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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Looker Studio

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/ALooker Studio is a data visualization platform that transforms data into meaningful presentations and dashboards with customized reporting tools.

    $9

    per month per user per project

    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
    Looker StudioOpenText Magellan
    Editions & Modules
    Looker Studio Pro
    $9
    per month per user per project
    Looker Studio
    No charge
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Looker StudioOpenText 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
    Looker StudioOpenText Magellan
    Considered Both Products
    Google
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    OpenText
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    95%
    Would buy again
    40 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    38 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    40 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    31 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    33 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Looker StudioOpenText Magellan
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Looker Studio and OpenText Magellan
    Feature
    Looker Studio
    7.0
    62 Ratings
    14% below category average
    OpenText Magellan
    7.0
    2 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Pixel Perfect reports6.643 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards7.361 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates7.259 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Looker Studio and OpenText Magellan
    Feature
    Looker Studio
    7.7
    61 Ratings
    2% below category average
    OpenText Magellan
    8.3
    3 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Drill-down analysis6.851 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities7.057 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages7.129 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration9.759 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Looker Studio and OpenText Magellan
    Feature
    Looker Studio
    8.1
    60 Ratings
    1% below category average
    OpenText Magellan
    8.3
    2 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Publish to Web8.453 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Publish to PDF8.753 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Report Versioning8.139 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling7.942 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers7.524 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Looker Studio and OpenText Magellan
    Feature
    Looker Studio
    6.6
    60 Ratings
    16% below category average
    OpenText Magellan
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.160 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.757 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics5.330 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining6.36 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Looker Studio and OpenText Magellan
    Feature
    Looker Studio
    -
    Ratings
    OpenText Magellan
    9.0
    2 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Looker Studio and OpenText Magellan
    Feature
    Looker Studio
    -
    Ratings
    OpenText Magellan
    7.0
    2 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Looker Studio and OpenText Magellan
    Feature
    Looker Studio
    -
    Ratings
    OpenText Magellan
    6.2
    1 Ratings
    22% below category average
    REST API00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Javascript API00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Java API00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
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    Score4 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    Score9.5 out of 10
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Kibana
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Looker StudioOpenText Magellan
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (63 ratings)
    9.0
    (11 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    3.9
    (9 ratings)
    Usability
    8.4
    (14 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.7
    (10 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    Data Sources
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Looker StudioOpenText Magellan
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Google
    Visualizing cross-channel campaign performance can blend data from a few different sources to compare performance metrics like spend, clicks, and conversions side-by-side in a single view, which helps in quick budget reallocation decisions. When dealing with massive volumes of data (millions of rows) or highly complex queries, Looker Studio dashboards can become slow, laggy, or even crash. Performance issues are a frequent complaint when working with large datasets, making it unsuitable for enterprise-level companies
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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
    • Breath of data - the number of ways to interrogate the data is endless, and the options to view metrics alongside each other make for comprehensive datasets.
    • Data visualisation and customisation - the options for presenting data and separating out across pages allow for clean visuals and segmented information.
    • Easy shareability/usability - a quick and simple tool to introduce colleagues to, and easy to grant access for them to be able to view the data, without having to understand the setup itself.
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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.
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    Cons
    Google
    • It needs better handling of complex logic. We often need workarounds to perform complex custom calculations, and it can be really unpleasant at times.
    • Felt it got slow with a larger data set, and in one minor report, we had to set up time filters so that calculations during spikes could be traced more quickly.
    • Compare to competition they need to improve with notification things.
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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
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Google
    It is the simplest and least expensive way for us to automate our reporting at this time. I like the ability to customize literally everything about each report, and the ability to send out reports automatically in emails. The only issue we have been having recently is a technical glitch in the automatic email report. Sadly, there is almost no support for this tool from Google, but is also free, so that is important to take into consideration
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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
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    Usability
    Google
    Looker Studio is easy to use, and it offers a sufficient variety of predefined visualizations to choose from. It's easy for us, and anyone can set up basic reporting without extensive data visualization skills. The interface layout is easy to understand, and it doesn't take long to get used to.
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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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    Support Rating
    Google
    I give it a lower support rating because it seems like our Dev team hasn't gotten the support they need to set up our database to connect. Seems like we hit a roadblock and the project got put on pause for dev. That sucks for me because it is harder to get the dev team to focus on it if they don't get the help they need to set it up.
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    OpenText
    Always there on the front and backend for us and the client.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Google
    Looker Studio is far easier to implement, stand up, and learn. The interface is simpler and user-friendly for various levels of data visualization/analysis knowledge and experience. The biggest benefit of Looker Studio, however, is its ease of connection to GA data and speed. Furthermore, since it is an online program/tool, it requires less CPU/battery/storage on the user's device.
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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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    Return on Investment
    Google
    • Free, so the only investment is time
    • Because it doesn't have native support of non-Google sources, it can cost more money than Tableau
    • The time spent formatting the templates or building connectors can have a negative impact on ROI
    • As a agency, charging for the reporting service is profitable after the first month or two after building the dashboard.
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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.