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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

    Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ATagetik is a corporate performance management solution that unifies budgeting, financial planning, consolidation and management reporting. Tagetik is offered as SaaS, on a private cloud, or on-premise, and can migrate between deployments as needed.N/A
    Pricing
    OpenText MagellanWolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    OpenText MagellanWolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    OpenText MagellanWolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
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    OpenText
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    18 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    18 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    18 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    8 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    10 Answers
    Features
    OpenText MagellanWolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of OpenText Magellan and Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    7.0
    2 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
    8.1
    10 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Customizable dashboards7.02 Ratings8.58 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates7.01 Ratings8.09 Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings8.07 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of OpenText Magellan and Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    8.3
    3 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
    7.4
    24 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Drill-down analysis8.03 Ratings6.623 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities8.03 Ratings7.123 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages9.01 Ratings7.17 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration8.02 Ratings8.716 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of OpenText Magellan and Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    8.3
    2 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
    9.4
    15 Ratings
    17% above category average
    Publish to Web8.02 Ratings9.910 Ratings
    Publish to PDF8.02 Ratings9.913 Ratings
    Report Versioning9.02 Ratings7.712 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling8.02 Ratings9.911 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of OpenText Magellan and Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
    8.5
    8 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)9.01 Ratings8.07 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics7.01 Ratings9.06 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of OpenText Magellan and Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    9.0
    2 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
    9.8
    23 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Role-Based Security Model9.02 Ratings9.922 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)9.02 Ratings9.923 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)9.02 Ratings9.216 Ratings
    Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings9.923 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings9.94 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of OpenText Magellan and Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    7.0
    2 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
    6.1
    9 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access7.02 Ratings5.08 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile7.02 Ratings7.16 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of OpenText Magellan and Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    6.2
    1 Ratings
    22% below category average
    Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
    -
    Ratings
    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
    Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
    Comparison of Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting features of OpenText Magellan and Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    -
    Ratings
    Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
    8.4
    49 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Long-term financial planning00 Ratings8.235 Ratings
    Financial budgeting00 Ratings8.143 Ratings
    Forecasting00 Ratings8.240 Ratings
    Scenario modeling00 Ratings8.634 Ratings
    Management reporting00 Ratings9.046 Ratings
    Consolidation and Close
    Comparison of Consolidation and Close features of OpenText Magellan and Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    -
    Ratings
    Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
    8.8
    46 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Financial data consolidation00 Ratings8.940 Ratings
    Journal entries and reports00 Ratings8.337 Ratings
    Multi-currency management00 Ratings8.334 Ratings
    Intercompany Eliminations00 Ratings9.337 Ratings
    Minority Ownership00 Ratings8.630 Ratings
    Local and consolidated reporting00 Ratings9.944 Ratings
    Detailed Audit Trails00 Ratings8.236 Ratings
    Financial Reporting and Compliance
    Comparison of Financial Reporting and Compliance features of OpenText Magellan and Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    -
    Ratings
    Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
    9.0
    50 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Financial Statement Reporting00 Ratings9.042 Ratings
    Management Reporting00 Ratings8.947 Ratings
    Excel-based Reporting00 Ratings8.150 Ratings
    Automated board and financial reporting00 Ratings9.035 Ratings
    XBRL support for regulatory filing00 Ratings9.920 Ratings
    Analytics and Reporting
    Comparison of Analytics and Reporting features of OpenText Magellan and Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    -
    Ratings
    Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
    8.2
    31 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Personalized dashboards00 Ratings8.426 Ratings
    Color-coded scorecards00 Ratings8.020 Ratings
    KPIs00 Ratings8.624 Ratings
    Cost and profitability analysis00 Ratings8.322 Ratings
    Key Performance Indicator setting00 Ratings8.022 Ratings
    Benchmarking with external data00 Ratings8.014 Ratings
    Integration
    Comparison of Integration features of OpenText Magellan and Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    -
    Ratings
    Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
    9.2
    47 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Flat file integration00 Ratings9.339 Ratings
    Excel data integration00 Ratings9.145 Ratings
    Direct links to 3rd-party data sources00 Ratings9.131 Ratings
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    Small Businesses
    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    IBM Planning Analytics
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score7 out of 10
    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
    Score7.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    OpenText MagellanWolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (11 ratings)
    9.0
    (50 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    3.9
    (9 ratings)
    9.1
    (11 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.7
    (18 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
    (6 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.5
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sources
