Pentaho Dashboard :: Metrics Software Comparative Review

General information

Vendor:	Pentaho Corporation
Web-site	http://www.pentaho.com
Product description	‘Pentaho Dashboard software’ provides a centralized access to the BI content via thin-client interface. It was designed to be used both as an out-of-the-box application and a display technique to be used with other applications. Merging of ‘Pentaho Dashboards’ with ‘Pentaho BI Suite’ enables. Learn more in full version of review.
Sector	The information is not available in trial report. Learn more in full version.
Platform	The information is not available in trial report. Learn more in full version.
Part of business system	The information is not available in trial report. Learn more in full version.
Price category	The free edition is for ‘small businesses’ and the enterprise edition can be utilized by ‘medium’ and ‘enterprise’ organizations.
Pricing model	The information is not available in trial report. Learn more in full version.
Support and update scheme	The team of professional support consists of people who are experts in dealing with issues like assistance in developing or deploying the solution, fixing bugs and supporting problems. This goes in saving time and averting downtime. ‘Professional Support’ has a number of constituents to assist the users in exploring all the features and abilities of the software package. These include Telephone support (toll-free), E-mail support, FAQs and service level agreement. Besides these, web-based training and consultative support are also available. Training for various tasks like data integration, report preparation, analyses and several other jobs are offered at different prices.
Integration efforts	The information is not available in trial report. Learn more in full version.

Features

Multi-user access:	This software offers single- user access.
Integration. Importing data	The information is not available in trial report. Learn more in full version.
Integration. Exporting	The information is not available in trial report. Learn more in full version.
Supported scorecard type	The information is not available in trial report. Learn more in full version.
Scorecard details. Dashboard support.	The information is not available in trial report. Learn more in full version.
Scorecard details. Benchmarks support	The information is not available in trial report. Learn more in full version.
Unique features	The information is not available in trial report. Learn more in full version.

CONs and PROs

Why use this Balanced Scorecard software:	The information is not available in trial report. Learn more in full version.
Who should use this software	Companies, which are on a look-out for an effective platform to view information, in aggregated form, should opt for this web-based dashboard solution. Moving on same lines, user, belonging to any of the departments of a given organization can use the drill-down approach and customizing tools to screen information in a manner that is most relevant to him/her, excluding the not-so-specific one. Since this dashboard software is a part of a bigger BI suite, it scores over the other similar ‘information reporting’ answers in that the former addresses more than one issue. This is to state that the Pentaho Dashboard is multi-dimensional in approach as it takes care of additional functions like auditing and security also.
What specific problems does this software solve	The information is not available in trial report. Learn more in full version.

What kind of business will not be able to use this solution? Why?	The information is not available in trial report. Learn more in full version.

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