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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Middesk

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AMiddesk is a business intelligence (BI) software used to onboarded clients working in three primary verticals — Fintech, Credit Reporting, and Business Marketplaces.

    $1,000

    per month

    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
    MiddeskOpenText Magellan
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    MiddeskOpenText Magellan
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsUsers may also pay per use if they are expecting a lower volume of usage.
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    Features
    MiddeskOpenText Magellan
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Middesk and OpenText Magellan
    Feature
    Middesk
    7.7
    1 Ratings
    6% below category average
    OpenText Magellan
    7.0
    2 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Pixel Perfect reports8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards7.01 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates8.01 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Middesk and OpenText Magellan
    Feature
    Middesk
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    0% below category average
    OpenText Magellan
    8.3
    3 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Drill-down analysis8.01 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities8.01 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages8.01 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration8.01 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Middesk and OpenText Magellan
    Feature
    Middesk
    6.4
    1 Ratings
    25% below category average
    OpenText Magellan
    8.3
    2 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Publish to Web7.01 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Publish to PDF5.01 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Report Versioning5.01 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling8.01 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Middesk and OpenText Magellan
    Feature
    Middesk
    7.3
    1 Ratings
    9% below category average
    OpenText Magellan
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.01 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics8.01 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Middesk and OpenText Magellan
    Feature
    Middesk
    8.5
    2 Ratings
    0% above category average
    OpenText Magellan
    9.0
    2 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model8.52 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)9.52 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)9.02 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Middesk and OpenText Magellan
    Feature
    Middesk
    6.3
    1 Ratings
    20% below category average
    OpenText Magellan
    7.0
    2 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access8.01 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Mobile Application8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile3.01 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Middesk and OpenText Magellan
    Feature
    Middesk
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    3% above category average
    OpenText Magellan
    6.2
    1 Ratings
    22% below category average
    REST API8.01 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Javascript API8.01 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    iFrames6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Java API8.01 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)8.01 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)10.01 Ratings5.01 Ratings
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    MiddeskOpenText Magellan
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    Cyfe
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    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score7 out of 10
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
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    User Ratings
    MiddeskOpenText Magellan
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (11 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    3.9
    (9 ratings)
    Usability
    7.5
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (2 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
    MiddeskOpenText Magellan
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Middesk Inc.
    Middesk majorly provides us with real-time access to the data and documents which are required for automating KYB and CIP regulatory compliance, mitigating front and backend risk. In addition, it is the easiest way for financial services companies to verify and monitor their business customers. It for us very much makes the process of onboarding customers very easy.
    Incentivized
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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
    Middesk Inc.
    • Gathering information needed for registration.
    • Making the registration process efficient.
    • Guiding us through the process when we hit snags.
    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
    Middesk Inc.
    • Better navigation.
    • More marketing and make it very reachable to customers.
    • Login is difficult.
    Incentivized
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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
    Middesk Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Middesk Inc.
    UI is not as intuitive as other systems we use. For states that require income tax withholding, some of them require registration with multiple agencies - the UI doesn't easily tell you which login credentials are tied to which agency.
    Incentivized
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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
    Middesk Inc.
    The user experience of this tool must be rearchitected. I am able to observe a lot of lag in the process when initiated. There are sometimes when the tool's navigation becomes difficult. The time taken at times is large to process a request and this can also be highly improved in the future.
    Incentivized
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    OpenText
    Always there on the front and backend for us and the client.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Middesk Inc.
    ADP Workforce Now offers a module to handle payroll tax registrations. The interface is confusing and the information is hard to find. The service and support are awful - nobody ever knows who can answer tax account questions, they escalate to a different department and promise a callback but they never call back.
    Incentivized
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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
    Middesk Inc.
    • Better speed.
    • Better quality for optimal cost.
    • Saves a lot of time.
    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

    Middesk Screenshots

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    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.