We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI and Pentaho Business Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two BI (Business Intelligence) Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Easy to use. End-users can make changes to the graphics."
"It's a very easy-to-use solution."
"The capability to add custom visuals and create Power BI apps. You can package datasets, synchronization details, and dashboards into a single app."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It is quite easy to use and it helps me to achieve the projects that I've been assigned."
"It is in the cloud, which makes it easy for mobile access of reports and data."
"I've seen no issues with BI's stability."
"Two valuable most features are the ability to create columns and create measures."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"We were able to install it without any assistance from tech support."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Pentaho is the Tableau report."
"Easy to use components to create the job."
"I use the BI Server, CDE Dashboards, Saiku, and Kettle, because these tools are very good and highly experienced."
"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 product’s on-premise reporting servers could support real-time data refreshing capabilities like its on-cloud version."
"I think that there should be visuals for financial reporting videos. It should just be a plug and play because there is a lot of coding that goes into it with different clients."
"We did have some issues building the Microsoft blog."
"There is no specific area that I have a problem with. It's just that, with whatever feature you come across, every visual has its own formatting and behavior. What you get in one visual for a feature, you don't seem to get in another."
"I would like to see the product offer more graphics to impact different audiences."
"SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) is not user friendly."
"I have a little problem with Synapse Analytics because it's very new. It's a product that has many capabilities, but it is not very well developed. I have to see the list of permissions from one object. I can't do this in Synapse. I have to search on the web for a solution because I don't have the tool for it."
"The biggest thing with Microsoft right now is better support. There should be more timely support. We can do 90% of it ourselves by the same token. When we're into the 10%, we do not get timely support via Microsoft's support team."
"The repository should be improved."
"Another concern is that Pentaho is not customizable or interactive."
"Logging capability is needed."
"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."
"Version control would be a good addition."
"We did not achieve the ROI. The work delivered to users had lesser value than the subscription cost."
"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 Business Analytics' user interface is outdated."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews while Pentaho Business Analytics is ranked 19th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 42 reviews. Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0, while Pentaho Business Analytics is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Power BI writes "A complete ecosystem with an builtin ETL tool, good integrations with python and R, and support of DAX and Power Query (M languages)". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pentaho Business Analytics writes "Flexible, easy to understand, and simple to set up". Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE, whereas Pentaho Business Analytics is most compared with Databricks, KNIME, SAP Crystal Reports, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services and Tableau. See our Microsoft Power BI vs. Pentaho Business Analytics report.
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