We performed a comparison between Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics and TIBCO BusinessWorks based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can schedule job execution in the BA Server, which is the front-end product we're using right now. That scheduling interface is nice."
"I can use Python, which is open-source, and I can run other scripts, including Linux scripts. It's user-friendly for running any object-based language. That's a very important feature because we live in a world of open-source."
"The abstraction is quite good."
"It's my understanding that the product can scale."
"The amount of data that it loads and processes is good."
"This solution allows us to create pipelines using a minimal amount of custom coding."
"One of the valuable features is the ability to use PL/SQL statements inside the data transformations and jobs."
"It's very simple compared to other products out there."
"We use the solution to develop applications."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten…On a scale from one to ten, where one is difficult, and ten is easy, I rate the initial setup a nine."
"The most important thing is that it is easy for developers to work with."
"The Business Studio interface based on SCA Standards helps to show the business logic at first look and improve code maintenance."
"The most valuable feature is the integration."
"Customer support is very efficient."
"The high availability, tolerance, and load balancing features are top-notch. Its scalability features are also pretty cool."
"The most valuable features are the stability and the time to market."
"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."
"I would like to see more improvements with AS400 DB2."
"One thing that I don't like, just a little, is the backward compatibility."
"The support for the Enterprise Edition is okay, but what they have done in the last three or four years is move more and more things to that edition. The result is that they are breaking the Community Edition. That's what our impression is."
"The web interface is rusty, and the biggest problem with Pentaho is debugging and troubleshooting. It isn't easy to build the pipeline incrementally. At least in our case, it's hard to find a way to execute step by step in the debugging mode."
"Some of the scheduling features about Lumada drive me buggy. The one issue that always drives me up the wall is when Daylight Savings Time changes. It doesn't take that into account elegantly. Every time it changes, I have to do something. It's not a big deal, but it's annoying."
"I would like to see improvements made for real-time data processing."
"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."
"Cloud fitness is lacking"
"They don't support out of the box - you have to buy adapters or you have to have the technology."
"I'd like to see a new cloud approach in the next release. They need to work on integrations, stability and management issues on their cloud platform."
"There are not many plugins available to integrate the databases. We have to write it in Java and integrate it. The developers should have more knowledge. These are the three main aspects that they could improve."
"The cost of this product is too expensive for smaller companies or those with a small number of integrations."
"The cost of the solution has room for improvement."
"Improve Business Studio's stability to further minimize development time."
"The cost has room for improvement."
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Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics is ranked 16th in Data Integration with 48 reviews while TIBCO BusinessWorks is ranked 18th in Data Integration with 23 reviews. Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics is rated 8.0, while TIBCO BusinessWorks is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics writes "It's flexible and can do almost anything I want it to do". On the other hand, the top reviewer of TIBCO BusinessWorks writes "Reliable integration solution with robust communication capabilities and good scalability". Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics is most compared with Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Talend Open Studio, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) and AWS Glue, whereas TIBCO BusinessWorks is most compared with webMethods Integration Server, Mule Anypoint Platform, Spring Cloud Data Flow, Confluent and Talend Open Studio. See our Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics vs. TIBCO BusinessWorks report.
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