OpenText Magellan vs. SAS Visual Analytics

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
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
SAS Visual Analytics
Score 8.3 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
SAS Visual Analytics provides a complete platform for analytics visualization, enabling users to identify patterns and relationships in data that weren't initially evident. Interactive, self-service BI and reporting capabilities are combined with out-of-the-box advanced analytics so everyone can discover insights from any size and type of data, including text.
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Annual By Users: 5, 10, 20
Pricing
OpenText MagellanSAS Visual Analytics
Editions & Modules
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SAS Visual Analytics for SAS Cloud
Annual By Users: 5, 10, 20
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
OpenText MagellanSAS Visual Analytics
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details—SAS Visual Statistics and SAS Office Analytics are also available as add-ons.
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Features
OpenText MagellanSAS Visual Analytics
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
OpenText Magellan
7.0
2 Ratings
16% below category average
SAS Visual Analytics
8.3
12 Ratings
1% above category average
Customizable dashboards7.02 Ratings8.012 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates7.01 Ratings9.011 Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings8.012 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
OpenText Magellan
8.3
3 Ratings
2% above category average
SAS Visual Analytics
8.8
13 Ratings
8% above category average
Drill-down analysis8.03 Ratings9.013 Ratings
Formatting capabilities8.03 Ratings8.013 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages9.01 Ratings8.011 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration8.02 Ratings10.012 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
OpenText Magellan
8.3
2 Ratings
1% below category average
SAS Visual Analytics
9.2
13 Ratings
10% above category average
Publish to Web8.02 Ratings9.012 Ratings
Publish to PDF8.02 Ratings9.013 Ratings
Report Versioning9.02 Ratings9.010 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling8.02 Ratings10.012 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings9.07 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
OpenText Magellan
8.0
1 Ratings
1% below category average
SAS Visual Analytics
9.7
11 Ratings
18% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)9.01 Ratings10.010 Ratings
Predictive Analytics7.01 Ratings9.010 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings10.011 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
OpenText Magellan
9.0
2 Ratings
5% above category average
SAS Visual Analytics
8.3
12 Ratings
4% below category average
Role-Based Security Model9.02 Ratings8.011 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)9.02 Ratings8.012 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)9.02 Ratings8.08 Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings9.012 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
OpenText Magellan
7.0
2 Ratings
13% below category average
SAS Visual Analytics
8.3
10 Ratings
4% above category average
Responsive Design for Web Access7.02 Ratings10.010 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile7.02 Ratings9.09 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings9.08 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
OpenText Magellan
6.2
1 Ratings
24% below category average
SAS Visual Analytics
9.2
6 Ratings
15% above category average
REST API5.01 Ratings10.05 Ratings
Javascript API9.01 Ratings9.05 Ratings
Java API5.01 Ratings9.05 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)7.01 Ratings9.05 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)5.01 Ratings9.03 Ratings
iFrames00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
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User Ratings
OpenText MagellanSAS Visual Analytics
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(11 ratings)
9.0
(18 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
3.9
(9 ratings)
9.3
(3 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
6.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(2 ratings)
8.0
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
OpenText MagellanSAS Visual Analytics
Likelihood to Recommend
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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SAS
I was in a meeting with the client and there I have to show them some analytic data to them. But I was confused about how I will manage to show big data to clients with accuracy. But then the SAS Visual Analytics software helps me in presenting accurate data at the moment and it was very presentable and through that, I got the deal for that business.
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Pros
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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SAS
  • Provides the flexibility to the end user to slice and dice the data.
  • Anyone can make predictive models with the help of in-built algorithms without the need to write a single line of code or knowledge of what's under the hood of algorithms.
  • The feature to simply ask a question related to data and getting a response in form of text, chart or graph is amazing.
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Cons
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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SAS
  • SAS is relatively expensive when compared to other BI tools and requires a large amount of upfront fee which becomes an issue for smaller organizations.
  • UI for the dashboards looks a little date in comparison to competitors like Tableau and Microstrategy.
  • Integration with other open source software like Python needs to be built in.
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Likelihood to Renew
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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SAS
SAS really is the cutting edge in Business Intelligence. That is all they do! They are constantly coming out with new products, product upgrades, and their tech support is second to none. In addition, their support of Education has made our ability to acquire their product possible.
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Usability
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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SAS
SAS BI is good for creating reports and dashboards and then sharing it with the users. It also has ability to manage access to the reports and dashboards but somehow with most of the world moving to open source languages R, Python and Julia, SAS BI feels to be archaic in terms of feature set and integrations it allow[s]. Also, comparing it with other Business Intelligence tools like Tableau and Microsoft BI, the functionality of SAS BI is very limited and doesn't justify the pricing.
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Support Rating
OpenText
Always there on the front and backend for us and the client.
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SAS
When you call tech support, you are immediately routed to a person who can answer your question. Often they can answer on the spot. However, if they cannot, you are given a track number and then followed up with. There have been times when I have had multiple track numbers open and they will actually TRACK YOU DOWN to ensure that your problem has been resolved. Issues do not fall into black holes with SAS. They are also willing to do a WebEx with you to diagnose the problem by seeing your environment, which is always helpful.
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Alternatives Considered
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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SAS
SAS Business Intelligence is not the cream of the crop for business intelligence applications, but it is not far behind. The software is generally easier to apply than most other business intelligence software. Additionally, SAS Business Intelligence runs smoothly in the background when making real-time updates. With that said, the software is not as efficient of many of the other business intelligence software applications that have been on the market for longer than this one.
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Return on Investment
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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SAS
  • SAS Visual Analytics licensing cost should be reduced to enable users to use it in mass scale.
  • More statistical and mathematical equations and theories should be converted into SAS functions for reusing.
  • Because of enriched ETL and reporting capabilities SAS Visual Analytics is most preferred by business users.
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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.

SAS Visual Analytics Screenshots

Screenshot of Explore your data using analytics and interactive data visualizations.