Why Choose Dundas Dashboard

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1 Why Choose Dundas Dashboard Dundas Data Visualization, Inc. 250 Ferrand Drive, Suite 500 Toronto, ON Canada M3C 3G

2 Table of Contents 1.0 Introduction Dundas Dashboard Key Benefits See Your Information More Clearly Preserve Insight and Analysis Easily Share and Distribute Your Dashboards Leverage Your Existing Technologies Overcome Dashboard Challenges Rich, Interactive Data Visualizations Industry-Leading Dashboard Support Choosing Dundas Dashboard 6 Appendix A: Dashboards Created By Dundas Dashboard 7 Technology Performance Dashboard 7 Retail Operations Executive Dashboard 8 Retail Sales Performance Dashboard 9 Appendix B: Client List 10 Page

3 1.0 Introduction Your organization is ready to invest in a dashboard application. Your users need meaningful, actionable dashboards that let them drill down through their business information, communicate ideas more effectively, add insight to business metrics, and make better, pro-active business decisions. In addition, your dashboard developers and IT staff need a dashboard platform that works with your existing technology, connects to multiple data sources, and is customizable enough to satisfy your organization s unique dashboard requirements. one of the main reasons we chose Dundas Dashboard was for its affordability compared to other products. We found no other product that met our requirements for prices anywhere near the cost of Dundas Dashboard.. David Maxwell, United Equipment Pty Ltd. The question is: Where do you turn to get all of this quickly and under budget? 2.0 Dundas Dashboard Dundas Dashboard is a comprehensive platform for the rapid development of business dashboards. Our dashboard software supports a collaborative development workflow for business analysts, business users, database administrators and IT staff. Dundas Dashboard integrates with your existing technology, has the flexibility needed to keep up with future technologies, and allows users to build dashboards that let organizations take action. These key benefits, plus our innovative communication tools and outstanding product support, make Dundas an excellent choice for your dashboard needs. 3.0 Key Benefits 3.1 See Your Information More Clearly Information alone has limited value. Information presented in context, however, can be a game changer. That s what our software does it gives you the ability to easily add context to the data being displayed. Our dashboard designer was built to ensure that contextual data can be added to business metrics in just a few easy steps. That means the information on your dashboard is shown alongside related data, in order to show your information more clearly. To really understand your business you need more than just charts and gauges on a screen. You need perspective and deep understanding so that your business information is meaningful and the actions you take are fully informed. Page

4 3.2 Preserve Insight and Analysis Your dashboard generates discussions that will ultimately drive your business decisions. All too often, these discussions take place in boardrooms, by or face-to-face, making it difficult to capture and refer to in the future. Our dashboard software has a unique feature that allows you to post and reply to discussion threads within your dashboards, directly related to your business metrics. This ensures that analysts can quickly exchange ideas and information about the data, including outliers, trends, comparisons and business conditions. 3.3 Easily Share and Distribute Your Dashboards To be effective, dashboards must be interactive, informative and actionable. However, if you can t distribute them, share them or make them accessible to the people that need them, even the most effective and well-designed dashboards become useless. Dundas Dashboard provides many ways to distribute and share your dashboards. You can export data and images to a variety of formats, including PDF, PowerPoint, Excel and others. Dundas Dashboard lets you send automatic alerts which remind users to monitor dashboards. These alerts can be set up on a schedule, when business conditions change or when a user posts a comment. This ensures that dashboard users are up-to-date on what is going on and are able to take immediate action. 3.4 Leverage Your Existing Technologies Many dashboard projects form part of larger systems. To be effective, dashboards need to be integrated into your existing infrastructure. Dundas Dashboard is an enterprise application designed to work with your existing technologies. Our dashboard software supports most common data source types (SQL, OLAP, Oracle, SAP BW, Excel and many others). Finished dashboards can be embedded into your web pages to ensure that your dashboards are accessible in your current environment. Page

