Pentaho surpasses legacy tools like SAP Crystal Reports and Business Objects by offering advanced data integration, reporting, and AI-readiness, while maintaining the pixel-perfect reporting capabilities and ease of use that enterprise users demand. Pentaho’s flexible platform delivers governed, near real-time analytics with enhanced security and scalability, all at a lower total cost of ownership.
Pentaho: Built to Grow with Your Business
Unlike the rigid and costly structure of SAP Crystal Reports, Pentaho’s open-source foundation and flexible architecture empower organizations to adapt quickly and cost-effectively as their needs change. As data volume grows or new reporting requirements arise, Pentaho scales seamlessly without the need for expensive add-ons or complex workarounds. This flexibility allows your business to be agile, respond to market shifts, and enhance your analytics capabilities without limitations, ensuring that your reporting solution evolves alongside your business.
Dynamic Analytics for Better Decision-Making While SAP Crystal Reports provides powerful static reporting, Pentaho’s near real-time data integration takes it a step further, enabling you to connect and analyze data from multiple sources as it’s generated. This insight capability is a game-changer for dynamic decision-making, allowing your business to act on the freshest data possible. Pentaho’s open architecture supports seamless data connections, enabling swift integration of any data source—cloud, on-premises, or hybrid. This empowers your team to create up-to-the-minute analytics, helping to uncover opportunities and risks as they emerge, giving you a competitive edge.
Modernize Your Reporting with Built-In AI Capabilities In an era where data analytics is rapidly evolving, SAP Crystal Reports falls short in providing AI and machine learning capabilities. Pentaho, on the other hand, is designed with AI-readiness at its core, enabling you to leverage advanced analytics without needing to adopt entirely new systems. With Pentaho, you can easily incorporate predictive analytics, automated insights, and machine learning models into your reports, allowing your business to move beyond traditional reporting and prepare for the future of data analysis. This not only drives smarter decision-making but also positions your organization at the forefront of innovation.
Pentaho Data Catalog gives us real-time insights into how our data is changing over time and helps us ensure that all our data files are stored in the right places to support smooth, standardized operations and compliance with internal guidelines.
Rohny Kolli
Fannie Mae - Data Engineering Manager – Advanced Analytics Enablement
Using Pentaho Data Integration has reduced ETL development time by around 70%, which has a significant impact on the MarketAxess’s efficiency.
MarketAxess
Kingland cuts their data analytics and integration implementation time in half by leveraging Pentaho’s metadata injection feature to intelligently generate transformations on the fly.
Kingland Systems
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