We performed a comparison between Pentaho Business Analytics and RapidMiner based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."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."
"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."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"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."
"It is easy to use and has a huge community that I can rely on for help. Moreover, it is interactive."
"It's helpful if you want to make informed decisions using data. We can take the information, tease out the attributes, and label everything. It's suitable for profiling and forecasting in any industry."
"I like not having to write all solutions from code. Being able to drag and drop controls, enables me to focus on building the best model, without needing to search for syntax errors or extra libraries."
"Using the GUI, I can have models and algorithms drag and drop nodes."
"Scalability is not really a concern with RapidMiner. It scales very well and can be used in global implementations."
"I've been using a lot of components from the Strategic Extension and Python Extension."
"The most valuable feature of RapidMiner is that it is code free. It is similar to playing with Lego pieces and executing after you are finished to see the results. Additionally, it is easy to use and has interesting utilities when preparing the data. It has a utility to automatically launch a series of models and show the comparisons. When finished with the comparisons you can select the best one, and deploy it automatically."
"The GUI capabilities of the solution are excellent. Their Auto ML model provides for even non-coder data scientists to deploy a model."
"We did not achieve the ROI. The work delivered to users had lesser value than the subscription cost."
"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."
"The repository should be improved."
"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."
"Version control would be a good addition."
"Pentaho Business Analytics' user interface is outdated."
"Logging capability is needed."
"The price of this solution should be improved."
"I would appreciate improvements in automation and customization options to further streamline processes."
"RapidMiner isn't cheap. It's a complete solution, but it's costly."
"RapidMiner would be improved with the inclusion of more machine learning algorithms for generating time-series forecasting models."
"I would like to see more integration capabilities."
"If they could include video tutorials, people would find that quite helpful."
"RapidMiner can improve deep learning by enhancing the features."
"I think that they should make deep learning models easier."
Pentaho Business Analytics is ranked 21st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 42 reviews while RapidMiner is ranked 2nd in Predictive Analytics with 19 reviews. Pentaho Business Analytics is rated 8.0, while RapidMiner is rated 8.6. 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 RapidMiner writes "Offers good tutorials that make it easy to learn and use, with a powerful feature to compare machine learning algorithms". Pentaho Business Analytics is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Databricks, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, SAP Crystal Reports and Tableau, whereas RapidMiner is most compared with KNIME, Alteryx, Dataiku Data Science Studio, Tableau and Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio.
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