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    Logi Symphony

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/ALogi Symphony is a business intelligence and data visualization software that includes customizable dashboards, reporting, and visual data analytics. It can be integrated into users’ existing business applications and its visualization and reporting tools can be customized.N/A
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    Yes
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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    Logi Symphony
    Considered Both Products
    Insightsoftware, Inc
    Chose Logi Symphony
    The feature set is richer, and price is reasonable. We felt we were paying more for Tableau's name than their features, as updates are slow.
    Incentivized
    Chose Logi Symphony
    We choose Dundas mainly because:
    - Dashboard flexibility
    - Data preparation features
    Incentivized
    Chose Logi Symphony
    Dundas ticks all the relevant boxes:
    - set up actually easy and works (was not the case for Pentaho)
    - you do not need one license per email address you want to send reports to (as for Tableau)
    Incentivized
    Chose Logi Symphony
    Dundas is an easier GUI overall to navigate and is a lot more visually configurable. The number of data connectors available also allows us to use it as a solution for many projects. The support provided is quick and prompt, with great technical depth when required.
    Incentivized
    Chose Logi Symphony
    We have tested Tableau prior to Dundas BI and though Tableau is a great package in itself, Dundas BI is much more cost-effective for our needs and requirements and hence zeroed in on Dundas BI.

    We have also tried microstrategy but it has a very dated UI and doesn't suit our …
    Incentivized
    Chose Logi Symphony
    Per dollar spent, it offers the widest range of features of the tools that we evaluated. It offers lots of options for how to configure your environment, though they are not always intuitive to figure out. Having an ETL layer was a must have for us, as well as the ability to …
    Incentivized
    Chose Logi Symphony
    Much better for multi-tenancy. Power bi just doesn't have many features and is just lackluster. Telerik doesn't look as good although slightly more powerful with data manipulation. Too many BI reporting tools out there don't offer multi-tenancy and I have no idea why. It is …
    Incentivized
    Chose Logi Symphony
    We were comparing Dundas BI against several other programs and eventually decided to go with Oracle as we were already using a host of their other products. Dundas was just as robust, we were just using more Oracle products and they all fit together very smoothly.
    Incentivized
    Chose Logi Symphony
    Personally as a dashboard software I use Qlik Sense more because I consider it a very simple product to use, but this is a personal choice. However, for some things, it does not satisfy me fully. In my opinion, they are software that are alternated depending on the customer in …
    Incentivized
    Chose Logi Symphony
    It is the Powerful bi tool with many features to quickly build up reports, dashboard etc. You can customize everything and it is easy to use.
    Incentivized
    Chose Logi Symphony
    It is easy to develop and re-visualize the reports and the license is too less expensive compared to other tools which are overpriced.
    Incentivized
    Chose Logi Symphony

    I have used dozens of BI tools, a ew for many years like IBM Cognos and other for several months POCs like microstrategy, Panorama, Tableau etc...

    For our industry and our daily use Dundas BI wins since it is very flexible and can bring us the greater value we can achieve from a …

    Incentivized
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    It is a very good tool for dashboard and scorecard design. It looks great. However, it requires a lot of work regarding renaming components, deploying between different environments, and scripting customized functionalities.
    Incentivized
    Chose Logi Symphony
    Dundas has a newer feel to the software and gives us more flexibility than the other products.
    Incentivized
    Chose Logi Symphony
    These other products tend to do quite a poor job of allowing you to embed them into other products. Either the architecture is not suited to embedding or they make it too expensive to do this. Dundas is designed and priced to do this (embedding) well. We found Dundas …
    Incentivized
    Chose Logi Symphony
    Found Tableau was powerful, but did not have some of the more beneficial feature sets (like sharing links, and notes) that Dundas BI offers.
    Incentivized
    Chose Logi Symphony
    Dundas and Sisense are very similar. Both are very powerful and flexible with an eye toward further innovation. I expect both will do well as we enter a major transition period for BI.

    Periscope Data and Dundas differ substantially and seem to have different paths forward. …
    Incentivized
    Chose Logi Symphony
    Dundas BI offers a high level of visual customization in the dashboards if required (through CSS, JavaScript, HTML) as well data customization (C#) in the data cubes. We are an organization that believes in doing as much as possible for ourselves and not replying on …
    Incentivized
    Chose Logi Symphony
    Dundas is the only tool I've had to use for report viewing. Before I used libraries to develop my own report.

