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CloudVelox vs Pentaho Business Analytics comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

CloudVelox
Ranking in Cloud Operations Analytics
4th
Average Rating
10.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Pentaho Business Analytics
Ranking in Cloud Operations Analytics
2nd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
45
Ranking in other categories
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (20th), Reporting (14th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Cloud Operations Analytics category, the mindshare of CloudVelox is 23.2%. The mindshare of Pentaho Business Analytics is 8.6%, down from 20.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Operations Analytics Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Pentaho Business Analytics8.6%
CloudVelox23.2%
Other68.2%
Cloud Operations Analytics
 

Featured Reviews

DS
Owner at David Strom Inc.
One Hybrid Cloud can migrate both physical and virtual servers to the cloud. You can't mix Windows and Linux servers.
Easy to clone VMs; also can migrate both physical and virtual servers to the Amazon cloud. You can't mix Windows and Linux servers in the same application: you have to choose one family or the other in your clones.
JB
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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Easy to clone VMs; also can migrate both physical and virtual servers to the Amazon cloud."
"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."
"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."
"We were able to install it without any assistance from tech support."
"We use both DataStage and Pentaho, but I don't see any special features in Pentaho that is not available in DataStage, except Big Data plugins and connectors."
"There are no issues with the stability."
"I found Pentaho Data Integration the most valuable component since it is the most mature open-source ETL tool available."
"Easy to use components to create the job."
"We can demonstrate a better report UI and vivid experience for our customers."
 

Cons

"You can't mix Windows and Linux servers in the same application: you have to choose one family or the other in your clones."
"Customer Service: A 3/5. The support is prompt and timely, but there have been some technical limitations sometimes."
"The OEM license pricing is quite expensive."
"It's still not user friendly or robust enough for our needs."
"It needs to improve scheduling for the integration aspect."
"Mobile responsiveness of BA server should be improved."
"Pentaho has a solid foundation and decent user interfaces. They are lacking, however, in the tool space for data exploration/presentation."
"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."
"We did not achieve the ROI. The work delivered to users had lesser value than the subscription cost."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

Information not available
"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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Comparison Review

it_user6978 - PeerSpot reviewer
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…
 

Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
12%
Computer Software Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business22
Midsize Enterprise7
Large Enterprise15
 

Questions from the Community

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Seeking lightweight open source BI software
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...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Pentaho Business Analytics?
Pentaho Business Analytics offers the best value for money. While improvements can be made in some areas, particularly with more cloud-based solutions, it is not in their domain because they do not...
What needs improvement with Pentaho Business Analytics?
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 i...
 

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One Hybrid Cloud
Pentaho, Kettle, Hitachi Pentaho Business Analytics
 

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Sample Customers

Hyatt, ScaleArc, Impinj, mypoints, Housing Finance Authority, City of Ashville NC
Cargo 2000 Lufthansa, Marketo, ModCloth, Cardiac Science, Telefonica, ExactTarget, Active Broadband Networks, and Brussels Airport.