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    OpenText MagellanWolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
    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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    Wolters Kluwer
    Scenarios where CCH Tagetik is suitable is when a company have large amounts of data and want to transform, consolidate, store and produce reporting in different year, period etc with complex calculations and allocation. Tagetik is the tool for you in this case and it's very flexible in terms of creating your own business rule, calculation and reporting options with a user friendly interface. I have not thought about scenarios where it is not appropriate to use tagetik yet as the tool covers small and large business financial needs
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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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    Wolters Kluwer
    • Processes are clearly described in CCH Tagetik ; users can easily find where they are and which action they have to make
    • Interaction with Excel is really fluid ; the Excel add-in is easy to deploy and to updgrade, in the hand of users. It is reliable provided the internet connection is fast.
    • Managing hierachies is obvious in CCH Tagetik. Hierarchies are fundamental for a good reporting ; CCH Tagetik has obviously a deep experience of this feature.
    • SaaS : our experience with CCH Tagetik is of only 1 year, but it technically performs well, the system is reponsive, no shut-down, and updates (every quarter) do not disturb production.
    • AIH seems to be able to manage very large quantity of data, and to provide advanced analysis functionalities. We did not have time to explore them.
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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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    Wolters Kluwer
    • Online help and manual is a bonus but could be improved e.g. the clarity of English explanations.
    • Improved Excel compatibility e.g. formula driven reporting and dash boarding.
    • Mobile phone connectivity e.g. launching a consolidation from a Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik app.
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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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    Wolters Kluwer
    Because in my oppinion Wolters Kluwer CCH Tagetik is one of the most usable tools for consolidation, planning (controlling) and reporting. Its usability is quite easy and innovative. I like the data entry method for the customers with its workflow and tasks, quite easy way to implement a co pilot. And i like the reporting tool, with a lot of customization opportunities.
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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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    Wolters Kluwer
    Surprisingly, this platform is a powerhouse ERP system. However, given time, when more and more organization is able to identify how powerful this tool can be, CCH Tagetik is able to stand as a competitive advantage to many of the Financial industry of today. Although, it needs time to understand the logic behind how CCH Tagetik is formed and setup, once it is known to the user, it is an easy day to day operations with minimal maintenance.
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    Reliability and Availability
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Wolters Kluwer
    CCH Tagetik has alwyas been there in case we need help. In almost 20 years of commercial relationship, I have no evidence of times in which they were not available to answer a question or to solve an issue linked to their products, timely and efficiently.
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    Performance
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Wolters Kluwer
    As you can see, speed depends on the applications but also on the hardware that runs them. As far as CCH Tagetik improved, we saw the benefit of a cloud-based solution which could solve many speed performance issues.
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    Support Rating
    OpenText
    Always there on the front and backend for us and the client.
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    Wolters Kluwer
    I got very quick respons. After very little mail iterations, they decided to have online meeting to look together with me to the issue. They tried to solve it during the meeting. I had the impression that the customer care person really knew the system and was able to ask help from other colleagues when needed
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    In-Person Training
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Wolters Kluwer
    At the official deployment of the original product Controlling and Accounting teams went to Lucca and were walked through the product, Excel usage, Design, ETL run
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    Online Training
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Wolters Kluwer
    several times since the deployment of the product in 2013 we got on-line training on new functions or on very specific questions/issues (e.g. ETL customisation), followed by the usage of the Learning Hub since 2025
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    Implementation Rating
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Wolters Kluwer
    we did it in a coaching model. This allowed us to have 2 key advantages: we got to know the system very well and managed to save on the implementation cost. This worked well, was maybe a bit slower since we had to do this in our spare time. Nevertheless I strongly recommand
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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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    Wolters Kluwer
    I found the Excel piece of IBM Cognos TM1 to be easier to use than CCH Tagetik. It was much easier to customize the data being pulled and the feel of the reports because of that. Other than that, CCH Tagetik has been more user friendly than IBM Cognos TM1. Navigating within the application is much easier. IBM Cognos TM1 had a lot of issues with certain modules that could not be open concurrently; this would often lead to phantom data being entered in the system. I have not had these issues with CCH Tagetik.
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    Scalability
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Wolters Kluwer
    A good and performing scalability both on a geographical and a legal entity scale. The link with MS Office suite allows an easy deployment of the application, especially for contributors.
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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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    Wolters Kluwer
    • Gave us a tool that can absolutely grow with us to help multi phase implementations.
    • A significant time savings in terms of the amount of time we used to spend running reports vs. the time we spend now. Unbelievable improvement.
    • Gives us the option to use CCH Tagetik to solve business problems that perhaps we didn't have when we implemented CCH Tagetik. It gives us options without the possibility of implementing a whole other software package.
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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.

    Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik Screenshots

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