Adaptive Insights vs Pentaho Business Analytics comparison

Workday and Hitachi Vantara are both solutions in the Reporting category. Workday is ranked #23, while Hitachi Vantara is ranked #13 with an average rating of 8.5. Workday holds a 1.3% mindshare in RT, compared to Hitachi Vantara’s 1.7% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Workday users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 87% of Hitachi Vantara users who would recommend it.

Adaptive Insights

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 4, 2025

Pentaho Business Analytics and Adaptive Insights compete in the business analytics and financial planning category. Adaptive Insights seems to have the upper hand due to its ease of integration and focus on financial planning, making it more appealing for strategic data-driven decisions.

Features: Pentaho Business Analytics provides robust data integration capabilities, extensive reporting tools, and the flexibility to create customized analytical applications. Adaptive Insights offers financial planning, modeling, and forecasting through intuitive dashboards, a collaborative platform, and integration with various data sources.

Room for Improvement: Pentaho could improve its cloud deployment options, reduce setup complexity, and enhance user interface intuitiveness. Adaptive Insights may enhance its data operations capabilities, expand customization options, and streamline its integration processes to handle more extensive data requirements.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Adaptive Insights benefits from cloud-based deployment, enabling rapid implementation and lower maintenance, with strong customer support facilitating onboarding. Pentaho requires a more complex setup with on-premises infrastructure and offers less direct support.

Pricing and ROI: Pentaho incurs higher setup costs due to its extensive customization and infrastructure needs, offering substantial returns for in-depth data analysis. Adaptive Insights features a transparent pricing model with scalable options, appealing to organizations seeking quick ROI, particularly in financial planning.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Adaptive Insights

Ranking in Reporting

23rd

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Business Performance Management (10th), Financial Performance and Strategy Management (5th), Data Visualization (23rd), ESG Reporting Software (12th)

Pentaho Business Analytics

Ranking in Reporting

13th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (20th), Cloud Operations Analytics (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Reporting category, the mindshare of Adaptive Insights is 1.3%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Pentaho Business Analytics is 1.7%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Reporting Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Pentaho Business Analytics	1.7%
Adaptive Insights	1.3%
Other	97.0%

Reporting

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Andrew Rosenberg

Adaptive Planning Manager at Alight

Adaptive scales well, simple to create new budget versions and models

For the organization I used to work at, it streamlined the process of creating budgets. It's very simple to create a new version and do some more modeling based on your need for planning things like headcount, other expenses, and revenue, everything is configurable within Workday. So that made it easy. Reporting was pretty easy to set up as well. It streamlined the amount of time it took to do the budget as well as kind of making it simple to implement a rolling forecast process. So, it really was more just a productivity increase and time shortening for the budgeting and forecasting process.

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Julien Baluka

Founder at SJT Consult

Solution enables effective ETL processes and exhibits high satisfaction

From an integration perspective, Pentaho Business Analytics is not the best tool on the market. There are things done by Apache that are better, though I am not the one implementing them, so this is based on what I have heard about novelties in the market. I do not see the need to extend the coverage of Pentaho Business Analytics's domain. For things that it does not do, there are better solutions on the market, and it would be costly to implement them. Pentaho Business Analytics is a very great tool for very specific standardized scenarios. If you need more complex elastic solutions because the process is different, there are better tools available.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The integration with our payroll system to complete staff modeling during our budget and forecast processes."

"It helps develop a more unified work format throughout the company."

"The important feature is integration with source data. It connects to various ERP systems, including Workday, Intact, and others. It can also import actuals and compare them to PlanPoint quite easily."

"Automated reporting."

"Forecasting changes that instantly flow through all financial statements."

"It's very simple to create a new version and do some more modeling based on your need for planning things like headcount, other expenses, and revenue, everything is configurable within Workday."

"Reports are allowed to be edited for aesthetic purposes, which is lacking in a lot of other dashboard tools."

"The biggest feature is the source of truth for all of our budget and forecast versions."

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"The interface of Pentaho Business Analytics is easy to use and does not require high-level skills to operate the tool."

"I use the BI Server, CDE Dashboards, Saiku, and Kettle, because these tools are very good and highly experienced."

"It is robust, offers market intelligence, and utilizes modules effectively."

"The most valuable feature of Pentaho is the Tableau report."

"When I have a customer that wants to have a real ETL tool in a standardized way with a real code written product, it is the cheapest."

"Easy to use components to create the job."

"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."

"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."

