From an integration perspective, Pentaho Business Analytics is not the best tool on the market. There are things done by Apache that are better, though I am not the one implementing them, so this is based on what I have heard about novelties in the market. I do not see the need to extend the coverage of Pentaho Business Analytics's domain. For things that it does not do, there are better solutions on the market, and it would be costly to implement them. Pentaho Business Analytics is a very great tool for very specific standardized scenarios. If you need more complex elastic solutions because the process is different, there are better tools available.
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 skills. Additionally, fixing bugs and dealing with log duplication using Kettle ( /vendors/hitachi-vantara ), which Pentaho utilizes, is very difficult.
The tool is very good, and yet it has some problems as it relies heavily on Java. The platform works with Java, and it has brought some issues to the company.
The product to me is not as user-friendly as other players in the market. It also still needs improvement in the reporting module. You will need to search for deployment examples or need to have a first demonstration to make it ready for your specific needs. The adoption and learning will be another challenge if you are already using other solutions. If that is the case or your challenge then I will recommend buying the Enterprise edition from Hitachi Vantara as full solution with installation, deployment, and migration from your existing product.
Administrative Assistant at a university with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Dec 2, 2022
Pentaho Business Analytics' user interface is outdated. It's also limited in out-of-the-box features, which forces you to develop features yourself. There are also some problems with having to update metadata manually, which I would like to see Pentaho fix in the future.
To implement a logic we may need to use several components. In other tools such as Informatica, equivalent logic can be implemented with lesser components. To set the Java memory size, the configuration has to be changed outside the tool; it will be easier if everything can be handled within the tool. There are no easy guides to implementing metadata injection. Templates and sample jobs could be provided for customers who need to leverage metadata for standard processing across multiple databases and tables.
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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From an integration perspective, Pentaho Business Analytics is not the best tool on the market. There are things done by Apache that are better, though I am not the one implementing them, so this is based on what I have heard about novelties in the market. I do not see the need to extend the coverage of Pentaho Business Analytics's domain. For things that it does not do, there are better solutions on the market, and it would be costly to implement them. Pentaho Business Analytics is a very great tool for very specific standardized scenarios. If you need more complex elastic solutions because the process is different, there are better tools available.
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 skills. Additionally, fixing bugs and dealing with log duplication using Kettle ( /vendors/hitachi-vantara ), which Pentaho utilizes, is very difficult.
The tool is very good, and yet it has some problems as it relies heavily on Java. The platform works with Java, and it has brought some issues to the company.
The product to me is not as user-friendly as other players in the market. It also still needs improvement in the reporting module. You will need to search for deployment examples or need to have a first demonstration to make it ready for your specific needs. The adoption and learning will be another challenge if you are already using other solutions. If that is the case or your challenge then I will recommend buying the Enterprise edition from Hitachi Vantara as full solution with installation, deployment, and migration from your existing product.
Pentaho Business Analytics' user interface is outdated. It's also limited in out-of-the-box features, which forces you to develop features yourself. There are also some problems with having to update metadata manually, which I would like to see Pentaho fix in the future.
To implement a logic we may need to use several components. In other tools such as Informatica, equivalent logic can be implemented with lesser components. To set the Java memory size, the configuration has to be changed outside the tool; it will be easier if everything can be handled within the tool. There are no easy guides to implementing metadata injection. Templates and sample jobs could be provided for customers who need to leverage metadata for standard processing across multiple databases and tables.
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.
QueryByExample Portal support for Liferay No collaborative BI Auditing / User-Profiling is available only in Enterprise edition
QueryByExample Portal support for Liferay No collaborative BI Auditing / User-Profiling is available only in Enterprise edition