9 Spokes vs Magellan BI & Reporting

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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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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Josh Schmitz

Report Developer/Designer

PhototypeGraphic Design, 201-500 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

9 Spokes

Magellan BI & Reporting

Customizable dashboards

Pixel Perfect reports

Report Formatting Templates

9 Spokes

Magellan BI & Reporting

Drill-down analysis

Formatting capabilities

Report sharing and collaboration

9 Spokes

Magellan BI & Reporting

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

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

9 Spokes

Magellan BI & Reporting

Multi-User Support (named login)

Role-Based Security Model

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

9 Spokes

Magellan BI & Reporting

Responsive Design for Web Access

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

9 Spokes

Magellan BI & Reporting

Publish to Web

Publish to PDF

Report Delivery Scheduling

Delivery to Remote Servers

9 Spokes

Magellan BI & Reporting

REST API

Javascript API

Java API

Themeable User Interface (UI)

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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Media Production Company, 1-10 employees

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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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Josh Schmitz

Report Developer/Designer

PhototypeGraphic Design, 201-500 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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Verified User

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Media Production Company, 1-10 employees

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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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Josh Schmitz

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PhototypeGraphic Design, 201-500 employees

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Support Rating

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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No score

No answers yet

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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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Media Production Company, 1-10 employees

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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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Josh Schmitz

Report Developer/Designer

PhototypeGraphic Design, 201-500 employees

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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

Magellan BI & Reporting

9 Spokes

Magellan BI & Reporting

Likelihood to Recommend

9 Spokes

Magellan BI & Reporting

Feature Rating Comparison

Customizable dashboards

Pixel Perfect reports

Report Formatting Templates

Drill-down analysis

Formatting capabilities

Report sharing and collaboration

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

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

Multi-User Support (named login)

Role-Based Security Model

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

Responsive Design for Web Access

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

Publish to Web

Publish to PDF

Report Delivery Scheduling

Delivery to Remote Servers

REST API

Javascript API

Java API

Themeable User Interface (UI)

Pros

9 Spokes

Magellan BI & Reporting

Cons

9 Spokes

Magellan BI & Reporting

Support Rating

9 Spokes

Magellan BI & Reporting

Alternatives Considered

9 Spokes

Magellan BI & Reporting

Screenshots

9 Spokes

Magellan BI & Reporting

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

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