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Based on 2 reviews and ratings
24 Ratings
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Based on 24 reviews and ratings
Feature Set Ratings
- 9 Spokes ranks higher in 4 feature sets: BI Standard Reporting, Data Discovery and Visualization, Access Control and Security, Mobile Capabilities
- OpenText Magellan ranks higher in 1 feature set: Ad-hoc Reporting
BI Standard Reporting
9.0
9 Spokes
90%

7.2
OpenText Magellan
72%
9 Spokes ranks higher in 1/2 features
9 Spokes ranks higher in 1/2 features
Customizable dashboards
9.0
90%
1 Rating

7.3
73%
2 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates
N/A
0 Ratings

7.0
70%
1 Rating
Ad-hoc Reporting
7.0
9 Spokes
70%

8.2
OpenText Magellan
82%
OpenText Magellan ranks higher in 4/4 features
OpenText Magellan ranks higher in 4/4 features
Drill-down analysis
7.0
70%
1 Rating

7.5
75%
3 Ratings
Formatting capabilities
N/A
0 Ratings

8.2
82%
3 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages
N/A
0 Ratings

9.0
90%
1 Rating
Report sharing and collaboration
N/A
0 Ratings

8.2
82%
2 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
10.0
9 Spokes
100%

8.0
OpenText Magellan
80%
9 Spokes ranks higher in 1/2 features
9 Spokes ranks higher in 1/2 features
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
10.0
100%
1 Rating

9.0
90%
1 Rating
Predictive Analytics
N/A
0 Ratings

7.0
70%
1 Rating
Access Control and Security
9.0
9 Spokes
90%

8.4
OpenText Magellan
84%
OpenText Magellan ranks higher in 3/4 features
OpenText Magellan ranks higher in 3/4 features
Multi-User Support (named login)
9.0
90%
1 Rating

N/A
0 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model
N/A
0 Ratings

8.4
84%
2 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
N/A
0 Ratings

8.4
84%
2 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)
N/A
0 Ratings

8.4
84%
2 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
8.0
9 Spokes
80%

6.4
OpenText Magellan
64%
9 Spokes ranks higher in 1/2 features
9 Spokes ranks higher in 1/2 features
Responsive Design for Web Access
6.0
60%
1 Rating

6.4
64%
2 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
10.0
100%
1 Rating

6.4
64%
2 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
9 Spokes
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A

8.2
OpenText Magellan
82%
OpenText Magellan ranks higher in 4/4 features
OpenText Magellan ranks higher in 4/4 features
Publish to Web
N/A
0 Ratings

8.2
82%
2 Ratings
Publish to PDF
N/A
0 Ratings

8.2
82%
2 Ratings
Report Versioning
N/A
0 Ratings

9.0
90%
2 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling
N/A
0 Ratings

7.5
75%
2 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
9 Spokes
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A

6.2
OpenText Magellan
62%
OpenText Magellan ranks higher in 5/5 features
OpenText Magellan ranks higher in 5/5 features
REST API
N/A
0 Ratings

5.0
50%
1 Rating
Javascript API
N/A
0 Ratings

9.0
90%
1 Rating
Java API
N/A
0 Ratings

5.0
50%
1 Rating
Themeable User Interface (UI)
N/A
0 Ratings

7.0
70%
1 Rating
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
N/A
0 Ratings

5.0
50%
1 Rating
Attribute Ratings
- OpenText Magellan is rated higher in 2 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Support Rating
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
9 Spokes
70%
1 Rating

8.7
OpenText Magellan
87%
11 Ratings
Likelihood to Renew
9 Spokes
N/A
0 Ratings

3.9
OpenText Magellan
39%
9 Ratings
Usability
9 Spokes
N/A
0 Ratings

9.0
OpenText Magellan
90%
1 Rating
Support Rating
5.0
9 Spokes
50%
2 Ratings

9.0
OpenText Magellan
90%
3 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
9 Spokes
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.

Verified User
Contributor in Other
Media Production Company, 1-10 employeesOpenText Magellan
If you do not have a large budget and are a large organization, I would steer clear of Actuate. If you are looking to do very complex washboarding, I would not use them. Your developers have to be very skilled to work with this. Plan to bring in consultants if necessary to help your process. Adhoc reporting is weak. If your pricing is user based and you expand, this could be very expensive.
Director Advertising Technology
Crisp MediaPublic Relations and Communications, 11-50 employees
Pros
9 Spokes
- 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.

Verified User
Contributor in Other
Media Production Company, 1-10 employeesOpenText Magellan
- 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.
Sr. Systems Engineer
MétierInformation Services, 11-50 employees
Cons
9 Spokes
- 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.

Verified User
Contributor in Other
Media Production Company, 1-10 employeesOpenText Magellan
- The documentation on all the available features, but most importantly on the scripting side, can be improved
- The standard look & feel of some basic options, like parameter selection or sorting and filtering, looks dated and can't be customized
- The server portal needs to provide better tools
- More integration is needed with other OpenText products
IT solutions Manager
APP Corporation Pty LtdConstruction, 201-500 employees
Pricing Details
9 Spokes
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—OpenText Magellan
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Likelihood to Renew
9 Spokes
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
OpenText Magellan
OpenText Magellan 3.9
Based on 9 answers
I am no longer working for the company that was using Actuate but I believe they would continue to use it because the stitching costs would be to high. It would require a complete rewrite of the reports and the never version of Actuate (BIRT) even required an almost complete report rewrite
Systems Analyst
MATECH Solutions (Machining Technologies, Inc.)Food Production, 10,001+ employees
Usability
9 Spokes
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
OpenText Magellan
OpenText Magellan 9.0
Based on 1 answer
It is quite intuitive to use. It is fit specifically for doing sentiment, emotion, and intention analysis as well as text classification and text summarization. I would have given 10 if it is fit for the purpose of doing image processing and analysis as well. There is a huge market to analyze video and image data.

Verified User
Analyst in Engineering
Computer Software Company, 201-500 employeesSupport Rating
9 Spokes
9 Spokes 5.0
Based on 2 answers
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.

Verified User
Contributor in Other
Media Production Company, 1-10 employeesOpenText Magellan
OpenText Magellan 9.0
Based on 3 answers
Always there on the front and backend for us and the client.
Business and Channel Development Director
Back2BasicsHealth, Wellness and Fitness, 201-500 employees
Alternatives Considered
9 Spokes
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.

Verified User
Contributor in Other
Media Production Company, 1-10 employeesOpenText Magellan
It is vastly superior to these in many ways, for complex reporting it is a much more sophisticated solution. Visualizations are very good. Javascript extensibility is very powerful, others don't support this or as well. Pentaho and MS are both OLAP oriented. Pentaho is moving more toward big data, which was not our primary focus. Others are stuck in the Crystal Reports Band metaphor.
Director Advertising Technology
Crisp MediaPublic Relations and Communications, 11-50 employees
Return on Investment
9 Spokes
No answers on this topic
OpenText Magellan
- 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.

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
10,001+ employees