Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics vs SAP Process Orchestration comparison

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The compared Hitachi Vantara and SAP solutions aren't in the same category. Hitachi Vantara is ranked #9 in DI , with an average rating of 7.7, and holds a 1.8% mindshare in the category. SAP is ranked #7 in BBM , with an average rating of 7.6, and holds a 3.7% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Hitachi Vantara users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of SAP users who would recommend it.

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Categories and Ranking

Pentaho Data Integration an...

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Integration (9th)

SAP Process Orchestration

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Business-to-Business Middleware (7th)

Mindshare comparison

Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics and SAP Process Orchestration aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics is designed for Data Integration and holds a mindshare of 1.8%, up 1.6% compared to last year.
SAP Process Orchestration, on the other hand, focuses on Business-to-Business Middleware, holds 3.7% mindshare, down 6.3% since last year.

Data Integration Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics	1.8%
SSIS	4.0%
Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC)	3.8%
Other	90.4%

Data Integration

Business-to-Business Middleware Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
SAP Process Orchestration	3.7%
SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite	10.2%
MuleSoft Anypoint Platform	9.2%
Other	76.9%

Business-to-Business Middleware

Featured Reviews

Michelle Lawson

Principal Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Streamlines complex data workflows and has supported automated customer payment notifications

I haven't used Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics in a couple of years, so I don't know how it can be improved. I was pretty pleased with it and was self-taught on it, working a lot with their team at various times, but they were surprised that I was able to learn it all by myself. The documentation is not bad, and documentation is the main thing that any product can do to make themselves better because the easier it is to find examples of what you're trying to do improves the learning curve. I think it took me the longest to learn how to do the asynchronous processing and have things wait for other things to finish processing before continuing on in the workflow. I choose 8 out of 10 because the one reason that it's been rejected at T-Mobile is that everything has to go through a provisioning process and has to get approved, meaning the actual code base has to be investigated by T-Mobile before they'll allow us to use tools of that nature. For whatever reason, we just haven't been able to get that approval; I don't know if it's on Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics' side or if it's on our side. The more you can make it easier for companies to feel comfortable that your product is secure, robustly tested and bug-free, and free of any other kind of negative hacks, the more quickly it will get accepted.

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Vasanth Kumar Sabaapathi

Senior Lead Architect at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Simplified integrations bring flexibility and efficiency to diverse industries through comprehensive features and robust support

SAP is already trying to make improvements for SAP Process Orchestration by releasing updates every quarter, including patches and modules, and from a security standpoint, while it's a tightly coupled tool, they are introducing a lot of enhancements aligned with current market trends. There are standard contents readily available for starting integrations, which suit around 90% of every industry across verticals including pharma, manufacturing, and employee data central with SuccessFactors integration. Regarding functionality-wise improvements in SAP Process Orchestration, they are now incorporating the Salesforce system. Previously, we needed to rely on a third-party adapter for integration within SAP, but now they are building their own adapters to connect with Salesforce. Additionally, there are options like data connectors using Ariba coming up with SAP Process Orchestration. There's much more to explore, especially as they release new patches, enhancements, and adapters each quarter.

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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

"The way it has improved our product is by giving our users the ability to do ad hoc reports, which is very important to our users. We can do predictive analysis on trends coming in for contracts, which is what our product does. The product helps users decide which way to go based on the predictive analysis done by Pentaho. Pentaho is not doing predictions, but reporting on the predictions that our product is doing. This is a big part of our product."

"The way it has improved our product is by giving our users the ability to do ad hoc reports, which is very important to our users."

"Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics has had a notably positive impact on my organization, enabling us to complete several projects efficiently."

"I would fully recommend Pentaho."

"The fact that it's a low-code solution is valuable. It's good for more junior people who may not be as experienced with programming."

"Easy to use, support for all databases (jdbc and odbc connection), xls, csv, files, txt, SAS, R."

"As a result of one of the projects that we did in the Middle East, we achieved the main goal of fully digitalizing their population census."

"After using this product, we could do some of the things much faster than before."

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"The most valuable features of SAP Process Orchestration are the standard APIs that we can use."

"The solution makes it easy to solve integration problems."

"With the migration into the new version, the performance has improved and our customers are pleased with this improvement."

"The most valuable features of SAP Process Orchestration are its system monitoring and alerts."

"It provides essential features such as continuous monitoring of all interfaces are crucial for our needs."

"With the latest version what I find to be the most valuable are the REST, SuccessFactors, and Ariba Network adapters."

