9 Spokes vs OpenText Magellan Analytics Suite

Likelihood to Recommend

Good for letting your investors, employees and others know at a glance how your company is doing. The interface is clean and organized well. I just wish more of the app's functionality was available for testing and implementation. "Coming soon" is not really encouraging when we already have been waiting for a year or more.

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Media Production Company, 1-10 employees

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It depends on extensibility, set-up, access & style. Actuate performs fairly well, but has performance issues because it sits on top of eclipse, which sits on top of Java. Extensibility usually comes at that price. Set-up is fairly straightforward and it can be secured.

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Bri Gipson

Sr. Systems Engineer

MétierInformation Services, 11-50 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

9 Spokes

9.0

OpenText Magellan Analytics Suite

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Customizable dashboards

9.0

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9 Spokes

7.0

OpenText Magellan Analytics Suite

4.5

Drill-down analysis

7.0

6.0

Formatting capabilities

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3.0

9 Spokes

10.0

OpenText Magellan Analytics Suite

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Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)

10.0

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9 Spokes

9.0

OpenText Magellan Analytics Suite

—

Multi-User Support (named login)

9.0

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9 Spokes

8.0

OpenText Magellan Analytics Suite

—

Responsive Design for Web Access

6.0

—

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

10.0

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Pros

Grouping several apps in one place for easy viewing.
Clean dashboard interface that looks uncluttered when viewing several apps at once.
Setting up the apps is a breeze when the platform supports them.

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The report outputs can vary across different types such as HTML, PDF, and Excel
Their open source offering is very sufficient
There are great boards and blogs for developers and engineers to expand and use their features.
The people from the company that I've worked with are professional and courteous.

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Bri Gipson

Sr. Systems Engineer

MétierInformation Services, 11-50 employees

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Cons

Integration with apps that are listed. Some of them are not supported yet and it seems the wait is taking longer than I'd like.
iPhone support. It would be nice to have this in the app store. Not available as of 04/25/2018.

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The report designer can be unstable at times.
The reporting engine tends to have memory leaks with certain types of massive-data reporting.
The report graphics don't have the sexiest appeal (e.g. Glossy feel, animated output)
Some extensibility is extremely difficult to get to without purchasing a license (e.g. Setting a simple flag so that HTML outputs in compressed mode requires either creating your own emitter or going the paid route)

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Bri Gipson

Sr. Systems Engineer

MétierInformation Services, 11-50 employees

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OpenText Magellan Analytics Suite 3.9

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Difficulty with some extensibility that should be fairly easy, lack of shading in the reports (even simple phong shading), lack of out-of-the box capabilities that seem like no brainers and instability with the design tools all drop the product a few marks, but the support community and the overall product experience is well above average. It's at least worth a try and its extensibility makes it a good contender

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Bri Gipson

Sr. Systems Engineer

MétierInformation Services, 11-50 employees

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Support

9 Spokes 5.0

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Support was helpful in the beginning but no longer needed because I didn't use the software as much. The experience that I did have with support was very friendly but not enough to give a good review. If the support team was called for initial setup, video chat or messenger app was used.

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Media Production Company, 1-10 employees

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OpenText Magellan Analytics Suite 9.1

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Always there on the front and backend for us and the client.

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Jeffrey Fischer

Business and Channel Development Director

Back2BasicsHealth, Wellness and Fitness, 201-500 employees

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Alternatives Considered

I actually chose QuickBooks (currently using) and Method (used for a month) before deciding that 9 Spokes is just good for looking at a few apps in one place. I'll keep checking back with them to see if they have improved. I wouldn't be surprised if 9 Spokes improves their product within the next 6-12 months.

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Actuate has a HUGE number of features that can tie nicely into almost any ERP but it takes some time to learn and the development community was relatively small compared to the Crystal Reports alternative. Crystal was far easier to learn and had a massive support base. Probably because it is now owned by SAP.

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Todd Bellamy

Systems Analyst

MATECH Solutions (Machining Technologies, Inc.)Food Production, 10,001+ employees

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Return on Investment

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Actuate can handle 50 to 60 sub reports inside a report very well.
Dynamically creating the datasource, chart, graph, reports are the main advantages. We can do any level of drilling, and can create a performance matrix dashboard efficiently.

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9 Spokes vs OpenText Magellan Analytics Suite

9 Spokes

OpenText Magellan Analytics Suite

Feature Rating Comparison

BI Standard Reporting

Customizable dashboards

Ad-hoc Reporting

Drill-down analysis

Formatting capabilities

Data Discovery and Visualization

Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)

Access Control and Security

Multi-User Support (named login)

Mobile Capabilities

Responsive Design for Web Access

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

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Support

Alternatives Considered

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General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

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