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What is Dundas BI?
Dundas BI is a business intelligence and data visualization software that includes customizable dashboards, reporting, and visual data analytics. Dundas BI can be integrated into users’ existing business applications and its visualization and reporting tools can be customized to their…
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Dundas BI - powerful, flexible and fun
Dundas, finally an easy to use cross platform reporting tool.
Overall a great product with good levels of configuration and data connectivity
Dundas BI... finding the balance between great and awesome for years.
Happy with value, still working out the kinks
Dundas .. Great but a little quirky
Dundas BI Version 5, Meeting all your dashboard needs with a smile
Robust and Fully Loaded
A pixel perfect Dashboard designer
Dundas BI - Advance Data Visualization Tool
Popular Features
- Customizable dashboards (51)8.686%
- Formatting capabilities (50)8.282%
- Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.) (48)8.181%
- Drill-down analysis (51)7.979%
Pricing
What is Dundas BI?
Dundas BI is a business intelligence and data visualization software that includes customizable dashboards, reporting, and visual data analytics. Dundas BI can be integrated into users’ existing business applications and its visualization and reporting tools can be customized to their needs.
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- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Features
BI Standard Reporting
Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.
- 8.4Pixel Perfect reports(43) Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports are highly-formatted reports with graphics and ability to preview the report before printing.
- 8.6Customizable dashboards(51) Ratings
Customizable dashboards are dashboards providing the builder some degree of control over the look and feel and display options.
- 8.1Report Formatting Templates(39) Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.
- 7.9Drill-down analysis(51) Ratings
Drill down analysis is the ability to get to a further level of detail by going deeper into the hierarchy.
- 8.2Formatting capabilities(50) Ratings
Ability to format output e.g. conditional formatting, lines, headers, footers.
- 7.6Integration with R or other statistical packages(33) Ratings
Integration with the open-source R predictive modeling environment.
- 8.6Report sharing and collaboration(45) Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration is the ability to easily share reports with others.
Report Output and Scheduling
Ability to schedule and manager report output.
- 8.4Publish to Web(42) Ratings
- 7.8Publish to PDF(45) Ratings
- 7.8Report Versioning(38) Ratings
Report versioning is the assignment of version numbers to each version of a report to help in tracking.
- 8.3Report Delivery Scheduling(37) Ratings
Report Delivery Schedule is the ability to have reports delivered to a destination at a specific data and time.
- 7.2Delivery to Remote Servers(3) Ratings
Ability to deliver reports to remote servers
Data Discovery and Visualization
Data Discovery and Visualization is the analysis of multiple data sources in a search for patterns and outliers and the ability to represent the data visually.
- 8.1Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)(48) Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats are canned visualization types that can be selected to visualize different kinds of data.
- 7.9Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization(41) Ratings
Location analytics is the visualization of geographical or spatial data.
- 7.4Predictive Analytics(32) Ratings
Predictive Analytics is the ability to build forecasting models based on existing data sets.
Access Control and Security
Access control means being able to determine who has access to which data.
- 8.6Multi-User Support (named login)(48) Ratings
Named model access means that users have access based on name and password.
- 8Role-Based Security Model(45) Ratings
Role-based access means that access to data is determined by job or position in the corporation.
- 8.2Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)(46) Ratings
Multiple access permission levels means that different levels of users have different rights.
- 8.2Single Sign-On (SSO)(5) Ratings
Allows users to use one set of login credentials to access multiple applications
Mobile Capabilities
Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.
- 8.3Responsive Design for Web Access(44) Ratings
Web design aimed at producing easy-to-read sites across a range of different devices.
- 8.1Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile(40) Ratings
In-app dashboard reports and data visualization.
