OpenText Magellan

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OpenText Magellan
Score 9.0 out of 10
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OpenText Magellan Analytics Suite leverages a comprehensive set of data analytics software to identify patterns, relationships and trends through data visualizations and interactive dashboards.N/A
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OpenText Magellan
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OpenText Magellan
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
OpenText Magellan
Considered Both Products
OpenText Magellan
Chose OpenText Magellan
There is multiple software available in the market to do the reporting and text analytics. Generally, analysts prefer using Python or R. Or we try to use any API available. This software can fulfill almost 80% of those needs without writing the codes. It has the integration …
Chose OpenText Magellan
OpenText Magellan can produce reports that are much more elaborate than PowerBI, which is ideal for users that just need to see a report. On the other hand, PowerBI seems to be better at allowing users to interact with data.
Chose OpenText 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 …
Chose OpenText Magellan
Actuate has been in the industry a while and the open source community make going with Actuate's BIRT a stable decision. Changing report engines can be expensive, so going with a company with a good reputation helps long-term.
Chose OpenText Magellan
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.
Chose OpenText Magellan
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 …
Chose OpenText Magellan
We looked at a few other competitor's products but based on value for features chose Actuate for its total cost of ownership.
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Features
OpenText Magellan
BI Standard Reporting
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OpenText Magellan
7.0
2 Ratings
16% below category average
Customizable dashboards7.02 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates7.01 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
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OpenText Magellan
8.3
3 Ratings
2% above category average
Drill-down analysis8.03 Ratings
Formatting capabilities8.03 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages9.01 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration8.02 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
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OpenText Magellan
8.3
2 Ratings
1% below category average
Publish to Web8.02 Ratings
Publish to PDF8.02 Ratings
Report Versioning9.02 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling8.02 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
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OpenText Magellan
8.0
1 Ratings
1% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)9.01 Ratings
Predictive Analytics7.01 Ratings
Access Control and Security
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OpenText Magellan
9.0
2 Ratings
5% above category average
Role-Based Security Model9.02 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)9.02 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)9.02 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
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OpenText Magellan
7.0
2 Ratings
13% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access7.02 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile7.02 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
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OpenText Magellan
6.2
1 Ratings
24% below category average
REST API5.01 Ratings
Javascript API9.01 Ratings
Java API5.01 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)7.01 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)5.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
OpenText Magellan
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(11 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
3.9
(9 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
OpenText Magellan
Likelihood to Recommend
OpenText
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.
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Pros
OpenText
  • 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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Cons
OpenText
  • 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
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Likelihood to Renew
OpenText
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
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Usability
OpenText
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.
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Support Rating
OpenText
Always there on the front and backend for us and the client.
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Alternatives Considered
OpenText
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.
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Return on Investment
OpenText
  • 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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ScreenShots

OpenText Magellan Screenshots

Screenshot of A Magellan BI & Reporting dashboard that an individual can interact with and personalize to their needs, such as changing chart types or computations.Screenshot of Magellan Data Discovery provides a Smart User Interface, designed to equip new users and users seeking a more streamlined set of features for insightsScreenshot of Magellan Data Discovery provides an Advanced User Interface that allows data analytics pros to leverage its breadth of sophisticated capabilities for insightsScreenshot of Magellan Text Mining insights can be displayed within easy-to-use dashboards.Screenshot of Data scientists can create visualizations within the Magellan Notebook and see it dynamically update as they write changes to it.