"Great monitoring tools and has its own alert framework."

"The standard adapter with EBA abilities is the most valuable feature. It has good process integration."

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Cons

"The product needs more plugins."

"If you're working with a larger data set, I'm not so sure it would be the best solution; the larger things got the slower it was and it was kind of buggy sometimes."

"If you develop it on MacBook, it'll be quite a hassle."

"Its basic functionality doesn't need a whole lot of change. There could be some improvement in the consistency of the behavior of different transformation steps. The software did start as open-source and a lot of the fundamental, everyday transformation steps that you use when building ETL jobs were developed by different people. It is not a seamless paradigm. A table input step has a different way of thinking than a data merge step."

"To improve Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics, I suggest developing capabilities for cloud-based solutions instead of being solely on-premises."

"Searching repository for reports or dashboards"

"I'm still in the very recent stage concerning Pentaho Data Integration, but it can't really handle what I describe as "extreme data processing" i.e. when there is a huge amount of data to process. That is one area where Pentaho is still lacking."

"Lumada could have more native connectors with other vendors, such as Google BigQuery, Microsoft OneDrive, Jira systems, and Facebook or Instagram. We would like to gather data from modern platforms using Lumada, which is a better approach. As a comparison, if you open Power BI to retrieve data, then you can get data from many vendors with cloud-native connectors, such as Azure, AWS, Google BigQuery, and Athena Redshift. Lumada should have more native connectors to help us and facilitate our job in gathering information from these new modern infrastructures and tools."

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"Some configurations can be a little tricky."

"It is not a scalable solution for the cloud. I would not recommend this for organizations that are primarily cloud-based."

"Data modeling is an area of concern in the product where improvements are required."

"I feel that support is an area that needs improvement. They need to improve the response time and address the customer's issues as soon as possible."

"The usability, for example, is an area where it can be improved upon."

"It does not have all of the industry-standard solutions available in PO and it is not plug and play, so we have to do a lot of development."

"SAP Process Orchestration could improve from an API standpoint. This is not an API management tool, which is one of its drawbacks. However, SAP has released an SAP Cloud Platform Integration which has all of the features, such as API management along with process integration to replace what they had previously."

"The monitoring governance offered by SAP is too technical; only the consultants that have technical skills or development skills are able to manage this product."

More SAP Process Orchestration cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We are using the Community Edition. We have been trying to use and sell the Enterprise version, but that hasn't been possible due to the budget required for it."

"There is a good open source option (Community Edition)."

"Sometimes we provide the licenses or the customer can procure their own licenses. Previously, we had an enterprise license. Currently, we are on a community license as this is adequate for our needs."

"When we first started with it, it was much cheaper. It has gone up drastically, especially since Hitachi bought out Pentaho."

"The pricing has been pretty good. I'm used to using everything open-source or freeware-based. I understand that organizations need to make sure that the solutions are secure, and that's basically where I hit a roadblock in my current organization. They needed to ensure that we had a license and we had a secure way of accessing it so that no outside parties could get access to our data, but in terms of pricing, considering how much other teams are spending on cloud solutions or even their existing solutions, its price point is pretty good. At this time, there are no additional costs. We just have the licensing fees."

"You don't need the Enterprise Edition, you can go with the Community Edition. That way you can use it for free and, for free, it's a pretty good tool to use."

"I mostly used the open-source version. I didn't work with a license."

"We did a two or three-year deal the last time we did it. As compared to other solutions, at least so far in our experience, it has been very affordable. The licensing is by component. So, you need to make sure you only license the components that you really intend to use. I am not sure if we have relicensed after the Hitachi acquisition, but previously, multi-year renewals resulted in a good discount. I'm not sure if this is still the case. We've had the full suite for a lot of years, and there is just the initial cost. I am not aware of any additional costs."

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"We subscribe to annual licenses, and the competitive license cost is reasonable."

"The fee for maintenance is costly."

"It's not an expensive solution."

"It is a very expensive solution. We only pay for the license."

"The pricing depends on what type of client you are with SAP and the contract you have. There is a licensing cost that needs to be paid."

"The solution is highly-priced."

"My company deals with different pricing models of the product, according to which we don't pay for the solution directly, but we do pay for the maintenance part."

"The pricing for this solution is fine."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

12%

Outsourcing Company

11%

Construction Company

Educational Organization

Comms Service Provider

10%

Manufacturing Company

Outsourcing Company

Construction Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	18
Midsize Enterprise	17
Large Enterprise	32

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	26

Questions from the Community

Which ETL tool would you recommend to populate data from OLTP to OLAP?

