Get insights of your data on the fly with DBI
Updated November 25, 2020
Get insights of your data on the fly with DBI
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Overall Satisfaction with Dundas BI
We use Dundas BI to monitor and act based on the state of a set of defined KPI's. It's used across various departments: finance, public works, provision services, organization workflow. As an example, some workflow tasks have a due time, so we track the ratio of the overdue tasks and act upon it, adjusting man power if needed or change the task execution time in order to optimize this ratio. We also use ad-hoc analysis to get a better understanding of the quality of the data being produced by our ERP's.
- 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
- We did manage to sell the solution implemented with Dundas easily
The ETL for DBI is much more easy than what I experienced when I used QlikView! The QlikView language for ETL was somehow different from anyother languages I used before, on the other side DBI ETL is workflow based, with nodes to perform joins, aggregations, filter and sorting! You may also used plain SQL to query your data!
Do you think Dundas BI delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Dundas BI's feature set?
Yes
Did Dundas BI live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Dundas BI go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Dundas BI again?
Yes
Dundas BI Feature Ratings
Using Dundas BI
2 - We use Dundas BI to provide a BI solution for our clients. We develop ERP's solutions for Portuguese Local Governments and we needed a BI platform to complement our solution. So, all of the people involved have a solid understanding of Local Government business rules.
3 - First of all, they have a solid knowledge of the business and some of them have SQL and development skills. However, the most import of the skills which we all have is a deep understanding of Dundas BI features and capabilities.
- Create more analysis: Dahboards and reports.
- Use it to access the quality of our data
- Automate report delivery, using the collaboration features of the product
- Easy of use
- Rich set of features
- Data cache
- Easy to integrate with existing solutions
- We use it to provide a vertical solution for all of our clients
Evaluating Dundas BI and Competitors
I needed a BI tool easy to use and at the same time with a broad set of features! It should have features like reporting, collaboration, rich data visualizations integration and data security. After exploring some BI tools, I've chosen Dundas. The elegance of the user interface, the drag and drop features turns simple the creation of dashboards and reports.
I wouldn't do anything different as I am extremely satisfied with the tool I elected for my projects.
Dundas BI Implementation
- Implemented in-house
Yes - As the solution implemented covers various areas of Local Government management, we had to get into this business areas to understand it well, this was the first phase. In the second phase, we have made several discussion with the client's experts in this areas to access the needs they had for analysis. The last phase, was the creation of reports and dashboards based on the knowledge we gather in the previous phases.
- Some bad client's data quality
- Difficult in understanding what they really want
Dundas BI Support
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Quick Resolution Good followup Knowledgeable team Problems get solved Kept well informed Immediate help available Support understands my problem Support cares about my success Quick Initial Response | None |
Yes - I did report some bugs and they were considered and resolved in a minor version of the product being deployed soon enough!
I do remember a time when I needed to have information privacy for some users (I needed that the information seen by the user would be filtered by the user logged in), and given that at the time there wasn't an out of the box feature to do this, they did provide me a get around solution that solved my problem and afterwards they created a feature for this, this feature is now known as "Secure Hierarchy".
Using Dundas BI
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Like to use Relatively simple Technical support not required Well integrated Consistent Quick to learn Convenient Feel confident using Familiar | None |
- Ad-hoc data analysis just by drag and drop a data set into the canvas
- Creation of dashboards and reports are easy to create
- ETL layer is amazing as it can provide you a cache for you information and improve your views performance
- Integration using the API may be cumbersome if you don't have a solid grasp of the API
Yes - Dundas BI is implemented using the last innovations in web development, like CSS3 and HTML5. So you can make your visualizations responsive and adaptable to the user device easily!