Dundas BI Reviews

• Providing template BI reports for our customers with their databases
• Creating different dashboards and PDF exports as well as Excel data dumps where needed.
  

Allows easy multitenancy across our different customers. Makes it easy for them to just log in and go.

Matrix tables. Add them in !!! Currently, they don't do that, and it's hard to create some BI reports due to this.

Pretty average, buggy here and there.

Good.

Pretty decent but the timezone difference can be annoying as they are in Canada and us in NZ.

Yes, Power BI. Lack of multitenancy support and too simple.

It was OK, big process.

Pretty much in-house.

It's hard to measure.

It's too different to tell.

Yeah, a few, but none really had the multitenancy setup.

Great software, it has a steep learning curve compared to the rest but so much more powerful because of it.

Creating market research focused dashboards for our clients to log in and view and explore the results.

It enabled us to create customised dashboards, catering to any data requirement, and any visualisation or interactivity requested by the clients.

Scripting engine enables you to do anything, and the built-in UI allows you to do most of the work by "drag and drop" or by other options for the less technical people.

More of the same! They still need to add some visualisations and could continue to improve the UI to allow users to easily find what they need within the many different options.

They are brilliant! They will get back to you within a few hours usually and have a custom solution for your particular issue or requirement.

No.

Setup is very simple via the installer which walks you through all the dependencies that need to be installed.

Setup and licensing are reasonably priced. Users have two options, either you pay for a named seat, or you can have floating seats that can be shared amongst users. We found that the per-user cost was the biggest expense that we had by far.

We evaluated many options including DecisionPoint, Tableau, QlikView, Birst.

As we are working as "digital transformakers," this product helped us to transform our clients' businesses to be data-driven, and added business value.

For me it is the Layers feature. It organizes my work and makes it easier, instead of having to use scripting to show and hide when drilling down.

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.

No issues with stability.

No issues with scalability.

Professional.

I used both Tableau and Dundas BI. For me, Dundas BI is more flexible and has more features to achieve whatever we are looking for.

Straightforward.

Tableau.

A very powerful product which will enhance and add value to your business.

It is easy to design a new dashboard. You can always see data while you setup the data controls.

It is very quick to develop new reports.

Export to PowerPoint is really poor.

Your changes are not always saved, which can be very frustrating.

We have used Dundas BI since it was launched (a couple of years), before that we used Dundas Dashboard.

You can see/feel that the product isn’t mature yet. It has some stability issues.

No.

The support answers very fast. Unfortunately, there is only support from Canada, and with the time difference of 6 hours from my location, it can be difficult to arrange online support.

Microsoft Reporting Services.

It was straightforward and upgrades are also straightforward.

Buy what you need now. It is easier to upgrade with more licenses.

No, I just wanted something better than Microsoft Reporting Services.

Just do it. It is quite easy.

1. The product has very nice visuals.
2. It allows you to build your own ETL.
3. It allows different storage types of data cubes (on disk, cache, or in memory).
4. Customization using JavaScript.

I work as freelancer for different organizations, on request. The clients choose the product and contact me afterwards, so I cannot help with an answer to this question.

For a developer, it is really annoying that the Solution Explorer is not visible unless you have something checked out. You have a home screen which shows all objects but it's difficult to identify which is which and you end up checking out the wrong object.

Another place where things can be improved is to identify what Metric Sets are used by the dashboard. You end up with auto-generated Metric Sets and there are no properties provided for them (i.e. what the base Metric Set is).

Six months, non-intensive.

I don't have enough experience to comment on this.

I don't have enough experience to comment on this.

I would give it a nine out of 10. Their support is very good and responsive.

I have worked with Dundas Dashboard. However, that is no longer supported by Dundas due to the fact that it's on Silverlight. They advise moving to DBI as it's HTML 5. Another good reason for the switch is that DD did not have its own ETL. Also visuals were improved in DBI.

My understanding is that the installation of DBI is straightforward but I don't have experience with it.

I cannot answer as I am not the one to handle this.

The customer is the one choosing the product.

You can create very nice dashboards without JavaScript as well, but knowledge of JavaScript will boost the outcome.

End to end enterprise solution where there is only one portal to connect to data, ETL and visualize data with flexible and interactive way with the ability for users to do their self service analysis.

All of our sales and marketing activities are being visualized and analyzed using Dundas BI.

Out of box connection to web services to read its data.

Almost 2 years.

No at all, very easy tool regarding of installation and maintenance.

Nope.

Nope.

Perfect.

SAP and we left it due to the high cost.

Straightforward.

In-house.

20 months.

Dundas BI has reasonable pricing compared to other competitors and the license schema is simple and clear.

Yes, iDashboard and Microsoft Power BI.

Dundas BI is an end-to-end solution. It has ETL, reporting and dashboarding capabilities on one platform. It can manage all ETL procedures on its own. It not only reduces the budget of the project, but it also is easy to collect data from different sources.

N/A. We are consultants.

This product needs incremental in-memory data loading. (We have heard that this is to be included in the new version, 3.0.)

We have known about Dundas BI for three years. We have been a partner with them for a year. We successfully completed three projects with Dundas BI.

I have not encountered any deployment, stability or scalability issues. It is quite easy to install, configure and deploy.

Their costumer service and technical support are great. First of all, they have free training lessons on YouTube. They also have huge community, including many experts. They are always very helpful.

Initial setup was quite easy. It takes a maximum 45 minutes to install the product, configure the product and start to work with your own data.

You don’t have to spend lots of money to have a BI system.

We usually position this product to companies that need an end-to-end BI solution. It also has a rental price model. So, companies that are looking for an entry-level BI can fully leverage their investment.
And they have a great OEM model for software houses.

It is suitable for large install base.

Common people can use this product. Their interface is so user-friendly. You don’t need to know BI procedures to create your own reports. If data is available, you can change it as you wish with drag and drop only.

Our rating reflects this product’s facility of implementation, its price per capability, its flexibility, and the quality of its visualisations.

User Interface, Sharepoint Integration, Drag and Drop, and Scripting.

Currently Dundas BI enables us to provide more rich and interactive data visualizations for end users and this has helped to show performance issues.

Some wonky web-based issues but nothing serious.