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Cons

"Discovery (the data visualization module): Needs to catch up with BI leaders, such as MS and Tableau. E.g., sorting by amounts in column charts and page slicers to control all visuals."

"The product's configuration process could be faster."

"Their customer support team is slow to respond and not extremely confident."

"Being able to drill down when using OfficeConnect needs work."

"Users continue to become more advanced and are looking for more advanced solutions."

"It's a Workday product; they could do a little bit better to integrate a pure-play integration with Workday, which really doesn't do that."

"The upload feature exists, but isn't terribly useful."

"The integrations could be simpler. It takes quite a bit of internal and IT know-how to set up."

More Adaptive Insights cons

"Logging capability is needed."

"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."

"Pentaho Business Analytics' user interface is outdated."

"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."

"Version control would be a good addition."

"Pentaho Business Analytics is hard to learn and not suited for initial users as it requires knowledge of operating systems, Java, and other technical skills."

"The tool is very good, and yet it has some problems as it relies heavily on Java."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Adaptive Insights' pricing is relative to its peer competitors. It's certainly competitive compared to a spreadsheet template that you build in Excel. It can be expensive if you need to have 100-500 budget holders giving input and building financial plans. However, in that case, it becomes an extremely good bargain. Compared to its competitors, it offers an excellent value."

"Ensure that you have the proper pricing plan in place."

"Pricing is in line with other cloud-based EPM tools. It is a subscription-based model based upon the number of users and site type if it's an admin or end-user type thing."

"Everything is negotiable, but this solution is low cost compared to others."

"Licensing seems to be worth the cost considering the efficiency Adaptive brings."

"It's affordable."

"Prior to purchasing licenses, make sure you understand which users will only need planning and which users will need both planning and OfficeConnect."

"Adaptive Insights' pricing is reasonable."

"Free and commercial versions are available."

"Pentaho is expensive ."

"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."

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Co-Founder at Helical IT Solution (Jaspersoft, Pentaho, Talend, Kettle, DWBI, ETL, Ctools, iReport, Jasper Report)

Jun 10, 2013

Jaspersoft vs. Pentaho – Which one to use & is there any need to purchase the commercial edition

Any company (be it technology, manfucaturing, human resource, ecommerce, SME etc) always has the need for Business Intelligence to some or the other extent. If cost is one of the consideration factor, then the 2 BI tools which are at the forefront are Pentaho and Jaspersoft. But, often the same…

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

12%

Healthcare Company

Real Estate/Law Firm

Financial Services Firm

14%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Educational Organization

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	10

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	22
Midsize Enterprise	7
Large Enterprise	15

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There are many...It would rather depend what System BI architecture or Enterprise legacy you have at your end...I would recommend as follows: 1) If you have legacies of SAP, Oracle - look for SAP...

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Also Known As

Workday Adaptive Planning, Adaptive Discovery , Workday Adaptive Planning

Pentaho, Kettle, Hitachi Pentaho Business Analytics

Overview

Adaptive Insights is a cloud-based financial planning and analysis software that helps businesses streamline their budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes.

With its intuitive interface and powerful analytics, it enables organizations to make data-driven decisions and drive business performance.

Workday

Pentaho is an open source business intelligence company that provides a wide range of tools to help their customers better manage their businesses. These tools include data integration software, mining tools, dashboard applications, online analytical processing options, and more.

Pentaho has two product categories: There is the standard enterprise version. This is the product that comes directly from Pentaho itself with all of the benefits, features, and programs that come along with a paid application such us analysis services, dashboard design, and interactive reporting.

The alternative is an open source version, which the public is permitted to add to and tweak the product. This solution has its advantages, aside from the fact that it is free, in that there are many more people working on the project to improve its quality and breadth of functionality.

Hitachi Vantara

Sample Customers

1. Cisco Systems 2. Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated 3. Deloitte 4. DocuSign 5. Dropbox 6. Electronic Arts 7. Fender Musical Instruments Corporation 8. Fitbit 9. Fossil Group 10. Groupon 11. Hilton Worldwide 12. HP Inc. 13. Intuit 14. Johnson & Johnson 15. LinkedIn 16. Lyft 17. McAfee 18. Medtronic 19. Netflix 20. Oracle 21. Pandora 22. PayPal 23. Pinterest 24. Red Hat 25. Salesforce 26. ServiceNow 27. Slack Technologies 28. Spotify 29. Symantec 30. Tableau Software 31. Twitter 32. Workday

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