Chattermill vs. OpenText Magellan

Think about large scale ecommerce store (with thousands customers, and hundreds of orders every week). If you want to manage a large scale customer's feedback - this tool is for you. It is too complex for small projects, but for large one it is perfect. Has some minor issues, but in general it will help you to draw a Customer Journey Map, find "hot spots" and implement solutions. Great visualization (in reports) is a huge benefit of Chattermill (and sentiment analysis of course). Thanks to connection between customer support system (like ticketing system) it will allow you to manage support/returns/warranties feedback also. I dont know how it works for other businesses but for large scaled ecommerce it is perfect

Incentivized

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.

• collect customer feedback
• automate feedback reports
• pulling insights on customer data

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• More report types

• 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

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

Super easy to use and very intuitive

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

Always there on the front and backend for us and the client.

Chattermill is more complex, easier to integrate between systems that we used (ticketing, livechat, reporting, CRM). Very informative reports (that will reveal what your customers really think). Custom reports creation is a benefit too - it is easier than in other systems. Automatic categorization of feedback is a helpful tool that do big part of job for you

Incentivized

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.

• Helping reduce churn
• easily 10x return on investment in happy customers
• product ideas and updates that otherwise would not have been surfaced

Incentivized

• 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.