Pentaho is a BIS(business intelligence system) that is designed to help customers
make decisions based on their data type, size, workflow, use, and importance.
The "Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics" is software made and integrated with different software sets of tools to make it a good alternative BIS.
The customers can create a platform using "Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics" for data integration and analytics.
The Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics platform includes, extract, transform, and load (ETL), big data analytics, visualizations, dashboards, reporting, data mining, and predictive analytics.
Pentaho BIS can be used where an organization has a lot of big data storage systems already installed and needs to manage, visualize, 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.
This sometimes happens when customers buy one storage capacity, then upgrade or buy another one to get more capacity, and their organization is full of different types of storage/data. It is very hard to visualize and manage that data.
Pentaho Business Analytics can significantly improve an organization's IT insite, instead of creating silos of their data, they can manage, analyze and create an overall report using one product. It has a community version and an Enterprise version. Organizations can benefit from it by Increasing their Productivity, Improving Data Pipeline Quality, and faster Data Delivery.
It is a very good replacement for BIS, an organization's needs can be fulfilled by using the community version if they don't have any compliance issues.
Pentaho can help organizations by providing them an insight of their unstructured data using one platform(Pentaho Business Analytics).
The features are almost identical to other BIS platforms but to me, customers can benefit as it has a community version with most of its Enterprise features. It also has a free limited-period trial version.
The other feature that I would like to share here is, that users have access to a complete spectrum of data from different sources with the system’s adaptive big data layer, which takes the source of the data into account. The software is built on an open architecture and can be integrated with multiple systems. However, Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics has been acquired by HDS which offers an Enterprise edition for organizations that also need to meet product compliance.
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.
We are just exploring and selling it as it is new to our customers.
PBA stability depends on the overall infrastructure and deployment scenario.
It is built for scalability and data visualization of a very large namespace.
We need more installations and deployments to share our customers' reviews for "Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics".
We are just exploring it and offering our customers with Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) as a full solution. However, it all depends on customer needs and requirements.
The initial setup is simple but deployment complicity depends on scalability and features you need.
We are Hitachi Vantara(Providing Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics Enterprise Edition only) Partners, so we are offering as a reseller to our customers.
It helps organizations get better business efficiency and ROI in their heterogeneous environment.
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.
We are also offering Oracle OBIEE, but it all depends on the customer's use case and existing setup.