We performed a comparison between Pentaho Business Analytics and QlikView 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."The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"I use the BI Server, CDE Dashboards, Saiku, and Kettle, because these tools are very good and highly experienced."
"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."
"We were able to install it without any assistance from tech support."
"Easy to use components to create the job."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Pentaho is the Tableau report."
"If you correctly use the product for your use cases, it provides value for money."
"The most valuable aspect is its extensive library on Microsoft, providing a robust framework for implementation."
"Its ability to build, very quickly, very complicated models."
"The initial setup is not very complex."
"The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to view the entire data available for analysis."
"Once you open it up, you see everything that you can do."
"The solution is fast."
"QlikView is one of the strongest tools, I would say. Also, it has a very vast capability to process the data"
"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."
"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."
"Pentaho Business Analytics' user interface is outdated."
"Version control would be a good addition."
"Another concern is that Pentaho is not customizable or interactive."
"Logging capability is needed."
"The repository should be improved."
"We did not achieve the ROI. The work delivered to users had lesser value than the subscription cost."
"The solution should be mobile-responsive. It should also include drag-and-drop and slice-and-dice features."
"There is a lack of static PDF report generation and automatic resizing of the dashboard to fit the device."
"More/newer visualisation components need to be added."
"The tool is expensive in Turkey."
"Scalability really depends on the size of your data and QlikView server architecture. For the biggest data sets, it could become an issue at some point."
"The pricing is high."
"Sometimes the filters are disappearing, and I'm not sure why this is happening."
"The user interface is old."
Pentaho Business Analytics is ranked 17th in Reporting with 42 reviews while QlikView is ranked 5th in Reporting with 158 reviews. Pentaho Business Analytics is rated 8.0, while QlikView is rated 8.2. 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 QlikView writes "Useful for data visualization and business intelligence". Pentaho Business Analytics is most compared with Databricks, Microsoft Power BI, KNIME, SAP Crystal Reports and Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, whereas QlikView is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, SQL Server and TIBCO Spotfire. See our Pentaho Business Analytics vs. QlikView report.
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