We performed a comparison between Anaconda and Pentaho Business Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Databricks, Microsoft, Alteryx and others in Data Science Platforms."The most advantageous feature is the logic building."
"The solution is stable."
"It helped us find find the optimal area for where our warehouse should be located."
"The most valuable feature is the set of libraries that are used to support the functionality that we require."
"The best part of Anaconda is the media distribution that comes as part of it. It gets us started very quickly."
"The notebook feature is an improvement over RStudio."
"The documentation is excellent and the solution has a very large and active community that supports it."
"I can use Anaconda for non-heavy tasks."
"We were able to install it without any assistance from tech support."
"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."
"Easy to use components to create the job."
"Pentaho Business Analytics' best features include the ease of developing data flows and the wide range of options to connect to databases, including those on the cloud."
"I use the BI Server, CDE Dashboards, Saiku, and Kettle, because these tools are very good and highly experienced."
"The most valuable feature of Pentaho is the Tableau report."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"One thing that hurts the product is that the company is not doing more to advertise it as a solution and make it more well known."
"Having a small guide or video on the tool would help learn how to use it and what the features are."
"Anaconda can't handle heavy workloads."
"One feature that I would like to see is being able to use a different language in a different cell, which would allow me to mix R and Python together."
"Anaconda could benefit from improvement in its user interface to make it more attractive and user-friendly. Currently, it's boring."
"I think better documentation or a step-by-step guide for installation would help, especially for on-premise users."
"The ability to schedule scripts for the building and monitoring of jobs would be an advantage for this platform."
"I think that the framework can be improved to make it easier for people to discover and use things on their own."
"Deployment is not simple. It is not simple because we are dealing with a lot of data; we are dealing with a lot of storage. So, it's not a simple process."
"Pentaho Business Analytics' user interface is outdated."
"Version control would be a good addition."
"Logging capability is needed."
"Another concern is that Pentaho is not customizable or interactive."
"We did not achieve the ROI. The work delivered to users had lesser value than the subscription cost."
"The repository should be improved."
"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."
Anaconda is ranked 13th in Data Science Platforms with 15 reviews while Pentaho Business Analytics is ranked 21st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 42 reviews. Anaconda is rated 7.8, while Pentaho Business Analytics is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Anaconda writes "Offers free version and is helpful to handle small-scale workloads". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pentaho Business Analytics writes "Flexible, easy to understand, and simple to set up". Anaconda is most compared with Databricks, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio, Amazon SageMaker, Microsoft Power BI and IBM SPSS Statistics, whereas Pentaho Business Analytics is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Databricks, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, SAP Crystal Reports and Tableau.
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