Dundas Dashboard is a flexible, turnkey solution for the rapid development of business dashboards. Whether you are leveraging an existing BI infrastructure/application or starting a standalone project from scratch, Dundas offers the industry's most cost-effective platform for creating/deploying sophisticated digital dashboards and empowering users quickly and easily.

With highlights like wizard-driven interfaces, rich visualisations and Dundas's unique DashFlow collaborative process, Dundas Dashboard is fast to deploy, easy to use and fully customisable/extensible - resulting in a low-learning curve for your staff.

The Business Benefits Of Dundas Dashboard

Empower your workforce with agile performance and strategic dashboards

With business data getting more complex and coming from many different sources, companies and their employees need an easy way to make sense of all this information.  This is where dashboards come in. Dashboards are important business tools that provide a unified view of key metrics, assisting companies with strategic insight and decision-making.

With Dundas, building dashboards has never been easier, here's why:

Make better use of your data with rich, interactive visualisations

You have valuable data, the challenge is how to best visualise it effectively and in a manner where it is accessible to those who need it.  Dundas Dashboard offers a wide range of effective, customisable visualisations to best represent your business data.  With a long history of creating award-winning data visualisation and dashboarding solutions since 1992, Dundas has been solving clients' business challenges for almost two decades.

Achieve cost savings with rapid dashboard development using Dundas DashFlow

With its rich user experience, wizard-driven interfaces and collaborative workflow, dashboard production and deployment is measured in days rather than months. Our vast experience has given us insight into the best ways of building dashboards - and we’ve applied this to the DashFlow™ model. DashFlow is a parallel workflow involving the definition of business metrics, the discovery and preparation of data behind the metrics and dashboard design/development. Benefits include the reduction of development time, the ability to create proof-of-concept dashboards (without having to connect to actual data) and the best utilisation of personnel resources, by working independently.

Empower more of your workers with the digital dashboards they need to succeed

In the past, dashboard creation was in the realm of IT and development. With Dundas Dashboard, your IT staff and your business users are empowered with the tools they need to build the exact dashboard they require to be more effective workers.

Dundas Dashboard facilitates this by allowing workers to communicate through dashboards, as well as getting them more involved in participating in the actual dashboard-creation process. This in turn leads to less information lag, getting timely data in the hands of those who need it.

We believe no one knows dashboarding better than Dundas.
Now that you've had a look at what Dundas Dashboard can do for you, why not take the next step?

The Technology Benefits Of Dundas Dashboard

Dashboard Software Expertise

While business leaders are usually focused on the business landscape, it is the technology professionals who lay the groundwork for any dashboard project. Whether setting up data connectors or assisting with KPI definitions, this group of developers/IT staff and database administrators are tasked with resolving all the possible issues relating to dashboard technologies.

From this perspective, Dundas is a clear choice. Here's why:

Rapid dashboard development with our proven collaborative approach

With its rich user experience, wizard-driven interfaces and collaborative workflow, dashboard production and deployment is measured in days rather than months.  Our unparalleled experience has given us insight into the best ways of building dashboards and we’ve applied this to the DashFlow concurrent workflow model.  DashFlow is a parallel-development process that assigns development tasks to specific job roles ensuring expertise is applied at every turn, achieving maximum resource efficiency.

Total extensibility, customisation and integration options with Dundas Dashboard

Dundas Dashboard is built with customisation at the heart of its design (unlike many other dashboard technologies, this was not an afterthought).  It provides you with the ability to customise and extend our platform as your needs evolve. With Dundas Dashboard:

• Business intelligence professionals and designers can customise all dashboard elements to match organisational requirements (branding, interactivity, aesthetics and more).
• IT staff can quickly integrate dashboards into an existing BI infrastructure and extend its capabilities.
• Developers can extend and customise Dundas Dashboard with the open application programming interface and enhance dashboard functionality with DundasScript.

Leveraging the latest web technologies

Silverlight gives Dundas Dashboard a powerful user experience delivering a rich Internet application (RIA).  Designing dashboards is a visual task and Silverlight facilitates a simple design experience by implementing drag-and-drop functionality and stunning visual effects.  Dundas Dashboard's RIA architecture means that upgrades happen only on the server, for simple maintainability and deployment.

In addition, Dundas Dashboard offers:

• Enterprise-grade scalability and maintainability
• Integrated security
• Compatibility with existing user-management systems
• And much, much more.

We believe no one knows dashboarding better than Dundas.

Dundas DashFlow™: A Proven Collaborative Approach

What is DashFlow?

DashFlow is a proven workflow that has shown to be the most expedient way to create dashboards. Dundas has used this development process for many years and we have brought this best practice to Dundas Dashboard. The DashFlow process allows organisations to significantly decrease development time. What follows is a brief description of DashFlow - with a mention of the personnel resources who would participate in quickly building dashboards.

There are three major tasks in Dashflow:

• Defining the business metrics (business analysts)
• Designing and developing dashboards (business users and analysts)
• Discovery and preparation of data behind business metrics (database administrators/IT staff)

Dundas Dashboard is a unique product in that it applies the most important principle of DashFlow: Start by defining business metrics. Most, if not all, dashboard solutions take a linear approach in creating dashboards and start with the data.  DashFlow lets you begin the process with your business metrics, so you will be able to design the dashboards AND discover the data behind the business metrics - all at the same time.

The traditional approach to dashboard development:

Optimised dashboard development with DashFlow:

The benefits of this approach include:

• Essentially cutting your development time in half
• Elicit stakeholder buy-in sooner by quickly creating proof-of-concept (PoC) dashboards without having to connect to actual data (via KPI stubbing)
• Maximise the utilisation of resource expertise by personnel working independently and only on their relevant tasks

Dundas Consulting utilises DashFlow when creating custom dashboard solutions for Fortune 500 companies around the world. All these projects have been successful and we have transitioned the successful process to Dundas Dashboard.

Benefits of DashFlow

Time Savings in Dashboard Development

With Dashflow, database administrators and IT staff can focus preparing data for the business metrics while the business users can start designing and implementing the dashboards.  This parallel development effort essentially cuts development time in half! 

Get Stakeholder Buy-in Sooner

With Dashflow, those driving the dashboard initiative can independently and quickly build functional and visually stunning dashboards without having to hook up to any data.  Stakeholders will see right away what they will be getting and how it will work.  By getting support and approval early, the development effort will start sooner shortening the project schedule.  In fact, the PoC can be hooked up to real data afterwards for production.

Maximise the Use of Personnel’s Expertise

DashFlow breaks out tasks specific to various roles within a dashboard initiative.  This allows business analysts, database administrators, business users, graphic artists, and other resources to utilise their expertise for one or more of these tasks.  They can work independently once the business metrics are defined facilitating multiple resources to work in parallel.

For more information please contact the MicroWay sales team:
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