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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

    Salesforce CRM Analytics

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ASalesforce CRM Analytics (formerly Tableau CRM) is a cloud-based business intelligence solutions and analytics software. It provides users with automated data discovery, CRM-connected analytics, top-down views of data, augmented analytics, predictive insights, and customizable data visualization tools.

    $125

    per month

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    OpenText MagellanSalesforce CRM Analytics
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    OpenText MagellanSalesforce CRM Analytics
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    OpenText MagellanSalesforce CRM Analytics
    Considered Both Products
    OpenText
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    73%
    Would buy again
    8 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    89%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    10 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    11 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    9 Answers
    Features
    OpenText MagellanSalesforce CRM Analytics
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of OpenText Magellan and Salesforce CRM Analytics
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    7.0
    2 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Salesforce CRM Analytics
    7.8
    48 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Customizable dashboards7.02 Ratings8.548 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates7.01 Ratings7.546 Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings7.541 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of OpenText Magellan and Salesforce CRM Analytics
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    8.3
    3 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Salesforce CRM Analytics
    7.8
    49 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Drill-down analysis8.03 Ratings8.548 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities8.03 Ratings7.548 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages9.01 Ratings7.537 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration8.02 Ratings7.546 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of OpenText Magellan and Salesforce CRM Analytics
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    8.3
    2 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Salesforce CRM Analytics
    8.1
    47 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Publish to Web8.02 Ratings9.037 Ratings
    Publish to PDF8.02 Ratings7.044 Ratings
    Report Versioning9.02 Ratings8.543 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling8.02 Ratings8.540 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings7.534 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of OpenText Magellan and Salesforce CRM Analytics
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Salesforce CRM Analytics
    7.4
    45 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)9.01 Ratings8.042 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics7.01 Ratings7.042 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings6.540 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of OpenText Magellan and Salesforce CRM Analytics
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    9.0
    2 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Salesforce CRM Analytics
    9.0
    48 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Role-Based Security Model9.02 Ratings8.546 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)9.02 Ratings9.042 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)9.02 Ratings9.541 Ratings
    Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings9.046 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of OpenText Magellan and Salesforce CRM Analytics
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    7.0
    2 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Salesforce CRM Analytics
    6.7
    45 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access7.02 Ratings7.543 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile7.02 Ratings6.539 Ratings
    Mobile Application00 Ratings7.034 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of OpenText Magellan and Salesforce CRM Analytics
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    6.2
    1 Ratings
    22% below category average
    Salesforce CRM Analytics
    8.2
    33 Ratings
    6% above category average
    REST API5.01 Ratings8.031 Ratings
    Javascript API9.01 Ratings8.529 Ratings
    Java API5.01 Ratings8.528 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)7.01 Ratings7.528 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)5.01 Ratings8.527 Ratings
    iFrames00 Ratings8.525 Ratings
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    Cyfe
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    Cyfe
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 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 MagellanSalesforce CRM Analytics
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (11 ratings)
    9.1
    (51 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    3.9
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.5
    (10 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.7
    (6 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    8.1
    (41 ratings)
    Data Sources
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    7.7
    (41 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    OpenText MagellanSalesforce CRM Analytics
    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
    For us it really comes down to that book management and next best contact for our advisors. When we're thinking about a book of business that may range, depending on the advisor, from 400 clients to a thousand clients, how do they really optimize their time? Who do they call next? Who do they work with to make sure not only they're keeping those clients engaged, they're not leaving the firm going to other advisors who they haven't talked to in a while who might need their attention. That's really where that CRM analytics is really proven pretty powerful for us.
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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
    • Interactive Dashboards, it [consists] of wide variety of charts
    • Data from different sources can be easily integrated with it
    • Security, it provides easy way to secure and share the information with the users
    • Support actions like opening hyperlink etc
    • Almost everything can be done from configuration
    • Data can easily be managed from dataflow.
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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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    Salesforce
    • Implementation takes time and resources. It is a heavy lift to implement and at first, it can take a little bit of time to understand what you are looking at. But once it's implemented it's easy to get started.
    • Without any BI expertise or resources available to your organization, the implementation of this is difficult. If you aren't used to BI tools and don't have an expert in house, the terminology can be difficult to understand at first.
    • Their support is not on hand to help you if you encounter any issues, at least not on all the plans or the basic plans. Real-time support service is an add-on, so you'll need to be patient if you require help or pay extra money.
    • More functionality for the tool is needed to compete with other heavyweights in the arena like Tableau, Qlik, and Microstrategy. Still lacks the robustness, functionality, and flexibility other competing products possess.
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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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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Salesforce
    For someone who don't have coding background, this could be a useful tool and fairly easy to learn and use given the good support. However, if you know other open source tools, it would be much easier to use the other tools and the knowledge is more transferable in the future.
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    Support Rating
    OpenText
    Always there on the front and backend for us and the client.
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    Salesforce
    I was not able to be in interaction much with Salesforce support team since every feature works the way it should be working. So far I have not experienced any bug or major glitches that would delay the result of my work and performance. There is also a hotline in our company for Salesforce issue but so far I have not used it.
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    Implementation Rating
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    An implementation partner would certainly result in greater output in a more efficient amount of time. However, I have found implementation partners to be extremely expensive for the output received (at least working for a non-profit company they are frequently unaffordable). Internal implementation does help with usable output though since internal knowledge would better know the data architecture and business processes
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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
    Tableau is the absolute top of the class when it comes to business intelligence, but it doesn't make sense for every business case. In our case, we needed a simple data visualization platform for our CRM platform and sales pipeline. Salesforce Analytics, while nowhere near as robust, did the job we needed it to do perfectly in a significantly more cost-effective manner.
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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
    • I would say it's been positive just because as a company, anyone that has access to it can go in there and pull any company information and we're very up to date then on all of our client base. So I would say it's been a very positive impact.
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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.