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
APIs are a set of routines, protocols, and tools for used for embedding one application in another
- 8.2REST API(5) Ratings
REST is an architecture style for designing networked applications
- 8.6Javascript API(6) Ratings
A Javascript API is a type of API
- 7iFrames(5) Ratings
An iFrame is an HTML document embedded inside another HTML document on a website
- 7.7Themeable User Interface (UI)(6) Ratings
A themeable user interface means that a specific visual them can be applied to it
- 7.5Customizable Platform (Open Source)(2) Ratings
A customizable, open source API Gateway is a fast and scalable type of API
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What is Dundas BI?
Dundas BI Features
BI Platform Features
- Supported: Administration via Windows App
- Supported: Administration via MacOS App
- Supported: Administration via Web Interface
- Supported: Live Connection to External Data
- Supported: Snapshot of External Data
- Supported: In-memory data model
- Supported: OLAP (Pre-processed cube representation)
- Supported: ROLAP (SQL-layer querying)
- Supported: Multi-Data Source Reporting (Blending)
- Supported: Data warehouse / dictionary layer
- Supported: ETL Capability
- Supported: ETL Scheduler
Supported Data Sources Features
- Supported: MS Excel Workbooks
- Supported: Text Files (CSV, etc)
- Supported: Oracle
- Supported: MS SQL Server
- Supported: IBM DB2
- Supported: Postgres
- Supported: MySQL
- Supported: ODBC
- Supported: Cloudera Hadoop
- Supported: Hortonworks Hadoop
- Supported: EMC Greenplum
- Supported: IBM Netezza
- Supported: HP Vertica
- Supported: ParAccel
- Supported: SAP Hana
- Supported: Teradata
- Supported: Sage 500
- Supported: Salesforce
- Supported: SAP
- Supported: Google Analytics
BI Standard Reporting Features
- Supported: Pixel Perfect reports
- Supported: Customizable dashboards
- Supported: Report Formatting Templates
Ad-hoc Reporting Features
- Supported: Drill-down analysis
- Supported: Formatting capabilities
- Supported: Predictive modeling
- Supported: Integration with R or other statistical packages
- Supported: Report sharing and collaboration
Report Output and Scheduling Features
- Supported: Publish to Web
- Supported: Publish to PDF
- Supported: Output Raw Supporting Data
- Supported: Report Versioning
- Supported: Report Delivery Scheduling
- Supported: Delivery to Remote Servers
Data Discovery and Visualization Features
- Supported: Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
- Supported: Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
- Supported: Predictive Analytics
- Supported: Support for Machine Learning models
- Supported: Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
- Supported: Integration with R or other statistical packages
Access Control and Security Features
- Supported: Multi-User Support (named login)
- Supported: Role-Based Security Model
- Supported: Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
- Supported: Report-Level Access Control
- Supported: Table-Level Access Control (BI-layer)
- Supported: Field-Level Access Control (BI-layer)
- Supported: Single Sign-On (SSO)
Mobile Capabilities Features
- Supported: Responsive Design for Web Access
- Supported: Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding Features
- Supported: REST API
- Supported: Javascript API
- Supported: iFrames
- Supported: Themeable User Interface (UI)
- Supported: Customizable Platform (Open Source)
Additional Features
- Supported: Customizable Data Visualizations, Dashboards and Reporting
- Supported: Visual Interactive Data Analytics
- Supported: Browser-based, single, unified experience across all data sources and all devices
- Supported: Embeddable BI with seamless integration
- Supported: One Flexible Platform
Dundas BI Screenshots
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Dundas BI Integrations
- Microsoft SharePoint
- Salesforce Sales Cloud
- Google Analytics
- Microsoft Azure
- Amazon
- R/Python
- SQL Server
- OLAP
- HTML/JavaScript
Dundas BI Competitors
Dundas BI Technical Details
Deployment Types | On-premise |
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Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac, Any HTML5 browser on the client side. Server side is running on Windows |
Mobile Application | Mobile Web |
Supported Countries | U.S.A, Canada, U.K., Australia, Western Europe, Global |
Supported Languages | English, French, Spanish, Italian, any Latin, RTL (Arabic/Hebrew) |
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(76)Community Insights
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Dundas BI has proven to be a valuable tool for various industries and departments, providing a complete reporting package to clients and enabling them to make informed decisions. Clients across multiple departments have utilized Dundas BI to analyze data, spot trends, and gain insights. This software has been widely used by call centers to track response times and productivity metrics, helping organizations monitor employee performance effectively. Another notable use case is in the homebuilding industry, where Dundas BI has been implemented to provide a comprehensive reporting solution for clients. Additionally, Dundas BI has been instrumental in driving business intelligence strategies for companies, thanks to its flexibility and ease of use. It allows users to create interactive dashboards and reports, providing an easy-to-understand visualization of complicated data. Moreover, Dundas BI has proven to be a reliable tool for enhancing data analysis capabilities within organizations, enabling efficient identification of areas for improvement and streamlining processes across departments.
