We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos, Microsoft Power BI, and Pentaho Business Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The product is a very good reporting tool and is very flexible. It allows for the users to get a scheduled report."
"Integration with Office can enable the 'download' mode of storytelling."
"It has a very powerful edit feature which allows users to back out of changes (undo) without forcing them to recreate entire reports."
"This solution allows you to input a wide range of file formats."
"A positive feature is Report Studio, where we create beautiful, complex reports."
"It's enabled us to report directly from our main application systems. We're removing islands of data and we're removing inefficiencies, where people or small divisions had their own store of information."
"Mapbox integration for geospatial analytics down to longitude/latitude layers."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"It's a straightforward setup."
"Our setup is very straight forward and can be done in a matter of hours."
"Provides a full platform (database, ETL, reporting, analysis, and so on)"
"The uploading of information is very easy, as you just use an Excel sheet to start work right away and obtain the benefits of Power BI."
"My understanding is that the initial setup is pretty easy."
"The reports are easy to create."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The most valuable feature is integration with Python."
"The most valuable feature of Pentaho is the Tableau report."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"I use the BI Server, CDE Dashboards, Saiku, and Kettle, because these tools are very good and highly experienced."
"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."
"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."
"One key area for improvement is the need to improve the self-service nature and functionality of the product in terms of visual analytics."
"They should provide improved visual reporting."
"It would be good if the solution had conditional formatting."
"I don't like that when we use Colab packages, we get less functionality. For example, you can make groups of data with Excel or with the data sets from the packages, but when you use the Colab packages directly, you can only group the data when you analyze it with Analysis Studio. I think Cognos needs to improve more on this functionality."
"The data uploads that we do, such as Excel files, have a lot of restrictions. If we can make it a bit more user-friendly, allowing us to have more flexibility it would be a great help."
"It would be better if it is was easier to implement without extensive training for it."
"The solution's support could be better."
"The performance is a bottleneck and something that can be improved."
"The interface could be improved."
"The smart phone application could be improved, along with better graphics and faster updating."
"It needs more analytic tools."
"Microsoft BI could improve by allowing large-size data sources. We have large data sources, and we have problems loading them in Microsoft BI."
"It should have more report outputs. They should expand the report outputs. Its documentation should also be better."
"The product could have better analytics capabilities."
"The initial installation is difficult."
"I'm looking for something that can make it much easier to incorporate Power BI visuals or dashboards into, let's say, Power Apps – custom Power Apps or anything like that. The most important thing would be to seamlessly embed reports in applications. For example, to have buttons that can be navigated through multiple solutions – from Power Apps to Power BI to SharePoint – via links or something like that."
"The repository should be improved."
"Another concern is that Pentaho is not customizable or interactive."
"Pentaho Business Analytics' user interface is outdated."
"Logging capability is needed."
"Version control would be a good addition."
"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."
"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."
