Arcadia Data (discontinued) vs. OpenText Magellan

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Arcadia Data (discontinued)
Score 9.3 out of 10
N/A
Arcadia Data, a provider of cloud-native AI-powered business intelligence and real-time analytics, was acquired by Cloudera in late 2019. The solution is no longer available for sale, and its capabilities now augment Cloudera's Data Warehouse.N/A
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
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
Arcadia Data (discontinued)
Chose Arcadia Data (discontinued)
You can have a good reading of the data, you undoubtedly have cost savings and eliminate unnecessary and repetitive processes, we have unstructured data that, when structured, are elements of information that have become a competitive advantage for our organization, it is …
OpenText Magellan
Chose OpenText Magellan
There is multiple software available in the market to do the reporting and text analytics. Generally, analysts prefer using Python or R. Or we try to use any API available. This software can fulfill almost 80% of those needs without writing the codes. It has the integration …
Chose OpenText Magellan
OpenText Magellan can produce reports that are much more elaborate than PowerBI, which is ideal for users that just need to see a report. On the other hand, PowerBI seems to be better at allowing users to interact with data.
Chose OpenText Magellan
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 …
Chose OpenText Magellan
Actuate has been in the industry a while and the open source community make going with Actuate's BIRT a stable decision. Changing report engines can be expensive, so going with a company with a good reputation helps long-term.
Chose OpenText 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.
Chose OpenText Magellan
Actuate has a HUGE number of features that can tie nicely into almost any ERP but it takes some time to learn and the development community was relatively small compared to the Crystal Reports alternative. Crystal was far easier to learn and had a massive support base. Probably …
Chose OpenText Magellan
We looked at a few other competitor's products but based on value for features chose Actuate for its total cost of ownership.
Features
Arcadia Data (discontinued)OpenText Magellan
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Arcadia Data (discontinued)
9.2
Ratings
12% above category average
OpenText Magellan
7.0
Ratings
16% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable dashboards9.00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates9.70 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Arcadia Data (discontinued)
9.2
Ratings
14% above category average
OpenText Magellan
8.3
Ratings
3% above category average
Drill-down analysis9.30 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Formatting capabilities8.70 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages9.30 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration9.30 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Arcadia Data (discontinued)
8.7
Ratings
6% above category average
OpenText Magellan
8.3
Ratings
2% above category average
Publish to Web8.30 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Publish to PDF9.30 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Report Versioning9.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling8.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Arcadia Data (discontinued)
9.0
Ratings
12% above category average
OpenText Magellan
8.0
Ratings
0% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.70 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive Analytics9.30 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Arcadia Data (discontinued)
8.8
Ratings
4% above category average
OpenText Magellan
9.0
Ratings
6% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)8.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model9.30 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)9.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)8.30 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Arcadia Data (discontinued)
9.0
Ratings
15% above category average
OpenText Magellan
7.0
Ratings
10% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access9.00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Mobile Application8.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile9.30 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Arcadia Data (discontinued)
9.2
Ratings
17% above category average
OpenText Magellan
6.2
Ratings
22% below category average
REST API9.30 Ratings5.00 Ratings
Javascript API9.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
iFrames9.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Java API9.00 Ratings5.00 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)9.00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)9.30 Ratings5.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
9.3
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9.0
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Likelihood to Renew
-
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3.9
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Usability
9.3
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9.0
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Support Rating
9.3
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9.0
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
It is suitable for companies without a proper data warehouse. He does very well in sales analysis and KPI management. It builds mini data warehouses, is good at data fusion, and interfaces well with other systems. Also, the export function and filter can greatly help you to get only the information you want in the format you want.
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It depends on extensibility, set-up, access & style. Actuate performs fairly well, but has performance issues because it sits on top of eclipse, which sits on top of Java. Extensibility usually comes at that price. Set-up is fairly straightforward and it can be secured.
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Pros
  • Response times are good when analyzing the data.
  • Allows you to easily relate data from many data sources with little effort.
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  • Ability to connect to different kinds of sources, including web services, and customize those queries to the extend needed
  • Provide tools to customize the look & feel of the reports as much as needed, even being able to choose different appearances for different outputs
  • Allowing scripting in the reports extends the functionality available
  • Allowing to embed reports without further licensing and maintaining all the functionality
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Cons
  • More suitable for image processing data and we can quickly simulate the neural network model.
  • We can see how epoch works.
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  • Report rendering can take a long time for large reports (250,000+ pages) - we run these in batch over night
  • The deployment of production code from development to test to production enviroments can be complex due to the number of components that must compile
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Likelihood to Renew
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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
The forecasts thrown allowed to formulate problems as solutions, it allows the distributed processing of the data as a whole, the real power of the Software is that it handles large amounts of data.
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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
Security rules can be very frustrating, and limited online resources make it a difficult job.
Download the report data only in Excel. Unable to download report formats such as colors, fonts, etc. This data analysis tool is a bit complex but complete for any industry that wants to follow its data.
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Always there on the front and backend for us and the client.
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Alternatives Considered
You can have a good reading of the data, you undoubtedly have cost savings and eliminate unnecessary and repetitive processes, we have unstructured data that, when structured, are elements of information that have become a competitive advantage for our organization, it is undoubtedly a strategic ally for the organization in the decision-making process
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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
  • If you are already at an intermediate level, you can use it as a rapid prototyping tool and focus on other aspects of your work.
  • I don't dislike anything about Matlab or don't have that amount of experience in detecting flaws. I love it and I'm used to it.
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  • 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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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.