iDashboards Software

Pros

Overall a simple to use program with great support. Reasonable pricing structure and basic built in features.

Cons

Few cons, however, I wish I was able to actually get into the application more and play with it, but that is my own time limitation.

We are so pleased with iDashboards. It's the first tool that has worked with our out of the box data and it doesn't require an IT background to work with it. I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a visualization tool!

Pros

Ease of use - great value - unbeatable customer service - very flexible!

Cons

Can't really think of any right now

Advice to Others

If you are looking for a visualization tool and can't rely on IT staff to help make it happen, then get iDashboards!

We have joust completed piloting the software in 3 departments and are now preparing for an organisation-wide implementation. The reviews from all staff involved so far is off the charts!

Pros

Ease of use
Functionality that makes analyzing information a breeze!

Cons

None reported, so far.

Advice to Others

Try the product first; you will be convinced that this is a worthwhile investment.

Great Group to work with. I only did the trial as we were investigating several BI products. iDashboard was my favorite of the several that we were able to try; however, the cost was more than the firm was willing to pay for at the time. Setting up an in-house Dashboard has now been placed on the back burner till the middle of 2017.

Pros

Awesome Customer Support!
User Friendly for the no-so-techy user!

Cons

Costly!

Easy to use dashboard interface to analyze results

Pros

Graphic usability

Great product if yu need to visualize at the best your data and your statistics, especially when you need to "tell users a story" built with their data. Any database could be a data source and iDashboards has some interesting analytics fetures. The most relevant feature is anyway iDashboards's Visual intelligence and the level of interactivity with users. Even if native with Flash, iDashboards could be used via its HTML5 interface or thru its apps in Android and iOs. Still not among the best for smartphone users.

Pros

Easy to be implemented and managed, Great Visual Intelligence features to connect different areas/series showing the relationships often hiddden in your data. Good technical support. Language packs in many languages

Cons

Smartpohne interface is rather weak; some localizations for European Countries are still to be realeased, Focused on Flash, where all the visual features cold be shwn and used, instead than HTML5 or other safer standars

Likes Best

Clear and high performing dashboard. Has a lot of variety of graphs

Likes Least

Too complex to create a dashboard. Cannot easily create complex query or dataset using multiple tables.

Recommendations

Can my analyst create reports quickly and with ease using this software? Is it easy to learn and does the product have all the functionality I am looking for . For example: Faster data access, easy query building and accessing tables, graphics, data encryption etc

Likes Best

the ease of using the product, doesn't require a engineering degree

Likes Least

that i can't show every single metric we use at the same time, that's just because we have too many

Recommendations

use it, you'll love it. You'll be surprised how you metrics just jump out to you and we can visually analyze them

Likes Best

iDashboards is an easy, efficient, affordable, robust, interactive, user-friendly software with incredible visualization capability. This business intelligence software equips anyone from IT to end user with the ability to analyze data quickly and deliver one of many data views with drill down capabilities.

Likes Least

This vendor's support system is excellent and the product speaks for itself. The primary limitation is the 10MB excel file size.

Recommendations

This software sells itself with the free trial period - you can easily learn and build dashboards within hours!

Likes Best

The product is both very powerful in terms of functionality and easy to use

Likes Least

Nothing bad to say - the product is great and vendor support is excellent

Recommendations

I think you have to look at feature/functionality vs the price point and you will see that this software represents the best value in its class

Likes Best

Flexibilty to program in a variety of platforms including Excel for non-programmers. Easy to use, yet also a great deal of complexity in what can be done with charts, graphs and dashboards. Interactivity and synchronized pivots among charts on a dashboard is powerful. The cloud platform allows us to server companies regardless of location.

Likes Least

Could benefit from a larger library of API's to connect to a variety of today's popular tools. Better email tools on cloud platform.

Recommendations

Great product. Compare costs vs benefits to other platforms. Cloud based version provides a lot of flexibility.

Likes Best

Very easy to generate very dynamic and graphical report with a strong database and data modeling background.

Likes Least

I wish they would implement a button to run some calculations for the report after some selections.

Recommendations

Look into how easy and friendly it is for the end users, the presentation of the reports.

Likes Best

We opted for the onsite training for a week, which while a bit pricey. It definitely gets you up and running very quickly. The way that this is designed makes it relatively easy to master after a few iterations.

Likes Least

The necessity for dynamic dashboards is not quite user-friendly from the design and programming standpoint; if you're not a coder by nature, this could be somewhat tricky to do. Likewise, source files can only be 10 MB in size for the reports to pull from, which can prove problematic.

Recommendations

Know what metrics you want to see before evaluating; ask questions about the set up and maintenance going forward.

Likes Best

First, I love the support I get from the iDashboards Help Desk. No matter what my issue is, they do all that they can to help me - above and beyond!

Regarding the product, its best feature is their user interface. It makes it easier to design new charts and dashboards. I also love the flexibility of the product to allow me to control what users can see, such as filtering the data retrieved by the user name.

Likes Least

Not sure I have an answer to this one. There are a few features I would like to see added, but iDashboards Development is good at working customer requests into their next build.

Recommendations

iDashboards has a wonderful Knowledge Base (part of OSKAR) that you can query to get all kinds of help. There are webinars (both live and recorded), manuals, and answers to other customer inquiries, all of which can help you solve your own problem. I have made it my mission to read all that is on there and watch applicable webinars to learn all that I can. It is my go-to for any questions I have before contacting the Help Desk.