Adaptive Insights vs Dundas BI comparison

Workday and Dundas are both solutions in the Data Visualization category. Workday is ranked #11 with an average rating of 8.2, while Dundas is ranked #25. Workday holds a 0.7% mindshare in DV, compared to Dundas’s 0.5% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Workday users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of Dundas users who would recommend it.

Adaptive Insights

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 1, 2025

Adaptive Insights and Dundas BI are analytics and planning tools in the financial and visualization sector, respectively. While Adaptive Insights delivers better pricing and support for financial planning, Dundas BI offers superior data visualization features, appealing to users focused on detailed analysis.

Features: Adaptive Insights provides robust financial planning, modeling, and OfficeConnect reporting, supporting diverse forecasting scenarios. It serves as a comprehensive data source in the cloud, accessible for real-time updates and reporting. Dundas BI offers custom dashboards, data cube integration, and end-to-end data management, enhancing detailed visualizations and analytics.

Room for Improvement: Adaptive Insights can improve its user interface for better ease of use, enhance integration capabilities beyond current ERP systems, and expand customization options for non-technical users. Dundas BI could benefit from simplifying its deployment process, offering more templates for quicker dashboard creation, and improving its learning curve for beginners through enhanced training resources.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Adaptive Insights is known for its quick deployment and user-friendly setup, minimizing implementation time. Customer service is responsive, especially during deployment phases. Dundas BI requires technical expertise due to its complex setup but offers extensive customization. Customer support is solid, but initial setup requires more guidance.

Pricing and ROI: Adaptive Insights offers competitive pricing, ideal for financial departments aiming for cost-effective solutions, delivering good ROI through efficient planning capabilities. Dundas BI, though initially costlier due to its complexity, provides significant ROI in detailed data visualization, offsetting initial costs through enhanced insights for data-driven decisions.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Adaptive Insights

Ranking in Data Visualization

11th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Business Performance Management (8th), Financial Performance and Strategy Management (3rd), Reporting (12th), ESG Reporting Software (4th)

Dundas BI

Ranking in Data Visualization

25th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Embedded BI (11th)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Data Visualization category, the mindshare of Adaptive Insights is 0.7%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Dundas BI is 0.5%, down from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Andrew Rosenberg

Adaptive Planning Manager at Alight

Adaptive scales well, simple to create new budget versions and models

For the organization I used to work at, it streamlined the process of creating budgets. It's very simple to create a new version and do some more modeling based on your need for planning things like headcount, other expenses, and revenue, everything is configurable within Workday. So that made it easy. Reporting was pretty easy to set up as well. It streamlined the amount of time it took to do the budget as well as kind of making it simple to implement a rolling forecast process. So, it really was more just a productivity increase and time shortening for the budgeting and forecasting process.

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Ishwar Saswade

Consultant at Techknomatic Services Private Limited

Has a lot of integration and visualization options, but can't be easily used by business users, and working with the color palette is difficult

With Dundas BI, we do not have end-users apart from the developers. End-users do not find it easy to create their own reports. Most of the implementations I have seen require a developer team for creating the visuals, and they then give them to end-users. A self-serve part where end-users or business users can create their own reports would help in terms of the adoption of Dundas BI. Currently, business users find it difficult to work with Dundas BI because there are so many settings that they don't know what they need to do. Even when a developer starts working on Dundas BI, he needs to spend at least one month or so getting used to the functionalities of Dundas BI. Even then, it is not easy to remember where or how they made a certain property change. It takes at least one month for a developer to get acquainted with it. Working with the color palette is difficult in Dundas BI. They can work on different color palettes and make them organized and user-friendly. It would help a long way. Most of the time, the users face challenges in assigning colors to the fields that they have created or to the dimensions and measures in a chart. Dundas can further reduce the number of settings they have. When you create any chart in Dundas, you get a lot of features to control each setting, which is pretty useful for BI, but for end-users, it is difficult to identify the exact settings to change a property. I would love it if some of the options come pre-selected. If some of the settings are set to best practices by default, it will be helpful. Whenever we have any issues, the error messages that we get in Dundas BI are not very helpful in identifying the root cause. Making these changes will bring a lot of change to the end-user experience.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"It helps develop a more unified work format throughout the company."

