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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

    Visier People

    Score8.2 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Visier aims to give organizations a "Workforce AI Edge:" A set of AI-powered capabilities that help leaders understand the relationship between people and work, elevate employee productivity, and win by adapting to change faster. The company offers people analytics, workforce planning, and compensation allocation. All Visier technology is underpinned by its Real-time People Data Platform, which uses AI to unlock the business-transforming potential of people data, work data, and the fusion…N/A
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    OpenText MagellanVisier People
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    OpenText MagellanVisier People
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    OpenText MagellanVisier People
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    OpenText
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    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    15 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    83%
    Implementation went as expected
    10 Answers
    Features
    OpenText MagellanVisier People
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of OpenText Magellan and Visier People
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    7.0
    2 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Visier People
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    Customizable dashboards7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of OpenText Magellan and Visier People
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    8.3
    3 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Visier People
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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 Visier People
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    8.3
    2 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Visier People
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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 Visier People
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Visier People
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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 Visier People
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    9.0
    2 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Visier People
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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 Visier People
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    7.0
    2 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Visier People
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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 Visier People
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    6.2
    1 Ratings
    22% below category average
    Visier People
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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
    Workforce Analytics
    Comparison of Workforce Analytics features of OpenText Magellan and Visier People
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
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    Visier People
    8.0
    50 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Automated data collection00 Ratings8.750 Ratings
    Data analysis00 Ratings8.750 Ratings
    Data integration00 Ratings8.650 Ratings
    Predictive analytics00 Ratings5.743 Ratings
    Benchmarking00 Ratings6.749 Ratings
    Report designer00 Ratings8.750 Ratings
    Pre-built content00 Ratings8.350 Ratings
    Data management00 Ratings8.748 Ratings
    Self-service insights00 Ratings8.048 Ratings
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    Score8.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    OpenText MagellanVisier People
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (11 ratings)
    8.7
    (52 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    3.9
    (9 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.7
    (9 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sources
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    OpenText MagellanVisier People
    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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    Visier
    Visier People is well-suited for organizations that require the ability to record thorough information on analytics of the company, and to have the change of measuring training's productivity impact. The software isn't well-suited for those who tend to feature a lot of models into the software as the platform doesn't record/support most models, so some data isn't able to be recorded.
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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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    Visier
    • The database is very complete and detailed, thus being able to enhance a deep analysis of each user.
    • The Visier dashboard is extremely attractive and friendly, helping staff understand every detail of the analyzes conducted on the company's workforce.
    • Despite not being a great and complete solution to work with HR within this platform, however, data can be shared to exchange information between the head of each department of the company and HR staff and to speed up the analysis process and determine what to do with a low-performing employee.
    • It excellently determines the productivity of each employee and also determines risk by monitoring patterns and behavior.
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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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    Visier
    • Visier is a people analytics tool, so all data points are tied to employees. It can be difficult to analyze data points that aren't tied to employees (e.g., certain job data) since the data is driven by people metrics.
    • Visier releases updates quarterly. While this cadence does provide room for updates and enhances to be implemented in the tool throughout the year, other software providers operate on a more continuous update schedule.
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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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    Visier
    It is a software with great resources, it increases the possibility that the entire workforce is productive, it gives us quick answers, it is the most powerful workforce analysis software that exists so far.
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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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    Visier
    Visier People makes it very easy for all end users to go in and see, pull, or dig in to their data where previously my team would have to pull or schedule a report of the data to each user. It is also very fast in updating charts/analyses when changing or adding filters, which makes the ease of use better. Last, the charts and analyses are very visually appeasing, making users want to use the platform more.
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    Support Rating
    OpenText
    Always there on the front and backend for us and the client.
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    Visier
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Visier
    Visier can move as quickly or as slowly as the client needs. The topic-by-topic approach separates the project in clear phases and allows for focus on specific data. Depending on the size of the implementation team, implementation could move more rapidly if the subject matter experts are responsible for the individual topic data sets.
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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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    Visier
    Visier People has a user-friendly interface and easy-to-use virtualization as compared to other similar tools available in the market. It also provides multiple prebuild templates for HR and workforce analytics which reduces the time and effort required for manual implementation. It can seamlessly be integrated with other ranges of HR and business systems to make it easier for organizations to centralize the workforce and HR data for analysis.
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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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    Visier
    • In one case, we were able to realize a 25% reduction in turnover in a key job group by leveraging the insights we derived from Visier workforce analytics.
    • In one case, we were able to identify key turnover trends that would place a business' strategy at risk (due to the fact that turnover was in revenue-generating roles).
    • In both businesses I've used Visier, we were able to significantly reduce manual reporting (by more than 80%), enabling our data analysts to do more consultative work (vs. query generating work) with HR business partners.
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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.

    Visier People Screenshots

    Screenshot of Visier People: Learning helps make sense of the complex learning landscape.  Visier People helps spot trends in the sea of records from micro-learning and self-sourced learning activities being pursued by a workforce, and gives shape to the thousands of xAPI statements from LRS. The platform centralizes learning records and identifies which sources are producing the most compelling training to understand the full impact of all a workforce's learning activity.Screenshot of Visier People: Organization provides foundational insights for the organization around employee demographics, diversity, organizational structure, starts, and exits - as well as benchmarking against other Visier organizations with Visier Benchmark’s 10 million+ employee records.Screenshot of Visier People: Workforce helps find the optimal balance when an organization is powered by the hourly worker. Unifying labor data - time, pay, safety, productivity - Visier People helps to discover how hours worked, productivity, and employees’ well-being connect together. Users can then take action on insights into absenteeism, case management, overtime, and worker safety.