Likelihood to Recommend 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.
Read full review Panorama Necto 14 is well suited where BI is built to support social collaboration so that its analytics features can be shared to improve decision making by incorporating various organizational input. Additionally it supports an infographic display for information review which is unlike most of its competitors.
Read full review Pros 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. Read full review Comes with lot of option to modify and build the smart infographic. Uses innovative pictures and charts to create the dashboards Helps you identify why you are succeeding and where you should shift your focus to. The maps are amazing and they just don’t act as control points rather you can populate various measures on them making it really efficient to understand the business in geographical info graph Read full review Cons 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 Read full review This tool is relatively new to the current competitive BI market. Many organizations or business analyst are not yet aware of it's eye catching features. Need more enhancement for predictive analysis. Publishing reports as email attachment and mail server configuration is a little complicated process. Read full review Likelihood to Renew 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
Read full review Some features are very basic and sometimes you can't add your own SQL query for custom reports. For Macs and Blackberry users this application is not helpful. Non-languages are not supported in info-graphics. They need to improve their forecast analysis. Report sharing is limited among the portal users only
Read full review Usability 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.
Read full review It provides all the features that are required and some that are not the basic requirements, but they represent a great additional capabilities, not available within the similar products
Read full review Support Rating Always there on the front and backend for us and the client.
Read full review Support provider are very attentive.
Read full review Implementation Rating Everything went smoothly, we didn't have any unexpected issues
Read full review Alternatives Considered 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.
Read full review This is the next generation BI tool, which will be very helpful for small and medium businesses to kick start data exploration and visualization of their diverse databases, with less intervention from IT. This tool is more end user centric and gives way more power to the end user to perform data analysis
Read full review 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. Read full review ScreenShots OpenText Magellan Screenshots Panorama Necto Screenshots