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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Geckoboard

    Score9 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Geckoboard enables users to create real time dashboards using data from over 80 cloud services. It integrates with other products such as: AWeber, Basecamp, Campaign Monitor and HubSpot.

    $35

    per month

    OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting

    Score7.3 out of 10
    N/AThe OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting (formerly OpenText Information Hub (iHub)) component of OpenText™ Magellan™ Analytics Suite is a scalable analytics and data visualization platform that enables IT leaders and their teams to design, deploy, and manage secure, interactive web applications, reports, and dashboards fed by multiple data sources. Magellan BI & Reporting supports high volumes of users, and its integration APIs enable embedded analytic content in any app, displayed on any…N/A
    Pricing
    GeckoboardOpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
    Editions & Modules
    Starter
    $35
    per month
    Team
    $159
    per month
    Team Plus
    $275
    per month
    Company
    $599
    per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    GeckoboardOpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    GeckoboardOpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Geckoboard and OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
    Feature
    Geckoboard
    9.3
    5 Ratings
    13% above category average
    OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
    5.0
    1 Ratings
    36% below category average
    Pixel Perfect reports8.03 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards10.05 Ratings2.01 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates10.04 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Geckoboard and OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
    Feature
    Geckoboard
    7.7
    5 Ratings
    4% below category average
    OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
    7.7
    1 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Drill-down analysis8.04 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities8.03 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration8.05 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Geckoboard and OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
    Feature
    Geckoboard
    9.0
    5 Ratings
    9% above category average
    OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
    -
    Ratings
    Publish to Web10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publish to PDF9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Versioning9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Geckoboard and OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
    Feature
    Geckoboard
    8.7
    5 Ratings
    9% above category average
    OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
    7.0
    1 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)10.05 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization10.05 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics6.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Geckoboard and OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
    Feature
    Geckoboard
    7.8
    5 Ratings
    8% below category average
    OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
    8.7
    1 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)9.05 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model7.03 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)9.03 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)6.12 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Geckoboard and OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
    Feature
    Geckoboard
    9.5
    5 Ratings
    20% above category average
    OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
    -
    Ratings
    Responsive Design for Web Access9.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Application10.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Geckoboard and OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
    Feature
    Geckoboard
    10.0
    2 Ratings
    25% above category average
    OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
    7.0
    1 Ratings
    3% below category average
    REST API10.02 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Javascript API10.02 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    iFrames10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Java API10.02 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    GeckoboardOpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sources
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    GeckoboardOpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Geckoboard
    Great value for the money. Excellent for smaller agencies with multiple projects and teams in a smaller space. We can quickly roll out mobile displays to help with a particular deployment push or monitoring a clients website engagement. It's also useful for showing live data without requiring analytics to run reports from a CRM, etc.
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    OpenText
    iHub is a decent enough environment that it serves our needs. We can have unlimited users and it can tie into AD although we do not use that feature currently. It is a decent place to store all of the reports in one location, even though for us it is not visually appealing to the end users. iHub is not a place where you want to create robust/interactive dashboards for end users to drill through and follow a "story".
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    Pros
    Geckoboard
    • User self-help - the video tutorials and a robust publicly accessible knowledgebase.
    • Geckoboard can aggregate data from a number of other apps into a singular dashboard.
    • Sleek, dark UI.
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    OpenText
    • It is fairly easy to set the sharing rules for a report/dashboard.
    • They have a decent amount of time frame options for setting a schedule to generate a report.
    • The support is mostly helpful and timely if you have an issue.
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    Cons
    Geckoboard
    • A bit more flexibility in the number of columns would be nice.
    • Ability to scale to mobile device (web).
    • App capabilities are missing on Android.
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    OpenText
    • Setting up a "dashboard" is extremely lacking in functionality. The different chart widgets you place on the page do not interact with each other. When you select an item from one do not expect it to highlight or filter another.
    • The speed and stability are not great, but maybe that is just our environment not being up to snuff...even though we are above the "recommended" settings.
    • The main GUI for a user is TERRIBLE. You log into a File Tree format where you have to navigate folders to reach the correct dashboard. There are ways around this, but it would either require an expensive payment to the Professional Services team to revamp to UI or another option they gave us was to create the "Default Dashboard" and provide that link to users and in that Dashboard, you use a new tab to include the navigation back to the main screen so that at least on the initial load the user is taken to a friendly looking dashboard instead of a file tree.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Geckoboard
    My company did not renew due to changes in the organization.
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    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Geckoboard
    With a simple interface and available templates, creating basic dashboards is easy. Obviously depending on the data you want to visualize, there may be higher learning curves. That being said, they have a huge amount of integrations and extensible frameworks. If you are using anything made in the past ten years there is an API function or integration that can get it talking to the platform. As such, it's pretty easy to hit the main data points you want and get it on a cheap display in front of your team.
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    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Geckoboard
    The support levels vary based on the level of plan that you have but that's to be expected. Virtually everything except the Enterprise plan has basic chat/email support. While they are responsive they are not going to be much assistance in helping you figure out API calls or implementing 3rd party integrations. That is to be expected and the support community can pretty much get you in the right direction if you look.
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    OpenText
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    Alternatives Considered
    Geckoboard
    Domo is more robust. We do use both because Geckoboard is really easy to show the rest of our team without the need for additional licenses.
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    OpenText
    Our instance of iHub does not stack up against the other larger BI tools out today. It is a good place to store reports in a central location that allows users to run very specific reports on demand, but it is not a place I would want to store all of my "dashboards". As far as holding individual reports that are specific to an individual need, it is a great tool. If you want to create a report that will be used as a Template for a Form or a Label, iHub is a good choice to store and schedule the report or call it via API to generate it and return it to your calling app.
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    Return on Investment
    Geckoboard
    • While we originally used this as an internal IS tool, we eventually have expanded it to be used by nearly every department.
    • Because pricing is monthly, we can grow or decrease our usage based on our current client needs.
    • Because it is low cost and easy to deploy, we can utilize it in place of considerable resources in analytics and reporting by delivering snapshots of data without pulling reports.
    Incentivized
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    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    ScreenShots

    Geckoboard Screenshots

    Screenshot of Create live KPI dashboards in minutes. No coding or training required.Screenshot of Easily pull in real-time data from over 80 different tools, including spreadsheets and databases, as well as popular business tools like Salesforce, Zendesk, Google Analytics and many more.Screenshot of Anyone can build custom dashboards that make data and KPIs look professional and are easy for everyone on the team to understand at a glance.Screenshot of Get important numbers in front of the team or stakeholders, whether they're in the office or WFH.Screenshot of Every part of your organisation can surface metrics that matter to them and show progress towards their goals.

    OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting Screenshots

    Screenshot of A Magellan dashboard that an individual can interact with and personalize to their needs, such as changing chart types or computations.Screenshot of An ad-hoc report being created through the Magellan Analytics Studio, a component of Magellan BI & Reporting.