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Dundas BI pros and cons

Vendor: Dundas

4.3 out of 5

21 reviews
96% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

Dundas BI simplifies work by organizing tasks with the Layers feature, eliminating scripting needs, and enabling the creation of interactive reports without coding expertise. Offering extensive visualization options and customization via HTML and JavaScript, it suits diverse reporting needs. Despite challenges like limited built-in functions and a less user-friendly color palette, it remains popular for sensor data reporting. Users seek improvements in support and filter functionality.

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PROS

The Layers feature simplifies organization and avoids using scripting for drilling down.

Users can create interactive and complex reports without developers or code.

Dundas BI offers extensive visualization choices and customization using HTML and JavaScript.

It accommodates various reporting requirements with ease of development as a key factor.

It is used for reporting on machine sensor data and creating dashboards.

CONS

Users would like more built-in functions instead of relying on scripts.

Visualization filters are not easily identifiable.

Reference overlap issues cause system breakdowns requiring admin intervention.

Color palette functionality is difficult and could be more organized and user-friendly.

Online support is lacking.

Dundas BI Pros review quotes

Manager - Business Intelligence & Data Architecture at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Jun 16, 2016

Overall Dundas BI has been great.

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Senior BI developer and consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Jun 15, 2016

An excellent IDE, that makes building views, like reports and dashboards a breeze.

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Energy Efficiency Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jun 30, 2016

The simplicity involved in generating dashboards has dramatically increased the number of dashboards we can get into the hands of users each month.

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Senior Programmer-Analyst at a tech services company

Jun 16, 2016

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.

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Summer Job

Jun 22, 2016

Cool drill down features along with many parameter options that allow lots of freedom for data analysis.

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Manager, Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Aug 10, 2016

Currently Dundas BI enables us to provide more rich and interactive data visualizations for end users and this has helped to show performance issues.

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Managing Partner at PBS

Jul 24, 2016

You don’t have to spend lots of money to have a BI system.

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Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Oct 25, 2016

End to end enterprise solution where there is only one portal to connect to data, ETL and visualize data in a flexible and interactive way with the ability for users to do their self service analysis.

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Senior Business Intelligence Consultant at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

Aug 21, 2017

It is easy to design a new dashboard, and you can always see data while you setup the data controls.

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Senior Business Intelligence Developer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Aug 21, 2017

The product has very nice visuals, allows you to build your own ETL, supports different storage types of data cubes (on disk, cache, or in memory), and offers customization using JavaScript.

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Dundas BI Cons review quotes

Manager - Business Intelligence & Data Architecture at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Jun 16, 2016

The addition of funnel charts to the visualization options would be great.

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Senior BI developer and consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Jun 15, 2016

A few more different data visualizations wouldn't hurt.

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Energy Efficiency Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jun 30, 2016

As with any software there are features that are not operating as expected or that could be improved.

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Senior Programmer-Analyst at a tech services company

Jun 16, 2016

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.

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Summer Job

Jun 22, 2016

Some minor technicalities that typically end up getting solved by the awesome support team.

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Manager, Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Aug 10, 2016

Some wonky web-based issues but nothing serious.

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Managing Partner at PBS

Jul 24, 2016

This product needs incremental in-memory data loading.

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Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Oct 25, 2016

Out of box connection to web services to read its data.

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Senior Business Intelligence Consultant at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

Aug 21, 2017

Your changes are not always saved, which can be very frustrating.

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Senior Business Intelligence Developer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Aug 21, 2017

For a developer, it is really annoying that the Solution Explorer is not visible unless you have something checked out.

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