We performed a comparison between Pentaho Business Analytics, QlikView, and Tableau based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in Reporting."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."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Pentaho is the Tableau report."
"We were able to install it without any assistance from tech support."
"If you correctly use the product for your use cases, it provides value for money."
"Associative model - no more cubes."
"Easy to analyze data by click-through."
"You can do a lot of things on the back end which are not possible in the other solutions on the market."
"Once you open it up, you see everything that you can do."
"The in-memory feature gives us better insight. It's also easy to drill down into the information and select information."
"The most valuable aspect is its extensive library on Microsoft, providing a robust framework for implementation."
"It has user-friendly data visualization features, supporting our decision-making process with its business intelligence capabilities"
"Easy for beginners to use"
"The most valuable feature is the richness of its visualization and from a self-service standpoint, the ease of use."
"Self-service is most valuable. Users can pick up quickly and do the resolution. There are a lot of out-of-the-box features, and it satisfies most of the needs. If users are properly trained, they can deal with any situation."
"It is a very stable product. It doesn't break."
"The action feature which Tableau has is very useful for us. If we click on one visualization, it will pass the value to another visualization. That interactivity within different visualizations is the most valuable feature of Tableau."
"Tableau is easy to use."
"The solution is configurable and flexible. We can customize the dashboards and configure the interface the way that we want. The data can be manipulated and arranged in different ways, such as columns."
"It is very easy to implement and to use."
"We did not achieve the ROI. The work delivered to users had lesser value than the subscription cost."
"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."
"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."
"Logging capability is needed."
"Another concern is that Pentaho is not customizable or interactive."
"The repository should be improved."
"The user interface and ease of use takes a bit of a learning curve to pick up."
"Error handling."
"I would like to see more advanced features from Qlik Sense integrated into QlikView to keep it competitive and up-to-date."
"More/newer visualisation components need to be added."
"Better source data connectors."
"They could improve the speed."
"QlikView certainly lacks in its ability to share visualizations or create visualizations easily."
"The solution is quite costly."
"If they could add global filters in the stories, more chart types, and default colours, it would help."
"We need big servers to perform the operations that we are doing. They should probably relook at its architecture."
"The architecture should be improved to better handle the data."
"Bursting email is needed to deliver the reports to many people in their inboxes and this functionality is not provided by Tableau."
"The performance could be better."
"Navigating through activities like cleansing, reshaping, and wrangling extensive or complicated datasets could prove challenging within the Tableau environment."
"I am not a frequent user of this solution, so I am not sure what they've been doing recently. The last time when I used it, I had to use other tools with it for data extraction and cleansing. Its price should also be improved. It is more expensive than Power BI. In terms of training, there is generally better online training for Power BI, but I am not sure of that. It would be helpful to know from where to access its training."
"A strict security measure is needed. I believe it is weak in terms of security."
