Pentaho Business Analytics vs RStudio Connect comparison

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Pentaho Business Analytics

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90% willing to recommend

RStudio Connect

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66% willing to recommend

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We performed a comparison between Pentaho Business Analytics and RStudio Connect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Categories and Ranking

Pentaho Business Analytics

Ranking in Reporting

16th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (20th), Cloud Operations Analytics (4th)

RStudio Connect

Ranking in Reporting

19th

Average Rating

6.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Visualization (17th)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Reporting category, the mindshare of Pentaho Business Analytics is 1.1%, down from 1.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of RStudio Connect is 0.5%, down from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Sayan König

Senior Manager, Financial Services at KPMG

Flexible, easy to understand, and simple to set up

The repository should be improved. There should be the possibility to have versioning, to make it combinable with some Git repositories or something like that, to check out the processes and make sure it has a traceable history. The solution could really be improved. There are too many bugs in our version.

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Ganesh Y

Team Lead at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

Offers ease of use, affordability, cloud options, and many open sources,

Our model has used various tools together. It should make sense for them to use these tools in conjunction with RStudio Connect. Currently, they use none or only PSN and a couple of other devices. There should be integration with these tools or the ability to integrate various statistical tools, both open source and proprietary, with RStudio Connect. RStudio Connect should ideally provide an add-on library where modules can be utilized. There's no need to introduce something entirely disconnected but beneficial for statistical modeling. If some popular tools they use, such as Norman or PSF, were bundled and made available as add-ons, it would create a centralized place. This centralized platform would allow individual vendors to ensure compatibility of their products with RStudio Connect and provide them on the marketplace. Customers could then choose these validated additional tools, integrating them seamlessly with RStudio Connect.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Easy to use components to create the job."

"It is robust, offers market intelligence, and utilizes modules effectively."

"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."

"We were able to install it without any assistance from tech support."

"The most valuable feature of Pentaho is the Tableau report."

"The interface of Pentaho Business Analytics is easy to use and does not require high-level skills to operate the tool."

"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."

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"RStudio Connect is very powerful statistically and can handle large datasets, even on a free version on a laptop."

Cons

"We did not achieve the ROI. The work delivered to users had lesser value than the subscription cost."

"The repository should be improved."

"Version control would be a good addition."

"Pentaho Business Analytics is hard to learn and not suited for initial users as it requires knowledge of operating systems, Java, and other technical skills."

"The tool is very good, and yet it has some problems as it relies heavily on Java."

"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."

"Another concern is that Pentaho is not customizable or interactive."

"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."

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"I rate my experience with RStudio Connect as average because I am not yet comfortable enough to provide a definitive assessment."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Pentaho is expensive ."

"Free and commercial versions are available."

"We were lucky enough to find a Pentaho OEM partner who offered a data warehouse model and the ETL software for about 60K SGD per year."

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it_user6978

Co-Founder at Helical IT Solution (Jaspersoft, Pentaho, Talend, Kettle, DWBI, ETL, Ctools, iReport, Jasper Report)

Jun 10, 2013

Jaspersoft vs. Pentaho – Which one to use & is there any need to purchase the commercial edition

Any company (be it technology, manfucaturing, human resource, ecommerce, SME etc) always has the need for Business Intelligence to some or the other extent. If cost is one of the consideration factor, then the 2 BI tools which are at the forefront are Pentaho and Jaspersoft. But, often the same…

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

24%

Computer Software Company

14%

Educational Organization

Real Estate/Law Firm

Government

15%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Insurance Company

University

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Questions from the Community

Seeking lightweight open source BI software

There are many...It would rather depend what System BI architecture or Enterprise legacy you have at your end...I would recommend as follows: 1) If you have legacies of SAP, Oracle - look for SAP...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Pentaho Business Analytics?

Pentaho Business Analytics is priced similarly to other competitors such as QlikView ( /products/qlikview-reviews ) and Tableau ( /products/tableau-reviews ). I usually use the community edition.

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What needs improvement with Pentaho Business Analytics?

Pentaho Business Analytics ( /categories/bi-business-intelligence-tools ) is hard to learn and not suited for initial users as it requires knowledge of operating systems, Java, and other technical ...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for RStudio Connect?

The product is not very expensive. When the number of licenses grows, the procurement team should come in and negotiate to get a better price and discount. I rate the product’s pricing a three out ...

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What needs improvement with RStudio Connect?

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What is your primary use case for RStudio Connect?

We use the solution for statistical modeling.

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Overview

Pentaho is an open source business intelligence company that provides a wide range of tools to help their customers better manage their businesses. These tools include data integration software, mining tools, dashboard applications, online analytical processing options, and more.

Pentaho has two product categories: There is the standard enterprise version. This is the product that comes directly from Pentaho itself with all of the benefits, features, and programs that come along with a paid application such us analysis services, dashboard design, and interactive reporting.

The alternative is an open source version, which the public is permitted to add to and tweak the product. This solution has its advantages, aside from the fact that it is free, in that there are many more people working on the project to improve its quality and breadth of functionality.

Hitachi Vantara

RStudio Connect is a web-based platform that allows organizations to share and manage data science content easily. Its primary use case is to enable data scientists to publish and share their work with stakeholders, including executives, analysts, and other team members.

The solution helps organizations to streamline their data science workflows, reduce the time and effort required to share insights and improve collaboration across teams. With RStudio Connect, organizations can ensure that their data science content is secure, up-to-date, and accessible to the right people at the right time.

Posit PBC

Sample Customers

Cargo 2000 Lufthansa, Marketo, ModCloth, Cardiac Science, Telefonica, ExactTarget, Active Broadband Networks, and Brussels Airport.

ENERGETIC INSURANCE, PRECISION ANALYTICS, REDFIN, TWO SIX CAPITALSTACK OVERFLOW, LIBERTY MUTUAL, EDUCATION SUPERHIGHWAY, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

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