We performed a comparison between Pentaho Business Analytics and Tableau 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."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."
"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."
"Easy to use components to create the job."
"The most valuable feature of Pentaho is the Tableau report."
"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."
"We were able to install it without any assistance from tech support."
"Data Interpreter: Which can identify issues or potential errors with your imported data."
"It is very easy to create dashboards, charts, and graphs."
"Tableau is very flexible and easy to learn. It has drag-and-drop function analytics, and its design is very good. It is a very good tool, and it basically brings life into data with good design. We have been creating a lot of interactive visualizations and dashboards. It has a public version. There are public communities from where you can get a lot of examples for practice."
"It has a shallow learning curve and so you can go to market very, very, very quickly."
"It gives us a new dimension to the way that we analyse our data."
"The use of a storyboard helps the flow of the data visualisation."
"I like the calculation feature. I would not say it's such a good feature in Tableau, but if you have the knowledge, you can make that feature visible to everyone. It's not a feature that we can drag and drop and get the information. But whatever the data, whatever the calculation, I'm able to do. It's basically the knowledge base. Whatever knowledge I have, I can make that information public and publish it for management."
"Data handling, visualizations, and aesthetics of it are the most valuable features."
"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."
"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."
"Another concern is that Pentaho is not customizable or interactive."
"Logging capability is needed."
"The repository should be improved."
"Version control would be a good addition."
"Pentaho Business Analytics' user interface is outdated."
"We did not achieve the ROI. The work delivered to users had lesser value than the subscription cost."
"Provide additional enhancements in any business process: Operations, Marketing and Sales, Finance, Human Resources, Logistics, etc."
"It would be nice to include more features on each dashboard."
"I would like Tableau to handle geospatial data better in terms of multiple layers and shapefiles."
"There should be more widgets that would help less trained individuals create charts with less difficulty."
"I would like Tableau Prep to be integrated with Tableau Desktop. I would also like more customizations for tables."
"When it comes to large datasets, the data should be extracted faster."
"It should have more integration with different tools and technologies. Its licensing cost should also be improved."
"The product needs to allow for better ways to drill down more effectively on the information at hand."
Pentaho Business Analytics is ranked 16th in Reporting with 42 reviews while Tableau is ranked 2nd in Reporting with 290 reviews. Pentaho Business Analytics is rated 8.0, while Tableau is rated 8.4. 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 Tableau writes "Provides fast data access with in-memory extracts, makes it easy to create visualizations, and saves time". Pentaho Business Analytics is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Databricks, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, SAP Crystal Reports and KNIME, whereas Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, Domo, SAS Visual Analytics and Databricks. See our Pentaho Business Analytics vs. Tableau report.
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