--- title: Pentaho Reviews meta\_title: 'Pentaho Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 50 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Pentaho works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.1 review\_count: 50 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: Analytics Tools & Software url: https://www.g2.com/categories/analytics-tools-software --- # Pentaho Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Pentaho but has limited features. Are you part of the Pentaho team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! Pentaho is a modular, enterprise-grade platform that makes it easy to manage complex data—on-premises, in the cloud, or in hybrid environments. Whether structured or unstructured, your data becomes a trusted asset that teams can use to operate with confidence, agility, and control. * * * Seller [Pentaho](https://www.g2.com/sellers/pentaho-d1c9c8d5-c72c-42b5-967d-4a0985833684) Discussions [Pentaho Community](https://www.g2.com/products/pentaho/discuss) Languages Supported German, English, French Solution Type All-in-One Overview by Rebecca Shomair (Director, Corporate Communications at Pentaho) Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/pentaho/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Looker](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Looker") Looker 4.4/5(1,656) ](https://www.g2.com/products/looker/reviews) [ ![Sisense](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sisense") Sisense 4.2/5(1,063) ](https://www.g2.com/products/sisense/reviews) [ ![GoodData.AI](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "GoodData.AI") GoodData.AI 4.3/5(619) ](https://www.g2.com/products/gooddata-ai/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/pentaho/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 50 real user reviews. Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Verified User in Oil & Energy](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Oil & Energy") CO Verified User in Oil & Energy Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/16/2016 "Big data integration with Pentaho" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Pentaho? Pentaho offers open source business intelligence solution for data integration with PDI/Kettle ETL module and visulization . It simplifies big data hadoop integration with great flexibility and reduced risk of changes from big data system. It also offers seamless integration with NOSQL databases and connectivity to analytical databases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Pentaho? BI front end is not appealing like other industry leading front ends products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Pentaho solving and how is that benefiting you? Integrating BIG data with pentatho. Performance improvement for tera/peta byte data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 1/25/2017 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Higher Education](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Higher Education") UH Verified User in Higher Education Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/27/2016 "Provides better access to data and insights" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Pentaho? I like that Pentaho is a drag and drop environment. Like everyone else, our organization has a ton of data, which is stored in a less than ideal manner. Historically, we'd have to create custom joins to get the data we need, but for those in the organization who were not comfortable with joins, they'd either get bad or no data. Pentaho makes this easy for users to get exactly what they want. I also like that Pentaho allows you to quickly adapt your data from table view to chart view, then back to table view without any issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Pentaho? The dashboard reporting feature could use some visual enhancements. I've only played around with it a few times, but I've not yet figured out how to apply a global filter to all reports within a dashboard, so this feature could be made more intuitive, perhaps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Pentaho: Converting systems is always a big undertaking, but this one seems well worth the effort. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Pentaho solving and how is that benefiting you? All of them. All of our data is being (or will soon be) surfaced using Pentaho, and all data users in the organization will soon have access to the tool. This will be our primary data access tool. I would suggest this product to any business that has multiple data sources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Grey P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Grey P.") GP Grey P. analista de siniestros Insurance Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/23/2016 "Pentaho" 5/5 What do you like best about Pentaho? app spectacular as it is a set of free programs to generate business intelligence and includes integrated reporting tools , data mining , ETL Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Pentaho? everything is excellent as it is a BI platform solution-oriented and focused on processes that includes all major components required to implement process-based solutions as it has been designed from the beginning Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Pentaho: 100 % recommended without hesitation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Pentaho solving and how is that benefiting you? many benefits as it is an infrastructure of tools integrated with a workflow engine business process analysis and reporting. The platform is capable of running the business rules necessary , expressed in the form of processes , activities, and is able to present and deliver the right information at the right time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Mohan K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Mohan K.") MK Mohan K. Consultant Management Consulting Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/2/2016 "Big fan of Pentaho (PDI) tool - opens source community edition" 4/5 What do you like best about Pentaho? I have used PDI (Pentaho Data Integration) tool (community edition) for archiving and error handling capabilities and find it the best in business. It is very easy to use and flexible. Learning curve is very less compared to other integration tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Pentaho? This tool occupies lot of hard disk space in your machine. Support for analytics also can be improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Pentaho: I would recommend Pentaho for simple integration requirements but not for very complex solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Pentaho solving and how is that benefiting you? Used Pentaho for archiving and error handling capabilities as part of high volume data loading to Salesforce environment. I find it very easy and flexible to use without any prior training. