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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

    Tableau Desktop

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ATableau Desktop is a data visualization product from Tableau. It connects to a variety of data sources for combining disparate data sources without coding. It provides tools for discovering patterns and insights, data calculations, forecasts, and statistical summaries and visual storytelling.

    $1,380

    per year (purchased via a Creator license)

    Pricing
    OpenText MagellanTableau Desktop
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Tableau Creator License
    $115
    per month (billed annually) per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    OpenText MagellanTableau Desktop
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsAll pricing plans are billed annually. A Creator license includes Tableau Desktop, Tableau Prep Builder, and Tableau Pulse. Discounts sometimes available for volume.
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    Community Pulse
    OpenText MagellanTableau Desktop
    Considered Both Products
    OpenText
    No answer on this topic
    Tableau
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    93%
    Would buy again
    52 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
    50 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    55 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    38 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    44 Answers
    Features
    OpenText MagellanTableau Desktop
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of OpenText Magellan and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    7.0
    2 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Tableau Desktop
    8.5
    175 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Customizable dashboards7.02 Ratings9.2174 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates7.01 Ratings8.1151 Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings8.0145 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of OpenText Magellan and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    8.3
    3 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Tableau Desktop
    8.5
    172 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Drill-down analysis8.03 Ratings8.6167 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities8.03 Ratings8.5170 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages9.01 Ratings8.1126 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration8.02 Ratings8.6165 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of OpenText Magellan and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    8.3
    2 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Tableau Desktop
    8.5
    166 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Publish to Web8.02 Ratings8.1155 Ratings
    Publish to PDF8.02 Ratings8.2154 Ratings
    Report Versioning9.02 Ratings8.6120 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling8.02 Ratings8.6128 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings8.978 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of OpenText Magellan and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Tableau Desktop
    8.4
    164 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)9.01 Ratings8.6162 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics7.01 Ratings8.7131 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings8.6156 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings7.77 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of OpenText Magellan and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    9.0
    2 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Tableau Desktop
    9.1
    149 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Role-Based Security Model9.02 Ratings9.1125 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)9.02 Ratings8.9136 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)9.02 Ratings9.383 Ratings
    Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings9.1145 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings9.110 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of OpenText Magellan and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    7.0
    2 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Tableau Desktop
    7.9
    141 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access7.02 Ratings8.6130 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile7.02 Ratings7.5122 Ratings
    Mobile Application00 Ratings7.5101 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of OpenText Magellan and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    6.2
    1 Ratings
    22% below category average
    Tableau Desktop
    7.7
    67 Ratings
    1% below category average
    REST API5.01 Ratings8.459 Ratings
    Javascript API9.01 Ratings7.653 Ratings
    Java API5.01 Ratings8.048 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)7.01 Ratings7.154 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)5.01 Ratings8.448 Ratings
    iFrames00 Ratings6.751 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    OpenText MagellanTableau Desktop
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (11 ratings)
    9.1
    (204 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    3.9
    (9 ratings)
    7.5
    (41 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.4
    (73 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (11 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (10 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    1.0
    (57 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.4
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (34 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    8.4
    (115 ratings)
    Data Sources
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    7.9
    (115 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    OpenText MagellanTableau Desktop
    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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    Tableau
    The best scenario is definitely to collect data from several sources and create dedicated dashboards for specific recipients. However, I miss the possibility of explaining these reports in more detail. Sometimes, we order a report, and after half a year, we don't remember the meaning of some data (I know it's our fault as an organization, but the tool could force better practices).
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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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    Tableau
    • An excellent tool for data visualization, it presents information in an appealing visual format—an exceptional platform for storing and analyzing data in any size organization.
    • Through interactive parameters, it enables real-time interaction with the user and is easy to learn and get support from the community.
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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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    Tableau
    • Pricing should be more user-friendly and usage-driven
    • Making edits to the production reports is fairly tough and has a vast scope of additional capabilities
    • Tableau Desktop should be able to differentiate itself from the Tableau server else there is no major meaning of two different products being offered
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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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    Tableau
    Our use of Tableau Desktop is still fairly low, and will continue over time. The only real concern is around cost of the licenses, and I have mentioned this to Tableau and fully expect the development of more sensible models for our industry. This will remove any impediment to expansion of our use.
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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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    Tableau
    Tableau Desktop has proven to be a lifesaver in many situations. Once we've completed the initial setup, it's simple to use. It has all of the features we need to quickly and efficiently synthesize our data. Tableau Desktop has advanced capabilities to improve our company's data structure and enable self-service for our employees.
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    Reliability and Availability
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Tableau
    When used as a stand-alone tool, Tableau Desktop has unlimited uptime, which is always nice. When used in conjunction with Tableau Server, this tool has as much uptime as your server admins are willing to give it. All in all, I've never had an issue with Tableau's availability.
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    Performance
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Tableau
    Tableau Desktop's performance is solid. You can really dig into a large dataset in the form of a spreadsheet, and it exhibits similarly good performance when accessing a moderately sized Oracle database. I noticed that with Tableau Desktop 9.3, the performance using a spreadsheet started to slow around 75K rows by about 60 columns. This was easily remedied by creating an extract and pushing it to Tableau Server, where performance went to lightning fast
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    Support Rating
    OpenText
    Always there on the front and backend for us and the client.
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    Tableau
    Tableau support has been extremely responsive and willing to help with all of our requests. They have assisted with creating advanced analysis and many different types of custom icons, data formatting, formulas, and actions embedded into graphs. Tableau offers a weekly presentation of features and assists with internal company projects.
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    In-Person Training
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Tableau
    It is admittedly hard to train a group of people with disparate levels of ability coming in, but the software is so easy to use that this is not a huge problem; anyone who can follow simple instructions can catch up pretty quickly.
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    Online Training
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Tableau
    I think the training was good overall, but it was maybe stating the obvious things that a tech savvy young engineer would be able to pick up themselves too. However, the example work books were good and Tableau web community has helped me with many problems
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    Implementation Rating
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Tableau
    Again, training is the key and the company provides a lot of example videos that will help users discover use cases that will greatly assist their creation of original visualizations. As with any new software tool, productivity will decline for a period. In the case of Tableau, the decline period is short and the later gains are well worth 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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    Tableau
    I have used Power BI as well, the pricing is better, and also training costs or certifications are not that high. Since there is python integration in Power BI where I can use data cleaning and visualizing libraries and also some machine learning models. I can import my python scripts and create a visualization on processed data.
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    Scalability
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Tableau
    Tableau Desktop's scaleability is really limited to the scale of your back-end data systems. If you want to pull down an extract and work quickly in-memory, in my application it scaled to a few tens of millions of rows using the in-memory engine. But it's really only limited by your back-end data store if you have or are willing to invest in an optimized SQL store or purpose-built query engine like Veritca or Netezza or something similar.
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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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    Tableau
    • Tableau was acquired years ago, and has provided good value with the content created.
    • Ongoing maintenance costs for the platform, both to maintain desktop and server licensing has made the continuing value questionable when compared to other offerings in the marketplace.
    • Users have largely been satisfied with the content, but not with the overall performance. This is due to a combination of factors including the performance of the Tableau engines as well as development deficiencies.
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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.