Dundas BI Reviews

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.

The ability to draw data from numerous different types of data (SQL Server, SAP NetWeaver BW, Oracle, Excel, etc) and combine them all into coherent data cubes and dashboards.

The simplicity involved in generating dashboards has dramatically increased the number of dashboards we can get into the hands of users each month.  Using easy drag and drop functionality, fast data discovery, and powerful dashboard tools is allowing us to quickly give the staff, managers, and decision makers the information they need to make informed decisions.

As with any software there are features that are not operating as expected or that could be improved.  For our organization the pieces of Dundas BI that need improvement are as follows:

1) It is currently not possible to connect a data cube built in the BI system to another data cube built in the BI system;

2) The system does not support two year Fiscal Year notation (ie. FY 20-15-2016 can only be recorded as either FY 2015 or FY 2016);

3) On some of the user interfaces, such as the "join" interface, it is not possible to cancel out of the screen without making any changes.

We have been using Dundas BI since April of 2016.  Prior to that we were using Dundas Dashboard.

No issues were encountered during deployment.  The first deployment took a bit longer due to the number of pre-requisites that needed to be setup on the server.  Our next two deployments (TEST and PROD) took less than half an hour to achieve.

In the five years we have been working with Dundas using first Dundas Dashboards and now Dundas BI their customer service has always been some of the best I have ever experienced.  They are responsive, courteous, and genuinely interested in helping us find solutions.

We used Dundas Dashboards prior to switching to Dundas BI.  We switched because the Dundas BI does not require the use of Silverlight, has a smoother and simpler data discovery model, and has a slicker interface for creating dashboards quickly.

We implemented through an in-house team.

Cool drill down features along with many parameter options that allow lots of freedom for data analysis.

Based on gathering data, it has improved the speed of how users can obtain the data.

About 2 months

Some minor technicalities that typically end up getting solved by the awesome support team.

9/10

9/10

No previous solution was in place.

Version control and the ability to roll backward and forward on a dashboard.

Ability to drag and drop an Excel file onto the page and have it create a data source from which to visualize.

Everyone now has he ability to see how we are doing in improving the health of our patients.

Not much. Documentation improvements or additions to help with the learning curve when starting with BI, but once you get in the groove it is fantastic and makes me highly productive and provides my customers with beautiful data visualizations without very much effort on my part.

One year with BI and about three years with Dundas' previous offering Dundas Dashboard.

No.

No.

Not yet.

Fantastic!

Very good.

Dundas Dashboard and we switched because Silverlight was a dead product walking and BI was available and awesome.

Self implement. Easy install. Had experience with Dundas Dashboard but in reality that may have contributed to my learning curve problems as I had to unlearn some concepts

Hard to quantity but it is certainly worth the investment.

A few other vendors whose names I have forgotten.

Tile Navigation. Drag and Drop data sources. Data cubes, the ability to combine sharepoint list data with SQl without creating a complicated ETL. Layers, the ability to have multiple dashboard on one canvas and switch between them. Interactions, open up Outlook, navigate to URL with parameters

Improved process efficiency.

The addition of funnel charts to the visualization options would be great. We have not been able to default a data grid to be collapsed by groups. This would be a big help for some dashboards requiring lots of details on the screen

We used Dundas Dashboard for 3 or 4 years. Dundas BI has been used for 1 year.

No, installation and deployment was simple.

No stability issues. During the upgrade process the application server needs to be be rebooted, but otherwise very stable.

No, scalability was one of the reasons we like Dundas.

Customer service is excellent.

Excellent technical support.

Before Dundas, our company used Excel spreadsheets.

Very straightforward initial setup.

In house implementation.

Determine the amount of standard and power users you will have. The pricing is very different for both.

ZenDesk, SSRS, Tableau, QlikView.

Overall Dundas BI has been great. Between the ease of creating dashboards and the quick response from support for technical questions. I would recommend Dundas all day long.