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/