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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    OpenText Magellan

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AOpenText 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

    Posit

    Score10 out of 10
    N/APosit, formerly RStudio, is a modular data science platform, combining open source and commercial products.N/A
    Pricing
    OpenText MagellanPosit
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    OpenText MagellanPosit
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    OpenText MagellanPosit
    Considered Both Products
    OpenText
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    Posit (formerly RStudio)
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    43 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    43 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    41 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    28 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    37 Answers
    Features
    OpenText MagellanPosit
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of OpenText Magellan and Posit
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    7.0
    2 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Posit
    -
    Ratings
    Customizable dashboards7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of OpenText Magellan and Posit
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    8.3
    3 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Posit
    -
    Ratings
    Drill-down analysis8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of OpenText Magellan and Posit
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    8.3
    2 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Posit
    -
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    Publish to Web8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publish to PDF8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Versioning9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of OpenText Magellan and Posit
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Posit
    -
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    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of OpenText Magellan and Posit
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    9.0
    2 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Posit
    -
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    Role-Based Security Model9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of OpenText Magellan and Posit
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    7.0
    2 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Posit
    -
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    Responsive Design for Web Access7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of OpenText Magellan and Posit
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    6.2
    1 Ratings
    23% below category average
    Posit
    -
    Ratings
    REST API5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Javascript API9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Java API5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform Connectivity
    Comparison of Platform Connectivity features of OpenText Magellan and Posit
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    -
    Ratings
    Posit
    9.3
    27 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Connect to Multiple Data Sources00 Ratings8.026 Ratings
    Extend Existing Data Sources00 Ratings10.027 Ratings
    Automatic Data Format Detection00 Ratings10.026 Ratings
    Data Exploration
    Comparison of Data Exploration features of OpenText Magellan and Posit
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    -
    Ratings
    Posit
    9.0
    27 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Visualization00 Ratings8.027 Ratings
    Interactive Data Analysis00 Ratings10.024 Ratings
    Data Preparation
    Comparison of Data Preparation features of OpenText Magellan and Posit
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    -
    Ratings
    Posit
    10.0
    26 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Interactive Data Cleaning and Enrichment00 Ratings10.024 Ratings
    Data Transformations00 Ratings10.026 Ratings
    Platform Data Modeling
    Comparison of Platform Data Modeling features of OpenText Magellan and Posit
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    -
    Ratings
    Posit
    10.0
    22 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Multiple Model Development Languages and Tools00 Ratings10.022 Ratings
    Single platform for multiple model development00 Ratings10.022 Ratings
    Self-Service Model Delivery00 Ratings10.019 Ratings
    Model Deployment
    Comparison of Model Deployment features of OpenText Magellan and Posit
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan
    -
    Ratings
    Posit
    9.9
    18 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Flexible Model Publishing Options00 Ratings10.018 Ratings
    Security, Governance, and Cost Controls00 Ratings9.915 Ratings
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    OpenText MagellanPosit
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    Score8.7 out of 10
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    Score8.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Score9.7 out of 10
    IBM Watson Studio
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    OpenText MagellanPosit
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (11 ratings)
    10.0
    (123 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    3.9
    (9 ratings)
    9.7
    (17 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.4
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.9
    (9 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.3
    (4 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sources
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    OpenText MagellanPosit
    Likelihood to Recommend
    OpenText
    If you do not have a large budget and are a large organization, I would steer clear of Actuate. If you are looking to do very complex washboarding, I would not use them. Your developers have to be very skilled to work with this. Plan to bring in consultants if necessary to help your process. Adhoc reporting is weak. If your pricing is user based and you expand, this could be very expensive.
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    Posit (formerly RStudio)
    In my humble opinion, if you are working on something related to Statistics, RStudio is your go-to tool. But if you are looking for something in Machine Learning, look out for Python. The beauty is that there are packages now by which you can write Python/SQL in R. Cross-platform functionality like such makes RStudio way ahead of its competition. A couple of chinks in RStudio armor are very small and can be considered as nagging just for the sake of argument. Other than completely based on programming language, I couldn't find significant drawbacks to using RStudio. It is one of the best free software available in the market at present.
