Dundas BI Reviews

Enterprise business intelligence. We use this tool to provide dashboards to business users and enhanced searching dashboards built into SharePoint.

We have been able to move users away from using Excel to collect and alter data, to add in the extra data points needed to the source and build dashboards that everyone can use in real-time.

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.

One feature I would like to see added is funnel charts. Dundas has the ability to modify a bar chart to mimic a funnel, or to ingest 3rd part visuals.  But both feel a little clunky to use.  An out of the box funnel chart would be preferred.

Some native functionality to 'write back' to a specific field in a database would be a welcome change as well.  Dundas has the ability to create a form using text boxes that can be used as variables in a stored procedure for writing back to a SQL backend. This works, but our users have not liked the experience.  What our users prefer is a grid of data with the cells being editable, allowing them to update data from within the grid.  

One to three years.

We have not encountered any stability issues.

Dundas BI is very scalable.

Support is amazing. Response times are low, and they are always willing to help.  

We tried to use Power BI, but it did not have the flexibility that we needed.

Setup is very easy. A wizard is provided to walk you through the process.

We did the implementation all in-house.

Have an idea of what you want end users to be able to accomplish; this will help drive the discussion when the time comes to look at licensing.

Set up a trial and build out a dashboard that you currently need. Out of the box, Dundas BI does almost everything needed for an intuitive dashboard, and anything else can be scripted. Their support is top notch and always willing to help.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!  

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.