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Haince Denis P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Haince Denis P.") HP Haince Denis P. Data Engineer, Enterprise Infrastructure Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 5/13/2016 "Good Data Cleansing software" 4/5 What do you like best about Pentaho? The tool has ability to drag and drop different functionalities in the window and create a pipeline of tasks through which the data passes, and gets cleaned. Also the ability to create jobs and running them is a very good feature of the system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Pentaho? The interface needs some upgrade. It looks a little old and un-engaging. Also the application requires a lot of physical memory and hence slows down the operations. while creating transformations is easy, working on the job creation in pentaho is a cumbersome task and takes a while to complete. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Pentaho: Have good experience on Javascript as it required sometime in the transformations to perform certain cleaning activities on the data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Pentaho solving and how is that benefiting you? I was building a relational data warehouse and used Pentaho for the cleaning purpose. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Marcello P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Marcello P.") MP Marcello P. Business Intelligence Analyst Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 2/15/2016 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "End-to-end" 5/5 What do you like best about Pentaho? The ETL Tool is always two steps ahead when it comes to BigData awareness. Besides, it's fully embeddable, scalable and customizable. The Platform has a very smart architecture and it's thought to be extensible and to give the ease-of-use that the user needs. It also presents a great amount of tools and frameworks to build whatever the new techologies bring in terms of Data Vualization/Consumption. It's opensource! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Pentaho? In the latest releases, Pentaho has been tackling their big weaknesses, which is to bring the end user closer to the data side of things. It still has to be improved, especially if you consider the concurrency, but as you can tell from their public activities, they're working on that as I write. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Pentaho: When trying to get help, follow this order" - Support portal knowledge Base - if applicable; - help.pentaho.com - Community Forums - check also your country for local communities; - jira.pentaho.com - to file or read cases, not to ask for support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Pentaho solving and how is that benefiting you? I've worked on multiple implementations since 2008 and I can give some examples of problems solved such as: - Determining when water meters start to produce faulty measurements/billing - State level water company; - Integrating big and critic data from multiple suppliers with different formats but one pipeline; - Integrating multiple data-mining tools using Pentaho, in order to implement fraud detection on an Insurance Company; The benefits I can outline are: - The enormous community that will back you up; - The reliability of the tool, behind a very responsive support team; - The fact that when it comes to sustainability, opensource DOES matter, even if you're a big deployer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/23/2016 "User through my company" 4/5 What do you like best about Pentaho? The ability to create custom reports for my clients and give me more insight on my business metrics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Pentaho? Sometimes pulling the reports can be a bit cumbersome; we've had several server crashes that impede the ability to pull reports we depend on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Pentaho solving and how is that benefiting you? I can give my clients an insight to past quarter metrics and I can view areas of improvement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 1/31/2017 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Minh N.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Minh N.") MN Minh N. Data Manager cum Business Analyst Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 9/9/2016 "Easy to use GUI with lots of functions" 4/5 What do you like best about Pentaho? It is unique because of the ability to drag and drop different components and its integration. It also supports multiple languages and tools like Shell, Javascript, Python, MySQL, PostgreSQL etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Pentaho? Sometimes it is difficult to debug and the GUI is confusing in several occasions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Pentaho: It is very intuitive and powerful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Pentaho solving and how is that benefiting you? Extract, Clean and Transform data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Marketing and Advertising](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Marketing and Advertising") UM Verified User in Marketing and Advertising Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/31/2016 "Good tool for BI " 3.5/5 What do you like best about Pentaho? This is a powerful tool that allows us to produce actionable data that we can easily share company wide. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Pentaho? For many of our reports that are larger, it can time out or take a great deal of time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Pentaho: Straightforward to pick up, worth giving a chance. Accomplishes my objectives Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Pentaho solving and how is that benefiting you? Understanding trends throughout the business, and digging into which customer uses what Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Jim C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Jim C.") JC Jim C. Data Architect - Business Intelligence Computer Software Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/13/2016 "Great ETL Tool as well as Front End for Business User" 4/5 What do you like best about Pentaho? Pentaho's ETL tool is very stable when compared to something like SSIS. I find SSIS to be very brittle and intolerant of changes to source files, etc. Whereas, with Pentaho, when something changes, it is usually very easy to quickly edit the ETL and get right back to work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Pentaho? The built-in report building tool for pre-formatted reports is archaic. It is as if they just don't think people need something better. Here, SSRS is much superior to it; however, the analysis reports (on-the fly reporting) are great, so it depends on what you need. This tool is better suited toad-hoc reporting than to making a set of uniform looking pre-formatted reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Pentaho: The licensing isn't inexpensive, but you can try most of the product for free using the Community Edition. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Pentaho solving and how is that benefiting you? We are creating health metrics to improve business process as well as report specific numbers to the Federal government. We use data from our Electronic Medical Record system as well as billing data from providers such as Medicaid and other insurance companies to monitor the trends and health of our patient population. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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