Knowage
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€12,800.00 per year
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What is Knowage
Knowage is an open-source business intelligence and analytics platform used to build dashboards, reports, and data visualizations across multiple data sources. It targets data teams and business analysts who need self-service analytics and governed reporting for internal stakeholders. The platform includes modules for traditional BI, interactive analysis, and data discovery, and it is commonly deployed on-premises or in private cloud environments where organizations want control over customization and hosting.
Open-source and self-hostable
Knowage is available as open source, which can reduce licensing dependency and supports source-level extensibility. Organizations can deploy it on their own infrastructure to meet internal security, network, or data residency requirements. This model can be attractive for teams that need to tailor BI behavior, integrations, or UI components beyond what is typically configurable in SaaS-first analytics tools.
Broad BI feature coverage
The platform supports core BI needs such as dashboards, pixel-perfect reporting, and interactive analysis in a single suite. It is designed to connect to multiple data sources and present curated datasets to business users. For organizations standardizing on one BI stack, this breadth can reduce the need to combine separate tools for reporting and visualization.
Enterprise governance options
Knowage includes capabilities typically required for governed analytics, such as role-based access control and controlled distribution of reports and dashboards. It supports centralized management of analytical documents and shared assets to promote consistency. These controls help teams balance self-service exploration with standardized reporting for regulated or audit-sensitive environments.
Higher setup and operations effort
Self-hosting and maintaining Knowage generally requires more infrastructure planning, upgrades, and monitoring than fully managed analytics services. Teams may need dedicated administrators to manage environments, backups, and performance tuning. This can increase total effort for smaller organizations or those without strong platform engineering support.
User experience can vary
Compared with some modern analytics platforms that emphasize highly polished, guided exploration, Knowage’s user experience may feel more complex for non-technical users depending on configuration. Building and maintaining semantic layers, datasets, and documents can require BI expertise. Adoption may require more training and internal enablement to achieve consistent self-service usage.
Ecosystem and integrations depth
While Knowage supports many common data sources, the breadth and maturity of prebuilt integrations, connectors, and packaged content can be less extensive than platforms with large commercial marketplaces. Organizations may need custom development for certain authentication setups, data pipelines, or embedded analytics scenarios. This can lengthen implementation timelines when requirements go beyond standard JDBC/SQL connectivity.
Plan & Pricing
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Essential | €12,800.00 per year (sample: 4 production cores + 2 non-production cores) | KNOWAGE core capabilities; Interactive dashboards; OLAP analysis; Free inquiry; Maintenance services. |
| Professional | €16,000.00 per year (sample: 4 production cores + 2 non-production cores) | Static reports with schedulation; Interactive dashboards; OLAP analysis; Spatial/Geographical visualization; Maintenance services. |
| Extensive | €23,500.00 per year (sample: 4 production cores + 2 non-production cores) | Static reports with schedulation; Interactive dashboards; OLAP analysis; KPIs and alerting; Big data sources (BD, NoSQL, Cloud storages); Advanced analytics with R/Python; What‑if analysis; Maintenance services. |
Notes: Pricing on the official Knowage site is presented as sample annual subscription configurations (based on selected modules and number of CPU cores) with unlimited users and data. Enterprise/B2B/custom and OEM/rebranding/embedding options are available via contact with Knowage sales.
Seller details
Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A.
Rome, Italy
1980
Private
https://www.knowage-suite.com/
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