OpenText Magellan vs. SecureAuth IdP

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.

SecureAuth is a good solution for companies looking for an in-house solution that can be managed by your internal technical resources. It is a good solution for new companies that are looking for a more secure authentication application to deploy to their staff

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• Security token for Microsoft authentication.
• Single sign on enabled for our organization.
• Simplifies the log in for our employees.

Incentivized

• 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

• We had some difficulty enabling SecureAuth as our only authentication tool.
• The offline authentication feature was troublesome at times.
• Enrollment was a little cumbersome for some employees.

Incentivized

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

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

Always there on the front and backend for us and the client.

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.

SecureAuth was reasonable solution that enables our organization to securely manage our single sign-on and multi-factor authentication controls by our technology department. The product was easy to install and maintain, and provided our employees a layer of security that was on par with other industry leading solutions

Incentivized

• 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.

• Flexible terms allowed us to leverage SecureAuth over multiple years.
• SecureAuth allowed us to get into this area of security at a reasonable price point.
• SecureAuth was able to scale as our company grew at a reasonable cost.

Incentivized