    Incentivized
    Chose Logi Symphony
    We were a user of Dundas Dashboard previously. We had explored other tools, but we ended up upgrading to Dundas BI because of the HTML 5 compliance (no more Silverlight requirement), ease of use and time to market. The other tools could do the job, but they were not as flexible …
    Incentivized
    Chose Logi Symphony
    I selected Dundas BI to be our preferred partner since we saw that it the most flexible tool that allows our customers to design their dashboards in they way that they are not restricted in their development process.
    Incentivized
    Chose Logi Symphony
    We found that Dundas BI struck the perfect balance between ease of use and flexibility, while still remaining within a reasonable budget. Other products were either to technical, lacked functionality, or "broke the bank".
    Incentivized
    Chose Logi Symphony
    It is much more powerful to build more interactive and feature rich dashboards. Most of the above are great at ad hoc analysis but not for providing a full feature and rich guided dashboard experience. Dundas BI is great to build a suite of dashboards and easy to deploy …
    Incentivized
    Chose Logi Symphony
    We looked into Tableau, Qlikview also. These tools are doing all the same basically. There are some items which DundasBi does do really well. Next to the product the organzation behind is really dedicated and commited with their customers. They treat you as a customer and just …
    Incentivized
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Features
    Logi Symphony
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Logi Symphony
    Feature
    Logi Symphony
    8.4
    51 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Pixel Perfect reports8.443 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards8.651 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates8.139 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Logi Symphony
    Feature
    Logi Symphony
    8.1
    51 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Drill-down analysis7.951 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities8.250 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages7.633 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration8.645 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Logi Symphony
    Feature
    Logi Symphony
    7.9
    49 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Publish to Web8.442 Ratings
    Publish to PDF7.845 Ratings
    Report Versioning7.838 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling8.337 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers7.23 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Logi Symphony
    Feature
    Logi Symphony
    7.8
    49 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.148 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.941 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics7.432 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Logi Symphony
    Feature
    Logi Symphony
    8.2
    49 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)8.648 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model8.045 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.246 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)8.25 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Logi Symphony
    Feature
    Logi Symphony
    8.2
    45 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access8.344 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile8.140 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Logi Symphony
    Feature
    Logi Symphony
    7.8
    7 Ratings
    0% above category average
    REST API8.25 Ratings
    Javascript API8.66 Ratings
    iFrames7.05 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)7.76 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)7.52 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Logi Symphony
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (52 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (6 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.8
    (11 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    8.2
    (45 ratings)
    Data Sources
    8.2
    (46 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Logi Symphony
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Insightsoftware, Inc
    For all the scenarios I have so far worked on or I am currently working on, Dundas BI has proved to be more than adequate and apt to handle all of those. It is a very easy-to-use tool with quick shortcuts enabling you to prepare ad-hoc reports or dashboards in a matter of minutes.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Insightsoftware, Inc
    • Project organization from Development to Production, you get a production and development license but I think the best way to do it is with DEV and Prod project in the Production box. Use the development box for testing updates and really crazy things. With the Dev and Prod projects on the same box, you just publish from Dev to Prod and you are done. Users only have access to the Prod projects so no one can mess up what you are working on.
    • Security - If you have a hierarchy (subsidiaries, divisions, department, teams) and you want each group to see only their data, then Security hierarchies are for you!
    • Dependent filters! What's this you ask? Here is an example of how it can be used, in your company you have departments and who works for what department is in your database. You make a dashboard that has a department filter (only show these departments), a managers filter, and employee filter. Not every manager or employee is in multiple departments usually only one. With dependent filters you can say that the manager and employee filter are dependent on what is selected in the departments filter so when you go to filter them they only show the managers or employees that are part of that department, and you can even it do so employees are not only dependent on department but on manager as well. Then it gets even better as it can be done in reverse as well so when you select a manager then go to the department it only shows the departments he works for (there are better situations where this is more useful).
    • It is scriptable! From calculate columns, null replacements, button actions, load actions, hover over events there a way to do what you want.
    • They are constantly improving and listens to your suggestions.
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    Cons
    Insightsoftware, Inc
    • Not too many cons for how we use the application. It really is easy and powerful. Very powerful.
    • Licensing is one thing that could be looked into. It is simple, but a little confusing. For example, if I get a license today, but a new release comes out tomorrow, it seems that the license doesn't work with the new release. Maybe that is by design, but it would be nice to clearly understand.
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    Usability
    Insightsoftware, Inc
    We are still in the implementation phase, but so far we are finding it to be easy to use and learn. The eLearning courses that they have made available for free, as well as User Forums and other training videos have made even difficult concepts easier to understand.
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    Support Rating
    Insightsoftware, Inc
    We have bi-weekly calls with our Success Manager, as well as access to support as needed. Any question that I have had, multiple people have been willing and able to jump on a call to talk me through it, or send an email with the solution
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    Implementation Rating
    Insightsoftware, Inc
    Providing that you have the client's needs well known, creating BI content using Dundas BI is a walk in the park!
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    Alternatives Considered
    Insightsoftware, Inc
    Per dollar spent, it offers the widest range of features of the tools that we evaluated. It offers lots of options for how to configure your environment, though they are not always intuitive to figure out. Having an ETL layer was a must have for us, as well as the ability to host to secure HIPAA compliance. It is not a replacement for ad hoc reporting, but does a great job of creating parameterized reports and dashboards that look great.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Insightsoftware, Inc
    • Coming from an SQL based standard delivery model, Dundas BI has provided a fantastic rate of ROI.
    • The preparation and delivery time has reduced from weeks to just a few hours.
    Incentivized
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    Screenshot of Dundas BI Dashboard Sample - EducationScreenshot of Dundas BI Dashboard Sample - Sales Team PerformanceScreenshot of Dundas BI Dahsboard Sample - Sales PerformanceScreenshot of Dundas BI Dashboard Sample - InsuranceScreenshot of Dundas BI Dashboard Sample - EmbeddedScreenshot of Dundas BI Dashboard Sample - Sales and Marketing