We performed a comparison between Alteryx and Pentaho Business Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"Alteryx has a good UI. We use it frequently in our projects. The tool comes with drag-and-drop features and is easy to understand for business needs. One situation where Alteryx's advanced analytics capabilities were particularly beneficial for us was during a forecasting project. Unlike Python, which requires coding, Alteryx simplifies the process significantly. With Alteryx, users can adjust parameters within the user interface without writing any code."
"The most valuable feature of Alteryx is its unlimited handling capabilities."
"The solution offers excellent predicting power. The accuracy and confidence have been great."
"The drag-and-drop functionality, the ready-to-use analytics module, and the ability to track my data pipelines visually are the solution's most valuable features."
"I like that I can merge data from different sources into one place."
"Automation is the most valuable aspect for us. The ability to wrap business logic around the data is very helpful."
"The solution has a very strong community that is involved in the product. It helps make the usage easier and helps us find answers to our questions."
"Easy to use components to create the job."
"The most valuable feature of Pentaho is the Tableau report."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"We were able to install it without any assistance from tech support."
"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."
"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."
"There are a few hiccups with specific data sets and languages or formats that the data comes in. That may be a minor problem, but we can work through it. We had some issues looking at XML format in added data, but it wasn't significant."
"The solution can be made more affordable."
"Its most valuable feature lies in its functionality."
"The interface could be improved."
"The data integration component could most likely be improved to increase enterprise scalability."
"More statistics tools: We can use to compare SPSS statistics with some automated advisory."
"The principal problem is the pricing. They're expensive products."
"The GUI interface functions but it could stand to be updated to a more modern look and feel."
"We did not achieve the ROI. The work delivered to users had lesser value than the subscription cost."
"Version control would be a good addition."
"Logging capability is needed."
"Pentaho Business Analytics' user interface is outdated."
"The repository should be improved."
"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."
"Another concern is that Pentaho is not customizable or interactive."
Alteryx is ranked 1st in Predictive Analytics with 74 reviews while Pentaho Business Analytics is ranked 19th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 42 reviews. Alteryx is rated 8.4, while Pentaho Business Analytics is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Alteryx writes "Feature-rich ETL that condenses a number of functions into one tool". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pentaho Business Analytics writes "Flexible, easy to understand, and simple to set up". Alteryx is most compared with KNIME, Dataiku, Databricks, RapidMiner and Tableau, whereas Pentaho Business Analytics is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Databricks, KNIME, SAP Crystal Reports and Board.
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