Dimensional Insight vs. OpenText Magellan

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Dimensional Insight
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Dimensional Insight provides integrated business intelligence and performance management solutions globally.N/A
OpenText Magellan
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
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
Pricing
Dimensional InsightOpenText Magellan
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Dimensional InsightOpenText Magellan
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
Dimensional InsightOpenText Magellan
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Dimensional Insight
8.3
2 Ratings
1% above category average
OpenText Magellan
7.0
2 Ratings
16% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable dashboards10.02 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates7.02 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Dimensional Insight
8.0
2 Ratings
1% below category average
OpenText Magellan
8.3
3 Ratings
2% above category average
Drill-down analysis10.02 Ratings8.03 Ratings
Formatting capabilities5.02 Ratings8.03 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages8.01 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration9.01 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Dimensional Insight
10.0
2 Ratings
18% above category average
OpenText Magellan
8.3
2 Ratings
1% below category average
Publish to Web10.02 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Publish to PDF10.02 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Report Versioning10.01 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling10.02 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Dimensional Insight
9.0
1 Ratings
11% above category average
OpenText Magellan
8.0
1 Ratings
1% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)9.01 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive Analytics9.01 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Dimensional Insight
10.0
2 Ratings
15% above category average
OpenText Magellan
9.0
2 Ratings
5% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model10.02 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)10.02 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)10.01 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Dimensional Insight
9.0
2 Ratings
12% above category average
OpenText Magellan
7.0
2 Ratings
13% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access8.01 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile10.01 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Dimensional Insight
-
Ratings
OpenText Magellan
6.2
1 Ratings
24% below category average
REST API00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Javascript API00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Java API00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
Dimensional InsightOpenText Magellan
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(2 ratings)
9.0
(11 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
3.9
(9 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(2 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(2 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Dimensional InsightOpenText Magellan
Likelihood to Recommend
Dimensional Insight
Well suited - as stated before - allows user to answer their own questions.
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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
Dimensional Insight
  • The product is excellent!
  • Experienced DI Consultants with a broad knowledge in both, product and client data.
  • Customer service and technical support is always available; very professional and investigate reported issues until resolved.
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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
Dimensional Insight
  • Some screens are not adjustable for sizing.
  • Better capability to import from a spreadsheet.
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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
Dimensional Insight
No answers on this topic
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
Dimensional Insight
Navigation thru the Diver portal is simple; some users have trouble but it also depends on how the analysts build models and present the reports with quickviews selections and report layouts. I am aware of DI capability to access reports thru mobile devices but I have not experience it first hand.
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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
Dimensional Insight
Support is always quick to answer and good to deal with.
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OpenText
Always there on the front and backend for us and the client.
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Implementation Rating
Dimensional Insight
I don't have direct experience with the first time DI was implemented but on subsequent upgrades there have been positive experiences with support and seamless transitions to avoid users discomfort.
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OpenText
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Dimensional Insight
Dimensional Insight is a lot easier to design and use. User interface is much more intuitive.
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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
Dimensional Insight
  • Increased efficiency - very positive.
  • Sales Reporting is Interactive and Light Years ahead of previous solution.
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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.