Astera ReportMiner vs. OpenText Magellan

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Astera ReportMiner
Score 8.4 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
ReportMiner provides an automated solution for data ingestion and integration for unstructured document data sources. This data extraction software enables you to liberate business data trapped in documents such as PDFs, PDF forms, PRN, TXT, RTF, DOC,DOCX, XLS, and XLSX. With features for data scrubbing, business rules-based data quality verification, data transformation (merging, splitting, normalizing, denormalizing, and more), and loading into high-end database platforms, an integration flow…N/A
OpenText Magellan
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
OpenText 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
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Editions & Modules
ReportMiner Enterprise
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per user
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Astera ReportMinerOpenText Magellan
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsDiscounts are provided for 10 pack, 20 pack, 50 pack, and enterprise-wide ReportMiner Professional licenses.
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Community Pulse
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Features
Astera ReportMinerOpenText Magellan
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Astera ReportMiner
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Ratings
OpenText Magellan
7.0
2 Ratings
16% below category average
Customizable dashboards00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Astera ReportMiner
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OpenText Magellan
8.3
3 Ratings
2% above category average
Drill-down analysis00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
Formatting capabilities00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Astera ReportMiner
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OpenText Magellan
8.3
2 Ratings
1% below category average
Publish to Web00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Astera ReportMiner
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OpenText Magellan
8.0
1 Ratings
1% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Predictive Analytics00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Astera ReportMiner
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OpenText Magellan
9.0
2 Ratings
5% 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 Product A and Product B
Astera ReportMiner
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Ratings
OpenText Magellan
7.0
2 Ratings
13% 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 Product A and Product B
Astera ReportMiner
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OpenText Magellan
6.2
1 Ratings
24% 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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User Ratings
Astera ReportMinerOpenText Magellan
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
(7 ratings)
9.0
(11 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(2 ratings)
3.9
(9 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
Astera ReportMinerOpenText Magellan
Likelihood to Recommend
Astera Software
Astera ReportMiner is well suited for those who work with EMR Data or business operations data where different platforms may report on similar data but not everything is the same between the different systems and how they export their data. It works especially well when systems can't edit their exports so you need to clean up data a lot before they are combined into a single file. It is less appropriate a solution when you are trying to combine large data, let's say thousands of files and need some sort of platform to deduce analytic patterns out of it. This is more used for data preparedness rather than big data analysis. This may have changed with recent updates, however they do not do a good job of updating customers on new releases so keeping track of their developments is something worth doing if data management is an important part of your/your company's role.
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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
Astera Software
  • ReportMiner's OCR accuracy is flawless to my experience. I use the program to pull values from check details, and have yet to find an error.
  • ReportMiner's interface is easy to learn. I never even got formal training on the program. I watched some YouTube videos and learned as I went.
  • ReportMiner training personnel is very knowledgeable and quick to respond. Anytime I ran into a problem I could not figure out on my own, they would get back with me within a half a day.
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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
Astera Software
  • Could provide some features to help with advanced analytics for big data. (i.e. larger data sets)
  • Too much clutter on their Youtube page, they should highlight the tutorials so they are easier to find for new users. Get rid of old tutorial video playlists so the organization is clean and up to date.
  • Have sales rep follow up with customers to offer product updates, new product releases, and do check ins to see if customers have suggestions for feature improvement.
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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
Astera Software
It is the best way to get a multi line record from pdf to Excel in one row.
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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
Astera Software
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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.
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Support Rating
Astera Software
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OpenText
Always there on the front and backend for us and the client.
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Alternatives Considered
Astera Software
I have never actually used another program like ReportMiner. Before I was just using PDF viewers such as Adobe that had OCR capabilities. I would have to select a range of numbers and copy and paste to Excel. It was tedious, slow, and sometimes error prone. I chose to learn ReportMiner because it saves me at least 4 times the amount of time I would have to use by copy and pasting.
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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
Astera Software
  • Efficient and automated data extraction. Saves time and resources.
  • User-friendly interface and good documentation. It is therefore easiest to learn and apply in a short time.
  • Documents, which have various formats of data tables or arrangement, needed a lot of manual fixing. So it required a lot of time for validation and quality control.
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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

Astera ReportMiner Screenshots

Screenshot of automatic field creation in ReportMiner, done by scanning the region’s sample for repeating patterns of data.Screenshot of the interface to map and export data to almost any desired destination, including databases like SQL Server, Access, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and any ODBC-compatible database, as well as formats such as fixed length, delimited, Excel, and XML.

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.