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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

    Agentforce Marketing

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/AMarketing Cloud is a cloud-based digital marketing platform, used by marketers can segment their audience, deliver personalized messages, track campaign performance, engage leads and accounts, and optimize strategies based on real-time insights.

    $1,250

    per month per installation

    Pricing
    OpenText MagellanAgentforce Marketing
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Account Engagement
    $1,250
    per month
    Engagement
    $1,250
    per month
    Intelligence
    $3,000
    per month
    Loyalty Management
    $20,000
    per month
    Personalization
    $100,000
    per year
    Data Cloud for Marketing
    $108,000
    per year
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    OpenText MagellanAgentforce Marketing
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    OpenText MagellanAgentforce Marketing
    Considered Both Products
    OpenText
    No answer on this topic
    Salesforce
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    88%
    Would buy again
    84 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    89%
    Delivers good value for the price
    72 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    89 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    88%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    58 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    84%
    Implementation went as expected
    54 Answers
    Features
    OpenText MagellanAgentforce Marketing
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of OpenText Magellan and Salesforce Agentforce Marketing
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    7.0
    2 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Marketing
    -
    Ratings
    Customizable dashboards7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of OpenText Magellan and Salesforce Agentforce Marketing
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    8.3
    3 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Marketing
    -
    Ratings
    Drill-down analysis8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of OpenText Magellan and Salesforce Agentforce Marketing
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    8.3
    2 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Marketing
    -
    Ratings
    Publish to Web8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publish to PDF8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Versioning9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of OpenText Magellan and Salesforce Agentforce Marketing
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Marketing
    -
    Ratings
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of OpenText Magellan and Salesforce Agentforce Marketing
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    9.0
    2 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Marketing
    -
    Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of OpenText Magellan and Salesforce Agentforce Marketing
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    7.0
    2 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Marketing
    -
    Ratings
    Responsive Design for Web Access7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of OpenText Magellan and Salesforce Agentforce Marketing
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    6.2
    1 Ratings
    22% below category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Marketing
    -
    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
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of OpenText Magellan and Salesforce Agentforce Marketing
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Marketing
    7.3
    171 Ratings
    6% below category average
    WYSIWYG email editor00 Ratings7.4122 Ratings
    Dynamic content00 Ratings8.1153 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content00 Ratings6.3112 Ratings
    Landing pages00 Ratings7.6121 Ratings
    A/B testing00 Ratings7.0151 Ratings
    Mobile optimization00 Ratings6.7111 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting00 Ratings7.3132 Ratings
    List management00 Ratings8.1129 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences00 Ratings7.295 Ratings
    Lead Management
    Comparison of Lead Management features of OpenText Magellan and Salesforce Agentforce Marketing
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Marketing
    8.1
    124 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Lead nurturing automation00 Ratings8.9109 Ratings
    Lead scoring and grading00 Ratings8.1110 Ratings
    Data quality management00 Ratings7.3116 Ratings
    Automated sales alerts and tasks00 Ratings8.2101 Ratings
    Campaign Management
    Comparison of Campaign Management features of OpenText Magellan and Salesforce Agentforce Marketing
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Marketing
    7.3
    114 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Calendaring00 Ratings7.3103 Ratings
    Event/webinar marketing00 Ratings7.497 Ratings
    Social Media Marketing
    Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of OpenText Magellan and Salesforce Agentforce Marketing
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Marketing
    7.4
    88 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Social sharing and campaigns00 Ratings7.283 Ratings
    Social profile integration00 Ratings7.539 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of OpenText Magellan and Salesforce Agentforce Marketing
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Marketing
    7.6
    124 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings8.1118 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings7.3123 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings7.2100 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of OpenText Magellan and Salesforce Agentforce Marketing
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Marketing
    7.5
    124 Ratings
    2% below category average
    API00 Ratings6.790 Ratings
    Role-based workflow & approvals00 Ratings6.689 Ratings
    Customizability00 Ratings6.9111 Ratings
    Integration with Salesforce.com00 Ratings7.6113 Ratings
    Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM00 Ratings8.914 Ratings
    Integration with SugarCRM00 Ratings8.611 Ratings
    Third-party software integrations00 Ratings7.624 Ratings
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    Score8.1 out of 10
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    Score9.2 out of 10
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    Score7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    OpenText MagellanAgentforce Marketing
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (11 ratings)
    8.2
    (329 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    3.9
    (9 ratings)
    8.1
    (114 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.5
    (37 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (11 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.6
    (9 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.0
    (36 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.1
    (7 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    3.0
    (17 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sources
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.5
    (40 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    OpenText MagellanAgentforce Marketing
    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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    Salesforce
    I think the product, by definition, is meant for marketing — and we use it exactly for that, for running campaigns. That’s the best-suited use case for the product. I don’t think it’s really meant to be used for anything else — that’s just not how it’s designed.
