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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Google Charts

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Charts provides a way to visualize data on your website - for free. From simple line charts to complex hierarchical tree maps, the chart gallery provides a large number of ready-to-use chart types. The most common way to use Google Charts is with simple JavaScript that you embed in your web page.N/A

    OpenText Magellan

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AOpenText 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
    Google ChartsOpenText Magellan
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Google ChartsOpenText Magellan
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Google ChartsOpenText Magellan
    Considered Both Products
    Google
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    OpenText
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    32 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    32 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    32 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    27 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    29 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Google ChartsOpenText Magellan
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Google Charts and OpenText Magellan
    Feature
    Google Charts
    8.6
    50 Ratings
    5% above category average
    OpenText Magellan
    7.0
    2 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Pixel Perfect reports8.144 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards9.048 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates8.843 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Google Charts and OpenText Magellan
    Feature
    Google Charts
    9.3
    51 Ratings
    15% above category average
    OpenText Magellan
    8.3
    3 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Drill-down analysis8.046 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities10.051 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages9.537 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration9.645 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Google Charts and OpenText Magellan
    Feature
    Google Charts
    9.0
    50 Ratings
    9% above category average
    OpenText Magellan
    8.3
    2 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Publish to Web9.648 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Publish to PDF9.645 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Report Versioning8.642 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling8.736 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers8.830 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Google Charts and OpenText Magellan
    Feature
    Google Charts
    7.7
    50 Ratings
    4% below category average
    OpenText Magellan
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.049 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization6.047 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics9.040 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Google Charts and OpenText Magellan
    Feature
    Google Charts
    8.8
    44 Ratings
    4% above category average
    OpenText Magellan
    9.0
    2 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)8.943 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model8.838 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.840 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)8.831 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Google Charts and OpenText Magellan
    Feature
    Google Charts
    8.2
    48 Ratings
    6% above category average
    OpenText Magellan
    7.0
    2 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access7.046 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Mobile Application9.629 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile8.044 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Google Charts and OpenText Magellan
    Feature
    Google Charts
    8.4
    40 Ratings
    8% above category average
    OpenText Magellan
    6.2
    1 Ratings
    22% below category average
    REST API8.931 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Javascript API10.039 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    iFrames8.825 Ratings00 Ratings
    Java API8.925 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)5.028 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)8.827 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Google ChartsOpenText Magellan
    Small Businesses
    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score7 out of 10
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Google ChartsOpenText Magellan
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (61 ratings)
    9.0
    (11 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.3
    (8 ratings)
    3.9
    (9 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (33 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.3
    (32 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    9.4
    (22 ratings)
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    Data Sources
    8.3
    (22 ratings)
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Google ChartsOpenText Magellan
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Google
    We can easily recommend Google Charts to any company that needs a way to visually represent their data. Another great thing about Google Charts is that it is free to use and does not require any membership fees. Although it requires a skilled used to be able to use the charts, the results are great and can be beneficial to any company who is looking to make better decisions.
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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
    Google
    • they're free with Google suite and they have backing in terms of powerful Google apps which can be plugged in to perform multiple actions like using Google sheets to import raw data into Google Charts
    • they're the most simple app to use when it comes to creating charts and visual dashboards
    • ease of customization
    • ease of using custom APIs from developers side to help make any types of charts and dashboards you want
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Google
    • I would like a couple more introductory videos or a live chat option for when you run into an issue. I think this is a Google-wide problem, not only linked to Google Charts.
    • I have run into some issues with the Dynamic Data but also admittedly could potentially dive in deeper and investigate.
    • It would be great if Google Charts made it possible to integrate Google Chat into the platform.
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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
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Google
    Google Charts is a good product. It's widely supported with deep documentation and a large community. But for me, it wasn't customizable enough. When we started with simple charts, it was great, but as we got deeper and more complex, our needs outgrew the library. If I was going forward, I would choose a more barebones library with more freedom and extensibility.
    Incentivized
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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
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Google
    Google Charts is about as easy to use as the rest of their applications. The UI is very well thought out, allowing you to add what you need, and customize it to your exact liking. The default theme is actually really nice, which helps as most of the time, customizing is not needed.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Google
    Google charts is always available and provides fast output.
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    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Google
    Connectivity is occasionally very slow.
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    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Google
    As a free tool with massively powerful, infinitely customisable charts that can be dynamically updated - Google Charts is my favourite data visualisation tool. However, my hatred of JavaScript does jade my view on it. This is the price of the tool though, and I'm glad it's available for me.
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    OpenText
    Always there on the front and backend for us and the client.
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    Online Training
    Google
    The online training was solely done through self training on google's guide to charts.
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    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Google
    Easy to implement
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    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Google
    Google Charts stacks up better since it is free and does not have the constant pressure for cost overruns, add-ons, annual maintenance and implementation services. The speed of using Google Charts is quick, saving users potentially weeks in getting up and going. For the readers of websites with limited resources, the application shows up nicely is look and feel with charts. Great way of showing data visually.
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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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    Scalability
    Google
    Google Charts is essential for quick, easy, reporting. There are opportunities for advanced features.
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    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Google
    • teams were easily able to create charts and find out progress on our learning courses and thus take actionable insights to their managers, professors
    • students could also know their progress on various courses from one single view, same for instructors in terms of imparting education
    • sales team could learn which kind of courses sold more to focus more on those areas
    Incentivized
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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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    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.