OpenText Analytics vs JReport

OpenText Analytics

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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Christopher Noyes

Director Advertising Technology

Crisp MediaPublic Relations and Communications, 11-50 employees

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JReport

JReport is well suited for enterprise use. It makes creating and managing schedules easy. Each machine in the cluster is capable of functioning in isolation. Load sharing and load balancing options available OOTB are diverse for various types of business needs. The best feature is its ability to detect that a schedule did not complete due to a crash or any other reason and ensure completion through parallel nodes.JReport is not well suited for a small business.

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Nishant Batra

Senior Manager Engineering

Verint-SystemsInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

OpenText Analytics

4.5

JReport

9.1

Drill-down analysis

6.0

8.0

Formatting capabilities

3.0

9.5

Integration with R or other statistical packages

—

10.0

Report sharing and collaboration

—

9.0

OpenText Analytics

—

JReport

8.7

Pixel Perfect reports

—

10.0

Customizable dashboards

—

8.5

Report Formatting Templates

—

7.5

OpenText Analytics

—

JReport

9.8

Publish to Web

—

10.0

Publish to PDF

—

10.0

Report Versioning

—

10.0

Report Delivery Scheduling

—

10.0

Delivery to Remote Servers

—

9.0

OpenText Analytics

—

JReport

8.2

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

—

8.5

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

—

7.0

Predictive Analytics

—

9.0

OpenText Analytics

—

JReport

9.6

Multi-User Support (named login)

—

10.0

Role-Based Security Model

—

10.0

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

—

9.5

Single Sign-On (SSO)

—

9.0

OpenText Analytics

—

JReport

8.0

Responsive Design for Web Access

—

8.0

OpenText Analytics

—

JReport

8.2

REST API

—

10.0

Javascript API

—

8.0

iFrames

—

7.0

Java API

—

9.0

Themeable User Interface (UI)

—

7.0

Pros

The software can be tied to Actuate Basic which is much like MS Visual Basic and can provide an almost custom application feel to some reports.
Actuate had field movement tools that allowed a user to line rows up and disperse them across a report based off the width. Comparative tools like Crystal did not provide these.
The Actuate Server also gave easy access to review who had been running a report or reports via its web interface.

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Todd Bellamy

Systems Analyst

MATECH Solutions (Machining Technologies, Inc.)Food Production, 10,001+ employees

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Creates powerful reports and charts
Highly customizable and can fit multiple needs
Distributed Architecture offers higher reliability and avoids single point of failure

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Nishant Batra

Senior Manager Engineering

Verint-SystemsInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees

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Cons

The debug tool that came with the Actuate 8 developer was poorly written in my opinion; compiling a report could be very difficult when a number of functions were being called.
There wasn't any reporting that could be run to download Actuate utilization statistics. Analytics had to be done by manually reviewing who had been running reports.
At times when the Actuate Server would become overloaded the only solution was to restart it. There wasn't a way to clear up the list of pending report requests.

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Todd Bellamy

Systems Analyst

MATECH Solutions (Machining Technologies, Inc.)Food Production, 10,001+ employees

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Designing UI for a new report can be time consuming
Building an entirely new report requires a fully trained resource with knowledge of using the Designer tool
Upgrades can be complex

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Verint-SystemsInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

OpenText Analytics3.9

Based on 9 answers

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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Todd Bellamy

Systems Analyst

MATECH Solutions (Machining Technologies, Inc.)Food Production, 10,001+ employees

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Support

OpenText Analytics9.1

Based on 1 answer

Always there on the front and backend for us and the client.

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Jeffrey Fischer

Business and Channel Development Director

Back2BasicsHealth, Wellness and Fitness, 201-500 employees

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Breadth of Deployment

Actuate is used extensively as a developemnt tool and by 10s of thousands of end users. Virtually every line of business in our large financial institution uses Actuate - many who are unaware because the components are built into our home grown applications.

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Strategist in Other

Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Alternatives Considered

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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Senior Manager Engineering

Verint-SystemsInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees

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OpenText Analytics6.1

Based on 7 answers

LDAP and Active Directory can be integrated. Access control can be extended with web services but it can be complicated. Different types of users can have different permissions and reports can be hidden from some users. Reports can be exported in a lot of formats including microsoft formats, and pdf. Interactive viewer is very powerful.

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Christopher Noyes

Director Advertising Technology

Crisp MediaPublic Relations and Communications, 11-50 employees

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JReport8.5

Based on 2 answers

JReport comes built in with collaboration capabilities. With role management and user management options, schedules can be managed across diverse group of users and schedules can be delivered to many stakeholders

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Nishant Batra

Senior Manager Engineering

Verint-SystemsInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees

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Data Integration

OpenText Analytics7.7

Based on 7 answers

It can connect to almost anything - solely based on what JDBC connectors are out there

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Bri Gipson

Sr. Systems Engineer

MétierInformation Services, 11-50 employees

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JReport9.5

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JReport can connect to various data sources for pulling information

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Nishant Batra

Senior Manager Engineering

Verint-SystemsInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees

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Return on Investment

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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Employee in Information Technology

10,001+ employees

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