Dundas BI... finding the balance between great and awesome for years.
Updated June 21, 2018

Dundas BI... finding the balance between great and awesome for years.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Dundas BI

We have a vast amount of data that comes into and is created by our internal systems. Until we found Dundas BI, we had no real repeatable way to visualize this data and effectively mine it for good information. We are using it in a few departments initially, but have plans to roll it out our entire organization within the year.

Pros

  • 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.

Cons

  • 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.
We found that Dundas BI struck the perfect balance between ease of use and flexibility, while still remaining within a reasonable budget. Other products were either to technical, lacked functionality, or "broke the bank".
Currently, we don't use the user defined analytic abilities of Dundas BI, but I can see it is a powerful way to utilize the tool. Our users interact with dashboards that are created and published to an existing customer portal. Their white labeling is adequate and the customer service is very good. Once the documentation becomes more robust it will be a huge plus, but at the moment it is lacking in volume.

Dundas BI Feature Ratings

BI Platform ()
Not Rated
Supported Data Sources ()
Not Rated
8.5
Pixel Perfect reports
7
Customizable dashboards
10
Report Formatting Templates
Not Rated
9.3
Drill-down analysis
9
Formatting capabilities
10
Integration with R or other statistical packages
9
Report sharing and collaboration
9
9.5
Publish to Web
10
Publish to PDF
9
Report Versioning
10
Report Delivery Scheduling
9
9.0
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
10
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
9
Predictive Analytics
8
9.7
Multi-User Support (named login)
10
Role-Based Security Model
9
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
10
7.0
Responsive Design for Web Access
7
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
7
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding ()
Not Rated

Comments

  • Ariel Pohoryles | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Ariel Pohoryles
    (Vendor Representative) commented 8 years ago
    Comment from Dundas: Thanks for the great review. Here is an update from Dundas in regards to some of the points: great Mobile enhancements are coming in V3 of Dundas BI scheduled to be released this summer - stay tuned for those. Documentation and video tutorials are constantly added to our support site but we are really excited about 2 new great learning tools we will be releasing as part of V3 as well, we believe those can help as well with both the beginner and advanced user experience.. And finally - we have released the low level security feature that allows you to work with data cubes that are stored in-memory or the warehouse. The feature is called security hierarchy and is available starting from V2.6.2 - let us know what you think about it.

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