    Incentivized
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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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    Salesforce
    • Filter relevant content so you can priorize those that are more relevant and resolve it first
    • Measure the traffic in the different social networks, as well as the response rate, average response time and other relevant metrics
    • Configure automation rules to order the work of those who must interact with the customer
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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
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    • The email builder does not offer any way to catch/check bugs across different email service providers
    • Creating SQL is not as easy as drag-and-drop; a lot of technical knowledge is required
    • Salesforce Marketing Cloud is sold as a marketing tool, but to be honest, you need a LOT of technical IT support to run the tool
    • Einstein metrics are across the board; if you have multiple audiences in one instance of Salesforce Marketing Cloud you can't segment the data.
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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
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    As of right now we have not seen any other program that integrates as seamlessly into our Salesforce platform. We have barely scratched the surface of all the features and use cases. It would be irresponsible to make a move to another platform in the near future. We have not come up against any limitations that would prompt a need to switch
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    You won't find another solution that has as many features as Salesforce Marketing Cloud Interaction Studio. We all know Salesforce, we all know how big they are and it's not for nothing... Their tools do most of the things you want, need and even imagine. Using it is complicated, but the usability is infinite.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    Upgrades and timing of the upgrades were communicated well and planned during off hours for our work. If we did have a campaign scheduled during that time, it would kick-off after the system was back active. There were a few unplanned system down times, but it was a rare occurrence and those times were also short in duration.
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    Performance
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    Though the make up of MA apps is not built this way today, it would be nice to see them become more real-time. The integration between Salesforce and Pardot is not a true real-time integration. If I modify something in Salesforce, those changes are not automatically reflected in Pardot immediately. There is a delay of about 15 minutes before the systems sync. This delay, although not long, is less than ideal We would love the systems to be integrated real time such that changes are propagated from one system to the other immediately.
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    Support Rating
    OpenText
    Always there on the front and backend for us and the client.
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    Salesforce
    They are really responsive and more than not solve the problem or give you insight to how you can manage the solution yourself. I do find however sometimes a long delay on the more complex issues when they need to loop in other departments. but overall a good experience with support
    Incentivized
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    In-Person Training
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    The trainers at the Pardot user conference (Elevate and Connections) were very knowledgeable and presented the material well. Again, the content was targeted to more of a new user audience, and was not really relevant for folks who had been using the product for 2+ years.
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    Online Training
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    Pardot's online training touches on all topics briefly and vaguely without much indepth exploration into how a final outcome could look, such as Nurturing Campaigns, Email templates, landing page templates, etc... The only true way to uncover Pardot's full capabilities is to have Front End design and coding experience. Without this key skill set, I would not recommend Pardot to another business.
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    Implementation Rating
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    From an IT perspective, once you set up the Javascript beacon and start collecting data there is a waiting game. During this time you can start labeling your site actions which can be labor intensive for a single person, but you don't really have the final end-users on the platform yet. We did a lot of training so users were experienced, but it wasn't until they had their first tasks to accomplish that they started using the system and had questions. I'd recommend setting up some immediate goals for an end-user to start segmenting for the purpose of displaying message campaigns so you can jump start end-user action.
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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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    Salesforce
    We use Salesforce Marketing Cloud for lead management, generating reports, tracking customer and dealer information, inputting orders, and more. I prefer HubSpot for email marketing and automation because it is easier to use and the emails are designed much better. We currently use Salesforce and HubSpot, and we are very happy to have both, as they have different pros/cons.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    was not involved with this part but i have not heard about clompaints
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    Scalability
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    Prior to this, we had no solution and literally were doing things on paper in a world where technology is outpacing paper. Having this process optimized has made it easier for the sales and marketing people to change information. From the training perspective, it has allowed us to see holes in where we could create additional support training, so the ROI here has been a lot more than just the optimization of a process.
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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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    Salesforce
    • Salesforce Marketing Cloud allows us to more efficiently reach out to a higher number of prospects.
    • Salesforce Marketing Cloud allows us to nimbly communicate important messages in a timely fashion to facilitate conversion.
    • Salesforce Marketing Cloud allows us to track who is opening our messages so that we can stop sending to those not interested and focus on the most engaged audiences.
    Incentivized
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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.

    Agentforce Marketing Screenshots

    Screenshot of Pardot Analytics - Pardot's reporting and analytics can be used to perform true revenue impact analysis and closed-loop reporting.Screenshot of Pardot Email Analytics - The reach and impact of  email marketing efforts are displayed in real-time with advanced reporting and analytics by device, and email client.Screenshot of Pardot Forms and Landing Pages - Pardot's form and landing page builders are used to turn online traffic to leads with targeted offers and content marketing.Screenshot of Pardot Email Marketing - Lead nurturing flows are defined via an interface that enables definition of the simplest or most complex segmented and targeted campaigns.