9 Spokes vs. OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
9 Spokes
Score 10.0 out of 10
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9 Spokes is a smart dashboard that is designed to help companies see their business more clearly. Key metrics across essential areas of the user’s business are displayed in one place, revealing exactly how it's performing. The vendor’s value proposition is that 9 Spokes makes it easier for companies to make the right calls to manage or grow their business. According to the vendor, key benefits for SMEs include: One smart dashboard for your cloud business apps…N/A
OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
Score 7.3 out of 10
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The OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting (formerly OpenText Information Hub (iHub)) component of OpenText™ Magellan™ Analytics Suite is a scalable analytics and data visualization platform that enables IT leaders and their teams to design, deploy, and manage secure, interactive web applications, reports, and dashboards fed by multiple data sources. Magellan BI & Reporting supports high volumes of users, and its integration APIs enable embedded analytic content in any app, displayed on any…N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details9 Spokes is free to use - that’s joining, using the smart dashboard and connecting your apps to it. You'll only pay for any new apps you decide to purchase, but you can trial most of the app recommendations for free! If you want to purchase an app, we'll direct you to the app's website so you can sign up with them. If you sign up to a plan, you'll pay the apps directly and then you can connect the app to your dashboard.
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Community Pulse
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Top Pros
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Features
9 SpokesOpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
9 Spokes
9.0
1 Ratings
9% above category average
OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
5.0
1 Ratings
32% below category average
Customizable dashboards9.01 Ratings2.01 Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
9 Spokes
7.0
1 Ratings
15% below category average
OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
7.7
1 Ratings
1% below category average
Drill-down analysis7.01 Ratings6.01 Ratings
Formatting capabilities00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
9 Spokes
10.0
1 Ratings
21% above category average
OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
7.0
1 Ratings
7% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)10.01 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
9 Spokes
9.0
1 Ratings
5% above category average
OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
8.7
1 Ratings
16% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)9.01 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
9 Spokes
8.0
1 Ratings
0% above category average
OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
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Ratings
Responsive Design for Web Access6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
9 Spokes
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Ratings
OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
7.0
1 Ratings
6% below category average
REST API00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Javascript API00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Java API00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
9 SpokesOpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(1 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
5.0
(1 ratings)
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User Testimonials
9 SpokesOpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
Likelihood to Recommend
9 Spokes International Limited
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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OpenText
iHub is a decent enough environment that it serves our needs. We can have unlimited users and it can tie into AD although we do not use that feature currently. It is a decent place to store all of the reports in one location, even though for us it is not visually appealing to the end users. iHub is not a place where you want to create robust/interactive dashboards for end users to drill through and follow a "story".
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Pros
9 Spokes International Limited
  • 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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OpenText
  • It is fairly easy to set the sharing rules for a report/dashboard.
  • They have a decent amount of time frame options for setting a schedule to generate a report.
  • The support is mostly helpful and timely if you have an issue.
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Cons
9 Spokes International Limited
  • 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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OpenText
  • Setting up a "dashboard" is extremely lacking in functionality. The different chart widgets you place on the page do not interact with each other. When you select an item from one do not expect it to highlight or filter another.
  • The speed and stability are not great, but maybe that is just our environment not being up to snuff...even though we are above the "recommended" settings.
  • The main GUI for a user is TERRIBLE. You log into a File Tree format where you have to navigate folders to reach the correct dashboard. There are ways around this, but it would either require an expensive payment to the Professional Services team to revamp to UI or another option they gave us was to create the "Default Dashboard" and provide that link to users and in that Dashboard, you use a new tab to include the navigation back to the main screen so that at least on the initial load the user is taken to a friendly looking dashboard instead of a file tree.
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Support Rating
9 Spokes International Limited
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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OpenText
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Alternatives Considered
9 Spokes International Limited
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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OpenText
Our instance of iHub does not stack up against the other larger BI tools out today. It is a good place to store reports in a central location that allows users to run very specific reports on demand, but it is not a place I would want to store all of my "dashboards". As far as holding individual reports that are specific to an individual need, it is a great tool. If you want to create a report that will be used as a Template for a Form or a Label, iHub is a good choice to store and schedule the report or call it via API to generate it and return it to your calling app.
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Screenshot of A Magellan dashboard that an individual can interact with and personalize to their needs, such as changing chart types or computations.Screenshot of An ad-hoc report being created through the Magellan Analytics Studio, a component of Magellan BI & Reporting.