We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI, Pentaho Business Analytics, and Salesforce Einstein Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."Its connectivity with other Office applications, mostly with Excel, and the ability to deploy it very easily are the most valuable features. It comes sort of bundled with the cloud, so you don't need to set up a server and a standalone infrastructure. So, getting into the system or building something that you can deploy is very easy and very cheap. With other systems, you need to have a server, and you need to have a license for the server. The initial setup is very costly."
"It seems stable. I haven't heard of any difficulties from my clients that utilize Power BI."
"Technical support is quite good."
"It offers a lot of information and is very flexible and interactive."
"Good CS and administration."
"Power BI allows you to create user defined charts which is really useful."
"Its ease of use is most valuable."
"The solution has a good toggling feature."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Pentaho is the Tableau report."
"We were able to install it without any assistance from tech support."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"Easy to use components to create the job."
"I use the BI Server, CDE Dashboards, Saiku, and Kettle, because these tools are very good and highly experienced."
"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."
"Tableau CRM is a very capable solution. It is easy to use, user-friendly, and integrates well."
"The fact that the solution is visually appealing because of its lightning interfaces can be considered one of its most valuable features"
"Transparency is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"The out-of-the-box features are good for companies that want to try analytics and data science interventions."
"The tool is a cloud-based solution capable of integrating any kind of data in the world."
"The most valuable feature of Salesforce Einstein Analytics is the reporting tools."
"The most valuable features of Salesforce Einstein Analytics are the flexibility around the deployment, overall capabilities, user-friendliness, and interactiveness with the tools that came built with it."
"We have found the scalability to be very good."
"here are some limitations with the data models needed to build the report."
"It's not user-friendly; more tutorials, training, and better documentation would be helpful."
"There could be an integrated AI that can automatically analyze some of your data and highlight or provide suggestions. For example, when you are looking at a data set, it can suggest putting it into a certain type of chart so that you gain different insights or a trend line. You would almost have templates that it would recommend for you."
"It should be easier to use when there are multiple system sources."
"Defining a relationship was very confusing. There were circular directions for which I had to do a lot of adjustments in the data. They can do something to make it easier."
"The visualization aspect, while being the most visible to business users, also happens the be the weakest point in the entire Microsoft BI stack."
"Actionable insights could be better."
"I would like for there to be some type of user manual that shows steps on how to navigate the solution."
"Pentaho Business Analytics' user interface is outdated."
"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."
"Logging capability is needed."
"Another concern is that Pentaho is not customizable or interactive."
"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."
"The repository should be improved."
"We did not achieve the ROI. The work delivered to users had lesser value than the subscription cost."
"Version control would be a good addition."
"Improvement-wise, I feel the solution must be more robust since it is not exactly ready to handle large data."
"There are some offerings like Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and Marketing Cloud that have very useful online learning options. There need to be more avenues for self-learning with this particular solution. That would be useful."
"If I could improve Tableau CRM I would make it as powerful as Tableau. Tableau CRM is more integrated and it's on the web, but it has less functionality. It is lacking functionality at this time."
"If a user leaves your organization, you shouldn't lose the visibility of all of the records."
"The price of Salesforce Einstein Analytics is quite a bit expensive for the region of Mexico. I think the price of the product could be better."
"All of the timesheets and appraisal management I have not been happy with. There should be some improvements. For example, as a management team, our managers do not have access to see a summary report, such as who is on leave today or how many hours each person logged in. You have to get into individual users and see. You cannot see a summary report, the reporting is missing. There should improve the reports."
"The tool needs to simplify its features."
"The product is natively integrated into the Salesforce ecosystem. You also need a CRM license. It should be more flexible with other platforms."
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