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    Pros
    OpenText
    • 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.
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    Posit (formerly RStudio)
    • The support is incredibly professional and helpful, and they often go out of their way to help me when something doesn't work.
    • The one-click publishing from RStudio Connect is absolutely amazing, and I really like the way that it deploys your exact package versions, because otherwise, you can get in a terrible mess.
    • Python doesn't feel quite as native as R at the moment but I have definitely deployed stuff in R and Python that works beautifully which is really nice indeed.
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    Cons
    OpenText
    • 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
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    Posit (formerly RStudio)
    • Python integration is newer and still can be rough, especially with when using virtual environments.
    • RStudio Connect pricing feels very department focused, not quite an enterprise perspective.
    • Some of the RStudio packages don't follow conventional development guidelines (API breaking changes with minor version numbers) which can make supporting larger projects over longer timeframes difficult.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    OpenText
    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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    Posit (formerly RStudio)
    There is no viable alternative right now. The toolset is good and the functionality is increasing with every release. It is backed by regular releases and ongoing development by the RStudio team. There is good engagement with RStudio directly when support is required. Also there's a strong and growing community of developers who provide additional support and sample code.
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    Usability
    OpenText
    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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    Posit (formerly RStudio)
    For someone who learns how to use the software and picks up on the "language" of R, it's very easy to use. For beginners, it can be hard and might require a course, as well as the appropriate statistical training to understand what packages to use and when
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    Reliability and Availability
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Posit (formerly RStudio)
    RStudio is very available and cheap to use. It needs to be updated every once in a while, but the updates tend to be quick and they do not hinder my ability to make progress. I have not experienced any RStudio outages, and I have used the application quite a bit for a variety of statistical analyses
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    Support Rating
    OpenText
    Always there on the front and backend for us and the client.
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    Posit (formerly RStudio)
    Since R is trendy among statisticians, you can find lots of help from the data science/ stats communities. If you need help with anything related to RStudio or R, google it or search on StackOverflow, you might easily find the solution that you are looking for.
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    Implementation Rating
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Posit (formerly RStudio)
    We did it at the individual level: anyone willing to code in R can use it. No real deployment involved.
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    Alternatives Considered
    OpenText
    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.
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    Posit (formerly RStudio)
    RStudio was provided as the most customizable. It was also strictly the most feature-rich as far as enabling our organization to script, run, and make use of R open-source packages in our data analysis workstreams. It also provided some support for python, which was useful when we had R heavy code with some python threaded in. Overall we picked Rstudio for the features it provided for our data analysis needs and the ability to interface with our existing resources.
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    Scalability
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Posit (formerly RStudio)
    RStudio is very scalable as a product. The issue I have is that it doesn't necessarily fit in nicely with the mainly Microsoft environment that everybody else is using. Having RStudio for us means dedicated servers and recruiting staff who know how to manage the environment. This isn't a fault of the product at all, it's just part of the data science landscape that we all have to put up with. Having said that RStudio is absolutely great for running on low spec servers and there are loads of options to handle concurrency, memory use, etc.
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    Return on Investment
    OpenText
    • 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.
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    Posit (formerly RStudio)
    • Using it for data science in a very big and old company, the most positive impact, from my point of view, has been the ability of spreading data culture across the group. Shortening the path from data to value.
    • Still it's hard to quantify economic benefits, we are struggling and it's a great point of attention, since splitting out the contribution of the single aspects of a project (and getting the RStudio pie) is complicated.
    • What is sure is that, in the long run, RStudio is boosting productivity and making the process in which is embedded more efficient (cost reduction).
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    ScreenShots

    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.

    Posit Screenshots

    Screenshot of Posit runs on most desktops or on a server and accessed over the webScreenshot of Posit supports authoring HTML, PDF, Word Documents, and slide showsScreenshot of Posit supports interactive graphics with Shiny and ggvisScreenshot of Shiny combines the computational power of R with the interactivity of the modern webScreenshot of Remote Interactive Sessions: Start R and Python processes from Posit Workbench within various systems such as Kubernetes and SLURM with Launcher.Screenshot of Jupyter: Author and edit Python code with Jupyter using the same Posit Workbench infrastructure.