BARC comment
In today's dynamic environment, software should be reliable and adaptable to the individual needs of customers in order to provide optimal support for business processes. 63 percent of respondents cited flexibility as an important factor in choosing to buy Dundas BI. It is only topped by the product’s ability to cover specific BI requirements (67 percent). The vendor is ranked as the number one data discovery-focused and embedded analytics-focused product for the ‘Flexibility’ KPI and is a leader in its other peer groups. This underlines Dundas’ broad capabilities for various use cases such as dashboarding, reporting and analysis, as well as its suitability for the creation of tailor-made BI applications.
BARC comment
Many customers use Dundas in embedded BI scenarios, which is confirmed by the vendor’s above-average ratings for the ‘Embedded BI’ KPI in all of its peer groups. Indeed, Dundas is ranked number one for this KPI in the ‘Data discovery-focused products’ peer group. Dundas is well-equipped to be white-labeled and embedded in other applications. Customer can also use HTML code to embed or pass parameters into the embedded view. In addition, its broad feature set supports the development of tailor-made applications to meet the requirements of a broad user range. These applications can incorporate third-party content such as any web page or third party visualizations.
BARC comment
Dundas BI offers a dashboard development environment that provides a high level of control over the look, feel and functionality of applications. Developers and skilled users can create interactive dashboards applying controls for filter, sort, group, re-organize, drill and custom calculations. Customers seem to be very satisfied with these features in Dundas BI, which results in high scores in the ‘Dashboards’ KPI. 94 percent of surveyed users rated Dundas’s functionality for creating dashboards as excellent or good. The vendor is rated above average in every peer group and among the leaders in the ‘Dashboarding-focused products‘, ‘Ad hoc reporting-focused products’ and ‘Embedded analytics-focused products‘ peer groups.
BARC comment
Analysis tools offer users flexible navigation in data and a number of analytical calculations. Due to the growing dynamics of the market and the increased demands on response time, analysis functions are becoming increasingly important for users of BI software. Dundas achieved great results for its analysis capabilities in this year’s BI Survey. The product is rated as a leader in all of its peer groups. Dundas offers good multidimensional analysis and well thought out data discovery features. Data preparation and visualization are tightly integrated, making it feasible for business analysts to iteratively analyze and enhance data to gain as much insight as possible.
BARC comment
Dundas integrates various BI functions into one product. It delivers capabilities for use cases such as dashboarding, reporting, analysis and embedded BI. Customers are satisfied with the dashboarding and analysis capabilities, as shown by Dundas BI’s high ratings in those KPIs. The vendor also achieves a leading position in all five of its peer groups for the aggregated ‘Functionality’ KPI. This underlines its broad range of BI functionality to analyze, visualize and distribute information over different channels. In addition to dashboarding and analysis, formatted reporting is also covered. Dundas supports pixel-perfect formatting, templates and style sheets to allow users to create standardized enterprise reports.