Overall, Dundas BI offers a wide range of applications, including but not limited to:
- Enabling effective data visualization: Dundas BI helps clients manage risks through statistical methods and data visualization tools.
- Supporting decision-making: The software provides insightful dashboards embedded in applications that assist in timely decision-making.
- Streamlining reporting processes: Dundas BI replaces static reports, allowing more users to create their own interactive tools.
- Enhancing sales analysis: The platform offers visually appealing dashboards that present sales-related data in an easy-to-digest format.
- Improving quality control: Dundas BI assists in monitoring key metrics and identifying quality-related issues in various industries.
- Enabling ad-hoc analysis: Users leverage Dundas BI for ad-hoc analysis, understanding the quality of data produced by ERP systems.
- Serving as an all-encompassing reporting solution: Dundas BI eliminates the need for IT staff to spend hours running extracts and queries by offering real-time and ad-hoc dashboards that visualize the entire customer journey.
- Empowering self-service BI: The software allows users to easily pull data from multiple sources into a single dashboard, enhancing data integrity and productivity.
These use cases demonstrate the versatility and value that Dundas BI brings to organizations across industries. With its powerful visualization capabilities, flexible integration options, and user-friendly interface, Dundas BI is sought-after by companies looking to enhance their reporting and analytics capabilities.
Comprehensive Platform: Users find Dundas BI to have a comprehensive platform that allows for fast data modeling and visualization deployment. Many reviewers appreciate the ability to quickly create what-if scenarios and examples, which helps management visualize their data effectively.
Flexible Pricing Model: The flexible pricing model, using the concept of concurrent users and elasticity, is seen as a unique and advantageous feature. Some users feel that this pricing model offers them great value for their investment in Dundas BI.
Wide Range of Data Sources: Users value the ability to connect to a wide range of data sources, enabling them to mix data from several systems and visualize it all together. This feature is highly praised by reviewers as it enhances the flexibility and versatility of Dundas BI in handling different types of data.
Licensing Process: Some users have found the licensing process of Dundas BI to be simple but slightly confusing, especially when it comes to determining compatibility with new releases. This concern has been expressed by multiple reviewers.
Performance with Wide Tables: Users have reported that working with wide tables for reports in Dundas BI can result in slower performance. According to user feedback, this issue significantly affects task efficiency and speed.
Migration Process between Environments: The manual migration process between environments in Dundas BI has been described as time-consuming and cumbersome. Several users have suggested the need for an automated or more streamlined approach to facilitate this process.
According to user reviews, the most common recommendations for Dundas BI are:
- Take training and be active in the user forums to learn how to use Dundas BI effectively.
- Evaluate other vendors, including Dundas BI, to determine which one best meets the company's needs.
- Have a solid BI data architecture in place before implementing Dundas BI.
- Contact the Dundas BI team for assistance in trying out the tool and review all its features, benefits, and costs.
- Use Dundas BI for its flexibility, visualization options, and integration capabilities.
- Invest in training and allow enough time to get used to Dundas BI, especially for non-IT personnel.
- Explore the flexibility of the dashboard designer in Dundas BI to creatively solve ease of use topics.
