Low Cost Business Analytics

Pentaho Dramatically Changes the Economics
of Business Analytics

Business Analtyics on a Budget

Pentaho's subscription-based pricing eliminates large, up-front software licensing costs, offering a low pay as you go price. This provides dramatic costs savings as compared to proprietary alternatives such as Oracle, SAP Business Objects, IBM Cognos and MicroStrategy.

With Pentaho Agile BI productivity tools, you can shrink the deployment window for BI projects, shortening the ROI break-even point to just a few weeks.

In addition to lower software acquisition costs and a shorter ROI cycle, Pentaho provides a low total cost of ownership beyond initial savings. When dealing with changing business requirements, integrating with other software solutions or planning for user growth, Pentaho’s open, extensible, and data-agnostic architecture reduces the complexity and cost involved with making these adjustments.

The table below shows the five areas of cost that come into play throughout the entire lifecycle of a BI solution – from the day you make a purchase, to the day you roll out your initial deployment, and finally to when you grow the solution organization-wide. In this table you can see the benefits and drawbacks of different business analytics solutions available in the market.

 
Cost Area Pentaho Enterprise Open Source Traditional Data Discovery SaaS
Software Acquisition Costs
*
Length of the ROI Cycle
Ability to Adjust to Change Agile BI: instantly see updates to data and metrics in reports / analysis Open the hood and start coding Changes take 3-6 months Fast as long as you have data in 1 source, typically Excel Fast to start, painful to change
User Growth No additional cost per user

High end user adoption		 Build your end user self-service tools from scratch; start a software development lab Costly per user price

Low end user adoption		 Costly per user price

High end user adoption		 Costly per user price
Medium end user adoption
Ease of Integration with Other Apps Easy Easy Hard; proprietary Hard; proprietary Hard; proprietary

* Includes development, test, managing releases, and other costs associated with open source.

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