Dundas BI Reviews

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

An excellent IDE, that makes building views, like reports and dashboards a breeze. Excellent data visualizations objects and components, each of them customizable enough!

 Data cubes are the heart of the tool, you can define your data workflow very easy with the help of diagrams! This is where your ETL is done and you can do it with the diagram help or, for SQL addicts, which by the way I am:), write you own sql scripts. 

I work in a Portuguese company specialized in software solutions for Portuguese Local Governments. Dundas Dashboard and now Dundas BI helped us to conquish an important slice on the BI market for Government solutions!

A few more different data visualizations wouldn't hurt. But I've just read from Dundas that version 3.0 will have some good surprises in that matter!  

Creating dashboards to make data available to internal and external customers. We maintain dev and production environments so that we have a place to work and test products before pushing to production.

We have greatly improved accessibility and visibility into our data and reduced the number of manually created reports and one-off data pull requests.

Data cubes, security, and the high level of customization in visualizations that are available right out of the box without being a software developer.

I have no complaints. They work fast and have major releases on a predictable schedule.  Customer service has been exceptional, and they have worked with us as partners to solve bugs that have been discovered.

No, this was our organization's first BI product.

Yes, Tableau, PowerBI.