OpenText Magellan vs. Zoho 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
Zoho Analytics
Score 8.1 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Zoho Analytics (formerly Zoho Reports) is a self-service BI and analytics platform that allows users to analyze their business data and create reports and dashboards. It is designed to help users create and share reports quickly, without IT assistance.
$50
per month
Pricing
OpenText MagellanZoho Analytics
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Basic
$30
0.5M rows, 2 users
Professional
$30
per user per month billed annually
Standard
$60
1M rows, 5 users
Premium
$145
5M rows, 15 users
Enterprise
$575
50M rows, 50 users
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
OpenText MagellanZoho Analytics
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsThere is a 20% discount for all plans if subscribed yearly. Customers can buy add-on rows and users, in addition to the plans listed above.
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Features
OpenText MagellanZoho 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
Zoho Analytics
8.3
111 Ratings
1% above category average
Customizable dashboards7.02 Ratings8.5111 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings8.189 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
Zoho Analytics
8.0
114 Ratings
1% below category average
Drill-down analysis8.03 Ratings8.0109 Ratings
Formatting capabilities8.03 Ratings7.5113 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration8.02 Ratings8.5114 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
Zoho Analytics
8.7
107 Ratings
4% above category average
Publish to Web8.02 Ratings8.590 Ratings
Publish to PDF8.02 Ratings8.7106 Ratings
Report Versioning9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling8.02 Ratings8.893 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
Zoho Analytics
7.9
60 Ratings
2% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)9.01 Ratings7.957 Ratings
Predictive Analytics7.01 Ratings7.746 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings8.053 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
Zoho Analytics
8.5
105 Ratings
1% below category average
Role-Based Security Model9.02 Ratings8.652 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)9.02 Ratings8.599 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)9.02 Ratings8.653 Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings8.9104 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings8.19 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
OpenText Magellan
7.0
2 Ratings
13% below category average
Zoho Analytics
7.6
77 Ratings
4% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access7.02 Ratings7.853 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile7.02 Ratings7.368 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings7.357 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
Zoho Analytics
7.9
46 Ratings
0% below category average
REST API5.01 Ratings8.242 Ratings
Javascript API9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Java API5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
iFrames00 Ratings7.637 Ratings
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User Ratings
OpenText MagellanZoho Analytics
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(11 ratings)
8.4
(115 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
3.9
(9 ratings)
8.7
(7 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.3
(59 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(2 ratings)
7.4
(17 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
8.3
(47 ratings)
User Testimonials
OpenText MagellanZoho 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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Zoho
If you've got multiple applications to pull data from, Zoho Analytics is key. As soon as you get beyond hundreds, and into thousands of rows, I'd say you need a tool like Zoho Analytics. We've used it to analyze millions of rows and the engine seems to work well. If you've been able to utilize Excel to create visualizations, you'll find Zoho Analytics to be much more user friendly, in my opinion
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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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Zoho
  • It gives a single unified view everyday for our sales team to look at to track their progress and the progress of their peers in achieving the targets
  • It helps Account Executives to analyse their sales pipeline and find out the score for each deal and any high potential deal that is not getting enough attention
  • Some of our consultants have built very powerful stories on how and what impacts sales using storyboards and they are well understood by senior leadership
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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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Zoho
  • Viewers are provided as "add-ons", this should be basic part of the package.
  • Activity logs of every events is important for audit purpose. it should have been provided with every version.
  • More generics and custom reports support. should be extensible
  • Better aspects of Mobile views, UI/UX in small devices.
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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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Zoho
I'd give this an 11 if I could! As our business moves forward we hope to use Zoho Analytics more then we do now. Creating better reports and dashboards for our management team to evaluate the health of our business and to provide more insightful reports for our customers. The possibilities are endless with this tool
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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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Zoho
Zoho Analytics for ease of use and the overall end-user experience. It helps in maintaining data base and creating customized logical data. Report preparation becomes easy, and the visual representation creates a magical presentation. The meaningful data help in business analytics and projections helpful for planning futuristic strategy with the help of Data modelling and figures
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Reliability and Availability
OpenText
No answers on this topic
Zoho
ZOHO is a very reliable company/product. We never had any issues with downtime or inaccessibility to our data. Any type of maintenance that they had to perform was clearly communicated and never an issue. We use a lot of external hooks and we've never had any issues with getting ZOHO to communicate with any of those hooks.
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Performance
OpenText
No answers on this topic
Zoho
ZOHO has obviously invested a lot of time effort and money in to creating a reliable infrastructure with high availability. We've never had any issues with performance and all of our data crunching small to large has always been well within reason. We have come to appreciate the performance of ZOHO and will continue to use it for all of our data needs.
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Support Rating
OpenText
Always there on the front and backend for us and the client.
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Zoho
The support team is honestly not that great. At times, it seems as if members of our own team know more about the product than the support team. They must not have a lot of training or the turnaround is quick
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Implementation Rating
OpenText
No answers on this topic
Zoho
If your external data sources are previously organized and correlated (e.g.: in your datawarehouse or database) your implementation will be easier. Of cource some not previously predicted correlation would be necessary to be done during the implementation, but if your organization let it to be all done into Zoho Analytics, it will take more time from your team.
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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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Zoho
We used Yellowfin for 1 year and it really doesn't compare to Zoho Analytics because it doesn't have the native integration with ManageEngine's tools and the customization is more technical, Zoho Analytics lets you create dashboards automatically, immediately when you connect the data source (no matter if that is a MSSQL database, URL or an XLS file), maybe you will require custom some details in the dashboard, but it's not compared to create it from zero.
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Scalability
OpenText
No answers on this topic
Zoho
I have not really had problems with the operation of the platform; when I accessed it, I managed to do the work in the ideal times. The statistical development responds very quickly to the user’s requirements, and it is easy to extract the data to make the particular combinations that interest the industry.
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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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Zoho
  • The ability to create and refresh a report has helped to reduce over 50% of time required to prepare elaborate MIS on a monthly basis.
  • It helped with analyzing data directly from the CRM and imported historical data at the same time.
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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.

Zoho Analytics Screenshots

Screenshot of Access reports from iPad and Android tablets.Screenshot of Embed reports in your intranet, business application, website or blog.Screenshot of Track your business key metrics with KPI charts.Screenshot of A dashboard with KPI widgets.Screenshot of Access reports from iPad and Android tablets.Screenshot of Share reports with colleagues and clients, with fine grained access control permissions applied.