This sheet compares the two versions of Pentaho, Community vs. Enterprise

1. Pentaho Community & Enterprise Edition Product Comparison
Community Edition Enterprise Edition Community Edition Enterprise Edition
Leading Open Source Test and QA
Business Intelligence
Certified and Stable Software
Evaluation
Deployment
Free 30 Day Evaluation Support
On Demand Cloud Hosted Option
Licensing and Pricing
Professional Services
Low Cost Free "Code" No up-front
license costs Classroom / Online Training
Requires in-house resources to patch
and test Low cost Consulting from Pentaho and
subscription-based Certified Partners
pricing
Ongoing Support
License Open Source GPL license Commercial license
If embedding in a commercial application, Community Online Forums
obliged to make your application available
under the GPL open source license Enterprise Edition Online Forums
Advanced Features 24X7 Enterprise Support with
SLAs (Tel/Email)
Automated Installers
Access to Professional Product
Sophisticated & Interactive Data Documentation
"Basic" analysis
Analysis, Exploration & Visualization
Remote Assistance Packages (for
Self-Service Dashboard Designer Installation/Configuration, Design,
Troubleshooting/Optimization)
Hadoop Integration for 'Big Data'
Reporting & Analysis
Knowledge Base of Technical Content
Support for Mobile BI (e.g. iPad)
Release Updates
Shared Repository and Team Sharing
Immediate Access to Fully Tested Eventually receives fixes
Repository Content Versioning Pentaho Fixes (delays of 1-6 months)
Need to re-build code and test manually
Repository Content Locking
Roadmap Visibility and Influence
Automated Content Expiration
Managed Release Cycles Unpredictable and constant community
Audit Reports code changes
User and Role-based Permissions Entitlement to New Features
and Upgrades
Security Configuration with LDAP
& Active Directory
Community Edition
Single Sign-On Suited for evaluation or pre-production use. Customers choosing this option need internal resources to manage their own
release cycles, test, support, and add advanced capabilities to the "basic" functionality available in this version.
Automated ETL Job Scheduling
Enterprise Edition
Centralized Administration,
Suited for production deployments. Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition provides advanced, self-contained, and quality-assured
Diagnostics, and Performance
software that does not require in-house resources for development and test. Pentaho professional support offers world-class
Monitoring
technical support that guarantees resolution times and service level agreements.
Clustering
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