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Pentaho

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Pentaho

    Score5.1 out of 10
    		N/APentaho is a suite of open source business intelligence and analytics products, now offered and supported by Hitachi Data Systems since the June 2015 acquisition.N/A

    Tableau Desktop

    Score8.1 out of 10
    		N/ATableau Desktop is a data visualization product from Tableau. It connects to a variety of data sources for combining disparate data sources without coding. It provides tools for discovering patterns and insights, data calculations, forecasts, and statistical summaries and visual storytelling.

    $75

    per month

    Pricing
    PentahoTableau Desktop
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Tableau
    $75
    per month per user
    Tableau Enterprise
    $115
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    PentahoTableau Desktop
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—All pricing plans are billed annually.
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    Community Pulse
    PentahoTableau Desktop
    Considered Both Products
    Hitachi Vantara
    Verified User
    Chose Pentaho
    Tableau is having some technical limitations in terms of reporting and integration. But, in the case of Pentaho, it is very effective in terms of cost and also very high user-friendly. I would strongly believe that it will add more value to the organization. That's the reason I …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Pentaho
    Pentaho ranks #3 out of the four. I would always choose Qlik Sense overall since it is so incredibly fast and adaptable. It also has built-in ETL and has a much greater community. If you don't like Qlik, Tableau would be a second choice but the company is difficult to work …
    Incentivized
    Rafael Grandizoli
    Gerente de Operações in Product Management at MUV (Marketing & Advertising, 11-50 employees)
    Chose Pentaho
    With Pentaho and its open-source community version, we could start showing the power of the data process and the purpose of a data lake and data warehouse project in the company, without the need for any program language skills in the team or a developer team.
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Pentaho
    We evaluated many typical BI software vendors including Micro-strategy, JasperSoft and Tableau. Tableau would have been a top pick if it had better support for OEM. We had to compete against Tableau in many customers to try to get them to upgrade to use our analytics and found …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Pentaho
    I have used Tableau, which also does a great job and has better integration features, but as a report generation/ ETL/ BI tool, I'd recommend Pentaho. I also prefer Pentaho as it is best suited for the current client base that the firm has. It fulfills specific needs with great …
    Incentivized
    Ivan Miller
    Business Intelligence Engineer in Engineering at Experticity (Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees)
    Chose Pentaho
    In terms of price, pentaho seems to be the clear winner for functionality that you get--especially with the community edition. If you don't need to license anything out, even the enterprise edition is fairly reasonably priced. With this in mind, it's a winner in the sense that …
    Incentivized
    Jordan Squire
    Business Intelligence Engineer in Engineering at Experticity (Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees)
    Chose Pentaho
    We have done extensive exploration of the BI marketplace but had to eliminate many of the BI vendors due our business model and their licensing model being incompatible or cost prohibitive. We provide reporting to hundreds of clients and hundreds of thousands of end-users and …
    Incentivized
    Anderson L.A.
    CTO in Information Technology at RTSC Consultoria Financeira (Investment Management, 1-10 employees)
    Chose Pentaho
    As previously stated, Pentaho is an excellent tool for start ups and where CTOs are willing to invest in staff training. It may not be user friendly as Tableau or SAS, but once staff master it, development of new solutions becomes limitless.
    Incentivized
    Deepak Paramanand
    Technical Lead in Engineering at Razorsight Software Pvt. Ltd. (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees)
    Chose Pentaho
    We evaluated Panorama, Cognos, MicroSrategy, Jasper Reports, Talend and homegrown solutions. Though each were awesome in their own right, none of them provided a end to end integration like we wanted. Pentaho did the job for us and more. Knowing that Pentaho was built by a team …
    Incentivized
    Tableau
    Verified User
    Chose Tableau Desktop
    Pentaho has fewer visualizations and they haven't been making a lot of improvements in their visualization space. You can't really add a lot of customized visualizations as well. If Tableau has 100 features then Pentaho Analyzer has 10 with no ray of hope for improvements. …
    Incentivized
    Ivan Miller
    Business Intelligence Engineer in Engineering at Experticity (Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees)
    Chose Tableau Desktop
    In comparison to Tableau, the other dashboarding/BI tools I've used feel clunky, are very slow to develop in, and seem to lack features of a more modernized tool like Tableau. In Pentaho Analyzer, for instance, trying to include multiple worksheets or reports in a single …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Tableau Desktop
    SSRS is poor in visualization and clients feel good while looking at dashboards compare to viewing reports on SSRS.
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Tableau Desktop
    Tableau Desktop is better than any of its competitors as it is cost effective and user friendly.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
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    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
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    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
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    Features
    PentahoTableau Desktop
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Pentaho and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    Pentaho
    9.0
    20 Ratings
    Tableau Desktop
    8.3
    167 Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports8.618 Ratings8.8139 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards9.918 Ratings8.4166 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates8.718 Ratings7.8145 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Pentaho and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    Pentaho
    8.7
    19 Ratings
    Tableau Desktop
    8.7
    164 Ratings
    Drill-down analysis7.618 Ratings8.6159 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities8.319 Ratings9.2162 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages9.312 Ratings7.7122 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration9.717 Ratings9.2157 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Pentaho and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    Pentaho
    9.7
    20 Ratings
    Tableau Desktop
    8.1
    158 Ratings
    Publish to Web9.618 Ratings7.3149 Ratings
    Publish to PDF9.819 Ratings7.9149 Ratings
    Report Versioning9.713 Ratings8.2116 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling9.917 Ratings9.2123 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers9.310 Ratings8.073 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Pentaho and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    Pentaho
    8.1
    17 Ratings
    Tableau Desktop
    8.4
    156 Ratings
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.916 Ratings9.0154 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization8.216 Ratings8.2149 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics8.314 Ratings8.6126 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Pentaho and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    Pentaho
    9.1
    20 Ratings
    Tableau Desktop
    8.7
    142 Ratings
    Multi-User Support (named login)9.320 Ratings9.0139 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model9.619 Ratings8.0119 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)9.918 Ratings8.8129 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)7.610 Ratings8.877 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Pentaho and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    Pentaho
    8.3
    11 Ratings
    Tableau Desktop
    8.0
    135 Ratings
    Responsive Design for Web Access9.710 Ratings8.2124 Ratings
    Mobile Application6.97 Ratings7.097 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile8.711 Ratings8.8117 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Pentaho and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    Pentaho
    8.6
    10 Ratings
    Tableau Desktop
    9.0
    64 Ratings
    REST API8.310 Ratings9.256 Ratings
    Javascript API9.09 Ratings9.051 Ratings
    iFrames7.39 Ratings9.249 Ratings
    Java API8.79 Ratings10.046 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)8.910 Ratings8.453 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)9.610 Ratings8.446 Ratings
    User Ratings
    PentahoTableau Desktop
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (31 ratings)
    8.7
    (194 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.8
    (11 ratings)
    8.9
    (39 ratings)
    Usability
    9.3
    (6 ratings)
    8.6
    (63 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (10 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.1
    (9 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.3
    (7 ratings)
    7.0
    (56 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.4
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.5
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (34 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.1
    (2 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    8.4
    (16 ratings)
    8.4
    (115 ratings)
    Data Sources
    8.6
    (16 ratings)
    7.9
    (115 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)