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Pentaho vs. Tableau Server

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Pentaho

132 Reviews and Ratings

Tableau Server

878 Reviews and Ratings

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    Overview
    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 Server

    Score7.6 out of 10
    		N/ATableau Server allows Tableau Desktop users to publish dashboards to a central server to be shared across their organizations. The product is designed to facilitate collaboration across the organization. It can be deployed on a server in the data center, or it can be deployed on a public cloud.

    $12

    Per User Per Month

    Pricing
    PentahoTableau Server
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Viewer
    $12.00
    Per User Per Month
    Explorer
    $35.00
    Per User Per Month
    Creator
    $70.00
    Per User Per Month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    PentahoTableau Server
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    PentahoTableau Server
    Considered Both Products
    Hitachi Vantara
    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
    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
    Tableau
    Ilham AB
    Senior Solutions Manager (Enterprise Architect) in Information Technology at 3 (Telecommunications, 501-1000 employees)
    Chose Tableau Server
    Compared to our previous version of software and tool that had been used since the beginning of the company, Tableau is reliable, fast and accurate. Some important features for advanced analytics and data visualization are not available with the previous system. Therefore it …
    Incentivized
    Siggy Tetteh, CSSGB, MBA, MCP
    Lead Systems Analyst/Project Manager in Information Technology at Navicent Health (Hospital & Health Care, 5001-10,000 employees)
    Chose Tableau Server
    There were a lot of reasons why we chose Tableau and the least is the cost but also the way Tableau stores data in the columnar fashion instead of in Cubes. We went through a painstaking selection process and at the end, came down to a couple of vendors and we ended up with the …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    PentahoTableau Server
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Pentaho and Tableau Server
    Feature
    Pentaho
    9.0
    20 Ratings
    Tableau Server
    9.5
    94 Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports8.618 Ratings9.129 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards9.918 Ratings9.793 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates8.718 Ratings9.780 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Pentaho and Tableau Server
    Feature
    Pentaho
    8.7
    19 Ratings
    Tableau Server
    9.1
    94 Ratings
    Drill-down analysis7.618 Ratings8.994 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities8.319 Ratings8.892 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages9.312 Ratings9.058 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration9.717 Ratings9.888 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Pentaho and Tableau Server
    Feature
    Pentaho
    9.7
    20 Ratings
    Tableau Server
    8.4
    90 Ratings
    Publish to Web9.618 Ratings9.884 Ratings
    Publish to PDF9.819 Ratings9.783 Ratings
    Report Versioning9.713 Ratings9.169 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling9.917 Ratings8.376 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers9.310 Ratings5.19 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Pentaho and Tableau Server
    Feature
    Pentaho
    8.1
    17 Ratings
    Tableau Server
    8.7
    89 Ratings
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.916 Ratings8.985 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization8.216 Ratings8.984 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics8.314 Ratings8.563 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Pentaho and Tableau Server
    Feature
    Pentaho
    9.1
    20 Ratings
    Tableau Server
    8.3
    94 Ratings
    Multi-User Support (named login)9.320 Ratings8.392 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model9.619 Ratings8.389 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)9.918 Ratings8.391 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)7.610 Ratings8.361 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Pentaho and Tableau Server
    Feature
    Pentaho
    8.3
    11 Ratings
    Tableau Server
    8.4
    78 Ratings
    Responsive Design for Web Access9.710 Ratings8.276 Ratings
    Mobile Application6.97 Ratings8.160 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile8.711 Ratings9.067 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Pentaho and Tableau Server
    Feature
    Pentaho
    8.6
    10 Ratings
    Tableau Server
    7.2
    45 Ratings
    REST API8.310 Ratings9.039 Ratings
    Javascript API9.09 Ratings9.036 Ratings
    iFrames7.39 Ratings9.039 Ratings
    Java API8.79 Ratings5.57 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)8.910 Ratings6.19 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)9.610 Ratings4.67 Ratings
    User Ratings
    PentahoTableau Server
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (31 ratings)
    8.1
    (110 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.8
    (11 ratings)
    10.0
    (20 ratings)
    Usability
    9.3
    (6 ratings)
    5.2
    (16 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.1
    (8 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.3
    (7 ratings)
    3.0
    (18 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.5
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (13 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    8.4
    (16 ratings)
    5.1
    (79 ratings)
    Data Sources
    8.6
    (16 ratings)
    6.6
    (82 ratings)