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$300
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Excel4apps
Score 8.6 out of 10
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Excel4apps is a business intelligence software offering from Excel4apps.N/A
OpenText Magellan
Score 9.0 out of 10
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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
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
Basic
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
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BI Standard Reporting
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Ratings
Excel4apps
6.3
4 Ratings
26% below category average
OpenText Magellan
7.0
2 Ratings
16% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings5.43 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable dashboards00 Ratings6.13 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings7.44 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
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Excel4apps
7.6
4 Ratings
5% below category average
OpenText Magellan
8.3
3 Ratings
3% above category average
Drill-down analysis00 Ratings7.54 Ratings8.03 Ratings
Formatting capabilities00 Ratings9.24 Ratings8.03 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings6.52 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings7.14 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
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Excel4apps
6.4
3 Ratings
25% below category average
OpenText Magellan
8.3
2 Ratings
1% above category average
Publish to Web00 Ratings6.73 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings8.22 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings5.83 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings6.23 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings5.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
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Excel4apps
6.7
2 Ratings
18% below category average
OpenText Magellan
8.0
1 Ratings
0% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings7.02 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive Analytics00 Ratings6.02 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Access Control and Security
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Excel4apps
8.1
3 Ratings
5% below category average
OpenText Magellan
9.0
2 Ratings
6% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings9.02 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings7.23 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings7.22 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
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Excel4apps
7.8
1 Ratings
1% above category average
OpenText Magellan
7.0
2 Ratings
10% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings9.01 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings6.01 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
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Ratings
Excel4apps
3.4
2 Ratings
78% below category average
OpenText Magellan
6.2
1 Ratings
22% below category average
REST API00 Ratings1.01 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Javascript API00 Ratings5.72 Ratings9.01 Ratings
iFrames00 Ratings1.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Java API00 Ratings5.92 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings2.01 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings5.01 Ratings5.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
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3.9
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Usability
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8.2
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Support Rating
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
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Excel4apps
We have to calculate most all Lab / Pilot / Proposals sizing and results. The automated calculations in [Excel4apps] is awesome, as once you are familiar with them, it is easy to quickly implement them when needed.
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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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Pros
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Excel4apps
  • Easy to install and maintain. After the initial installation, there is little involvement by the technical administrators.
  • Cloning production to a test environment does not require any additional setups unlike Oracle EBS which does.
  • Loading data and reporting on this data is handled via EXCEL spreadsheets which is the "language" of our financial users.
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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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Cons
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Excel4apps
  • It is possible but difficult to retrieve data or set criteria from different module into a single report or retrieve. If it is more user friendly instead of having to create a complex formula to retrieve the data, this function will be utilized more often.
  • It will be nice to have visual (graphs, etc.) report template available
  • It is helpful if we can retrieve data for a range of date, instead of just YTD, PTD etc. and multi-year data all at once for comparison too.
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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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Likelihood to Renew
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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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Usability
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Excel4apps
I am not a power user of Excel. So I find Exel4apps a friendlier version of the things that I could do on Excel and making it easier with a magic wand.
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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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Support Rating
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Excel4apps
I have not needed support yet
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OpenText
Always there on the front and backend for us and the client.
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Alternatives Considered
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Excel4apps
Excel4apps is more user friendly and can retrieve data much easier and in a nicer format than Jaspersoft. Qlik Sense is useful and have more visual reporting and dashboard. However, it is usually used for higher level of analyses and review. Yardi is used for specific purpose, which is different than Excel4apps. Excel4apps can pull all the financial data from Oracle, including billing and collections.
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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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Return on Investment
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Excel4apps
  • Increase team transparency
  • Increased reporting
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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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