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What is OpenText Magellan?

OpenText Magellan Analytics Suite leverages a comprehensive set of data analytics software to identify patterns, relationships and trends through data visualizations and interactive dashboards.

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An Excellent Tool for Text Analytics

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 10, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
There are multiple business problems you get from your clients where you need to study a lot of unstructured data. It could be ranging from social media analytics or call cent...
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Analyst
OpenText Magellan4 years of experience

OpenText Magellan is very powerful for custom reporting

Rating: 7 out of 10
July 3, 2020
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
OpenText Magellan is being used to fulfill specific reporting requirements across the whole company. The reports are served to users through links or being embedded within cus...
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Martin Rubens
Project Manager - Information Technology
IT solutions Manager
APP Corporation Pty Ltd
OpenText Magellan4 years of experience

Former System Admin for Scorecard Module

Rating: 6 out of 10
March 18, 2015
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Actuate is being used by selected user groups across the entire organization. It allows us to bring in data from multiple sources and evaluate performance under consolidated l...
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Lynn Kutz
Consultant - Quality Assurance
Quality/Performance Improvement Consultant
Good Samaritan Society
OpenText Magellan6 years of experience

If you have the budget for it it can do great things, if you are a small company run, don't walk away.

Rating: 8 out of 10
January 25, 2015
Vetted ReviewVerified User
We are using it to present reports to customers and to our executives for our rich media advertising business. Our entire business uses this as a reporting platform. We had in...
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Christopher Noyes
Director - Engineering
Director Advertising Technology
Crisp Media
OpenText Magellan3 years of experience

Actuate BIRT - open source that's worth a look

Rating: 8 out of 10
October 13, 2014
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Actuate's open source BIRT is used as an integrated reporting solution to provide data exporting and visualization of client project portfolios that empowers them with informa...
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Bri Gipson
Engineer - Engineering
Sr. Systems Engineer
Métier
OpenText Magellan7 years of experience
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What is OpenText Magellan?

OpenText Magellan Analytics Suite leverages a comprehensive set of data analytics software to identify patterns, relationships and trends through data visualizations and interactive dashboards.

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  • No setup fee

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  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Product Demos

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Product Details

What is OpenText Magellan?

OpenText Magellan is a flexible AI and Analytics platform that combines open source machine learning with advanced analytics, enterprise-grade BI, and capabilities to acquire, merge, manage and analyze Big Data and Big Content stored in your Enterprise Information Management systems. Magellan enables machine-assisted decision making, automation, and business optimization.

OpenText Magellan Features

BI Platform Features

  • Supported: Administration via Web Interface
  • Supported: Live Connection to External Data
  • Supported: Snapshot of External Data
  • Supported: In-memory data model
  • Supported: Multi-Data Source Reporting (Blending)
  • Supported: Data warehouse / dictionary layer
  • Supported: ETL Capability
  • Supported: ETL Scheduler

Supported Data Sources Features

  • Supported: MS Excel Workbooks
  • Supported: Text Files (CSV, etc)
  • Supported: Oracle
  • Supported: MS SQL Server
  • Supported: IBM DB2
  • Supported: Postgres
  • Supported: MySQL
  • Supported: ODBC
  • Supported: Cloudera Hadoop
  • Supported: Hortonworks Hadoop
  • Supported: Salesforce

BI Standard Reporting Features

  • Supported: Customizable dashboards
  • Supported: Report Formatting Templates

Ad-hoc Reporting Features

  • Supported: Drill-down analysis
  • Supported: Formatting capabilities
  • Supported: Predictive modeling
  • Supported: Integration with R or other statistical packages
  • Supported: Report sharing and collaboration

Report Output and Scheduling Features

  • Supported: Publish to Web
  • Supported: Publish to PDF
  • Supported: Output Raw Supporting Data
  • Supported: Report Versioning
  • Supported: Report Delivery Scheduling

Data Discovery and Visualization Features

  • Supported: Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
  • Supported: Predictive Analytics
  • Supported: Support for Machine Learning models
  • Supported: Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
  • 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: Report-Level Access Control
  • Supported: Table-Level Access Control (BI-layer)
  • Supported: Field-Level Access Control (BI-layer)
  • Supported: Single Sign-On (SSO)

Mobile Capabilities Features

  • Supported: Responsive Design for Web Access
  • Supported: Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding Features

  • Supported: REST API
  • Supported: Javascript API
  • Supported: Java API
  • Supported: Themeable User Interface (UI)
  • Supported: Customizable Platform (Open Source)

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.

OpenText Magellan Video

An introduction to OpenText Magellan, which provides AI and analytics to enable machine-assisted decision making, automation, and business optimization for your business.

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OpenText Magellan Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported LanguagesChinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

OpenText Magellan Analytics Suite leverages a comprehensive set of data analytics software to identify patterns, relationships and trends through data visualizations and interactive dashboards.

SAS Viya and Oracle Analytics Cloud are common alternatives for OpenText Magellan.

Reviewers rate Drill-down analysis and Formatting capabilities highest, with a score of 8.

