enterprise license fees can be paid to vendors to fund in demand support.

Pentaho Business Analytics is a very good product for those starting to work with ETL processes. Usually, it will solve every problem you may have when creating those processes, and it's free, with a big support community. However, it may not be the best choice if your company has a very strong relationship with Microsoft or if you want to work in the cloud. I would give Pentaho Business Analytics a rating of eight out of ten.

For me, Pentaho is not growing in terms of functionality, as fast as other companies in the same segment. The UI falls short and for more complex solutions, it’s necessary to have good developers. However, being an Open Source solution, I think it allows IT departments to show with low investment the importance of BI for the company.

The tool is easy to implement, but it needs technical acumen to do so. In other words although it look like a simple drag and drop kind of tool, it can be fairly complex.

Have a global and corporate design in mind. However, start with a particular area, small and well-defined.

Hire specialized support for Pentaho. If customers want a professional tool and have the money, they should invest in the enterprise version of Pentaho or hire a company from your country specializing in Pentaho with high experience.

As mentioned before, there is a great community of users, developers and other enthusiasts which I recommend to consult for your particular use-case. Check the latest Gartner report (2016) about BI vendors and ultimately visit one of the Pentaho Community Meetups to get more insight.

Since there are very few skilled people available on the market, we had to risk the project. 

Study, Analyze and Compare with other platforms feature according to your requirements. Following are the nice features of Pentaho: Ad-hoc reporting Support for both JasperReport,BIRT Dashboard using JFreeChart

Good for any size organization. There are other products and vendors available to better handle errors and logging, but for us, the free version of Pentaho is good enough to satisfy our needs.

You should always check the community version first as it may be better for you.

It's very easy to use and implement.

If budget is a constraint, then Pentaho is a very good option. If budget is not an issue , then paid BI tools can be easily considered. Pentaho is leader in open source technology but still may not match paid BI tools.

A very important aspect of performance is the choice of the database to house the data warehouse. I recommend investing time in deciding the engine and architecture. We recommend using oriented columns engines.

Use this product and feel how the application can change your company's decision-making policy.

Go for it.

It’s a comprehensive BA tool including ETL and reporting. It’s easy to use with a small dataset, but you will need to dig deep to optimize the performance when the data set is huge.