OpenText Magellan vs. Vertafore RiskMatch

It depends on extensibility, set-up, access & style. Actuate performs fairly well, but has performance issues because it sits on top of eclipse, which sits on top of Java. Extensibility usually comes at that price. Set-up is fairly straightforward and it can be secured.

Incentivized

It is well suited when a quick overview of your business is needed. Less appropriate if you are looking for detailed reports on your book of business.

Incentivized

• Ability to connect to different kinds of sources, including web services, and customize those queries to the extend needed
• Provide tools to customize the look & feel of the reports as much as needed, even being able to choose different appearances for different outputs
• Allowing scripting in the reports extends the functionality available
• Allowing to embed reports without further licensing and maintaining all the functionality

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• Good value for money
• Automatization of processes
• Data analysis

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• 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

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• the "mapping" of insurance carriers is confusing as some are named differently
• the "roles" for users could be more clearly defined or better matched to our setup
• the ability to compare information to same time last year would be nice

Incentivized

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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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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I find the product to be extremely usable. It’s not terribly difficult to learn. One of the easiest things to do was create and customize my own reports which I have found challenging in other software. The tool has a really understandable interface that most would be able to pick up with minimal effort.

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Always there on the front and backend for us and the client.

Had some issues when importing data and the support was not quite helpful that time, but is only bad experience

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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.

I was working in the Audits auditing an insurance company and they used this software as a tool to find the correct balance between the services they offered and the needs of their clients, I have never seen a software like this in other insurance clients and therefore, I thought it was a good tool to have a clear overview of everything, to make processes more secure by reducing the hand-job inputs and to foster the process chain by making it faster and automatized.

Incentivized

• 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.

• Customer Satisfaction
• Retention

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