5 3.5 Overcome Dashboard Challenges Dundas Dashboard provides a solid foundation for any dashboard project, out-of-the-box. However, your organization may have unique dashboard requirements that aren t supported by the software. You need a dashboard platform that can be modified to meet these requirements and support future needs. Dundas Dashboard gives developers the flexibility to add new functionality to the software. This means you are never stuck with software that cannot adapt or change as your business needs change. Anything from industry-specific charts, unique data connectors and fully customized navigation controls can be added to our software when the need arises. 3.6 Rich, Interactive Data Visualizations Our software comes with a complete set of powerful, customizable and interactive charts, gauges, grids, maps and more. This means your business analysts and developers have quick and easy access to the best visualizations for your business metrics. The styling properties of our entire dashboard control library are fully customizable, giving your users the freedom to design and style dashboards that will suit your organization s unique business requirements. 3.7 Industry-Leading Dashboard Support Our dashboard support team consists of experienced business analysts and software developers. Their mandate is to address your business and technical challenges within 24 hours. You can rely on our support team to provide a high quality of assistance during your product evaluation period and after your purchase. Support associates also offer online samples, documentation and in-depth articles covering all aspects of using Dundas Dashboard. Page

6 4.0 Choosing Dundas Dashboard For nearly 20 years, Dundas has worked behind-the-scenes to provide award-winning data visualization components to software developers. In fact, some of the data visualizations embedded in many popular BI applications were built by Dundas! We ve used this valuable experience to develop our latest offering of dashboard software products. Dundas Dashboard brings together all of the tools your organization needs to build meaningful, interactive and fully customized dashboards in one easy-to-use platform....it was important for us to find a visualization company who was willing to wrap their product around our needs and grow with us. Since purchasing Dundas Dashboard, they have been more than willing to work with us, they have listened to our needs, and they value our input. Josh Brown, Ready Mix USA Take the first step by contacting us to find out why Dundas Dashboard is the best platform for your organization. info@dundas.com Page 6

7 Appendix A: Dashboards Created By Dundas Dashboard Technology Performance Dashboard This technology performance dashboard displays KPIs such as Net Profit, Contribution Margin, YOY Revenue Trend, % 0f Contracts Renewed, Service Quality Index (%), etc. Visualizations consist of column and pie charts, gauges and bullet graphs. Page 7

8 Retail Operations Executive Dashboard This retail operations executive dashboard tracks KPIs such as EBITDA by Department, EBITDA per Employee, Inventory Spoilage, etc. Shared comments are displayed, and there is an emphasis on operations analysis. Visualizations consist of various charts, gauges, scorecards and maps. Page

9 Retail Sales Performance Dashboard This sales performance dashboard displays numerous sales KPIs such as Revenue, Reseller Sales, Sales Distribution and Supply and Demand metrics, and emphasizes performance and sales analysis. Visualizations consist of various charts and gauges, a map and a scorecard. Page

10 Appendix B: Client List High Tech Banking / Finance Energy Microsoft Citigroup Exxon/Mobil HP Wells Fargo Chevron IBM Dow Jones Valero Energy Dell Morgan Stanley Hess Corporation Cisco American Express Exelon Intel TIAA/CREF Southern Company Oracle Hartford Financial Constellation Energy Computer Sciences U.S. Bankcorp AES Corporation Capital One Entergy Health Net Federal Services State Street Baker Hughes LLC BNP Paribas SAIC Aerospace/Engineering Pharma Manufacturing Boeing Merck Daimler United Technologies Eli Lilly Archer Daniels Midland Lockheed Martin GlaxoSmithKline Caterpillar Northrop Grumman Novartis 3M General Dynamics Roche Deere Honeywell Bristol Meyers Squibb TRW Johnson Controls Abbott Laboratories Navistar Raytheon Schering-Plough Praxair Motorola Johnson & Johnson Eastman Kodak L-3 Mining/Resources Healthcare Insurance Alcoa McKesson Metlife United States Steel Cardinal Health Aetna Vale Pfizer New York Life Baker Hughes Wellpoint Inc. Prudential Schlumberger Humana AFLAC BHP Billiton HCA Healthcare AXA Retail Transportation Media Lowes UPS Walt Disney Sears Holdings Union Pacific Time Warner TJX Companies Alaska Airlines Comcast Woolsworth Harley Davidson Viacom Consumer Packaged Goods Telecom Unilevel AT&T Pepsico Verizon Kimberly Clark Sprint/Nextel Campbell s Soup Qwest Rogers Communication