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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    QlikView

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AQlikView® is Qlik®’s original BI offering designed primarily for shared business intelligence reports and data visualizations. It offers guided exploration and discovery, collaborative analytics for sharing insight, and agile development and deployment.N/A
    Pricing
    OpenText MagellanQlikView
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    QlikView
    Custom
    per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    OpenText MagellanQlikView
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional DetailsOn an perpetual license basis, based on server plus number of users. Contact vendor for pricing.
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    Community Pulse
    OpenText MagellanQlikView
    Considered Both Products
    OpenText
    No answer on this topic
    Qlik
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    93%
    Would buy again
    13 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    14 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    14 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    8 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
    Features
    OpenText MagellanQlikView
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of OpenText Magellan and QlikView
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    7.0
    2 Ratings
    15% below category average
    QlikView
    8.6
    68 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Customizable dashboards7.02 Ratings9.766 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates7.01 Ratings8.060 Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings8.050 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of OpenText Magellan and QlikView
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    8.3
    3 Ratings
    4% above category average
    QlikView
    8.1
    67 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Drill-down analysis8.03 Ratings8.266 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities8.03 Ratings7.867 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages9.01 Ratings8.336 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration8.02 Ratings8.162 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of OpenText Magellan and QlikView
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    8.3
    2 Ratings
    1% above category average
    QlikView
    8.6
    62 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Publish to Web8.02 Ratings8.049 Ratings
    Publish to PDF8.02 Ratings9.056 Ratings
    Report Versioning9.02 Ratings7.542 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling8.02 Ratings10.048 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of OpenText Magellan and QlikView
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    0% above category average
    QlikView
    7.4
    58 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)9.01 Ratings7.955 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics7.01 Ratings6.85 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings7.546 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of OpenText Magellan and QlikView
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    9.0
    2 Ratings
    6% above category average
    QlikView
    6.7
    60 Ratings
    24% below category average
    Role-Based Security Model9.02 Ratings5.355 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)9.02 Ratings5.555 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings8.159 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings8.13 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of OpenText Magellan and QlikView
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    7.0
    2 Ratings
    10% below category average
    QlikView
    8.0
    47 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access7.02 Ratings8.044 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile7.02 Ratings8.038 Ratings
    Mobile Application00 Ratings9.028 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of OpenText Magellan and QlikView
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    6.2
    1 Ratings
    22% below category average
    QlikView
    -
    Ratings
    REST API5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Javascript API9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Java API5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    OpenText MagellanQlikView
    Small Businesses
    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
    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
    Score7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    OpenText MagellanQlikView
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (11 ratings)
    7.6
    (88 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    3.9
    (9 ratings)
    8.8
    (29 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (15 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.8
    (4 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    3.3
    (15 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.4
    (13 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    7.8
    (43 ratings)
    Data Sources
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    7.8
    (43 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.9
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    OpenText MagellanQlikView
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Qlik
    Sales data validations have helped manage our justifications in the past, especially with regard to new product development and new business introduction. It has also been helpful in identifying trends with business impact and direction specific to quarter and monthly sales from ERP data as well as decisions to purchase equipment of staffing based on run rates and product demand.
    One thing that can get out of hand is data output - if you aren't careful in your query, you may be overloaded with data dumps and drown in the amount of info you have to filter through. This is a user caution, not a comment on the software itself.
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    Pros
    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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    Qlik
    • QlikView has a simple, relational data model that's REALLY fast. Filtering and changing data is dead simple results are almost immediately available.
    • The free version of Qlikview is almost completely featured, so you roll a pro-level product out to an entire department for really cheap.
    • QlikView is really flexible--if you can imagine it, you can build it.
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    Cons
    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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    Qlik
    • We found that QlikView can be a bit slow in supporting some forms of encryption. It is web-based and we needed to upgrade all of our server to not support the older SSL and TLS 1 protocols, only support TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3. However, QlikView could not run with TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3. We had to wait over six months to get a version that would handle the newer TLS versions.
    • There are so many options with QlikView that you can get lost when developing a visualization. There are still items I have not yet figured out, such as labeling a graph with the name of a selected detail item.
    • QlikView works by pulling the data it is going to use for visualization into its database. I am a security reviewer and I need to make certain that PII and PHI is not pulled by QlikView for a visualization, otherwise this could become a reportable indecent.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    Qlik
    Ease of use, ability to load from pretty much any data source. today I created an application that loaded time sheets from excel that are not in a table format. With Qlik's "enable transformation steps" I was able to automate loads of multiple spreadsheets and multiple tabs easily. Could not do that with any other tool.
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    Usability
    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.
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    Qlik
    QlikView is very easy to implement. The installation is very straight forward. QlikView has several different data connectors that can connect to different data sources very smoothly. The user interface to build the reports is very easy to understand. This helps to have a smaller learning curve. Something very helpful is that QlikView is a browser application for the end users. So, you don't need to install any applications on the user's computer.
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    Reliability and Availability
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Qlik
    We have not had any downtime issues with the product nor uncovered any significant bugs
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    Performance
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Qlik
    It is not a SAAS product.
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    Support Rating
    OpenText
    Always there on the front and backend for us and the client.
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    Qlik
    My experience with the Qlik support team has been somewhat limited, but every interaction I have had with them has been very professional and I received a response quickly. Typically if there is a technical issue, our IT team will follow up. My inquiries are specific to product functionality, and Qlik has been very helpful in clarifying any questions I might have.
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    In-Person Training
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Qlik
    My team attended, but I cannot myself rate, but I think it was good as they've successfully launched a training program at our company themselves for users. It was 3-4 day training.
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    Online Training
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Qlik
    Training was as expected. The demo environments tend to be more fully featured that our own environment, but the training was clear and well delivered.
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    Implementation Rating
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Qlik
    "Implementation" can mean a few things... so I'm not sure that this is the answer you want.... but here it goes: To me, implementation means: "Is the user interface intuitive and can I produce meaningful reports with ease?" On that score, I'd say YES. The amount of training required was minimal and the results were powerful. The desktop implementation is a simple, "blank" interface just waiting for your creativity. The pre-populated templates give you a reasonable start to any project -- and a good set of objects to "play around with" if you're just getting started. Finally, note that the "implementation" I used was baked into QuickBooks 2016 Enterprise -- called "Advanced Reporting"..... That integration makes it ultra useful and simple.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Qlik
    The only other vendor product that I have worked with that provides a similar experience to Qlikview is Tableau. I would recommend Tableau if your use case is to build a fixed dashboard. You can share reports for free without needing to buy additional licenses. I would recommend Qlikview if your users are looking for a more interactive experience. They can create new objects to represent the data which can't be accomplished as easily in Tableau
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Qlik
    • You can use the free desktop version to do a lot of reporting and analysis work more quickly so the ROI is huge
    • QlikView is great at finding outliers such as data entry errors
    • QlikView is great at helping you quickly discover new insights about your business that can prompt you to take action that can immediately affect your cash flow.
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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.

    QlikView Screenshots

    Screenshot of QlikView Sales DashboardScreenshot of QlikView on all devicesScreenshot of QlikView using mobile touch screen