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    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

    ThoughtSpot

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AThoughtSpot is an Agentic Analytics Platform for enterprises where users ask data questions using natural language and get answers with AI. Code-first for data teams and code-free for business users, ThoughtSpot can handle large, complex cloud data at scale.

    $1,500

    per year (5 users)

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    OpenText Magellan BI & ReportingThoughtSpot
    Editions & Modules
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    Thoughtspot Analytics - Pro
    $50
    per month (billed annually) per user (25-1000 users)
    Thoughtspot Analytics - Enterprise
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    OpenText Magellan BI & ReportingThoughtSpot
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    OpenText Magellan BI & ReportingThoughtSpot
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    OpenText
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    ThoughtSpot
    Chose ThoughtSpot
    ThoughtSpot is just as good at creating the initial graphic for the end user, it might even be better because the user really does not need much technical knowledge in order to create a basic graphic. Currently, ThoughtSpot cannot yet compete with the other tools when it comes …
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    79%
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    Features
    OpenText Magellan BI & ReportingThoughtSpot
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
    5.0
    1 Ratings
    33% below category average
    ThoughtSpot
    7.6
    85 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Pixel Perfect reports7.01 Ratings6.021 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards2.01 Ratings9.185 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates6.01 Ratings7.725 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
    7.7
    1 Ratings
    0% below category average
    ThoughtSpot
    7.8
    87 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Drill-down analysis6.01 Ratings9.187 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities9.01 Ratings7.786 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration8.01 Ratings8.985 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings5.447 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
    7.0
    1 Ratings
    7% below category average
    ThoughtSpot
    8.0
    83 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.01 Ratings7.782 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.01 Ratings8.876 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics00 Ratings8.062 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings7.610 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
    8.7
    1 Ratings
    14% above category average
    ThoughtSpot
    8.5
    82 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)10.01 Ratings8.679 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model6.01 Ratings8.671 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)10.01 Ratings8.575 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings8.313 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings8.668 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
    7.0
    1 Ratings
    6% below category average
    ThoughtSpot
    6.5
    48 Ratings
    18% below category average
    REST API7.01 Ratings5.039 Ratings
    Javascript API9.01 Ratings4.732 Ratings
    Java API7.01 Ratings7.013 Ratings
    iFrames00 Ratings8.231 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings7.032 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings7.115 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
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    Ratings
    ThoughtSpot
    8.8
    80 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Publish to Web00 Ratings8.552 Ratings
    Publish to PDF00 Ratings9.574 Ratings
    Report Versioning00 Ratings7.918 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings9.261 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings9.133 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
    -
    Ratings
    ThoughtSpot
    7.4
    50 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings7.048 Ratings
    Mobile Application00 Ratings7.131 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings6.943 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    OpenText Magellan BI & ReportingThoughtSpot
    Likelihood to Recommend
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.4
    (87 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
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    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    8.6
    (82 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    -
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    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
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    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
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    4.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.8
    (5 ratings)
    Data Sources
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.4
    (5 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
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    8.0
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    Vendor pre-sale
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    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    OpenText Magellan BI & ReportingThoughtSpot
    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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    ThoughtSpot
    It is well suited when the same data is consumed by many different people with different analytics and visualization requirements because, if you have the data available in ThoughtSpot, every user can prepare different views. Also, it is a good reporting tool, you can get rid of slides if you have a good dashboard prepared, gaining flexibility and agility.
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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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    ThoughtSpot
    • Beautiful visualizations. The visuals are distinct, clean, and easy to discern from one another.
    • Intelligent querying functionality. When looking to manipulate the data, the search function makes it easy to manipulate the features in the data, along with aggregating them in the way you'd like.
    • Embedding! It has been a smooth process thus far for our product & technical teams to work with ThoughtSpot and bring it into our product.
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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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    ThoughtSpot
    • It would be great if ThoughtSpot can add the feature to filter by clicking on visualizations. i.e if I click on a particular data point in the chart if the full dashboard can filter just for that particular data point.
    • Color coding the heatmap with different colors like green to orange to red.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    ThoughtSpot
    I give it just waiting because passport is brilliant and it has helped our organisation In advancing to the next stage in the age of AI. It has allowed or non-tech people to better service and clients in a cost-effective way. George port has allowed us to create new products for us and for our clients increasing our revenue streams and reducing clients churn
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    Usability
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    ThoughtSpot
    The rating is because of the ease of use of the interface as it has a no code interface that makes it easy to setup data pipelines without extensive programming. Cloud native integration: It integrates seamlessly with cloud based data warehouses. Automated data loading, Scalability, Cost Effective, Transformations, Data Governance and security.
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    Reliability and Availability
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    ThoughtSpot
    it's available unless there is a server or system update etc. sometimes the timing of this is bad (for example during a month end close)
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    Performance
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    ThoughtSpot
    It does what it is supposed to. Would be nice to have a bit more insights
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    Support Rating
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    ThoughtSpot
    I give it this meeting because the team is not only help able to help us in the current solutions but also amazing and taking feedback and feeding it back to their development team which includes more products and features into ThoughtSpot
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    In-Person Training
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    ThoughtSpot
    inhouse in-person training. Took a bit to long to get the basics.
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    Online Training
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    ThoughtSpot
    poor instructions
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    Implementation Rating
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    ThoughtSpot
    Understand use case and model and design accordingly
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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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    ThoughtSpot
    We also explored Tableau Ask Data. Tableau is our standard for BI in our organization. We want to use the smallest amount of tools in our company to have the best adaption. ThoughSpot will fill a few gaps that we have with our current set up and will also enhance out offering for our employees in the transition of being more data driven within in near future
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    Scalability
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    ThoughtSpot
    Because it is very reliable, inside the situation, we need strong internet connection to access a lot of data but easily never had any downtime except during the upgrades
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    Return on Investment
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    ThoughtSpot
    • Time to market ROI is massive vs hiring the full-time dedicated team to build and maintain a frontend multi-tenant SaaS data viz product.
    • It will be interesting to see over time how the advanced features play out in terms of usability and end value, such as Natural Search, which we are very excited about, and the machine learning tools.
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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.

    ThoughtSpot Screenshots

    Screenshot of the ThoughtSpot home screenScreenshot of SpotIQ, which offers AI-driven insightsScreenshot of the Spotter AI agent that surfaces insights through natural language queriesScreenshot of AI Assist producing SQL in real timeScreenshot of SpotIQ, which offers AI-driven insightsScreenshot of the integration with dbt models and metrics