OpenText Magellan

OpenText Magellan

22 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
OpenText Magellan	Score9 out of 10	N/A	OpenText 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

Pricing

OpenText Magellan

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Pricing Offerings
OpenText Magellan
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	OpenText Magellan
Considered Both Products	OpenText Verified User Chose OpenText Magellan There is multiple software available in the market to do the reporting and text analytics. Generally, analysts prefer using Python or R. Or we try to use any API available. This software can fulfill almost 80% of those needs without writing the codes. It has the integration … Incentivized Helpful? Martin Rubens IT solutions Manager in Information Technology at APP Corporation Pty Ltd (Construction, 201-500 employees) Chose OpenText Magellan OpenText Magellan can produce reports that are much more elaborate than PowerBI, which is ideal for users that just need to see a report. On the other hand, PowerBI seems to be better at allowing users to interact with data. Incentivized Helpful? Christopher Noyes Director Advertising Technology in Engineering at Crisp Media (Public Relations and Communications, 11-50 employees) Chose OpenText Magellan 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 … Helpful? Bri Gipson Sr. Systems Engineer in Engineering at Métier (Information Services, 11-50 employees) Chose OpenText Magellan Actuate has been in the industry a while and the open source community make going with Actuate's BIRT a stable decision. Changing report engines can be expensive, so going with a company with a good reputation helps long-term. Incentivized Helpful? Shawn Thomas Sr Business Systems Analyst in Information Technology at Mckesson (Hospital & Health Care, 1001-5000 employees) Chose OpenText Magellan Actuate has a larger learning curve than other products. Incentivized Helpful? Amy Broome Software Developer in Engineering at ACI Worldwide (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees) Chose OpenText Magellan I've used JReports and Actuate is very similar but seems to have a lot more customization features for the end user of BIRT reports. Incentivized Helpful? Todd Bellamy Systems Analyst in Information Technology at MATECH Solutions (Machining Technologies, Inc.) (Food Production, 10,001+ employees) Chose OpenText Magellan Actuate has a HUGE number of features that can tie nicely into almost any ERP but it takes some time to learn and the development community was relatively small compared to the Crystal Reports alternative. Crystal was far easier to learn and had a massive support base. Probably … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose OpenText Magellan We looked at a few other competitor's products but based on value for features chose Actuate for its total cost of ownership. Incentivized Helpful?
	Would buy again
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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Features

OpenText Magellan

Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of OpenText Magellan
Feature	OpenText Magellan 7.0 2 Ratings
Customizable dashboards	7.02 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates	7.01 Ratings

Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of OpenText Magellan
Feature	OpenText Magellan 8.3 3 Ratings
Drill-down analysis	8.03 Ratings
Formatting capabilities	8.03 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages	9.01 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration	8.02 Ratings

Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of OpenText Magellan
Feature	OpenText Magellan 8.3 2 Ratings
Publish to Web	8.02 Ratings
Publish to PDF	8.02 Ratings
Report Versioning	9.02 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling	8.02 Ratings

Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of OpenText Magellan
Feature	OpenText Magellan 8.0 1 Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)	9.01 Ratings
Predictive Analytics	7.01 Ratings

Comparison of Access Control and Security features of OpenText Magellan
Feature	OpenText Magellan 9.0 2 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model	9.02 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)	9.02 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)	9.02 Ratings

Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of OpenText Magellan
Feature	OpenText Magellan 7.0 2 Ratings
Responsive Design for Web Access	7.02 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile	7.02 Ratings

Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of OpenText Magellan
Feature	OpenText Magellan 6.2 1 Ratings
REST API	5.01 Ratings
Javascript API	9.01 Ratings
Java API	5.01 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)	7.01 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)	5.01 Ratings

User Ratings
	OpenText Magellan
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (11 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	3.9 (9 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	9.0 (2 ratings)
Data Sharing and Collaboration	9.0 (8 ratings)
Data Sources	8.0 (8 ratings)