About Pentaho

Pentaho’s objective is to help organizations across multiple industries harness the value from all their data, including big data and IoT (Internet of Things), enabling them to find new revenue streams, operate more efficiently, deliver outstanding service and minimize risk.

Pentaho provides data solutions to enterprise level organizations across the healthcare, retail, financial services and government sectors. It enables business users to access, manage and combine data from multiple sources, and decision makers to then drill-down into data through interactive visual analysis. Data insights can then be used to make information-driven decisions with business analytics tools from Pentaho.

The Pentaho solution supports big data, data integration, embedded analytics, business analytics, internet of things analytics, and cloud business analytics. It also includes services such as custom dashboards, consulting services, training, certification program, enterprise support, technical support and workshops.

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Key benefits of Pentaho

  • Intuitive web-based data access wizard and interactive reporting for business users.

  • Pentaho offers powerful data integration and federation for IT and developers, accessing and integrating diverse data types; from Excel to Hadoop.

  • Interactive visual analysis allows decision makers to drill into data for greater insight.

  • Pentaho offers an extensive library of interactive visualizations to find patterns and anomalies, including geo-mapping, heat grids and scatter/bubble charts.

  • Drill-down functionality into supporting reports and dashboards provides deeper analysis whilst extreme scale in-memory data caching allows for speed-of-thought analysis with large data volumes.

  • Access, manage and blend data from any source using data integration tools from Pentaho. Integrate business analytics with other applications, including Google Maps.

  • Turn data into insights and make information-driven decisions with Pentaho's business analytics tools.

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    Markets

    Australia, Canada, Germany, United Kingdom, India, United States

    Supported Languages

    English, French, German

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    Features

    Total features of Pentaho: 48

    • API
    • Access Controls/Permissions
    • Activity Dashboard
    • Ad hoc Analysis
    • Ad hoc Query
    • Ad hoc Reporting
    • Alerts/Notifications
    • Audit Management
    • Benchmarking
    • Charting
    • Content Management
    • Customizable Branding
    • Customizable Dashboard
    • Customizable Reports
    • Dashboard
    • Dashboard Creation
    • Data Analysis Tools
    • Data Import/Export
    • Data Quality Control
    • Data Recovery
    • Data Transformation
    • Data Visualization
    • Database Support
    • Drag & Drop
    • Geographic Maps
    • Job Scheduling
    • Key Performance Indicators
    • Match & Merge
    • OLAP
    • Performance Management
    • Performance Metrics
    • Pipeline Management
    • Predictive Analytics
    • Profitability Analysis
    • Real Time Analytics
    • Relational Display
    • Reporting & Statistics
    • Reporting/Analytics
    • Sales Reports
    • Scheduled / Automated Reports
    • Search/Filter
    • Single Sign On
    • Strategic Planning
    • Trend / Problem Indicators
    • Version Control
    • Visual Analytics
    • Visual Discovery
    • Workflow Management

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    Reviews

    Overall rating

    4,3 /5
    (39)
    Value for Money
    4,5/5
    Features
    4,4/5
    Ease of Use
    4,2/5
    Customer Support
    3,8/5

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    Overall rating
    • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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    • Value for Money
    • Ease of Use
    • Customer Support
    • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

    It is definitely the solution to carry out all the projects successfully!

    Reviewed on 2018/04/19

    Everything is organized better using this software. It is quite efficient and easy to use...

    Everything is organized better using this software. It is quite efficient and easy to use...

    Pros

    This software is wonderful, with it you can obtain performance and scalability. As well as manage and schedule reports. It is very efficient which means that you save a lot in daily reports...

    Cons

    This software is potentially amazing. Has it all! Your free trial is as complete as the paid version. It's very complete.

    Michele G.
    Overall rating
    • Industry: Information Technology & Services
    • Company size: 2-10 Employees
    • Used Daily for 2+ years
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    Overall rating

    • Ease of Use
    • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

    Ottimo tool ETL per l'integrazione dati

    Reviewed on 2021/04/07

    Integrazione tra sorgenti dati di qualsiasi tipo (Excel, SQL database, NoSQL database, text file,...

    Integrazione tra sorgenti dati di qualsiasi tipo (Excel, SQL database, NoSQL database, text file, REST API) e sistemazione e pulizia dei dati.

    Pros

    Estrema facilità di utilizzo una volta imparati i concetti base. Il tool Pentaho Data Integration ci ha aiutato a risolvere tantissime problematiche di integrazione tra sorgenti dati differenti.

    Cons

    Qualche bug nell'applicazione soprattutto utilizzando l'ETL su MAC che potrebbe essere migliorato ma niente che ne comprometta l'utilizzo.

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    Dalton S.
    Overall rating
    • Industry: Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
    • Company size: 51-200 Employees
    • Used Daily for 2+ years
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    Overall rating

    • Value for Money
    • Ease of Use
    • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

    Riding a Wild Horse - Community Edition

    Reviewed on 2017/04/18

    Pros

    Many features.
    I like to use the reporting PRD, I think that it is the best.
    I use Spoon/Kettle that is a ETL tool to process data.

    Cons

    Many bugs. Maybe is because of Community Edition.
    We have many difficult to install in cloud.
    The layout of some report that run in developing, don't run in production.

    Enrico P.
    Overall rating
    • Industry: Farming
    • Company size: 10 000+ Employees
    • Used Daily for 1+ year
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    • Value for Money
    • Ease of Use
    • Customer Support
    • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

    Nice surprise

    Reviewed on 2020/01/09

    The tool allows the creation of complex ETL projects in a quick way and save time to produce...

    The tool allows the creation of complex ETL projects in a quick way and save time to produce valuable solution for the company.

    Pros

    Data Integration allows the build of such a complex ETL projects in a quick way, it's very powerful. Being an open source software allows the user to always find hints over the web

    Cons

    Issue log reports not really clear the error/s occurring and the troubleshooting results sometimes difficult.
    Scheduling

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    Reasons for Switching to Pentaho

    Pentaho is an open source software.
    Felix F.
    Overall rating
    • Industry: Management Consulting
    • Company size: 2-10 Employees
    • Used Daily for 1+ year
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    Overall rating

    • Value for Money
    • Ease of Use
    • Customer Support
    • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

    Once you understand the basics of this program it is very, but very easy to use

    Reviewed on 2018/05/22

    Pros

    "higher visual interface to processes, has a good number of functions (and very easy to understand) for data reporting, integration, data mining and ETL.. very simple but effective Big data transform

    You can build many dimensional model and load the results of the transformation into a database to develop any report whit low margin of error through a dimensional model and load the results of the transformation into a database to develop specialized reports , low margin of error-Automate the steps for execution"

    Cons

    Its a great tool to use, nothing to dislike about the product. Nothing to dislike, everything is good. All the features are really good.

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    Pentaho offers the following pricing plans:

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    Pentaho has the following typical customers:

    2-10, 11-50, 51-200, 201-500, 501-1 000, 1 001+

    Pentaho supports the following languages:

    English, French, German

    Pentaho supports the following devices:

    Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)

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    Pentaho offers the following support options:

    Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat

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