Dundas BI from a Non-Techie
May 26, 2017

Dundas BI from a Non-Techie

Mark Josephson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Dundas BI

Dundas BI is being implemented in our organization as a visualization tool to display data to internal and external customers via our custom web portal. We are using it to slowly replace static reports wherever possible and training more users to create their own tools in Dundas BI. Right now it is being used by a few users in every department and a few customers in each of our markets, but the goal is to roll it out to all customers and eventually have all internal users interacting with it on a daily basis.
  • It is extremely customizable through the use of HTML, JavaScript, and CSS if required.
  • Very easy to start using for non-power users. With a friendly interface.
  • Data Cubes make further data cleanup/crunching/merging easy for non-DBAs.
  • Some default formatting is tedious to remove if it does not fit into your overall aesthetic.
  • Data Cubes are very powerful, but require a little but of knowledge of data structures.
  • Not ideal for real-time data display.
Dundas BI offers a high level of visual customization in the dashboards if required (through CSS, JavaScript, HTML) as well data customization (C#) in the data cubes. We are an organization that believes in doing as much as possible for ourselves and not replying on contractors. We already have an available pool of talent in the above mentioned technologies so we knew we would be able to get a lot done no matter what we wanted to do without having to hire consultants. Most of the other products we evaluated were not as straightforward in their customization or did not offer all of the customization options that Dundas BI does.
Dundas BI excels at aggregating granular data across different time hierarchies (Hour > Day > Month > Etc.) and custom data element (Person A > Group X > Division Z > Company ACME) hierarchies. The only place we have found that Dundas BI struggles is with data that is frequently updating in real time (i.e. telemetry that updates ever 1-2 seconds). But for displaying historical and even semi-real time (updated every 30 seconds) it is a great tool with low barriers to entry from a financial perspective and a learning curve perspective.

Dundas BI Feature Ratings

Pixel Perfect reports
7
Customizable dashboards
10
Report Formatting Templates
9
Drill-down analysis
10
Formatting capabilities
10
Integration with R or other statistical packages
10
Report sharing and collaboration
10
Publish to Web
10
Publish to PDF
6
Report Versioning
Not Rated
Report Delivery Scheduling
Not Rated
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
10
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
9
Predictive Analytics
Not Rated
Multi-User Support (named login)
10
Role-Based Security Model
10
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
10
Responsive Design for Web Access
8
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
10