Gephi vs. OpenText Magellan

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Gephi
Score 6.0 out of 10
N/A
N/AN/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
GephiOpenText Magellan
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
GephiOpenText Magellan
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
GephiOpenText Magellan
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Gephi
6.7
3 Ratings
20% below category average
OpenText Magellan
7.0
2 Ratings
16% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports4.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable dashboards8.02 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates8.03 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Gephi
4.3
3 Ratings
61% below category average
OpenText Magellan
8.3
3 Ratings
2% above category average
Drill-down analysis8.02 Ratings8.03 Ratings
Formatting capabilities2.23 Ratings8.03 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages5.01 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration2.01 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Gephi
4.0
3 Ratings
70% below category average
OpenText Magellan
8.3
2 Ratings
1% below category average
Publish to Web2.01 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Publish to PDF8.02 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Report Versioning2.01 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Gephi
6.7
3 Ratings
19% below category average
OpenText Magellan
8.0
1 Ratings
1% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)9.03 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization3.12 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive Analytics8.01 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Gephi
10.0
1 Ratings
15% above category average
OpenText Magellan
9.0
2 Ratings
5% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Gephi
-
Ratings
OpenText Magellan
7.0
2 Ratings
13% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Gephi
-
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
GephiOpenText Magellan
Likelihood to Recommend
9.9
(12 ratings)
9.0
(11 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.1
(9 ratings)
3.9
(9 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
GephiOpenText Magellan
Likelihood to Recommend
Gephi
It is well suited for projects that are more discovery related. If this is a one-time project that we create a visual for, this would definitely make sense to use. If this is an ongoing analysis (monthly for example), we might look to another software that we would be able to automate a little further in how the visualization comes together
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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
Gephi
  • In comparison to other tools such as GraphWiz or Circos, Gephi comes with an intuitive, easy-to-use interface that makes it easy to load your data, and quickly start building all sorts of different graphs. There's absolutely no code that needs to be written for either loading or modeling. And without downloading additional plug-ins, Gephi ships with quite a few standard graph models, as well as some "fun" extras such as the Sierpinski triangle, and a variety of force atlas types.
  • Most of the layout types (maybe all) are highly configurable, which can make for extremely customized and unique displays of your data. Again, none of this requires the user to write any code. That said, it is possible to script custom functionality for your models, or even update the Java source code yourself, if you feel like getting technical. Gephi builds are available on GitHub, and the developers encourage people to contribute ideas, improvements, and plug-ins.
  • There's a plug-in for Gephi that allows for streaming data to update your model. This essentially allows you to create near realtime graphs of your data in motion. This plug-in was by far the biggest reaston we invested time in the product; to create animated data visualizations without exhaustive hours in development.
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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
Gephi
  • I (and many others) have had to expand Gephi's memory manually by experimenting with the configuration file. I'm glad it's possible, but it should be easier.
  • Gephi sometimes crashes inexplicably and loses your work, so I have developed a habit of explicitly exporting versions of my graphs as csv's, but I think this should be handled automatically in Gephi.
  • Because it is prone to crash, ideally, Gephi would help the user manage his/her use, by estimating processing and memory for very large tasks and prompting the user to confirm their requests before executing. Instead, I just tend to avoid certain functions.
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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
Gephi
While Gephi isn't perfect, it's a powerful tool for mathematical graph modelling that's hard to find in other products, particularly by way of its interface. It grants non-software developers access to a point-and-click way of creating accurate, beautiful visualizations that would normally take hours in other applications. The fact that it allows for live streaming data is also something that's hard to come by, at least for visualization software
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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
Gephi
Gephi is very intuitive and the fact that it shows its process helps the user understand what's going on. However, the animation features can really slow it down and there isn't a way to shut them off. Furthermore, the failures on saving mean you frequently have to start over. These problems disrupt the workflow and can be frustrating.
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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
Gephi
No answers on this topic
OpenText
Always there on the front and backend for us and the client.
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Alternatives Considered
Gephi
The interactivity in Gephi and the quality of the output figures are impressive. However, the selling point was the fact that we were able to link Gephi into our pipeline using Java's interface. Other products were less customizable and lacking of the sophistication Gephi provided without too much pain during the liking process.
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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
Gephi
  • I have only used the product for education purposes. I will not be the best person to provide details about ROI and business efficiency and customer service. I was personally very excited about the tool and am continuing my work on the tool.
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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.