It is an open-source option, so there isn't much overhead. There are just some fees that are supported. It might have been only 10,000 or 20,000 euros as an annual fee, however, I'm not sure.

We were lucky enough to find a Pentaho OEM partner who offered a data warehouse model and the ETL software for about 60K SGD per year. 

The organization has both options based on their needs and budget constraints. The Enterprise Edition is expensive with references to an added number of features.

I know that price is very high for Pentaho Enterprise Edition. I think it's $250,000 per year. It's worth it only if you need a web application with features like that of Tableau's. If you are to buy something, I would suggest Tableau. It depends on your needs and how you plan to collect the data, but if you will be able to manage with the features that are available in Community Edition, then Pentaho is a good option.

We're using the free edition.

Pentaho is cheap, and becomes cheaper as your team master it. However, it would be a total waste of good dollars to believe my word. Try it for free and go look for professional support from Pentaho. You can also try to compare other tools with Pentaho, but keep in mind that, appart from SAS, all other tools compete on a part of Pentaho. So you must assembly a set of different products to fully compare to it.

Let us say you are going to build a standard dimensional data mart to serve OLAP up. Pentaho has a single price tag, which must be matched to a MicroStrategy PLUS Informatica PowerCenter to make for a correct comparison.

The Community Edition, a free version, is not short on features when compared to the Enterprise Edition, it is just a bit uglier.

To match a Pentaho license price with only either one will give wrong results.

Enterprise licenses can be paid for the Enterprise Pentaho full service solution which offers support through the portal and access to Pentaho/Hitachi Consultants for additional costs.

My original setup cost for the first project was $30,000 and the final cost was about $35,000.

This solution has an open source philosophy. There is a community edition without license costs, although it takes some more time to develop.

There is also an enterprise option that allows you to perform certain tasks easily and includes support.

Unfortunately I can't provide any exact figures about this. But using the Community edition for the development and test cycles drops down the licensing costs for the complete OTAP street.

We are using the Community Edition of Pentaho.

Completely using community edition along with features implemented on top.

Free and commercial versions are available.

We're only using the Community Edition.

Currently using community edition. So zero maintenance cost.

The cost of initial setup was only for the hours and technical expertise (internal development).

Initial cost was $16K for licensing, not sure after that.

I don't know much, but I have heard that the price is too high.