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Dundas BI vs Microsoft Power BI comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
6.7
Measuring Dundas BI's ROI is difficult, but some generate returns by charging users monthly fees for report access.
Sentiment score
7.9
Microsoft Power BI is cost-effective, user-friendly, and enhances data analysis, offering strong ROI for various businesses.
In a world surrounded by data, tools that allow navigation of large data volumes ensure decisions are data-driven.
Power BI is easy to deploy within an hour, providing robust security against data leaks.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
8.1
Dundas BI's customer and technical support is responsive, helpful, and efficient, earning strong user satisfaction despite timezone challenges.
Sentiment score
6.6
Microsoft Power BI's responsive customer service is praised, but some report inconsistency, relying on community and third-party support.
Unfortunately, with Microsoft, you must accept the product as it is.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.8
Dundas BI scales well with development teams managing it, though license dependency affects independent report creation and user expansion.
Sentiment score
7.1
Microsoft Power BI offers scalable growth but faces challenges with large datasets, needing expertise and infrastructure adjustments for optimal performance.
You expect only a small percentage of users concurrently, but beyond a thousand concurrent users, it becomes difficult to manage.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
5.7
Dundas BI is generally stable, but users face occasional issues with upgrades, large data, and resource management. Support helps.
Sentiment score
7.6
Microsoft Power BI is generally stable, reliable, but may need adjustments for large datasets and complex queries.
In terms of stability, there's no data loss or leakage, and precautions are well-managed by Microsoft.
It's not a bad grade, as I know of better products in this field.
 

Room For Improvement

Dundas BI users want better visualization, ease of use, data integration, API support, and clearer error messaging in reports.
Microsoft Power BI needs better mobile support, integration, intuitive interfaces, clearer error messages, and improved customization for users.
Access was more logical in how it distinguished between data and its formatting.
This makes Power BI difficult to manage as loading times can reach one or two minutes, which is problematic today.
 

Setup Cost

Dundas BI offers flexible pricing options, suited for enterprises, varying by user type and supporting numerous deployment models.
Microsoft Power BI offers flexible pricing from free for individuals to scalable premium plans for enterprises with bundled options.
Power BI isn't very cheap, however, it is economical compared to other solutions available.
I found the setup cost to be expensive
 

Valuable Features

Dundas BI excels with customizable visualizations, diverse data integration, flexible interface, and extensive customization via JavaScript API and tools.
Microsoft Power BI offers robust integration, user-friendly tools, real-time processing, and advanced analytics, enhancing business intelligence efficiency.
In today's data-driven environment, these tools are of substantial value, particularly for large enterprises with numerous processes that require extensive data analysis.
The entire ETL process is easy and supports many databases, allowing data pipelines from multiple sources to be gathered in one place for visualization.
The solution makes it easy for me to develop reports and publish them.
 

Categories and Ranking

Dundas BI
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
21
Ranking in other categories
Data Visualization (25th), Embedded BI (11th)
Microsoft Power BI
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
318
Ranking in other categories
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (1st), Reporting (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Business Intelligence solutions, they serve different purposes. Dundas BI is designed for Data Visualization and holds a mindshare of 0.5%, down 0.6% compared to last year.
Microsoft Power BI, on the other hand, focuses on BI (Business Intelligence) Tools, holds 22.6% mindshare, up 22.5% since last year.
Data Visualization
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools
 

Featured Reviews

Ishwar Saswade - PeerSpot reviewer
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
With Dundas BI, we do not have end-users apart from the developers. End-users do not find it easy to create their own reports. Most of the implementations I have seen require a developer team for creating the visuals, and they then give them to end-users. A self-serve part where end-users or business users can create their own reports would help in terms of the adoption of Dundas BI. Currently, business users find it difficult to work with Dundas BI because there are so many settings that they don't know what they need to do. Even when a developer starts working on Dundas BI, he needs to spend at least one month or so getting used to the functionalities of Dundas BI. Even then, it is not easy to remember where or how they made a certain property change. It takes at least one month for a developer to get acquainted with 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. Dundas can further reduce the number of settings they have. When you create any chart in Dundas, you get a lot of features to control each setting, which is pretty useful for BI, but for end-users, it is difficult to identify the exact settings to change a property. I would love it if some of the options come pre-selected. If some of the settings are set to best practices by default, it will be helpful. Whenever we have any issues, the error messages that we get in Dundas BI are not very helpful in identifying the root cause. Making these changes will bring a lot of change to the end-user experience.
Shoury Priyanshu - PeerSpot reviewer
Facilitates seamless data aggregation with some outdated visual elements hindering user appeal
Real-time data integration is an area for improvement. Although I've worked on several solutions involving real-time integration, it's not very user-friendly and often lags, especially with over a million data rows. This makes Power BI difficult to manage as loading times can reach one or two minutes, which is problematic today. There are challenges with scalability, requiring multiple pages in dashboards to manage these issues. Visualization could be improved as it appears outdated. Users, especially newcomers, find it unappealing and not user-friendly.
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Comparison Review

it_user79932 - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 4, 2015
Comparison of SAP BO, Tableau, QlikView, Cognos, Microsoft, OBIEE and Pentaho
1. SAP BO/BI Enterprise scalability Security Ease of use Semantic layer 2. Tableau Visualization Data discovery Turnaround time 3. IBM Cognos Enterprise scalability Security In-memory feature 4. MS BI - Flexibility 5. Pentaho - Open source but still enterprise grade 6. QlikView Data…
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Government
16%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Computer Software Company
13%
Educational Organization
8%
Educational Organization
43%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Computer Software Company
6%
Manufacturing Company
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Dundas BI?
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.
What is your primary use case for Dundas BI?
We use Dundas to report on machine sensor data and create dashboards.
What advice do you have for others considering Dundas BI?
I rate Dundas BI seven out of 10. It should be simpler to use. I'm sure there are lots of knowledge-base articles that might help, but the process is still complex. you need to build cubes and thin...
Seeking lightweight open source BI software
There are many...It would rather depend what System BI architecture or Enterprise legacy you have at your end...I would recommend as follows: 1) If you have legacies of SAP, Oracle - look for SAP...
Is Power BI a complete platform or only a visualization tool?
Power BI is an advanced visualization tool oriented to big data with a very complete set of widgets to visualize information, control users accessing information, the configuration of governance po...
How does Oracle OBIEE compare with Microsoft BI?
Oracle OBIEE is great in allowing design and creativity per the individual needs of the organization. Dashboards are fully customizable and very user-friendly. This solution is very stable. Oracle ...
 

Also Known As

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SSRS, SSAS, MSBI, MS Reporting Services, Microsoft BI Tools, Microsoft Big Data, Power BI Pro, MS BI
 

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