- Ensure all requirements are met and consider that Dundas BI is still evolving as a product.
- Contact Dundas BI support and have a JavaScript expert available for customization.
- Consider the use case and dedicated users when choosing Dundas BI.
- Have clear requirements defined and focus on building the boat instead of just sailing the ocean with Dundas BI.
- Familiarize oneself with Dundas BI and not be afraid to explore its capabilities.
- Reach out to Dundas BI's tech support for assistance and consider it for complex BI needs or integration with other applications.
- Pay for training when using Dundas BI and fully evaluate its features and support compared to other products.
- Use the trial version of Dundas BI to build visualizations.
In summary, users recommend taking training, evaluating other vendors, having a solid data architecture, contacting support for assistance, exploring flexibility, investing in training, familiarizing oneself with the tool, and considering specific use cases when using Dundas BI effectively.
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(1-24 of 24)Dundas beats Tableau Hands Down
- Exports of data
- Data visualization options
- Ability to have AD and local user accounts
- Undo button (please!)
- Undo button (I know I already said it once but I really need it)
- Undo button (Seriously need this feature)
Intuitive BI solution
- Seamless Integration
- Large number of customization options
- Intuitive Dashboard components
- Goes for a toss when large data set to be processed
- Weird and random bugs are encountered sometimes
- The datacube, metric set and dashboard creation process can be improved
For Large data sets, though the solution goes for a toss sometimes, it can be handled well with default filters.
Get insights of your data on the fly with DBI
- Creating data analysis on the fly is very easy! You only need to create a data connector and from there you can start analysing your data just by draging and droping atributes from tables to the canvas!
- For executives with little time for viewing dashboards, you can create scheduled or data driven notification that can send the dashboard by email!
- At any time you can revisualize your data with different visualization, e.g., a bar chart can change to a line chart with just two clicks!
- DBI version 4 has introduced some awesome features: data correction, what-if-analysis, some new types of data visualizations like sankey chart, correlation matrix, support for svg files.
- I felt the need to create a calculated metric based on metrics from different metric sets
Dundas BI - powerful, flexible and fun
- Wide array of built in functionality
- Extensibility with scripting to make anything possible
- Easy to create basic requirements with automatic settings
- Speed of large reports is sometimes an issue
- Pricing is not flexible enough
Dundas, finally an easy to use cross platform reporting tool.
- Getting ready really quick - installation and set up is the easiest I have seen.
- Amazing pre-sales support, with very friendly and efficient people.
- Full web interface - completely cross-platform once Dundas BI is installed.
- With great power comes great responsibility - you can do a lot and then some to style your dashboards, but it can become time-consuming to style it right.
- The support team is North America based. They are efficient, but if you are a few time zones away, even a small discussion can span multiple days.
- Easy to set up and configure visualisations and reports
- Good documentation and online resources
- Good integration with many data providers
- Some ETL functionality outside of SQL to allow users with no access to the main SQL DB or SQL skills to easily perform data manipulation
- Good email support with good level of technical knowledge to help address the issue. Prompt response times.
- GUI layout is not fully intuitive with menu and tabs sometimes being too hidden
- Only good up for basic-intermediate level of data complexity. Complex data manipulations/visualisations often involve a very difficult/almost hacky workaround using scripts.
- Scripting documentation isn't always comprehensively available.
- Check-in check-out feature needs improvement as it often triggers a page refresh, which makes the experience slow and clunky.
- Version history has a limited view, so comments aren't easily viewable, making rolling back a bit difficult.
- Dundas BI is highly flexible out of the box. It has nearly all standard visualization types and some that aren't as standard.
- The style (look & feel) of the visualizations are customizable in almost every way.
- The ability to connect to a large amount of data sources is powerful. It allows us to mix data from several systems and visualize it all together.
- They expose REST, .NET, and JavaScript API's that give a software engineer the ability to connect to many other (proprietary or otherwise) data sources, as well as, changing the behavior of visualizations if so desired.