"We utilize planning on a daily basis, therefore we find it to be the most valuable product for our organization."

"The integration with our payroll system to complete staff modeling during our budget and forecast processes."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is its dashboard."

"It's very simple to create a new version and do some more modeling based on your need for planning things like headcount, other expenses, and revenue, everything is configurable within Workday."

"Reports are allowed to be edited for aesthetic purposes, which is lacking in a lot of other dashboard tools."

"The important feature is integration with source data. It connects to various ERP systems, including Workday, Intact, and others. It can also import actuals and compare them to PlanPoint quite easily."

"Automated reporting."

More Adaptive Insights pros

"The solution has a good drag-and-drop feature for creating dashboards."

"We use Dundas to report on machine sensor data and create dashboards."

"It was quite easy to use. The UI was basically drag-and-drop based. So, even if you were a beginner at coding software or something else, it would be easy to catch up on Dundas BI."

"With Dundas BI, you have a lot of visualization choices, and you can also do customizations by using HTML coding and JavaScript. The ease of development was one of the main factors for going for Dundas BI. The client had different reporting tools, but they wanted something that could accommodate all requirements."

"We have now the ability to create interactive and complex reports without the need for software developers and code."

"The Layers feature organizes my work and makes it easier, instead of having to use scripting to show and hide when drilling down."

Cons

"Adaptive Insights could improve the data designer interface to make integrations easier to set up."

"Their customer support team is slow to respond and not extremely confident."

"The upload feature exists, but isn't terribly useful."

"The product's configuration process could be faster."

"Being able to drill down when using OfficeConnect needs work."

"We tried Discovery and OfficeConnect at one point and found them too cumbersome, at the time."

"Better user interface (UI)."

"It's a Workday product; they could do a little bit better to integrate a pure-play integration with Workday, which really doesn't do that."

More Adaptive Insights cons

"For every object, references are generated, but sometimes, there was a problem with the references overlapping each other. Everything would go off. It would stop working, and then from the admin side, people had to do something to bring it up again."

"I cannot select a visualization and see what filters are connected to it."

"It would be helpful if Dundas made the UI more user-friendly like the leading tools and decreased the learning curve. It should be simpler for a beginner to build dashboards."

"Lacks sufficient online support."

"I would love to see more functions built in inside the application, instead of being scripted. They already did some of that in the new release, version 5, like forecasting, trend lines, etc., and I would love to see more of these kinds of calculations, which we used to do it by scripts before."

"Working with the color palette is difficult in Dundas BI. They can work on different color palettes and make them organized and user-friendly. It would help a long way. Most of the time, the users face challenges in assigning colors to the fields that they have created or to the dimensions and measures in a chart."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Licensing seems to be worth the cost considering the efficiency Adaptive brings."

"It's affordable."

"Adaptive Insights' pricing is relative to its peer competitors. It's certainly competitive compared to a spreadsheet template that you build in Excel. It can be expensive if you need to have 100-500 budget holders giving input and building financial plans. However, in that case, it becomes an extremely good bargain. Compared to its competitors, it offers an excellent value."

"Ensure that you have the proper pricing plan in place."

"Everything is negotiable, but this solution is low cost compared to others."

"Pricing is in line with other cloud-based EPM tools. It is a subscription-based model based upon the number of users and site type if it's an admin or end-user type thing."

"Prior to purchasing licenses, make sure you understand which users will only need planning and which users will need both planning and OfficeConnect."

"Adaptive Insights' pricing is reasonable."

"I am not majorly involved in its licensing. We are not the end license purchaser of the Dundas BI. It costs somewhere around $4,000 a year for the enterprise solution, but I am not sure."

"I'm not aware of its cost. Its licensing was probably role-wise. Most of us had reader access, editor access, or developer access. For admin, there were certain restrictions. So, I'm assuming it had role-wise licensing."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Real Estate/Law Firm

Healthcare Company

Government

17%

Computer Software Company

12%

Educational Organization

University

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Adaptive Insights?

It's very simple to create a new version and do some more modeling based on your need for planning things like headcount, other expenses, and revenue, everything is configurable within Workday.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Adaptive Insights?

12 years ago, it was very affordable. Workday has definitely increased its price since it acquired Adaptive a few years ago. So, it's affordable. But there are other more affordable solutions that ...

