OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting vs. ThoughtSpot

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
Score 7.3 out of 10
N/A
The OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting (formerly OpenText Information Hub (iHub)) component of OpenText™ Magellan™ Analytics Suite is a scalable analytics and data visualization platform that enables IT leaders and their teams to design, deploy, and manage secure, interactive web applications, reports, and dashboards fed by multiple data sources. Magellan BI & Reporting supports high volumes of users, and its integration APIs enable embedded analytic content in any app, displayed on any…N/A
ThoughtSpot
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
ThoughtSpot is an AI-Powered Analytics company, that aims to create a more fact-driven world with an easy to use analytics platform. ThoughtSpot enables users to leverage natural language search powered by large language models to ask and answer data questions. Users within an organization can limitlessly engage with live data in any popular cloud data platform to create and interact with granular, hyper…
$95
per month
Pricing
OpenText Magellan BI & ReportingThoughtSpot
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
ThoughtSpot Analytics Team
$95
per month flat subscription
ThoughtSpot Analytics Pro
starts at $30,000
per year consumption-based pricing, pay for what you use
ThoughtSpot Analytics Enterprise
contact for pricing
per year consumption-based pricing, pay for what you use
ThoughtSpot Everywhere Pro
contact for pricing
per year consumption-based pricing, pay for what you use
ThoughtSpot Everywhere Enterprise
contact for pricing
per year consumption-based pricing, pay for what you use
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
OpenText Magellan BI & ReportingThoughtSpot
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
OpenText Magellan BI & ReportingThoughtSpot
Considered Both Products
OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting

No answer on this topic

ThoughtSpot
Chose ThoughtSpot
ThoughtSpot is just as good at creating the initial graphic for the end user, it might even be better because the user really does not need much technical knowledge in order to create a basic graphic. Currently, ThoughtSpot cannot yet compete with the other tools when it comes …
Top Pros
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Features
OpenText Magellan BI & ReportingThoughtSpot
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
5.0
1 Ratings
32% below category average
ThoughtSpot
6.8
77 Ratings
19% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports7.01 Ratings6.021 Ratings
Customizable dashboards2.01 Ratings6.877 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates6.01 Ratings7.725 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
7.7
1 Ratings
1% below category average
ThoughtSpot
6.9
78 Ratings
16% below category average
Drill-down analysis6.01 Ratings7.778 Ratings
Formatting capabilities9.01 Ratings5.877 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration8.01 Ratings7.976 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings6.345 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
7.0
1 Ratings
7% below category average
ThoughtSpot
7.2
74 Ratings
12% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.01 Ratings8.073 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.01 Ratings7.569 Ratings
Predictive Analytics00 Ratings6.657 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings6.86 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
8.7
1 Ratings
16% above category average
ThoughtSpot
8.3
73 Ratings
4% below category average
Multi-User Support (named login)10.01 Ratings8.371 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model6.01 Ratings8.364 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)10.01 Ratings8.468 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings8.56 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings8.260 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
7.0
1 Ratings
6% below category average
ThoughtSpot
7.0
43 Ratings
12% below category average
REST API7.01 Ratings7.134 Ratings
Javascript API9.01 Ratings6.828 Ratings
Java API7.01 Ratings7.013 Ratings
iFrames00 Ratings7.026 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings7.127 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings7.115 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
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Ratings
ThoughtSpot
7.7
73 Ratings
8% below category average
Publish to Web00 Ratings7.647 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings8.168 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings7.918 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.656 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings6.629 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
-
Ratings
ThoughtSpot
7.7
45 Ratings
3% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings7.943 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings7.427 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings6.939 Ratings
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User Ratings
OpenText Magellan BI & ReportingThoughtSpot
Likelihood to Recommend
5.0
(1 ratings)
8.2
(78 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.7
(6 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.5
(73 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(3 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
7.7
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(4 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
4.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(2 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
7.7
(3 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
OpenText Magellan BI & ReportingThoughtSpot
Likelihood to Recommend
OpenText
iHub is a decent enough environment that it serves our needs. We can have unlimited users and it can tie into AD although we do not use that feature currently. It is a decent place to store all of the reports in one location, even though for us it is not visually appealing to the end users. iHub is not a place where you want to create robust/interactive dashboards for end users to drill through and follow a "story".
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ThoughtSpot
Well suited for my clients for a Macro view of business insights, credit risk, ESG insights, etc. However, I think ThoughtSpot needs to make exploring underlying data easier, adding a feature where you can click on charts and filters will help users and especially business users to easily understand the granularities as well.
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Pros
OpenText
  • It is fairly easy to set the sharing rules for a report/dashboard.
  • They have a decent amount of time frame options for setting a schedule to generate a report.
  • The support is mostly helpful and timely if you have an issue.
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ThoughtSpot
  • Beautiful visualizations. The visuals are distinct, clean, and easy to discern from one another.
  • Intelligent querying functionality. When looking to manipulate the data, the search function makes it easy to manipulate the features in the data, along with aggregating them in the way you'd like.
  • Embedding! It has been a smooth process thus far for our product & technical teams to work with ThoughtSpot and bring it into our product.
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Cons
OpenText
  • Setting up a "dashboard" is extremely lacking in functionality. The different chart widgets you place on the page do not interact with each other. When you select an item from one do not expect it to highlight or filter another.
  • The speed and stability are not great, but maybe that is just our environment not being up to snuff...even though we are above the "recommended" settings.
  • The main GUI for a user is TERRIBLE. You log into a File Tree format where you have to navigate folders to reach the correct dashboard. There are ways around this, but it would either require an expensive payment to the Professional Services team to revamp to UI or another option they gave us was to create the "Default Dashboard" and provide that link to users and in that Dashboard, you use a new tab to include the navigation back to the main screen so that at least on the initial load the user is taken to a friendly looking dashboard instead of a file tree.
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ThoughtSpot
  • Ability to build a single dashboard tile containing the main value, a sparkline, and a percent change over time
  • Easy way to build a user experience that allows for selecting different metrics to trend from a drop-down on a multi-axis graph
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Likelihood to Renew
OpenText
No answers on this topic
ThoughtSpot
I give it just waiting because passport is brilliant and it has helped our organisation In advancing to the next stage in the age of AI. It has allowed or non-tech people to better service and clients in a cost-effective way. George port has allowed us to create new products for us and for our clients increasing our revenue streams and reducing clients churn
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Usability
OpenText
No answers on this topic
ThoughtSpot
The tool is easy to use if you know what you are doing and looking for. I know as they work towards improvements and simple language it will become even easier, but as of now they are doing a great job but there is room for improvement.
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Reliability and Availability
OpenText
No answers on this topic
ThoughtSpot
it's available unless there is a server or system update etc. sometimes the timing of this is bad (for example during a month end close)
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Performance
OpenText
No answers on this topic
ThoughtSpot
It does what it is supposed to. Would be nice to have a bit more insights
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Support Rating
OpenText
No answers on this topic
ThoughtSpot
I give it this meeting because the team is not only help able to help us in the current solutions but also amazing and taking feedback and feeding it back to their development team which includes more products and features into ThoughtSpot
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In-Person Training
OpenText
No answers on this topic
ThoughtSpot
inhouse in-person training. Took a bit to long to get the basics.
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Online Training
OpenText
No answers on this topic
ThoughtSpot
poor instructions
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Implementation Rating
OpenText
No answers on this topic
ThoughtSpot
Understand use case and model and design accordingly
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Alternatives Considered
OpenText
Our instance of iHub does not stack up against the other larger BI tools out today. It is a good place to store reports in a central location that allows users to run very specific reports on demand, but it is not a place I would want to store all of my "dashboards". As far as holding individual reports that are specific to an individual need, it is a great tool. If you want to create a report that will be used as a Template for a Form or a Label, iHub is a good choice to store and schedule the report or call it via API to generate it and return it to your calling app.
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ThoughtSpot
We also explored Tableau Ask Data. Tableau is our standard for BI in our organization. We want to use the smallest amount of tools in our company to have the best adaption. ThoughSpot will fill a few gaps that we have with our current set up and will also enhance out offering for our employees in the transition of being more data driven within in near future
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Scalability
OpenText
No answers on this topic
ThoughtSpot
Because it is very reliable, inside the situation, we need strong internet connection to access a lot of data but easily never had any downtime except during the upgrades
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Return on Investment
OpenText
No answers on this topic
ThoughtSpot
  • Positive ROI immediately seen for first POC.
  • Saved an immense amount of time for a sole analyst on a team by enabling the end-users to ask their own questions instead of always turning to her, allowing her to focus on other priorities.
  • Immediate answer to question on second POC that led to personnel changes.
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ScreenShots

OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting Screenshots

Screenshot of A Magellan dashboard that an individual can interact with and personalize to their needs, such as changing chart types or computations.Screenshot of An ad-hoc report being created through the Magellan Analytics Studio, a component of Magellan BI & Reporting.

ThoughtSpot Screenshots

Screenshot of ThoughtSpot home screenScreenshot of A Liveboard for drill downScreenshot of Live query, to connect to cloud data platformsScreenshot of Search to analyze and visualize dataScreenshot of A look at queries runScreenshot of Consuming insights on iOS app