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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

    SAP Analytics Cloud

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AThe SAP Analytics Cloud solution brings together analytics and planning with integration to SAP applications and access to heterogenous data sources. As the analytics and planning solution within SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP Analytics Cloud supports trusted insights and integrated planning processes enterprise-wide to help make decisions without doubt.

    $36

    per month per user

    Pricing
    OpenText MagellanSAP Analytics Cloud
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    SAP Analytics Cloud for Business Intelligence
    $36.00
    per month per user
    SAP Analytics Cloud for Planning
    Price upon request
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    OpenText MagellanSAP Analytics Cloud
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—A 30-day trial with SAP Analytics Cloud is available, supporting analytics enterprise-wide. A trial can be extended up to 90 days on request.
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    Community Pulse
    OpenText MagellanSAP Analytics Cloud
    Considered Both Products
    OpenText
    No answer on this topic
    SAP
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    94%
    Would buy again
    313 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    266 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    300 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    85%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    178 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    85%
    Implementation went as expected
    221 Answers
    Features
    OpenText MagellanSAP Analytics Cloud
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of OpenText Magellan and SAP Analytics Cloud
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    7.0
    2 Ratings
    15% below category average
    SAP Analytics Cloud
    7.6
    357 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Customizable dashboards7.02 Ratings7.9345 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates7.01 Ratings7.4319 Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings7.4302 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of OpenText Magellan and SAP Analytics Cloud
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    8.3
    3 Ratings
    4% above category average
    SAP Analytics Cloud
    7.5
    358 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Drill-down analysis8.03 Ratings7.9348 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities8.03 Ratings7.3345 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages9.01 Ratings6.9256 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration8.02 Ratings8.1334 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of OpenText Magellan and SAP Analytics Cloud
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    8.3
    2 Ratings
    1% above category average
    SAP Analytics Cloud
    7.4
    339 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Publish to Web8.02 Ratings7.7290 Ratings
    Publish to PDF8.02 Ratings7.8321 Ratings
    Report Versioning9.02 Ratings7.5282 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling8.02 Ratings7.5278 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings6.758 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of OpenText Magellan and SAP Analytics Cloud
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    0% above category average
    SAP Analytics Cloud
    7.4
    343 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)9.01 Ratings7.8325 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics7.01 Ratings7.2312 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings7.5312 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings7.099 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of OpenText Magellan and SAP Analytics Cloud
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    9.0
    2 Ratings
    6% above category average
    SAP Analytics Cloud
    8.2
    349 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Role-Based Security Model9.02 Ratings8.1331 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)9.02 Ratings8.1324 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)9.02 Ratings8.5327 Ratings
    Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings8.2323 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings8.2134 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of OpenText Magellan and SAP Analytics Cloud
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    7.0
    2 Ratings
    10% below category average
    SAP Analytics Cloud
    7.4
    294 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access7.02 Ratings7.5283 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile7.02 Ratings7.0274 Ratings
    Mobile Application00 Ratings6.8247 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of OpenText Magellan and SAP Analytics Cloud
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    6.2
    1 Ratings
    22% below category average
    SAP Analytics Cloud
    7.1
    66 Ratings
    9% below category average
    REST API5.01 Ratings7.156 Ratings
    Javascript API9.01 Ratings7.049 Ratings
    Java API5.01 Ratings7.142 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)7.01 Ratings7.451 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)5.01 Ratings6.843 Ratings
    iFrames00 Ratings7.143 Ratings
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    Score8.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    OpenText MagellanSAP Analytics Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (11 ratings)
    8.1
    (382 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    3.9
    (9 ratings)
    8.7
    (22 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.7
    (307 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    6.3
    (73 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.1
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.3
    (9 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    8.0
    (61 ratings)
    Data Sources
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    8.1
    (61 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    OpenText MagellanSAP Analytics Cloud
    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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    SAP
    >> Using SAC predictive analytics capabilities for inventory management in a Production line setup has helped generate Purchase Requisitions and Purchase Orders for raw or semi-finished goods without much head-banging into Demand management rules. It does it beautifully with seamless integration with HANA core MM and PP modules, along with BI integration. It has resulted in 30% greater warehouse storage capacity, thereby saving revenue from piled-up inventory and associated manpower costs. >> SAC sometimes shows latency in working out a large data set, thus giving a poor user experience compared to its competition. Also, it may occasionally show misinterpretations when embedding data from 3rd-party systems into the HANA core dataset.
