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25 reviewers had the following to say about Dundas BI's features:
Dundas BI comes with an ETL (Export , Transform and Load) layer, where you can clean and prepare your data, this is done using a canvas where you can drag your tables from a data source, choose the columns you want, aggregate them, join with other tables, filter and a lot of interesting features regarding the ETL process.
Pros
The ETL is also great, it's easy to use and, for more advanced users, it evens permits to write direct sql against tha data source you choose.
Cons
It needs to take a step further and aboard predicted analytics!
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
ts a versatile platform
Pros
It allows to combine data from numerous different data sources (SQL Server, Oracle, SAP BW, Excel, etc.) into combined data cubes allowing the data to be presented in cohesive dashboards and reports that are not broken up by where the data is stored.
Cons
The amazing flexibility of dashboarding tools comes complexity and a bit of a learning curve.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Overall I definitely would like to recommend Dundas BI as a BI tool for organization. within a sort time of period you can easily create your own reports or dashboard.
Pros
Most important thing is very well visualization options, flexibility, stability and multi tenancy licenses.
Cons
Required better folder structure to manage data cubes, matric Set and dashboard.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Its Awesome product.
Pros
Dundas BI is very good software having lots of features and it is highly customizable BI Product.
Cons
Dundas BI dashboard performance should be improved for large data and also needs to improve Report PDF export look and feel.Also It needs more efforts to design from scratch.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
I rememered how we choosed dundas from 10s of options for to many aspects like flexibility to do whatever you want , variety of data sources and the open API.
Pros
Flexibility in design, variety of charts and data sources, open API and the great dundas support
Cons
No 3D charts even it is clear to me that 3D is not professional but some people just like to see it.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
Recommendations to others considering Dundas BI
All you need is to get a training on dundas BI or watch the videos on dundas and steo by step you will be great developer of Dundas.
I used Dundas BI for almost the last two years, Dundas BI is Enterprise end to end solution where you can connect to your data through wide range of data sources available and the ability to add extra data sources through its open API, Dundas BI contain embedded ETL engine to transform the data and it allows for multiple data access options (Datawarehouse, In memory analysis and direct connection to data). by using Dundas BI you can build your dashboards, reports and scorecard with friendly interface and with rich library of visualization charts from bar and pie charts and ending with relationship chart and histogram chart.
Pros
Flexible tool where you can do what ever you want, I beleive that 95% of use cases can be build in Dundas BI as quick-wins and the rest is possible through JS and HTML5.
Cons
I wish Dundas BI to have out the box integration with web-services as this will be helpful and currently not available but it can be done through programming,
Rating breakdown
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Recommendations to others considering Dundas BI
I recommend to watch all videos on Dundas website before trying the tool as this will help the user to get the value of the tool
Flexibility - Ability to customize , extend and integrate with one fully programmable platform for data integration , reporting , dashboards and analysis Innovation – Easy to use BI solution designed with flexibility and customization in mind including data integration , self-service data discovery , unified single experience and powerful visualizations Enterprise-ready – Ease of management with full control .
Built dashboards which makes our customers day easier , well organized and informative, which otherwise would require customers to use their own analytics to gain insights.
Pros
This software provides with a breadth of flexibility in terms of integrations, automated user authentication,different charts available for visualizations. The time to market is reduced greatly.
Cons
Documentation for some features is not descriptive enough, which makes it difficult to use some of the cool features the tool provides.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
Dundas BI has quick responsive support team to seek for development help; plenty of very nice looking visual components; Powerful tool with many features to quickly build up reports.
Cons
lacking of mature version control no source code visibility to do versions comparison on report, data cube, hierarchy etc lengthy click click and click on the UI many hidden tricks to learn bound to MS platform need more detailed api document with advanced usages and samples
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Occasionally
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
The rendering of graphs, charts and other visualization is very appealing to novice as well as experienced users.
Cons
As the resultant information that Dundas produces are viewed in different kinds of mediums, the responsive design architecture needs to a bit more intuitive and easy to design and develop.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Likelihood to recommend
Recommendations to others considering Dundas BI
The training courses will give the understanding and hands on experience is the best way of learning the software.
I am working with Dundas BI since the day it was born (roughly 2014 begining) and I can say that I had only good experiences with it, as long as you know it very well.
