Cloudera Data Platform vs OpenText Magellan

Likelihood to Recommend

I have seen that Cloudera Data Platform is well suited for large batch processes. It works really well for our indication analyses that are performed by the actuaries. I feel that rapid streaming operations may be a situation where additional technology would be needed to provide for a robust solution.

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Director in Engineering

Insurance Company, 51-200 employees

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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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Christopher Noyes

Director Advertising Technology

Crisp MediaPublic Relations and Communications, 11-50 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Cloudera Data Platform

OpenText Magellan

Customizable dashboards

Report Formatting Templates

Cloudera Data Platform

OpenText Magellan

Drill-down analysis

Formatting capabilities

Report sharing and collaboration

Cloudera Data Platform

OpenText Magellan

Publish to Web

Publish to PDF

Report Versioning

Report Delivery Scheduling

Cloudera Data Platform

OpenText Magellan

Role-Based Security Model

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

Single Sign-On (SSO)

Cloudera Data Platform

OpenText Magellan

Responsive Design for Web Access

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

Cloudera Data Platform

OpenText Magellan

REST API

Javascript API

Java API

Themeable User Interface (UI)

Customizable Platform (Open Source)

Pros

Scales
Highly available

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Director in Engineering

Insurance Company, 51-200 employees

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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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Bri Gipson

Sr. Systems Engineer

MétierInformation Services, 11-50 employees

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Cons

Constantly changing costs
Log visibility

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Verified User

Director in Engineering

Insurance Company, 51-200 employees

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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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Martin Rubens

IT solutions Manager

APP Corporation Pty LtdConstruction, 201-500 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

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

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Todd Bellamy

Systems Analyst

MATECH Solutions (Machining Technologies, Inc.)Food Production, 10,001+ employees

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Support Rating

Cloudera Data Platform 8.0

Based on 1 answer

We have utilized Cloudera support quite frequently and are very satisfied with the capability and responsiveness of that team. Often, the new features delivered with the platform give us an opportunity to mature the way we're doing things, and the support team have been valuable in developing those new patterns.

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Verified User

Director in Engineering

Insurance Company, 51-200 employees

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OpenText Magellan 9.1

Based on 1 answer

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

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Jeffrey Fischer

Business and Channel Development Director

Back2BasicsHealth, Wellness and Fitness, 201-500 employees

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Alternatives Considered

IBM's offering of the Cloud Pak for Data has been a moving target and difficult to compare to Cloudera Data Platform. We have implemented our solution on Amazon Web Services, which appears to be supported by IBM at this point, but the migration would be very expensive for us to endeavor.

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Verified User

Director in Engineering

Insurance Company, 51-200 employees

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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.

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Amy Broome

Software Developer

ACI WorldwideComputer Software, 1001-5000 employees

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Return on Investment

Reduced operational costs
Speed to market

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Verified User

Director in Engineering

Insurance Company, 51-200 employees

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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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Verified User

Employee in Information Technology

10,001+ employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Rating Summary

Cloudera Data Platform

OpenText Magellan

Cloudera Data Platform

OpenText Magellan

Cloudera Data Platform

OpenText Magellan

Likelihood to Recommend