What users are saying about
25 Ratings
<a href='https://www.trustradius.com/static/about-trustradius-scoring' target='_blank' rel='nofollow noopener noreferrer'>trScore algorithm: Learn more.</a>Score 7.5 out of 100
Based on 25 reviews and ratings
20 Ratings
<a href='https://www.trustradius.com/static/about-trustradius-scoring' target='_blank' rel='nofollow noopener noreferrer'>trScore algorithm: Learn more.</a>Score 7 out of 100
Based on 20 reviews and ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon QuickSight
I'm likely to recommend it because it would become so native if other cloud services are based on AWS infrastructure, like our current setup. It is very seamlessly integrated with other services to feed in data for the visualization. In addition, supporting a reasonably large number of users concurrently is not an issue and should be able to scale horizontally as needed.

Verified User
Director in Research & Development
Computer Software Company, 51-200 employeesOpenText Magellan
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.
Director Advertising Technology
Crisp MediaPublic Relations and Communications, 11-50 employees
Feature Rating Comparison
BI Standard Reporting
Amazon QuickSight
5.5
OpenText Magellan
8.0
Pixel Perfect reports
Amazon QuickSight
6.5
OpenText Magellan
—
Customizable dashboards
Amazon QuickSight
4.5
OpenText Magellan
9.0
Report Formatting Templates
Amazon QuickSight
5.4
OpenText Magellan
7.0
Ad-hoc Reporting
Amazon QuickSight
5.7
OpenText Magellan
7.7
Drill-down analysis
Amazon QuickSight
6.2
OpenText Magellan
5.0
Formatting capabilities
Amazon QuickSight
5.3
OpenText Magellan
9.0
Integration with R or other statistical packages
Amazon QuickSight
4.3
OpenText Magellan
—
Report sharing and collaboration
Amazon QuickSight
6.9
OpenText Magellan
9.0
Report Output and Scheduling
Amazon QuickSight
5.8
OpenText Magellan
8.0
Publish to Web
Amazon QuickSight
6.5
OpenText Magellan
9.0
Publish to PDF
Amazon QuickSight
5.9
OpenText Magellan
9.0
Report Versioning
Amazon QuickSight
4.7
OpenText Magellan
9.0
Report Delivery Scheduling
Amazon QuickSight
6.1
OpenText Magellan
5.0
Delivery to Remote Servers
Amazon QuickSight
5.8
OpenText Magellan
—
Data Discovery and Visualization
Amazon QuickSight
5.4
OpenText Magellan
—
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
Amazon QuickSight
6.3
OpenText Magellan
—
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
Amazon QuickSight
6.7
OpenText Magellan
—
Predictive Analytics
Amazon QuickSight
3.3
OpenText Magellan
—
Access Control and Security
Amazon QuickSight
7.3
OpenText Magellan
5.0
Multi-User Support (named login)
Amazon QuickSight
6.9
OpenText Magellan
—
Role-Based Security Model
Amazon QuickSight
6.9
OpenText Magellan
5.0
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
Amazon QuickSight
7.2
OpenText Magellan
5.0
Single Sign-On (SSO)
Amazon QuickSight
8.0
OpenText Magellan
5.0
Mobile Capabilities
Amazon QuickSight
3.8
OpenText Magellan
3.0
Responsive Design for Web Access
Amazon QuickSight
4.0
OpenText Magellan
3.0
Dedicated iOS Application
Amazon QuickSight
3.3
OpenText Magellan
—
Dedicated Android Application
Amazon QuickSight
3.9
OpenText Magellan
—
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
Amazon QuickSight
4.2
OpenText Magellan
3.0
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Amazon QuickSight
5.0
OpenText Magellan
6.2
REST API
Amazon QuickSight
5.5
OpenText Magellan
5.0
Javascript API
Amazon QuickSight
5.8
OpenText Magellan
9.0
iFrames
Amazon QuickSight
5.1
OpenText Magellan
—
Java API
Amazon QuickSight
5.5
OpenText Magellan
5.0
Themeable User Interface (UI)
Amazon QuickSight
4.4
OpenText Magellan
7.0
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
Amazon QuickSight
3.6
OpenText Magellan
5.0
Pros
Amazon QuickSight
- Lightweight and serverless BI tool that can be used for niche dashboards.
- Its integration into other AWS Services is one of its most appealing features.
- The low monthly cost is another benefit.

Verified User
Vice-President in Information Technology
Higher Education Company, 10,001+ employeesOpenText Magellan
- 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.
Sr. Systems Engineer
MétierInformation Services, 11-50 employees
Cons
Amazon QuickSight
- One of the primary challenges I've had with Amazon QuickSight so far is that some of the reports I want to build use data from different data sets. Instead of being able to put all of the information I want to see into one report.
- Some of our Amazon QuickSight reports only update every 24 hours. It would be great to see that data in real-time.
- I would remove the various time zones from Amazon QuickSight and only use the time zone we are in.
Marketing Director
LightRx Face & BodyConsumer Services, 201-500 employees
OpenText Magellan
- 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
IT solutions Manager
APP Corporation Pty LtdConstruction, 201-500 employees
Likelihood to Renew
Amazon QuickSight
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
OpenText Magellan
OpenText Magellan 3.9
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
Systems Analyst
MATECH Solutions (Machining Technologies, Inc.)Food Production, 10,001+ employees
Support Rating
Amazon QuickSight
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
OpenText Magellan
OpenText Magellan 9.1
Based on 2 answers
Always there on the front and backend for us and the client.
Business and Channel Development Director
Back2BasicsHealth, Wellness and Fitness, 201-500 employees
Alternatives Considered
Amazon QuickSight
In our case, we are storing our large amount of data in the cloud so using QuickSight adds up to the performance of the reporting. We are using it as a secondary reporting tool so that a business user can generate their own report. We are using Tableau as our primary reporting tool.

Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology
Building Materials Company, 501-1000 employeesOpenText Magellan
I've used JReports and Actuate is very similar but seems to have a lot more customization features for the end user of BIRT reports.
Software Developer
ACI WorldwideComputer Software, 1001-5000 employees
Return on Investment
Amazon QuickSight
No answers on this topic
OpenText Magellan
- 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.

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
10,001+ employeesScreenshots
Pricing Details
Amazon QuickSight
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Amazon QuickSight Editions & Modules
Edition
Authors | $24.001 |
---|---|
Readers | $5.001 |
- Per Month
Additional Pricing Details
—OpenText Magellan
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
OpenText Magellan Editions & Modules
—