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OpenText Magellan

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22 Reviews and Ratings

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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.

Categories & Use Cases

Media

A Magellan BI & Reporting dashboard that an individual can interact with and personalize to their needs, such as changing chart types or computations.
Magellan Data Discovery provides a Smart User Interface, designed to equip new users and users seeking a more streamlined set of features for insights
Magellan Data Discovery provides an Advanced User Interface that allows data analytics pros to leverage its breadth of sophisticated capabilities for insights
Magellan Text Mining insights can be displayed within easy-to-use dashboards.
Data scientists can create visualizations within the Magellan Notebook and see it dynamically update as they write changes to it.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features OpenText Magellan has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 22 ratings of OpenText Magellan's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Integration with R or other statistical packages

    Integration with the open-source R predictive modeling environment.

    Category average: 7.9

  • Report Versioning

    Report versioning is the assignment of version numbers to each version of a report to help in tracking.

    Category average: 8.4

  • Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)

    Pre-built visualization formats are canned visualization types that can be selected to visualize different kinds of data.

    Category average: 8.1

Areas for Improvement

  • REST API

    REST is an architecture style for designing networked applications

    Category average: 8.1

  • Java API

    A Java application programming interface (API) is a list of all classes that are part of the Java development kit (JDK)

    Category average: 8.1

  • Customizable Platform (Open Source)

    A customizable, open source API Gateway is a fast and scalable type of API

    Category average: 7.7

Reviews

What users are saying about OpenText Magellan.
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OpenText Magellan is very powerful for custom reporting

Incentivized
Martin RubensView profile
IT solutions Manager in Information Technology at APP Corporation Pty Ltd (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

  • 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

Cons

  • The documentation on all the available features, but most importantly on the scripting side, can be improved
  • The standard look & feel of some basic options, like parameter selection or sorting and filtering, looks dated and can't be customized
  • The server portal needs to provide better tools
  • More integration is needed with other OpenText products

Alternatives Considered

Power BI For Office 365

Other Software Used

OpenText Enterprise Content Manamagement (ECM), Dropbox Business, Microsoft 365 Business, Microsoft Power BI

An Excellent Tool for Text Analytics

Incentivized
Verified User
Analyst in Engineering (201-500 employees employees)

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

Return on Investment

  • Saving on analyst hours in writing the codes
  • Increasing the accuracy
  • Reading the hidden messages in the text

Alternatives Considered

Azure API Management

Other Software Used

Minitable, Python IDLE

Usability

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

Christopher Noyes
Director Advertising Technology in Engineering at Crisp Media (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

  • In terms of extensibility this is the best reporting platform we have seen. You can build very sophisticated reports with different data sources, and extend the basic functionality with javscript code
  • Securing the BI system is also a strength and the system can be configured relatively easily.
  • Reports can be available on mobile devices
  • Good Javascript embedding framework does not require the site to be built in java

Cons

  • We have found a ton of bugs in there, our implementation is very complex and we use a lot of features, but we wish there were less bugs. Particularly with parameter display and validation.
  • Actuate has decided not to continue to support the birtondemand platform and it is running on older versions of their main platform.
  • Building out security extensibility is rather complex.
  • They have not had a rest interface until new versions of iHub.

Former System Admin for Scorecard Module

Incentivized
Lynn Kutz
Quality/Performance Improvement Consultant in Quality Assurance at Good Samaritan Society (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Easy data import
  • Multiple levels of user security

Cons

  • Limited report writing ability unless you implant the iServer applications
  • End users have little or no control over data displays

Actuate BIRT - open source that's worth a look

Incentivized
Bri Gipson
Sr. Systems Engineer in Engineering at Métier (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

  • The report outputs can vary across different types such as HTML, PDF, and Excel
  • Their open source offering is very sufficient
  • There are great boards and blogs for developers and engineers to expand and use their features.
  • The people from the company that I've worked with are professional and courteous.

Cons

  • The report designer can be unstable at times.
  • The reporting engine tends to have memory leaks with certain types of massive-data reporting.
  • The report graphics don't have the sexiest appeal (e.g. Glossy feel, animated output)
  • Some extensibility is extremely difficult to get to without purchasing a license (e.g. Setting a simple flag so that HTML outputs in compressed mode requires either creating your own emitter or going the paid route)

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