- They are currently not as mobile friendly/responsive as I would like as some of the "touch" features don't work as I would expect.
- With great flexibility comes some complexity. The learning curve is short but a bit steep. Better documentation would be extremely helpful.
- Security is a bit lacking. Low level security is lacking completely if you plan to use a pre-compiled data cube. However, they have informed us that a new feature set will be released soon to fill this gap.
Dundas .. Great but a little quirky
- Easy to publish from a working in progress /demo to the live version
- Easy to pick up and do someting
- Working with cubes makes manipulating data quite easy
- Report pagination to be improved... It's just very clunky and hard to figure out
- It needs to make hierarchies more straightforward. they don't work as expected and a separate cube just to set up the structure of the hierarchy
- Make multiple connections possible with multitenancy
We, of course, have some executive financial and Human Resource dashboards. Since I have come along I have added a Board of Directors Quarterly reporting dashboard, an HR Turnover, Labor Utilization set of dashboards that have been broadening out to answer even more reporting needs, one that tracks the status of delivery orders, and an overall main project overview.
I also created inventory abbreviations lookup table.
Our company is getting more exposed to what Dundas can do as I add more dashboards, they are now asking "can Dundas do this for us instead of trying to assemble the data themselves."
- Project organization from Development to Production, you get a production and development license but I think the best way to do it is with DEV and Prod project in the Production box. Use the development box for testing updates and really crazy things. With the Dev and Prod projects on the same box, you just publish from Dev to Prod and you are done. Users only have access to the Prod projects so no one can mess up what you are working on.
- Security - If you have a hierarchy (subsidiaries, divisions, department, teams) and you want each group to see only their data, then Security hierarchies are for you!
- Dependent filters! What's this you ask? Here is an example of how it can be used, in your company you have departments and who works for what department is in your database. You make a dashboard that has a department filter (only show these departments), a managers filter, and employee filter. Not every manager or employee is in multiple departments usually only one. With dependent filters you can say that the manager and employee filter are dependent on what is selected in the departments filter so when you go to filter them they only show the managers or employees that are part of that department, and you can even it do so employees are not only dependent on department but on manager as well. Then it gets even better as it can be done in reverse as well so when you select a manager then go to the department it only shows the departments he works for (there are better situations where this is more useful).
- It is scriptable! From calculate columns, null replacements, button actions, load actions, hover over events there a way to do what you want.
- They are constantly improving and listens to your suggestions.
- Setting up security is easy but reviewing it later could be made easier.
- Dashboard templates - tried to use them but I do not design mine to fit in a box.
Robust and Fully Loaded
- Programming flexibility allows you to fully customize the interface as well as generate completely customizable reports
- Very user-friendly as the GUI is quite modern and self-explanatory
- API is robust and the amount of pre-programmed graphs and charts are useful for getting up and running quickly
- No predictive analysis features and so a lot of trending data must be done in a roundabout fashion.
- Almost too many features. It can be overwhelming if you don't have programming or coding capabilities.
Dundas BI - Advance Data Visualization Tool
- Dundas BI is a Powerful BI tool with many features to quickly build up reports, Dashboard etc.
- Many data connectivity options for advanced DBs and big data
- Great Customer Service- support team was great and was able to help us in solving critical issues.
- Should provide installation support on Linux
- Should provide detailed documentation regarding JavaScript API
Dundas BI from a consultant's perspective
- Dundas has a large library of visual components for creating great looking dashboards.
- Dundas is a platform that lets you easily lets you change existing dashboards.
- Dundas has a lot of default connectors to different resources that let you access remote data very fast.
- Performance is always a factor for improvement, dashboards can never be fast enough for our clients.
Dundas is less suitable for creating dashboards for people who want to do a lot of ad-hoc querying of large data sets of information.
Embedding BI in your software our experience
- Support for multi-tenancy deployments. We have customers who have customers and we can segment data and reports just for them.
- Easy to embed and we can control the security model within our app - no need to be forced to adopt their model.
