Compare Salient and Pentaho Data Integration - Apr 2022

Shlomi Lavi

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Bottom Line: Which is Better - Salient or Pentaho Data Integration?

Pentaho Data Integration is more expensive to implement (TCO) than Salient, and Salient is rated higher (90/100) than Pentaho Data Integration (70/100). Pentaho Data Integration offers users more features (12) than Salient (3).

Looking for the right Business Intelligence solution for your business? Buyers are primarily concerned about the real total cost of implementation (TCO), the full list of features, vendor reliability, user reviews, and the pros and cons. In this article we compare between the two software products:

Salient Software, Inc Vs. Pentaho

Salient Software, Inc: Salient provides IT solutions that empower businesses to measure and manage their performance. With our software, you can collect, organize and analyze data to drive performance improvements by better aligning goals with metrics, increasing your operational efficiency and becoming more comfortable with the integrity of your numbers. Founded in 1...

Pentaho: Pentaho offers a suite of open source Business Intelligence (BI) products called Pentaho Business Analytics providing data integration, OLAP services, reporting, dashboarding, data mining and ETL capabilities.

Who is more expensive? Salient or Pentaho Data Integration?

The real total cost of ownership (TCO) of Business Intelligence software includes the software license, subscription fees, software training, customizations, hardware (if needed), maintenance and support and other related services. When calculating the TCO, it's important to add all of these ”hidden costs” as well. We prepared a TCO (Total Cost) calculator for Salient and Pentaho Data Integration.

Salient price starts at $60 per license , On a scale between 1 to 10 Salient is rated 2, which is much lower than the average cost of Business Intelligence software. Pentaho Data Integration price starts at $100 per user/month , When comparing Pentaho Data Integration to its competitors, the software is rated 6 - similar to the average Business Intelligence software cost.

Bottom line: Pentaho Data Integration is more expensive than Salient.

Which software includes more/better features?

We've compared Salient Vs. Pentaho Data Integration based on some of the most important and required Business Intelligence features.

Salient: Data Import/Export, Basic Reports, Online Customer Support.

Pentaho Data Integration: Data Import/Export, Basic Reports, Online Customer Support, Basic Reports, Dashboard.

Target customer size

Salient's typical customers include: Small, medium and large size businesses, Pentaho Business Analytics is perfect for companies of various shapes and sizes.