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What needs improvement with Adaptive Insights?

The integrations could be simpler. It takes quite a bit of internal and IT know-how to set up. So, there could be room for just improving the integrations, making it easier to integrate outside sys...

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Also Known As

Workday Adaptive Planning, Adaptive Discovery , Workday Adaptive Planning

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Overview

Adaptive Insights is a cloud-based financial planning and analysis software that helps businesses streamline their budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes.

With its intuitive interface and powerful analytics, it enables organizations to make data-driven decisions and drive business performance.

Workday

Dundas BI is a powerful, flexible, end-to-end business intelligence platform that simplifies the entire analytics process and empowers its users to analyze and visualize data. The solution enables organizations to create and view interactive dashboards, reports, scorecards, and more. Dundas BI can be integrated into an existing website as part of a custom BI solution or it can be deployed as the central data portal for your organization. The solution is suitable for mid-to-large sized companies.

Dundas BI Features

Dundas BI has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

Mobile responsive dashboards
Smart data display
Calendar support for retail and manufacturing
Data connectivity
Show/hide interaction
Batching data builds
Enhanced development workflow
Navigation support
Data regulation support
Optimized application performance
Instant application portability with docker
Easy SaaS support with Kubernetes
Natural language user input
Enhanced application security
Scheduled reports with multiple export options
Fully open APIs

Dundas BI Benefits

There are many benefits to implementing Dundas BI. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

Limitless customization: You can fully customize the Dundas BI platform, including its dashboards, data visualizations, interactions, scorecards, labels, etc. to meet your organization’s unique design requirements.

Effectively visualize and analyze data: The solution provides interactive data views that help you create pixel-perfect dashboards and reports that have interactive data visualizations so you can elevate your users’ abilities to effectively communicate data insights and drive faster decision-making.

Greater efficiency: Dundas BI can consolidate and store data from any source, providing seamless data delivery and a consistent user experience, which leads to greater efficiency. By having all your business intelligence, reporting, and data analytics needs in one single platform, you also save your organization a lot of time and effort.

Tailored data discovery process: Dundas BI adapts to all user types, allowing everyone to personalize it to suit their own needs and requirements, which helps users, data analysts, and developers to analyze their data quickly. The solution’s data discovery process also allows you to run ad-hoc queries, perform visual data analytics, and quickly create relevant and actionable content.

Reviews from Real Users

Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by PeerSpot users currently using the Dundas BI solution.

A Business Intelligence Consultant at Siemens Industry says, “The flexibility of the dashboard designer is great. You can control every single pixel and no matter what the user asks for we can deliver. It has a lot of out-of-the-box options that you can use to customize your dashboard. There is also the option to use their JavaScript API, however, in 99% of the cases, the built-in options are more than enough. I also love the control you have on what queries Dundas BI is generating against our databases. This allows us to create really fast dashboards even when running against millions of records.”

James D., System Architect at Yulista, LLC mentions that the most valuable aspect of the solution is its “ability to warehouse query results. This is good because you do not have to have a data warehouse, you let Dundas warehouse the results of a query that runs long during off hours.”

Another reviewer shares, “The built-in ETL functionality has allowed us to combine data sources without the need for a full SSIS package. This saves time and allows for a quicker time to market.”

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Sample Customers

1. Cisco Systems 2. Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated 3. Deloitte 4. DocuSign 5. Dropbox 6. Electronic Arts 7. Fender Musical Instruments Corporation 8. Fitbit 9. Fossil Group 10. Groupon 11. Hilton Worldwide 12. HP Inc. 13. Intuit 14. Johnson & Johnson 15. LinkedIn 16. Lyft 17. McAfee 18. Medtronic 19. Netflix 20. Oracle 21. Pandora 22. PayPal 23. Pinterest 24. Red Hat 25. Salesforce 26. ServiceNow 27. Slack Technologies 28. Spotify 29. Symantec 30. Tableau Software 31. Twitter 32. Workday

Coca Cola, Siemens, Verizon, Microsoft, Pitney Bowes, Scotiabank, Pepperidge Farm, Shutterstock, Norwegian Government, Boeing, Guess Inc., BP, Bayer

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