OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting vs. Zoho Analytics

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
Score 7.3 out of 10
N/A
The 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
Zoho Analytics
Score 8.2 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Zoho Analytics (formerly Zoho Reports) is a self-service BI and analytics platform that allows users to analyze their business data and create reports and dashboards. It is designed to help users create and share reports quickly, without IT assistance.
$30
0.5M rows, 2 users
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Basic
$30
0.5M rows, 2 users
Professional
$30
per user per month billed annually
Standard
$60
1M rows, 5 users
Premium
$145
5M rows, 15 users
Enterprise
$575
50M rows, 50 users
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
OpenText Magellan BI & ReportingZoho Analytics
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsThere is a 20% discount for all plans if subscribed yearly. Customers can buy add-on rows and users, in addition to the plans listed above.
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Features
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BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
5.0
Ratings
33% below category average
Zoho Analytics
8.7
Ratings
6% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports7.00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Customizable dashboards2.00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates6.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
7.7
Ratings
0% below category average
Zoho Analytics
8.1
Ratings
1% above category average
Drill-down analysis6.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Formatting capabilities9.00 Ratings7.60 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration8.00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
7.0
Ratings
7% below category average
Zoho Analytics
8.0
Ratings
0% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Predictive Analytics00 Ratings7.40 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
8.7
Ratings
14% above category average
Zoho Analytics
8.5
Ratings
0% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)10.00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model6.00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)10.00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
7.0
Ratings
6% below category average
Zoho Analytics
8.3
Ratings
6% above category average
REST API7.00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Javascript API9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Java API7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
iFrames00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
-
Ratings
Zoho Analytics
8.4
Ratings
1% above category average
Publish to Web00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting
-
Ratings
Zoho Analytics
6.4
Ratings
20% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings4.30 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
5.0
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7.3
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Likelihood to Renew
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8.9
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Usability
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7.8
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Availability
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9.1
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Performance
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9.1
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Support Rating
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5.4
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
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5.5
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
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7.3
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Product Scalability
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7.2
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Vendor post-sale
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7.3
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Vendor pre-sale
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8.2
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
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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Zoho Analytics is the best way to consume data created by Zoho products . It's robust and quick build formula libraries and auto generated reports. A data source can be integrated and be ready for consumption within minutes. This gives a well developed baseline for organizing to develop advance analytics. It's mobile dashboards are very intuitive and useful for leaders who are on the move.
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Pros
  • 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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  • Zoho Analytics’ predictive analytics capabilities can help forecast future trends, allowing for proactive planning and risk management.
  • Performance Monitoring: We can track key performance indicators (KPIs) across departments, such as sales, marketing, finance, and HR. This aids in identifying bottlenecks and areas for improvement.
  • Decision making regarding resource allocation.
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Cons
  • 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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  • I'm guessing it's out there somewhere but I really could have used a 'quick start guide' or guided start.
  • Once I figured it out, it makes sense how to make sure the right data is provided in order to make dashboards quite flexible--- but without examples, I found it quite a challenge
  • The initial organization of Analytics is NOT intuitive. Once in context, the organizational features make sense, but (at least initially) it would have been most useful if the organization of Analytics reports in Zoho Analytics had saved me a lot of time.
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Likelihood to Renew
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Usefulness: I find Zoho Analytics highly useful for our data analysis needs. Its features, such as data visualization, reporting capabilities, and integration options, greatly aid our business and analytical processes. Ease of Use: The platform is user-friendly and intuitive, making it accessible to users with varying levels of technical expertise. Reliability: We trust Zoho Analytics to deliver consistent and reliable performance. The platform's stability and uptime contribute positively to our overall experience.
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Usability
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For an end user, Zoho Analytics is pretty easy to use and very easy to access the dashboard. Linking data from multiple sources is very convenient. Multiple people can work on preparing and publishing the dashboards simultaneously, which helps delegate tasks.
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Reliability and Availability
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ZOHO is a very reliable company/product. We never had any issues with downtime or inaccessibility to our data. Any type of maintenance that they had to perform was clearly communicated and never an issue. We use a lot of external hooks and we've never had any issues with getting ZOHO to communicate with any of those hooks.
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Performance
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ZOHO has obviously invested a lot of time effort and money in to creating a reliable infrastructure with high availability. We've never had any issues with performance and all of our data crunching small to large has always been well within reason. We have come to appreciate the performance of ZOHO and will continue to use it for all of our data needs.
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Support Rating
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The support team is honestly not that great. At times, it seems as if members of our own team know more about the product than the support team. They must not have a lot of training or the turnaround is quick
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Implementation Rating
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If your external data sources are previously organized and correlated (e.g.: in your datawarehouse or database) your implementation will be easier. Of cource some not previously predicted correlation would be necessary to be done during the implementation, but if your organization let it to be all done into Zoho Analytics, it will take more time from your team.
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Alternatives Considered
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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Zoho Analytics has the best UI and user friendly to create reports and dashboard along with features like Zia Assistance that guide in creating reports and dashboard and also help in the forecasting of the data based on the past records.
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Scalability
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The system appears to handle large data volumes from different platforms and present the information in a standard format. While the information is helpful, the insight and analytics are very interesting and provide a return on investment. The next part is how the users use that data insight to make decisions.
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Return on Investment
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  • Zoho Analytics has dramatically impacted the time we spend creating reports. We probably save 20+ hours per month.
  • Due to the tight integration with the rest of the Zoho platform, we don't have to manually import data; it just shows up for us.
  • Having some of these reports in our pocket is great when the owner wants to see something, and we're not in the office. I love the mobile app and the ability to see reports on the phone.
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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.

Zoho Analytics Screenshots

Screenshot of Zia Insights, which provides contextual intelligence with detailed diagnostics.Screenshot of where OpenAI's large language models (LLMs) are leveraged within Ask Zia to build complex queries, construct metrics and formulas, and discover public datasets.Screenshot of key metrics with KPI charts.Screenshot of streaming data, which is available for real-time insights. Users can process streams from Google Pub/Sub, Kafka, PubNub and APIs.Screenshot of reports accessed from iPad and Android tablets.Screenshot of custom machine learning models, available with a no-code assistant.