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OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting

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What is OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting?

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…

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What is OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting?

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,…

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Product Details

What is OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting?

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 device.

Formerly BIRT iHub, the technology is based on technology acquired by Opentext with Actuate Corporation (January 2015).

OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting Features

BI Platform Features

  • Supported: Live Connection to External Data
  • Supported: Snapshot of External Data
  • Supported: In-memory data model
  • Supported: ETL Capability
  • Supported: ETL Scheduler

BI Standard Reporting Features

  • Supported: Customizable dashboards

Ad-hoc Reporting Features

  • Supported: Drill-down analysis
  • Supported: Predictive modeling
  • Supported: Report sharing and collaboration

Data Discovery and Visualization Features

  • Supported: Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
  • Supported: Integration with R or other statistical packages

Access Control and Security Features

  • Supported: Role-Based Security Model
  • Supported: Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
  • Supported: Single Sign-On (SSO)

Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding Features

  • Supported: REST API
  • Supported: Javascript API

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.

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OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported LanguagesChinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish
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My company uses OpenText iHub for storing every report used by every department within the company. We generate reports using OpenText BIRT development tool and then we publish the report to the iHub instance. We then create the appropriate dashboards and assign the proper privileges to the dashboards. This will enable the end user to have access to the reports and run them on demand when it is of most benefit to them. We also set up a recurring schedule to automatically generate a report and mail it to a set group of users.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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".
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.
BI Platform
N/A
N/A
BI Standard Reporting (3)
50%
5.0
Pixel Perfect reports
70%
7.0
Customizable dashboards
20%
2.0
Report Formatting Templates
60%
6.0
Ad-hoc Reporting (3)
76.66666666666667%
7.7
Drill-down analysis
60%
6.0
Formatting capabilities
90%
9.0
Report sharing and collaboration
80%
8.0
Data Discovery and Visualization (2)
70%
7.0
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
70%
7.0
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
70%
7.0
Access Control and Security (4)
65%
6.5
Multi-User Support (named login)
100%
10.0
Role-Based Security Model
60%
6.0
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
100%
10.0
Single Sign-On (SSO)
N/A
N/A
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding (5)
46%
4.6
REST API
70%
7.0
Javascript API
90%
9.0
iFrames
N/A
N/A
Java API
70%
7.0
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
N/A
N/A
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