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Last updated March 13th, 2026

# Page 2 - Reviews of Pentaho

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HA

Hasin A.  
CEO  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "I love the out of the box visualization templates!"

December 15, 2018

4.0

I really like using it but chose to use other apps like tableau due to lack of features.

Pros

Pentaho makes it really easy to generate some complex data driven visualizations.

Cons

Pentaho doesn't have a lot of options for pulling data from public APIs.

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HV

Harish V.  
Associate System Engineer  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Good for Reporting and Integration!!"

July 15, 2022

5.0

Pros

Very easy to learn, provides efficient report designing tool and integration with different datasource is too good.

Cons

It has limitations in customized templates, user community is not so high compared to other BI tools and compatibility issue with JDBC connector is definite area of improvement.

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AP

Anastasia P.  
Director of Product Management  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Data integrator for successful projct implementation"

August 30, 2020

4.0

Pentaho is well organized for combining data together from different sources. You can make different kind of analyses and reports based on that.

Pros

Very good tools for visualisation of data. Dashboards are very easy to develop. Easy to integrate with third-party tools.

Cons

Takes some time to understand how it works. Interface is not intuitive. If you want to solve the problem by yourself there is no much information how to do that even with a very small problems.

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RA

Ritchea A.  
Sr.Software Engineer  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Best Data integration and business analytics tool"

May 29, 2018

5.0

Best product for reporting and analyzing.

Pros

Best reporting tool.Features like data reporting, integration, data mining and ETL. Provides easy and good insights of business. Provides intuitive interface for most advanced users

Cons

Sometimes Pentaho Spoon(GUI) crashes.sharing and collaboration capabilities need to be enhanced Other all features are really good.

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JE

Jonah E.  
IT Support Specialist  
Mental Health Care  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Limited flexibility and subpar UI"

May 14, 2019

3.0

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.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Sales Director  
Internet  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Nice tool for reporting"

February 14, 2022

4.0

Pros

We use Pentaho to do SLA reporting to our customers. Reports can be customised in various ways which is a great thing.

Cons

Because there are so many things Pentaho can be used, the user interface could be more intuitive to use.

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SF

Stewart F.  
VP of Data, Technology and Innovation  
Marketing and Advertising  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "PDI Community Edition is amazing.....the rest is mud"

March 20, 2018

4.0

Pros

\- Free PDI tool....its free so no discussions with finance - PDI is actually very effective ETL application with a easy to understand flow - Community is actually helpful

Cons

\- Free BI tool is just slightly easier than building a website from scratch but a lot harder than using any other BI tool. - You need to know how to hack java to use. - The paid version does not have competitive pricing for the incremental value.

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John Wisani M.  
Senior SQL ETL Developer  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for:

### "null"

January 9, 2018

1.0

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YH

Yinghua H.  
  
Financial Services  
Used the software for:

### "Pentaho is a user-friendly open source ETL tool"

December 5, 2014

4.0

Pros

I like its ease of use; it is very easy to build an ETL pipeline after the initial learning curve. I also like the variety of modules. There are a lot of powerful modules, and you will mostly find the module you want. User-defined code is very flexible; it's possible and very easy to plug in user-defined Java code. When there is no module implemented for desired function, this feature comes handy. Multithreading is also easy. The transformation can be set to run multiple copies in parallel.

Cons

Occasionally, Pentaho Spoon (GUI) crashes, and a restart is required.

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Henrik D.  
IT specialist, Co-founder  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "null"

November 4, 2016

4.0

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nS

naresh S.  
project manager  
Health, Wellness and Fitness  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "cool tool for your web app"

December 13, 2016

4.0

I was impressed with the ability to integrate this into an existing web app. It allowed our users to start looking at operational data and learning from it.

Pros

It provided an intuitive interface for most advanced users.

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LS

Luigi S.  
Business Intelligence Consutant  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "An easy BI tool with a POWERFULL ETL inside"

May 10, 2018

5.0

Pros

Pentaho BI Solution is nomilly a BI Open Source solution that can compete with the most important players of this area. Pentaho is easy to manage and has a powerfull ETL inside that can be managed itself as a product.

Cons

The "Open Source Philosophy" is not away true.... I mean that if you want a full support from Pentaho it will be not-so-cheap

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AC

Ashutosh C.  
Student  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Very ergonomic ETL tool"

November 3, 2015

5.0

Pros

Really helps to solve complex business solutions with its cool features and like their contribution to open source.

Cons

Its a great tool to use, nothing to dislike about the product.

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vS

victor S.  
Dev  
Graphic Design  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Pentaho Open Source"

November 5, 2019

5.0

Pros

Simply the best BI on the market and still for free, perfect

Cons

I have not reported any issues with my use

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JFM

Juan Felipe M.  
Programmer  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "A great data analysis tool"

March 26, 2018

5.0

personally I think it is a very powerful tool, powerful, very robust and also free

Pros

A very well designed platform, of great cost benefit, as well as the integration and reports, even better than when we analyze the costs, Pentaho is a free tool, incredibly, because when you work on it, you realize the robustness by handling a lot of information in just seconds

Cons

In addition to its great design, the learning curve is quite high, and its platform is not very intuitive

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CH

Cleber H.  
Analista de sistemas  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for:

### "null"

September 13, 2018

5.0

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RV

Rohit V.  
Software Engineer  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Requires training before actual use"

October 7, 2015

3.5

Pros

Pentaho Data Integration has lot of functions to fulfill the requirements. Functions dealing with running shell script to creating and reading from Excel spreadsheets were quite useful for creating an ETL flow.

Cons

Requires the training to actually understand the product. It is hard to figure out several aspects like declaring variables (global) within the product.

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JS

Jason S.  
  
  
Used the software for:

### "customization is key"

February 26, 2017

4.0

Provides much-appreciated flexibility for us to customize KPI reports as well as client reports that we don't offer on platform.

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GM

Gabriel M.  
Intern  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Very intuitive"

March 9, 2018

4.0

Pros

It is intuitive for beginners, what makes it easy and quick to learn. Also, it's a free platform, and it has one large community.

Cons

The bugs are usually not so easy to solve, and the errors shown sometimes don't give you a clue of what is wrong.

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SM

Sumant M.  
Software engineer  
Primary/Secondary Education  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Great business product. Easy to use"

November 2, 2015

4.5

Pros

Great analytics and results are very useful. Provides good insight of the business.

Cons

Nothing much to dislike, in fact haven't seen so many applications supported by a single software

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SK

Sudhakar K.  
Student  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Sudhakar from VMware"

November 3, 2015

4.0

Pros

Features like data reporting, integration, data mining and ETL capabilities

Cons

Nothing, Everything looks good to me. All features meet expectations.

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