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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

    Splunk Cloud Platform

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ASplunk Cloud Platform is a data platform service thats help users search, analyze, visualize and act on data. The service can go live in as little as two days, and with an IT backend managed by Splunk experts.N/A
    Pricing
    OpenText MagellanSplunk Cloud Platform
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    OpenText MagellanSplunk Cloud Platform
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    OpenText MagellanSplunk Cloud Platform
    Considered Both Products
    OpenText
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    15 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
    11 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    15 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    13 Answers
    Features
    OpenText MagellanSplunk Cloud Platform
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of OpenText Magellan and Splunk Cloud Platform
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    7.0
    2 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Splunk Cloud Platform
    -
    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 Splunk Cloud Platform
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    8.3
    3 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Splunk Cloud Platform
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    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 Splunk Cloud Platform
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    8.3
    2 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Splunk Cloud Platform
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    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 Splunk Cloud Platform
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Splunk Cloud Platform
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    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 Splunk Cloud Platform
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    9.0
    2 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Splunk Cloud Platform
    -
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    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 Splunk Cloud Platform
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    7.0
    2 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Splunk Cloud Platform
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    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 Splunk Cloud Platform
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    6.2
    1 Ratings
    22% below category average
    Splunk Cloud Platform
    -
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    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
    Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
    Comparison of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) features of OpenText Magellan and Splunk Cloud Platform
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
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    Splunk Cloud Platform
    8.2
    20 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Centralized event and log data collection00 Ratings9.019 Ratings
    Correlation00 Ratings8.419 Ratings
    Event and log normalization/management00 Ratings9.220 Ratings
    Deployment flexibility00 Ratings7.220 Ratings
    Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools00 Ratings7.718 Ratings
    Custom dashboards and workspaces00 Ratings8.920 Ratings
    Host and network-based intrusion detection00 Ratings8.217 Ratings
    Data integration/API management00 Ratings7.310 Ratings
    Behavioral analytics and baselining00 Ratings7.28 Ratings
    Rules-based and algorithmic detection thresholds00 Ratings8.210 Ratings
    Response orchestration and automation00 Ratings7.48 Ratings
    Reporting and compliance management00 Ratings8.810 Ratings
    Incident indexing/searching00 Ratings8.711 Ratings
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    OpenText MagellanSplunk Cloud Platform
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    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    IBM Security QRadar SIEM
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Sisense
    Score6.9 out of 10
    SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
    Score8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    OpenText MagellanSplunk Cloud Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (11 ratings)
    8.8
    (21 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    3.9
    (9 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.4
    (7 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.2
    (4 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sources
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    OpenText MagellanSplunk Cloud Platform
    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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    Cisco
    Splunk is excellent when all your data is in one location. Its ability to correlate all that data is intuitive (once the hurdle of learning the query language is overcome). It is also easy to standardize the presentation of information to the company. When data is siloed/standalone, other systems can be cheaper and faster to implement.
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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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    Cisco
    • This SIEM consolidates multiple data points and offers several features and benefits, creating custom dashboards and managing alert workflows.
    • Splunk Cloud provides a simple way to have a central monitoring and security solution. Though it does not have a huge learning curve, you should spend some time learning the basics.
    • Splunk Cloud enables me to create and schedule statistical reports on network use for Management.
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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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    Cisco
    • The SPL programming language that the queries are built in is not very intuitive.
    • There should be a better repository of pre-built queries for what I would think of as common Active Directory usage monitoring.
    • I would like to see more free training/familiarization information made available.
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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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    Cisco
    Ease of use and have all the features we need
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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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    Cisco
    Splunk AI Assistant for SPL is good tool, as I said, it is really useful for educational purpose, taking in its hands small and simple tasks (ex:small query dashboard,...), but it's not a ten because the contextual memory for complex issues/dashboarding/reports etc can be limited, and can sometime suggets none optimized query which are not always checked by teammates and can cause issue on the long term.
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    Support Rating
    OpenText
    Always there on the front and backend for us and the client.
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    Cisco
    Splunk Cloud support is sorely lacking unfortunately. The portal where you submit tickets is not very good and is lacking polish. Tickets are left for days without any updates and when chased it is only sometimes you get a reply back. I get the feeling the support team are very understaffed and have far too much going on. From what I know, Splunk is aware of this and seem to be trying to remedy it.
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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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    Cisco
    Vs elastic: - SPL's statistical functions superior to KQL for complex correlations - Better enterprise support, less operational overhead - Splunk Cloud Platform's detection engineering more mature vs Sentinel: - SPL more powerful than KQL for custom analytics - Better cross-platform visibility (non-Azure environments) vs Datadog - SPL enables deeper forensic Investigations - Superior compliance/audit capabilities
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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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    Cisco
    • End-end visibility across your departmental silos
    • Strengthen the overall global monitoring posture
    • Move from Reactive to Proactive Monitoring
    • Highly secure environment at your finger-tips
    • Takes you away from managing infrastructure/administration, allows saving time & money. Reduce the overall TCO (Total Cost of Ownership)
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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.