9 Spokes vs OpenText Magellan

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.

Read full review

Verified User

Contributor in Other

Media Production Company, 1-10 employees

View all 1 answers on this topic

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.

Read full review

Christopher Noyes

Director Advertising Technology

Crisp MediaPublic Relations and Communications, 11-50 employees

View all 10 answers on this topic

Feature Rating Comparison

9 Spokes

OpenText Magellan

Customizable dashboards

Report Formatting Templates

9 Spokes

OpenText Magellan

Drill-down analysis

Formatting capabilities

Report sharing and collaboration

9 Spokes

OpenText Magellan

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

9 Spokes

OpenText Magellan

Multi-User Support (named login)

Role-Based Security Model

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

Single Sign-On (SSO)

9 Spokes

OpenText Magellan

Responsive Design for Web Access

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

9 Spokes

OpenText Magellan

Publish to Web

Publish to PDF

Report Versioning

Report Delivery Scheduling

9 Spokes

OpenText Magellan

REST API

Javascript API

Java API

Themeable User Interface (UI)

Customizable Platform (Open Source)

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.

Read full review

Verified User

Contributor in Other

Media Production Company, 1-10 employees

View all 1 answers on this topic

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.

Read full review

Bri Gipson

Sr. Systems Engineer

MétierInformation Services, 11-50 employees

View all 10 answers on this topic

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.

Read full review

Verified User

Contributor in Other

Media Production Company, 1-10 employees

View all 1 answers on this topic

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

Read full review

Martin Rubens

IT solutions Manager

APP Corporation Pty LtdConstruction, 201-500 employees

View all 10 answers on this topic

Likelihood to Renew

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

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

Read full review

Todd Bellamy

Systems Analyst

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

View all 9 answers on this topic

Support Rating

9 Spokes 5.0

Based on 1 answer

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.

Read full review

Verified User

Contributor in Other

Media Production Company, 1-10 employees

View all 1 answers on this topic

OpenText Magellan 9.1

Based on 1 answer

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

Read full review

Jeffrey Fischer

Business and Channel Development Director

Back2BasicsHealth, Wellness and Fitness, 201-500 employees

View all 1 answers on this topic

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.

Read full review

Verified User

Contributor in Other

Media Production Company, 1-10 employees

View all 1 answers on this topic

I've used JReports and Actuate is very similar but seems to have a lot more customization features for the end user of BIRT reports.

Read full review

Amy Broome

Software Developer

ACI WorldwideComputer Software, 1001-5000 employees

View all 10 answers on this topic

Return on Investment

No answers on this topic

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.

Read full review

Verified User

Employee in Information Technology

10,001+ employees

View all 10 answers on this topic

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

—

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Rating Summary

9 Spokes

OpenText Magellan

9 Spokes

OpenText Magellan

9 Spokes

OpenText Magellan

Likelihood to Recommend

9 Spokes

OpenText Magellan

Feature Rating Comparison

Customizable dashboards

Report Formatting Templates

Drill-down analysis

Formatting capabilities

Report sharing and collaboration

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

Multi-User Support (named login)

Role-Based Security Model

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

Single Sign-On (SSO)

Responsive Design for Web Access

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

Publish to Web

Publish to PDF

Report Versioning

Report Delivery Scheduling

REST API

Javascript API

Java API

Themeable User Interface (UI)

Customizable Platform (Open Source)

Pros

9 Spokes

OpenText Magellan

Cons

9 Spokes

OpenText Magellan

Likelihood to Renew

9 Spokes

OpenText Magellan

Support Rating

9 Spokes

OpenText Magellan

Alternatives Considered

9 Spokes

OpenText Magellan

Return on Investment

9 Spokes

OpenText Magellan

Screenshots

9 Spokes

OpenText Magellan

Pricing Details

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?

Rating Summary

Add comparison