Hi Rajneesh, yes here is the feature comparison between the community and enterprise edition : https://www.hitachivantara.com/en-us/pdf/brochure/leverage-open-source-benefits-with-assurance-of-hita...

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What do you think can be improved with Hitachi Lumada Data Integrations?

In my opinion, the reporting side of this tool needs serious improvements. In my previous company, we worked with Hitachi Lumada Data Integration and while it does a good job for what it’s worth, ...

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What do you use Hitachi Lumada Data Integrations for most frequently?

My company has used this product to transform data from databases, CSV files, and flat files. It really does a good job. We were most satisfied with the results in terms of how many people could us...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SAP Process Orchestration?

The price for SAP Process Orchestration is a little high when compared to market trends, which is just how the business is. I would rate it an eight.

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What needs improvement with SAP Process Orchestration?

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What is your primary use case for SAP Process Orchestration?

The main use case for SAP Process Orchestration is that it's an SAP proprietary tool which integrates within SAP and outside SAP. It's the most familiar middleware tool which is used for integrations.

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Also Known As

Hitachi Lumada Data Integration, Kettle, Pentaho Data Integration

SAP NetWeaver Process Integration, NetWeaver Process Integration

Overview

Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics offers an intuitive platform for data workflows, enabling users to easily manage ETL processes across diverse data formats, ensuring seamless automation and development.

With its drag-and-drop interface, Pentaho allows for efficient ETL workflows without extensive coding. It supports a multitude of data formats and sources such as SQL, NoSQL, Hadoop, CSV, and JSON. Advanced features like metadata injection and API integration enable seamless automation. However, improvements in big data performance, better cloud service integration, and enhanced real-time processing capabilities can enhance user experience. Additional connectors and improved documentation are sought after by many. Providing support for more programming languages and optimizing memory usage also presents opportunities for enhancement.

What are the key features of Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics?

Drag-and-Drop Interface: Simplifies building workflows without coding.
Broad Data Support: Accommodates SQL, NoSQL, Hadoop, CSV, and JSON.
Advanced Automation: Leverages metadata injection and API integration.
Cost-Effectiveness: Offers value with comprehensive big data support.

What benefits should be evaluated in Pentaho reviews?

Versatility: Supports both on-premises and cloud solutions.
Data Integration: Facilitates seamless connection of disparate data sources.
Transparency: Enhances data management and reporting.
Scalability: Adapts to the growing data needs of organizations.

Pentaho is employed across finance, healthcare, and retail industries for ETL processes. It's instrumental in integrating data from ERP, SAP systems, Excel, and APIs to develop comprehensive reports and data models. Companies rely on its capabilities for both on-premises and cloud deployments, improving data transparency and management.

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SAP Process Orchestration offers centralized monitoring, extensive integration capabilities, and flexible connectivity, supporting smooth interactions between SAP and non-SAP systems. Its robust tools facilitate B2B operations and enhance automation, providing enhanced workflow efficiency across platforms.

SAP Process Orchestration serves as a key middleware choice for enterprises needing integration solutions. It supports e-commerce, e-invoicing, and seamless data exchange on a global scale. With capabilities in security and transaction handling, the suite facilitates AI and B2B integrations while connecting ERP systems to third-party solutions. Highly beneficial prepackaged content, Java Message Service, and comprehensive documentation make it a preferred choice. Users value its adaptability and ease of use. However, updates to its interface, cloud integration, handling large data volumes, and scalability are sought after to improve Java reliance along with technical support and cost efficiency enhancements.

What features define SAP Process Orchestration?

Centralized Monitoring: Simplifies oversight across workflows.
Adapter Variety: Includes REST and SOAP for diverse connectivity.
Robust Integration: Ensures seamless SAP and non-SAP connectivity.
B2B Support: Enhances business-to-business operations.
Prepackaged Content: Offers automation tools and process efficiency.
Java Message Service: Supports reliable communication.

What benefits and ROI can users expect?

Flexibility: Easily adapts to changing business needs.
Enhanced Automation: Streamlines processes, increasing efficiency.
Comprehensive Connectivity: Facilitates integration with various systems and platforms.
Documentation: Provides detailed guidance for usage.

SAP Process Orchestration is widely implemented in sectors that require robust integration capabilities. It supports industries ranging from e-commerce to financial services, managing secure data exchanges and fostering AI integration. Its versatility allows use in cloud and on-premises applications, promoting enhanced connectivity and optimized workflows.

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