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We performed a comparison between Adaptive Insights and Dundas BI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Data Visualization solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed Adaptive Insights vs. Dundas BI Report (Updated: March 2024).
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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.""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.""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.""Changes to corporate structure, account codes are updated in all versions including prior years, hence "one-version of truth" as claimed.""It's very stable.""Forecasting changes that instantly flow through all financial statements."

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"We use Dundas to report on machine sensor data and create dashboards.""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.""The Layers feature organizes my work and makes it easier, instead of having to use scripting to show and hide when drilling down.""We have now the ability to create interactive and complex reports without the need for software developers and code.""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.""The solution has a good drag-and-drop feature for creating dashboards."

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Cons
"The upload feature exists, but isn't terribly useful.""Adaptive Insights has a limit of 1,00,000 rows for HTML reports. It should be improved because we will have multiple dimensions that need to be populated to enhance the image.""Users continue to become more advanced and are looking for more advanced solutions.""Their customer support team is slow to respond and not extremely confident.""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.""The product's configuration process could be faster.""Discovery (the data visualization module): Needs to catch up with BI leaders, such as MS and Tableau. E.g., sorting by amounts in column charts and page slicers to control all visuals.""The integrations could be simpler. It takes quite a bit of internal and IT know-how to set up."

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"Lacks sufficient online support.""I cannot select a visualization and see what filters are connected to 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.""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.""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.""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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "Everything is negotiable, but this solution is low cost compared to others."
  • "Licensing seems to be worth the cost considering the efficiency Adaptive brings."
  • "Prior to purchasing licenses, make sure you understand which users will only need planning and which users will need both planning and OfficeConnect."
  • "Ensure that you have the proper pricing plan in place."
  • "Adaptive Insights' pricing is reasonable."
  • "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."
  • "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."
  • "It's affordable."
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  • "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."
  • "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."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Here are some of the pros and cons of OneStream XF and Adaptive Insights for FP&A in the professional services industry OneStream XF Pros: Unified platform for FP&A, budgeting, forecasting,… more »
    Top Answer: 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.
    Top Answer: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… more »
    Top Answer: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.
    Top Answer: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.
    Top Answer:We use Dundas to report on machine sensor data and create dashboards.
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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.

    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.”

    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
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Non Profit22%
    Mining And Metals Company11%
    Non Tech Company11%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company15%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Educational Organization7%
    Insurance Company7%
    REVIEWERS
    Manufacturing Company25%
    Energy/Utilities Company13%
    Healthcare Company13%
    Aerospace/Defense Firm13%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Government14%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business24%
    Midsize Enterprise29%
    Large Enterprise48%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business24%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise58%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business44%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise39%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business27%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise59%
    Buyer's Guide
    Adaptive Insights vs. Dundas BI
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Adaptive Insights vs. Dundas BI and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    Adaptive Insights is ranked 12th in Data Visualization with 18 reviews while Dundas BI is ranked 15th in Data Visualization with 21 reviews. Adaptive Insights is rated 8.4, while Dundas BI is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Adaptive Insights writes "Facilitates leveraging the query reporting engine and modeling engine into Excel spreadsheets but there is room for improvement in terms of performance ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dundas BI writes "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". Adaptive Insights is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Anaplan, Planful and SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, whereas Dundas BI is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Logi Analytics, Angles Professional and Salient. See our Adaptive Insights vs. Dundas BI report.

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