The most common users of OpenText Magellan are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Actuate Reseller Support

Rating: 10 out of 10
November 21, 2013
Pros
  • Actuate has permitted us to create stronger visualizations of data and customer data for our clients so they can make better decisions about the course of their businesses.
  • Birt Analytics integrates with Salesforce.com, Microsoft Dynamics, Xcel in a short period of time and permits stronger massaging of data and integration with better "what if"scenarios.
  • The ROI on this product is remarkable.
  • Employees who visualize the data and other components who have been questioning the direction of management change their focus upon what they can do to improve the company. Managers who are "micro-managers of data" actually begin to visualize where some of the sub-strata they have wasted time is impairing company results.
  • Customer support for their products is excellent. If you need support on site they are there when you need them.
Cons
  • Anything that I would consider an area for improvement and have asked about from the company is a area where they are already doing development and refinement and when it is available it comes as a simple upgrade.
Likelihood to Recommend
What's holding you back?

Actuate gets the job done!

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
September 11, 2014
Verified User
Strategist in Other
Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
OpenText Magellan
5 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Actuate is the standardized reporting platform for seamless integration of custom schedule and ad hoc reporting into our internally built applications. Reports are made available across the firm in all lines of business and support services allowing access to data from our core repository. There are both dynamic (allowing the passing of parameters) and static reporting available.
Pros
  • We integrate page level security allowing a single report to service audiences of 20,000+ consumers but only deliveing the data in the vast data set applicable to the consumer.
  • Publish common components allowing the development staff to deliver consistent look and feel based on the standard firm style guide.
  • Reusable library objects allow for fast deployment of new application reports.
Cons
  • Report rendering can take a long time for large reports (250,000+ pages) - we run these in batch over night
  • The deployment of production code from development to test to production enviroments can be complex due to the number of components that must compile
Likelihood to Recommend
e.Report Designer Professional and the report output is suited to application embedded reports - but we also use the product to publish information for data analysts and finance deeper analysis.

Acuate 8 before the birth of BIRT

Rating: 6 out of 10
Incentivized
September 17, 2014
TB
Todd Bellamy
Systems Analyst
MATECH Solutions (Machining Technologies, Inc.) (Food Production, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
OpenText Magellan
5 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Actuate was being used with IBM Maximo to generate reports from our CMMS system. The reporting software served as our primary reporting tool and paper work order generation mechanism. Its availability and continuity were crucial to the maintenance and indirect procurement functions.
Pros
  • The software can be tied to Actuate Basic which is much like MS Visual Basic and can provide an almost custom application feel to some reports.
  • Actuate had field movement tools that allowed a user to line rows up and disperse them across a report based off the width. Comparative tools like Crystal did not provide these.
  • The Actuate Server also gave easy access to review who had been running a report or reports via its web interface.
Cons
  • The debug tool that came with the Actuate 8 developer was poorly written in my opinion; compiling a report could be very difficult when a number of functions were being called.
  • There wasn't any reporting that could be run to download Actuate utilization statistics. Analytics had to be done by manually reviewing who had been running reports.
  • At times when the Actuate Server would become overloaded the only solution was to restart it. There wasn't a way to clear up the list of pending report requests.
Likelihood to Recommend
Be sure to ask about pricing. If I remember correctly the pricing is by processor core, which can get VERY expensive in a large organization with multiple locations. I would say Actuate would be best suited for a medium/large sized organization with 1000-2500 employees with a dedicated team of software developers. If the organization needs someone who can get up and running quickly developing reports and where it is not the primary responsibility then I would recommend an alternative product like Crystal Reports.

An Excellent Tool for Text Analytics

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
March 10, 2022
Verified User
Analyst in Engineering
Computer Software Company, 201-500 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
OpenText Magellan
4 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
There are multiple business problems you get from your clients where you need to study a lot of unstructured data. It could be ranging from social media analytics or call centre data or any review data. Text mining is the process of deriving high-quality information from text. This software is much intuitive and easy to use. Text mining goes beyond simply searching for keywords. It uses powerful algorithms to analyse that content, determine what a given piece of text is about and assess its relevance. We have use cases of this software in helping multiple industries' clients pre-dominantly in Retail and CPG. Sentiment analysis and text segmentation are key project types that we use this software for. Generally, we used to have Python and R text libraries to solve these issues but this software simplifies the process and reduces the requirement of coding.
Pros
  • Sentiment analysis for one of the gaming client
  • Text segmentation for social media analysis
  • Summary creation from multi page documents
Cons
  • Image processing and understanding
  • Video analytics, there is a huge scope there
  • Manual intervention or scope of customization
Likelihood to Recommend
For any analysis related to text, it is quite useful. For any image and video-related unstructured, there is a huge room for improvement. Sentiment analysis is much widely used across the industries nowadays to understand the depth of any text; there is so much unstructured data available with companies. A lot can be interpreted from them, tools like these are a great way to start analysing that data.

Actuate Review

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
October 06, 2014
ST
Shawn Thomas
Sr Business Systems Analyst
Mckesson (Hospital & Health Care, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
OpenText Magellan
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Actuate is being used to understand extracts from current systems. It is used for IT internally only. This tool is also being used for data extractions.
Pros
  • Flexibility of the product
  • Able to make applications do what they need
  • Fairly quick learning scale.
Cons
  • Organizing of the pieces could flow better.
Likelihood to Recommend
What can it do that is better than the rest?
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