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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting

    Score7.3 out of 10
    N/AThe OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting (formerly OpenText Information Hub (iHub)) component of OpenText™ Magellan™ Analytics Suite is a scalable analytics and data visualization platform that enables IT leaders and their teams to design, deploy, and manage secure, interactive web applications, reports, and dashboards fed by multiple data sources. Magellan BI & Reporting supports high volumes of users, and its integration APIs enable embedded analytic content in any app, displayed on any…N/A

    SAP Lumira Discovery

    Score4.4 out of 10
    N/ASAP Lumira Discovery is SAP’s data visualization and discovery application. It facilitates data discovery, visualization, and analysis by assisting users with creation of dashboards, infographics, presentations, data facets, tag clouds, and more.

    $185

    per user

    Pricing
    OpenText Magellan BI & ReportingSAP Lumira Discovery
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    SAP Lumira, standard edition
    $185
    per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    OpenText Magellan BI & ReportingSAP Lumira Discovery
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    OpenText Magellan BI & ReportingSAP Lumira Discovery
    Considered Both Products
    OpenText
    No answer on this topic
    SAP
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    80%
    Would buy again
    8 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    86%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    83%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    86%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    Features
    OpenText Magellan BI & ReportingSAP Lumira Discovery
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting and SAP Lumira Discovery
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
    5.0
    1 Ratings
    33% below category average
    SAP Lumira Discovery
    8.0
    97 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Pixel Perfect reports7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards2.01 Ratings8.097 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting and SAP Lumira Discovery
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
    7.7
    1 Ratings
    0% below category average
    SAP Lumira Discovery
    7.3
    103 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Drill-down analysis6.01 Ratings10.0100 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities9.01 Ratings7.0103 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration8.01 Ratings5.098 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting and SAP Lumira Discovery
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
    7.0
    1 Ratings
    7% below category average
    SAP Lumira Discovery
    4.3
    104 Ratings
    60% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.01 Ratings5.0102 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.01 Ratings6.095 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics00 Ratings2.072 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting and SAP Lumira Discovery
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
    8.7
    1 Ratings
    14% above category average
    SAP Lumira Discovery
    -
    Ratings
    Multi-User Support (named login)10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting and SAP Lumira Discovery
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
    7.0
    1 Ratings
    6% below category average
    SAP Lumira Discovery
    -
    Ratings
    REST API7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Javascript API9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Java API7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting and SAP Lumira Discovery
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Lumira Discovery
    6.1
    95 Ratings
    31% below category average
    Publish to Web00 Ratings7.082 Ratings
    Publish to PDF00 Ratings5.094 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings6.355 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    OpenText Magellan BI & ReportingSAP Lumira Discovery
    Likelihood to Recommend
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    5.0
    (105 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (15 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (11 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    2.0
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    2.0
    (83 ratings)
    Data Sources
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (89 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    OpenText Magellan BI & ReportingSAP Lumira Discovery
    Likelihood to Recommend
    OpenText
    iHub is a decent enough environment that it serves our needs. We can have unlimited users and it can tie into AD although we do not use that feature currently. It is a decent place to store all of the reports in one location, even though for us it is not visually appealing to the end users. iHub is not a place where you want to create robust/interactive dashboards for end users to drill through and follow a "story".
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    SAP
    Infographics derived from specific data sources appears to be well suited for development using Lumira. The development of executive level dashboards was less appropriate from my perspective. The software does not provide sufficient demonstration or samples for the users to learn from in my opinion.
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    Pros
    OpenText
    • It is fairly easy to set the sharing rules for a report/dashboard.
    • They have a decent amount of time frame options for setting a schedule to generate a report.
    • The support is mostly helpful and timely if you have an issue.
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    SAP
    • SAP has built in features you would expect from a data visualization package, like easy import from other SAP systems.
    • SAP has most of the typical charts that you would expect in order to visualize your data.
    • SAP allows you to have multiple charts on one visualization for your data.
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    Cons
    OpenText
    • Setting up a "dashboard" is extremely lacking in functionality. The different chart widgets you place on the page do not interact with each other. When you select an item from one do not expect it to highlight or filter another.
    • The speed and stability are not great, but maybe that is just our environment not being up to snuff...even though we are above the "recommended" settings.
