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.