Pros
- ease of use - really intuitive - extremly open to external integration, like javascript D3 charts, tools like TinyMCE, picture uploaders etc. - writeback option to send data to a database - R and Python Integration - big array of visualisations and also some interesting ones, like Sankey Driagram, Tree Node Map, Chord Diagram etc.
Cons
- big learning curve for developers - not so self service BI orientated - Dundas diferentiates a dashboard from a report or scorecars, so you have to learn how to do 3 things
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
We are well ahead of schedule at moving from our old visualizations to new Dashboard and reports in Dundas.
Pros
Once created a cube can be used immediately to begin providing very high-quality visualization to customers, or super users in analytics-heavy departments can start creating their own visualization for their members.
Cons
For developers there are several things that take a little while to wrap your head around. Retraining ourselves to simplify our queries will make our whole ETL process more maintainable in the future, but it is a paradigm shift that takes a little while.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
It contains user account management that integrates with ActiveDirectory, connectivity to a slew of data sources, a number of cool features I would never have expected in a web application.
At the moment it is a tool for developers proficient with JavaScript and not recommended for end users.
Pros
Relatively easy to get started and creating visualizations and dashboards.
Cons
Check in /out is over-used and add frustration to developing dashboards. Poor cube management; need option to process multiple cubes and have incremential processing as option.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
The visuals look good,are very customizable and the data loads quickly.
Pros
Quick time to market - drag and drop excel sheet for instant analysis, connect to SQL (including SSAS) easily for quick browsing of data.
Cons
No out of the box funnel chart - I really had to think about a con, I couldn't think of anything I don't like about Dunas BI
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
Dundas BI allows you to display data with a large variety of visualization that can match nearly any data set.
Cons
Notably with the maps feature and some inconsistencies in data cube construction.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
We do like the flexibility, especially through the open API as well as the performance of the entire dashboard.
Cons
Because the product is very new, I wouldn't call it feature complete yet. On the data visualization side of things, we have everything we need, but we need more options in the (still brand new) ETL module.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Likelihood to recommend
Recommendations to others considering Dundas BI
Building simple dashboards can be done in a couple of minutes. Do invest the time to build the most complex dashboard your organization requires to know that all requirements are met.
We have chosen Dundas BI because of its flexibility and the ability to integrate with wide range of data sources, the open API platform that allows to do non-traditional integrations with our in-house systems.
Pros
Flexibility to do whatever you want, Open API and known scripting languages like HTML5 and JS where 99% of your word can be accomplished through drag and drop including preparing the connections to database, you can do all the task which usually have to be done through SQL language by using Dundas and only drag and drop like join, sort , filter, union, aggregation and more.
Cons
The tool doesn't support the 3D Charts even it is clear that 3D charts are not professional.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Recommendations to others considering Dundas BI
All you need is to visit Dundas website and watch the videos and step by step you will be a great developer/designer in dundas BI.
Pros
easy to use and responsive design is helps users to design their own dashboards and reports without technical support
Cons
For mobile devices, mobile design option should be created in a different option.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
Dundas does the thinking for us with advanced functionality and great canvass components that accomodates large data sets with ease.
Cons
Thou the dashboard construction is really easy and allows for a lot of controls and flexibility.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Likelihood to recommend
Recommendations to others considering Dundas BI
Go for a software that is scalable, robust and innovative and has a strong self service and ad hoc reporting. Technology is moving fast, so you want to partner up with the best in the Industry.. Pay attention to the ease of setting up data connectors, if you using multi tenancy the software provider has to cater for such an environment. Also look out for mobile and tablet compatibility.
The fact that they expose all of their API tools to the end user is amazing, and allows you to create some awesome things.
Pros
- After a dashboard has been created, it looks great and works well for the end user
Cons
(All very minor things, which might be addressed in future updates) - Data cube creation, metric sets, and dashboards must be created using their GUI- they cannot be generated using scripts or edited as script
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
We have had a great first week learning and building. It has been challenging in the most productive ways and our trainer is amazing! We are all enjoying how interactive and hands on the training is and we appreciate all of the best practice advice up front.
The product showed good visuals but was not intuitive to build out a dashboard with the data.
It needed to connect to multiple disparate data sources, and provide native ETL.
Pros
-Real-time dashboard refresh capability -Built-in ETL -Flexible seat types and affordable licensing -Superior flexibility and customization, without the need for coding -Out of the box performance and usage tracking
Cons
Customization and flexibility come at the cost of a steeper learning curve compared to other solutions.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
