We performed a comparison between Pentaho Business Analytics and QlikView based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Reporting solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of Pentaho is the Tableau report."
"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."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"We were able to install it without any assistance from tech support."
"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."
"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."
"If you correctly use the product for your use cases, it provides value for money."
"One of the good thing is that you can integrate different data source technologies. So you can model your environment without having any of our views running."
"This is a very cool application with endless options of creativity and visuals."
"On the positive side, QlikView's scripting is a great asset as it functions as an ETL."
"It is a stable product."
"It has user-friendly data visualization features, supporting our decision-making process with its business intelligence capabilities"
"It enables us to configure various elements, such as dashboard settings, including factors like color schemes and other customization parameters."
"The most valuable aspect is its extensive library on Microsoft, providing a robust framework for implementation."
"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."
"Pentaho Business Analytics' user interface is outdated."
"Another concern is that Pentaho is not customizable or interactive."
"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."
"Version control would be a good addition."
"We did not achieve the ROI. The work delivered to users had lesser value than the subscription cost."
"It needs work with visualization."
"Better source data connectors."
"There is a lack of static PDF report generation and automatic resizing of the dashboard to fit the device."
"For me, it is important to have a mix, what is the "view" and what is the "sense", Qlik Sense. They have two tools, but for me it is important to have only one tool, which combines the functions that we have from one side and the other side."
"Improvement in collaboration, between that and publishing of reports and publishing of models."
"Scalability really depends on the size of your data and QlikView server architecture. For the biggest data sets, it could become an issue at some point."
"The user interface is old."
"The tool is expensive in Turkey."
Pentaho Business Analytics is ranked 16th in Reporting with 42 reviews while QlikView is ranked 5th in Reporting with 158 reviews. Pentaho Business Analytics is rated 8.0, while QlikView is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Pentaho Business Analytics writes "Flexible, easy to understand, and simple to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of QlikView writes "Useful for data visualization and business intelligence". Pentaho Business Analytics is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Databricks, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, SAP Crystal Reports and Tableau, whereas QlikView is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, SQL Server and TIBCO Spotfire. See our Pentaho Business Analytics vs. QlikView report.
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