- Flexible and well thought out and open architecture.
- More code examples and up-to-date code libraries.
- Webinars that do not just occur at times that suit an EST audience.
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- Powerful data visualizations
- Easily combine data from different sources
- Easy social-type interactions with notifications and notes
- Since there are so many options, it can be a bit overwhelming when first starting out.
From raw data to interactive dashboard
- Data Connectors: Dundas BI can connect natively to SQL (relational and OLAP/Tabular), SharePoint, Excel, and a slew of others. The system is flexible enough to allow a user to create their own data connector not available out of the box
- Visualizations and Interactions: The standard visualizations do a great job of helping us tell a story with our data. Bar chart, pie charts, watefalls, pareto charts, etc., are all simple to set up with the ease of drag and drop. Likewise, the wizards for creating interactions on charts is great.
- More advanced customizations and interactions can be accomplished via script.
- HTML5: Dundas BI is based on HTML5, so it will work in any browser.
- SharePoint/webapp integration: With the use of a web part, dashboards can be embedded within a SharePoint page. We can also take a dashboard we create and embed it in a custom web application.
- The interface, while very nice, can be confusing to a new user. It takes a little getting used to, although I'm not sure I have any suggestions on making it better.
I think where we may not need to use Dundas BI is when someone requests a data dump or Excel style report or just a table filled with data without the need for visuals. While Dundas BI can handle this with no issues, sometimes it's easier to send an Excel sheet as a one off data dump and turn it into a dashboard if that data is needed more often.
Why Dundas BI is a "have to have" dashboard solution
- Linking to various data sources
- Charts and chart types
- Easy to build a table
- Style and feel of product.
- Deployment model for user and also technology is easy to understand and deploy. I have worked with dashboard solutions since 1994 (10 different technologies) and Dundas BI has been the easiest to install and roll out - easy to understand and use. Obviously building a dashboard can still be complex, but it the ease to roll out that is awesome.
- Even more grid like functionality to rival Excel (standard user compare to)
- More Excel like simplicity in using a grid.
- Better guessing at what type of chart to default and some more default styles
Best Up and Coming Solution.
- Ability to quickly gin up what ifs and examples to help management visualize how best to see their data.
- Comprehensive platform from data sourcing to visualization.
- Fully browser based and mobile ready.
- Flexible pricing model uniquely using concept of concurrent users and elasticity.
- Three dimensional visualization would be nice to add, not a have to have, but would be nice to have.
- Dundas BI is very easy to install. They have clearly put a lot of work into packaging their software and also ensuring it is smart enough to go out and get the things it needs if they don't already exist. It is really easy to install.
- Dundas BI, by using HTML5, makes it very easy to visualize the data. Every modern browser now supports HTML5 without requiring Silverlight, Java, or some other clunky technology that has recently been banned by Homeland Security.
- Dundas BI makes it very easy to create data connections and start to build the dashboards that bring value to your organization. Everything is done in an easy to use and figure out interface. You can also drag and drop data right into the panes as usable data. Very slick.
- Not too many cons for how we use the application. It really is easy and powerful. Very powerful.
- Licensing is one thing that could be looked into. It is simple, but a little confusing. For example, if I get a license today, but a new release comes out tomorrow, it seems that the license doesn't work with the new release. Maybe that is by design, but it would be nice to clearly understand.
Happy with the selection
- Simple to implement and maintain.
- Flexible - We were able to accommodate several integration scenarios.
- Development environment that is easy to learn.
- Dundas BI is a relatively new product. While I am very happy with the product, I look forward to the continued addition of new features as the product evolves.
- I would like to see a more extensive set of documentation.
Dundas BI - You get out what you put in.
- Dundas BI provides a user interface that is both powerful and user friendly. You are able to quickly pull data out for consumption, and with more effort provide a very polished and professional presentation of the data.
- Dundas the company is vested in the successful deployment of the platform and has been exceptional in their support and involvement of our implementation.
