--- description: Review of Pentaho Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs on Software Advice New Zealand. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/software_advice/og_logo-55146305bbe7b450bea05c18e9be9c9a.png title: Pentaho | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice NZ --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Business Intelligence Tools](/directory/4336/bi/software) > [Pentaho](/software/3742/pentaho) # Pentaho Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/3742/pentaho Page: 1 / 3\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/3742/pentaho?page=2) > Pentaho is a business intelligence system designed to help companies make data-driven decisions, with a platform for data integration and analytics. The platform includes extract, transform, and load (ETL), big data analytics, visualizations, dashboards, reporting, data mining, and predictive analytics. Pentaho’s data integration functionality allows users to find, manage, and combine data from multiple sources, including native support for analytic databases, Hadoop, and NoSQL. The system can integrate with partners like Melissa Data and Human Inference. Pentaho is also suitable for embedding or white labeling visual analytics as part of third-party Software as a Service (SaaS)/software applications as it is data agnostic. The application can be rebranded and customized based on open standards and architecture. The software offers interactive business analytics tools like visual analysis and dashboards, as well as flexible reporting solutions. Predictive analytics offered by the system includes machine learning algorithms, tools for processing data and the capability to import third-party models with PMML. Pentaho helps users translate big data into insights within a singular platform. Users have access to a complete spectrum of data from different sources with the system’s adaptive big data layer, which takes the source of the data into account. The software is built on an open architecture and can be integrated with multiple systems. Pentaho is available for a limited period free trial. > > Verdict: Rated **4.3/5** by 46 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.3/5** | 46 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.1/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 3.7/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Hitachi Vantara ## Commercial Context - **Pricing model**: (Free Trial) - **Pricing Details**: Contact Pentaho for pricing information. - **Target Audience**: 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop), Windows (On-Premise), Linux (On-Premise), Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile) - **Supported Languages**: English, French, German - **Available Countries**: Australia, Canada, Germany, India, United Kingdom, United States ## Features - API - Access Controls/Permissions - Activity Dashboard - Ad hoc Analysis - Ad hoc Query - Ad hoc Reporting - Alerts/Notifications - Audit Management - Benchmarking - Charting - Customisable Branding - Customisable Dashboard - Customisable Reports - Dashboard - Dashboard Creation - Data Analysis Tools - Data Import/Export - Data Quality Control - Data Transformation - Data Visualisation ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Phone Support - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat ## Category - [Business Intelligence Tools](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/4336/bi/software) ## Related Categories - [Business Intelligence Tools](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/4336/bi/software) - [ETL Tools](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/1252/etl-software/software) - [Data Discovery Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/1896/data-discovery-tools/software) - [Big Data Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/3299/big-data/software) - [Data Visualization Tools](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/400/data-visualization/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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If you want to solve the problem by yourself there is no much information how to do that even with a very small problems. > > Pentaho is well organized for combining data together from different sources. You can make different kind of analyses and reports based on that. ----- ### "Pentaho a Flexible System" — 5.0/5 > **Kaela** | *2 November 2022* | Health, Wellness & Fitness | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: Pentaho allows for great flexibility in report writing. It provides access to data tables with limited restrictions. It is highly customizable. > > **Cons**: While the system does offer Wizard tools this is not a product for beginner level report writers. It is best used by someone with at least basic SQL training. > > Pentaho has been a great product for our agency. We have generated hundreds of customized reports. End users are able to pull reports directly out of our E.H.R. ----- ### "Limited flexibility and subpar UI" — 3.0/5 > **Jonah** | *14 May 2019* | Mental Health Care | Recommendation rating: 4.0/10 > > **Pros**: Ease of install I suppose; that and its ease of uploading reports into our EHR. > > **Cons**: Flexibility is limited. Other report designers will offer time saving features that are missing here. Having to manually create queries instead of having a UI do it for you ( a la Crystal Reports) is a huge time sink. Using the Report Designer locks you into appearance constraints and removing them is a pain. ----- ### "Excellent tool for integration and reporting" — 5.0/5 > **Karthick** | *6 April 2022* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: Excellent data integration across various data nodes, high user friendly which means easy to learn and cheaper cost compared to current market standards. > > **Cons**: Limitation in integration with JDBC connector, reporting designer features needs to be enhanced a bit and slow in fetching huge data. ----- ### "Once you understand the basics of this program it is very, but very easy to use" — 5.0/5 > **Felix** | *22 May 2018* | Management Consulting | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **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. ----- Page: 1 / 3\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/3742/pentaho?page=2) ## Links - [View on SoftwareAdvice](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/3742/pentaho) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | de | | | en | | | en-AU | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | | fr | | ----- ## Structured Data