Item: Dundas BI
Rating: 8
Author: Joseph R. Sweeney

Overall Satisfaction with Dundas BI

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We employed several BI tools when my previous department in Financial Analysis decided to revamp our data processing capabilities. We needed a system that would integrate well with the other programs that we were using as well as other vendors' systems. The reporting feature was vital as we needed our customers to generate reports on the fly as well as access their own data.

Pros and Cons

Pros

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

Cons

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.

Alternatives Considered

Yellowfin, Oracle BI Foundation Suite and SAP Business One

We were comparing Dundas BI against several other programs and eventually decided to go with Oracle as we were already using a host of their other products. Dundas was just as robust, we were just using more Oracle products and they all fit together very smoothly.

Likelihood to Recommend

I do think that Dundas BI is well suited for many applications and companies that are looking for a robust BI tool. Dundas BI has much in the way of customizing the user interface as well as the reporting both internally and externally. It needs to be more robust in the way it connects with other products out there, though, and since we were using a lot of external vendor's software we needed to switch to a more versatile BI tool.

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