iDashboards Enterprise Suite vs. OpenText Magellan

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
iDashboards Enterprise Suite
Score 3.0 out of 10
N/A
This web-based dashboard software displays data in real-time from databases, data warehouses, spreadsheets, XML and other data sources in a single location. iDashboards' built-in security framework provides role-based user permissions and access control. iDashboards Enterprise Suite is complete with software to custom build dashboards, perform what-if analytics, enable alerts and generate reports based on the displayed data in a dashboard.
$0
Per Seat per Month
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
iDashboards Enterprise SuiteOpenText Magellan
Editions & Modules
Enterprise Suite
Per Seat per Month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
iDashboards Enterprise SuiteOpenText Magellan
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
iDashboards Enterprise SuiteOpenText Magellan
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
iDashboards Enterprise SuiteOpenText Magellan
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
iDashboards Enterprise Suite
6.8
4 Ratings
19% below category average
OpenText Magellan
7.0
2 Ratings
16% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports5.34 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable dashboards9.04 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates6.13 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
iDashboards Enterprise Suite
7.2
4 Ratings
12% below category average
OpenText Magellan
8.3
3 Ratings
2% above category average
Drill-down analysis8.14 Ratings8.03 Ratings
Formatting capabilities6.24 Ratings8.03 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages9.11 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration5.34 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
iDashboards Enterprise Suite
9.1
3 Ratings
9% above category average
OpenText Magellan
8.3
2 Ratings
1% below category average
Publish to Web9.12 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Publish to PDF9.13 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Report Versioning9.11 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling9.12 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
iDashboards Enterprise Suite
6.8
4 Ratings
17% below category average
OpenText Magellan
8.0
1 Ratings
1% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)6.24 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.24 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive Analytics6.92 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
iDashboards Enterprise Suite
7.8
4 Ratings
10% below category average
OpenText Magellan
9.0
2 Ratings
5% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)8.14 Ratings00 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model7.24 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.14 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)8.01 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
iDashboards Enterprise Suite
8.5
3 Ratings
6% above category average
OpenText Magellan
7.0
2 Ratings
13% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access9.13 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Mobile Application9.11 Ratings00 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile6.83 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
iDashboards Enterprise Suite
-
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
iDashboards Enterprise SuiteOpenText Magellan
Likelihood to Recommend
6.0
(10 ratings)
9.0
(11 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.6
(6 ratings)
3.9
(9 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(2 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
iDashboards Enterprise SuiteOpenText Magellan
Likelihood to Recommend
iDashboards
iDashboards is well suited for an office environment or organization with fewer personnel and resources. Its efficiency allows for less "man" hours. In terms of selection, the primary key question during process was cost, great tech support service, and efficiency. About where it may be less appropriate, it will be an office where information production, consumption, and dissemination is not a priority
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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
iDashboards
  • Designing a dashboard is easy. In other words, it is fairly easy to make data look really nice!
  • Data Analytics. This makes it easy to do calculations on your data (averages, etc.)
  • Training and examples: Our introduction to iDashboards was thorough. There are plenty of tutorials as well, plus manuals.
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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
iDashboards
  • Provide basic video training tutorials
  • Ability to upload/convert Excel data to non-Windows servers such as Linux or AIX
  • Increase the data row limitation
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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
iDashboards
Our executive leadership relies on the dashboards provided through the iDashboards software. Thus, there is no doubt the contract will be renewed.
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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
iDashboards
iDashboards are fairly logical and easy to use once you get started. I have taught myself most of what I know on my own, by taking webinars, reading through all the knowledge base, and doing the tutorials. Expertise is needed to do some of the data manipulation, but most graphs are simple to make.
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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
iDashboards
No answers on this topic
OpenText
Always there on the front and backend for us and the client.
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Alternatives Considered
iDashboards
iDashboards is easy to use right out of the box. The price point is very, very appealing and it offers everything the other products offer - ease of use and low cost.
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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
iDashboards
  • iDashboards saved us from making a sizable investment in another HR dashboard
  • iDashboards has improved the patient flow metrics
  • Multiple FTEs have been repurposed as a result of automating the visualization and dissemination of data
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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

iDashboards Enterprise Suite Screenshots

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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.