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Pentaho - OBIEE
Goal
• Compare Pentaho with OBIEE products• Describe Pentaho products• Multiple datasources• Integration with Oracle tools (ex. Apex)• Security• User management
Compare products
Pentaho• Report Designer • Metadata Editor • Schema Workbench • Reports, Analyses and
Dashboard
• Data Integration• Data Mining• Aggregation Designer
OBIEE• BI Publisher• Administration tool
• Answers & dashboards
Report Designer
Pentaho Report Designer • One tool
– Database connection– Design and preview reports
• Datasources: – Database– Metadata (Metadata editor)
• Wizards + default templates• Charts
+ one tool for connection, creation and preview
Oracle BI Publisher• BI Publisher
– Database Connection
• Microsoft Office Word:– BI Publisher Add-In– Design and preview reports
• Datasources:– Database– Answer reports
• Charts- Microsoft Word to build template
Pentaho: Design Preview
Design (RTF Template) BI Publisher
Dashboard + reporting
Pentaho User Console• Ad Hoc Reporting: metadata
– Simple reports: table
• Analyzer Reports: mondrian– Pivot
• Dashboards: – File (Report Designer files)– URL– Analyzer reports: pivot– Tables + graphs
- Different datasources and different tools to build them
OBIEE• Answers
– Reports : table, graphs, pivot,...
• Interactive Dashboards– Answer reports
+ One datasource: BI Administration tool
Different tools as source
Pentaho• Metadata Editor
– Ad Hoc reporting– Dashboard reports– Report Designer
• Schema Workbench– Analyzer reports>> Mondrian OLAP cubes
OBIEE• Administration tool
– Answers & Dashboards
Administration – User Control
Pentaho Enterprise Console• Central location
– Users– Roles– Data sources– Monitor performance– Configuring LDAP– Scheduling– ...
Administration Tool + Presentation Services Admin• Administration Tool
– Users & user sessions– Roles– Data sources
• Presentation Service Admin– Dashboard, reports and user
management– Scheduling: iBot– Monitor sessions
Connection to Oracle database
• Oracle JDBC drivers:– ...\pentaho\server\enterprise-console-server\jdbc– ...\pentaho\server\enterprise-console-server\lib– ...\pentaho\server\bi-server\tomcat\common\lib– ...\pentaho\design-tools\report-designer\lib\jdbc – ...\client\report-designer\lib\– …\pentaho\design-tools\metadata-editor\libext\
JDBC– …
Compare to OBIEE
Advantages• Graphical reporting tool• User friendly
Disadvantages• Different tool needed for
pivot• Connections in every tool is
different• Open source but still
expensive
Pricing Details
Pentaho – Yearly license fee• Pentaho BI Suite (up to 6 CPUs)
– Silver: € 8.600– Gold: € 25.000– Platinum: € 31.050
• Pentaho Reporting (up to 4 CPUs)– Silver: € 3.450– Gold: € 9.500– Platinum: € 15.100
OBIEE – Buy product + yearly license fee• OBIEE Suite
– Per CPU: € 211.663– License & support: € 46.565
(yearly)(includes sBase and Hyperion)
• BI Publisher– Per CPU: € 33.005– License & support: €7.261
Conclusion
• Reporting– Pentaho Report Designer– OBIEE BI Publisher
• Dashboards & Ad Hoc reporting– Pentaho User Console– OBIEE dashboards & answers
• Overall >> OBIEE
Usefull links
• http://www.pentaho.com/• http://jira.pentaho.com• http://forums.pentaho.org/• http://wiki.pentaho.com/• http://mondrian.pentaho.org
• http://michaeltarallo.blogspot.com/