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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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    SAP
    • It makes it easier yo analyse order and related records easily.
    • We can easily maintain and track the performance of employees in organisation.
    • Can easily track various aspects for the growth of an organisation thus allowing real time analysis and tracking of organisation's growth and performance.
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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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    SAP
    • Complexity in Data Modeling
    • SAC supports various data sources, but improvements in the ease of connecting to and integrating with certain data repositories, especially non-SAP databases, would enhance the platform's versatility and integration capabilities.
    • An offline mode for SAC could be valuable for users who need to access and analyze data without an internet connection. Additionally, optimizing performance for large datasets and complex visualizations would contribute to a smoother user experience.
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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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    SAP
    We are planning to review the licensing as we have issues with SAC dealing with huge datasets. Analytics area is good for import models but when we have live connections in place that's when we have issue with SAC dealing with huge datasets in live be it BW or be it HANA models in the backend.
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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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    SAP
    I landed on a 7 out of 10 for a few key reasons. The tool is flexible in the sense that we are using very very very (very) little off the shelf solutions and customizing to our needs. Users enjoy having the customized data actions, key variance calculations, and easy to use headcount/salary planning in the same tool. One downside is that users are hard to please when they are used to excel. SAP Analytics Cloud simply is not excel, and the flexibility of excel in a crunch is not there.
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    Reliability and Availability
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    I would rate SAP Analytics Cloud an 8 out of 10 for scalability. It offers a flexible, cloud-based architecture that supports expansion across departments and geographies. The platform adapts well to growing data volumes and user needs, making it a strong choice for organizations looking to scale analytics capabilities efficiently.
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    Performance
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    I would rate SAP Analytics Cloud’s performance an 8 out of 10. Pages generally load quickly, and reports run within a reasonable time frame, even with complex datasets. Integration with other systems is smooth and doesn’t noticeably affect performance. Overall, it’s a responsive and efficient tool for business analytics. But
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    Support Rating
    OpenText
    Always there on the front and backend for us and the client.
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    SAP
    Since the implementation stage, the support team has been very helpful and assisting. Even in the later stages, the tech team had quite a rapid response. In general, SAP has provided us with great customer support, let it be for a specific product of SAP or for integration of different modules.
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    In-Person Training
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    Good videos and reference material available in SAP Portal.
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    Online Training
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    In hindsight, it would have been easier to have someone there in person. Questions were answered, but with 11 participants, it got a bit chaotic online
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    Implementation Rating
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    SAC is a simple solution ad it works fine when connecting it to other SAP tools. On the other hand, connecting it to third party solutions brings difficulties when there's no previous design and the objetives are not clear. It is really important to integrate Business users from the start to provide with valuable business insights
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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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    SAP
    SAP Analytics Cloud and Power BI are both tools that help businesses understand their data, but they have some differences. SAC, made by SAP, works well if your company already uses other SAP products. It's in the cloud, easy to use, and has features for analyzing data, getting insights, and planning for the future. Power BI, made by Microsoft, can be used in the cloud or on your own computers. It fits well with Microsoft tools, is easy to use, and can do advanced data analysis. SAC has built-in planning tools, while Power BI needs extra tools for detailed planning
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    unit pricing
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    Scalability
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    Is good for use across multiple locations. It allows users to access data and reports from anywhere, regardless of their location. Can consolidate data from various sources, including different SAP systems and external sources, which facilitates cross-location analysis. SAC enables access to data and models from SAP Datasphere to create new stories. Detailed permissions can be defined for cross-departmental use.
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    Professional Services
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    very simple
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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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    SAP
    • Many manual data manipulations and exports in Excel have been replaced by the tool, providing management with improved insight into the amount of time spent at each stage of an invoice's lifetime, allowing bottlenecks to be discovered.
    • We now have more insight into the data, and people with little technical experience can easily build stories.
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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.