    • The main GUI for a user is TERRIBLE. You log into a File Tree format where you have to navigate folders to reach the correct dashboard. There are ways around this, but it would either require an expensive payment to the Professional Services team to revamp to UI or another option they gave us was to create the "Default Dashboard" and provide that link to users and in that Dashboard, you use a new tab to include the navigation back to the main screen so that at least on the initial load the user is taken to a friendly looking dashboard instead of a file tree.
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    SAP
    • Even though the process of creating visualizations of data is now greatly improved, it could still be a lot better as users become accustomed to this kind of tool and bring forward edge cases the developers did not anticipate.
    • It would be awesome to have a cross platform tool that works on more than just Windows.
    • Some options for specific graphs feel limiting.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    Given the scope ,maintanence , support and budget are the main drivers to deciding renewal of a software
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    Usability
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    SAP Lumira is very good self service analytical tool with powerful capabilities. However need to look into other SAP products in BI space, like SAP SAC. SAP Lumira is more used for custom and complex analytical need in business intelligence area. Also SAP Lumira is going out of maintenance in coming future replaced by SAP SAC.
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    Reliability and Availability
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    Lumira is a desktop application runs in its own JVM. It installs its own java runtime libraries to avoid any core java version conflicts. The availability of the application is completely relies on individual machine hardware configuration. On a decent desktop, it performs well and always launches in either 32 or 64 bit environment based on the hosts system's OS
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    Performance
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    The performance is linear with amount of data that is being explored. We have done some benchmarks acquiring 10million data cells without having any performance problems. We need to make proper adjustments to jvm run time properties to start with higher heap size and other parameters that optimizes the run time performance
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    Support Rating
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    It does not have many bugs or issues since not a lot of new features are being added. The customer support for SAP Lumira Discovery is good and anyone considering this as a self-service tool would be happy. It integrates well in the SAP BI suite of products and the overall experience is positive.
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    In-Person Training
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    We did not take in-person training
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    Online Training
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    Most of the user guides are pretty comprehensive and very easy to understand. The product itself is designed to be self-serve tool, did not need much of the end-user training. Most of the training we had is to how to read the data, how to explore the data, how to acquire the data etc.
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    Implementation Rating
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    Installing the desktop software on end-user machines is always challenging. The machine specifications are the biggest factor when running Lumira and be able to handle large datasets during data exploration. This often demands beefy machines at least for power-users. Although Lumira software licensing is not a big problem but managing partner's extensions and keeping track of their individual licenses may be an issue. If there is a way to bundle the more popular extensions such as vSQL or vOLAP should be bundled in core product and offer them as part of Lumira license instead of a separate license which causer operational burden.
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    Alternatives Considered
    OpenText
    Our instance of iHub does not stack up against the other larger BI tools out today. It is a good place to store reports in a central location that allows users to run very specific reports on demand, but it is not a place I would want to store all of my "dashboards". As far as holding individual reports that are specific to an individual need, it is a great tool. If you want to create a report that will be used as a Template for a Form or a Label, iHub is a good choice to store and schedule the report or call it via API to generate it and return it to your calling app.
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    SAP
    Even though SAP Analytics Cloud is considered to be better in aspects such as data connectivity or analytics, we decided to choose Lumira as it was easier to understand, learn and use. As our business is not really that big and does not require the inclusion of large amounts of data, Lumira was overall the safest and most comfortable option. Also, some members in our team had previous knowledge so it was easier to adapt
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    Scalability
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    Enterprise wide implementation is a challenge with data security and trustedness. No easy installation can be done across the enterprise. no upgrade paths also available from SAP. They have so much of experience with desktop implementation, there it could be a controlled environment with a capital budget. These may be resolved in the upcoming releases
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    Return on Investment
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    • We could obtain original data from vast and detailed corporate and personal data sources.
    • We could share visual analysis results with stakeholders via the cloud, and it could also be viewed on a tablet.
    • It is very flexible and accurate to use. It can be used for forecasting sales, resource planning, and scheduling.
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    ScreenShots

    OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting Screenshots

    Screenshot of A Magellan dashboard that an individual can interact with and personalize to their needs, such as changing chart types or computations.Screenshot of An ad-hoc report being created through the Magellan Analytics Studio, a component of Magellan BI & Reporting.

    SAP Lumira Discovery Screenshots

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