- Dundas BI is very flexible in allowing connections to most any data source, and provides the ability to script data transformations as part of the data cubes.
- Dundas BI can be intimidating to initial users. There are a lot of options which make the platform very flexible, which can also make some of the features difficult to implement correctly. While you don't need to be a BI expert to get information from Dundas, you do need to speak "Dundas" to build the more complex dashboards.
- The Dundas BI interface can be non-intuitive at times, and some tasks which should be very simple may require contacting support to find the correct way to perform them.
All roads lead to...
- As a software package, Dundas BI is extremely flexible - if you can dream it, you can most likely build it in Dundas BI. The possibilities are quite literally limitless. This puts Dundas BI is a position of strength relative to other BI vendors since DBI doesn't limit a user to a canned set of pre-defined visualization types; those do exist, but are not the end of the story.
- Since the software is based on the latest technologies (HTML5, CSS and JavaScript) Dundas BI is in a unique position to capitalize on the ever-expanding Internet of things. Try doing that with other major BI players, most of whom rely on some form of legacy technology (trust me, we looked).
- As a company, it is obvious that Dundas has made product support a priority. As a software provider who provides support to clients, I'm rather persnickety about support; the Dundas BI support team provides consistent, concise support in a timely manner. If the first line support team doesn't know the answer, they have access to the developers and the professional services team. Dundas BI support rocks!
- This is something that I believe Dundas is currently working on - I would like to see more documentation (with examples) on the Dundas BI JavaScript API.
Flexible Dashboard Solution with good data management.
- User friendly
- Caches and manages large amounts of data very well without impacting the live system.
- Flexible design.
- Great step by step support videos.
- We moved from Dundas Dashboard to Dundas BI which solved most of the browser legacy issues we experienced.
Dundas BI - Intelligence Matters
- Dundas BI has achieved a unique balance of providing powerful capabilities for both the sophisticated software professional and the non-technical business user.
- The time required to learn how to build powerful visualizations using Dundas BI is very short due to the wealth of well-organized videos, articles and support center.
- Dundas BI has demonstrated a high degree of responsiveness to customer demands and emerging trends through its well-paced releases packed with improvements.
- Dundas BI can become even better as it includes more robust data mining capabilities within its engine.
Dundas BI 2.5 Review
It addresses the need for a proactive and dynamic tool, a tool which visualizes statistical data and allows the user to post process and assemble a graphical user interface which is completely customizable, for all tastes and needs.
- Dundas BI, offers the ability to create Manual SQL statements, this is very good because the user is in full control of what data is visualized, the SQL statements are used to filter and create structures called Data Cubes. These Data Cubes then form the basis for the graphical statistical UI's.
- Dundas has great support guys, they will assist you with good explanations, and when all else fails, they offer Citrix (webex) sessions, where you and one of their expert support staff share screens and they take hold of your mouse through remote access and help assist you with whatever the issue may be. I have always been helped by them, they are friendly, understanding and always willing to go the extra mile to assist their customers.
- Dundas BI 2.5, is great because it runs in HTML, the HTML version allows users to embed the dashboard securely and easily.
- BI runs using JavaScript scripts, they are easy to learn as well as powerful.
- Consider publishing a book, filled with a say 4 week course, from the ground up, no SQL for beginners that can be done on www.w3schools.com, but detailed step by step scenarios, using a readily available database. with all script mechanics and tutorials structured in a self learning style.
- I am always keen to have more step by step examples, members of the Dundas community should all host a forum similar to sourceforge.com (where there are a number of people using Dundas and helping other users debug their dashes).
- Explanation of limitations, understanding what is possible and what isn't.
- it would be nice to have better debugging for the scripts.
- Better menu control in the BI 2.5 interface, the old 5.0 GUI was slightly better for development purposes, but 2.5 is faster and more ductile, so its a 2 way knife edge on this one.
- FAQ's page, more detail, loads of queries, examples, support.