Dundas Dashboard Key Features

Open API: Complete Extensibility, Customization And Integration Options

Open APIEvery organization has unique dashboard requirements.  To satisfy this need for customization, dashboard solutions should provide an easy application programming interface (API).  Although most dashboard solutions provide an API, the concept is generally an afterthought and this creates challenges for developers attempting to customize dashboards (challenges include performance issues, hard-to-read documentation,  limited technical support, etc.).  Dundas has a proven track record in providing intuitive, well-documented software.  With this in mind, Dundas Dashboard was developed from the ground up with an open API that is supported by a highly technical staff of developers.

Create Custom Data Connections

Many popular types of database connections are supported by Dundas Dashboard.  With the Data Provider API, you can develop your own custom data provider for any SQL-compliant, tabular or web-service source.  This versatile API allows you to connect to your legacy data warehouses and address connection to future database technologies.

Integrate New Data Visualization (DV) And User Controls

To help facilitate dashboard design, Dundas Dashboard provides many common data visualizations and user controls out of the box.  Additional data visualization types can be created by Dundas Consulting by extending existing controls or you can integrate custom and/or third-party Silverlight controls within Dundas Dashboard (via the Dashboard Control Plugin API).  Now you won’t have to wait for the next release of Dundas Dashboard to add new controls for your dashboard projects.

Create Custom Dashboard Navigation Controls

Your dashboard designer may want to create a custom user control for navigating through dashboards.  The Navigation API allows developers to get a list of all the available dashboards for a particular Dundas Dashboard user and with this information, the designer can create their own navigation control (e.g., the creation of tabs and slide shows).

Create Your Own Dashboard Export Files

There are many ways that business users may want to export their dashboards.  With our Export API, developers can create additional add-ons for exporting purposes.  This facilitates building new export types without having to wait for a major release of Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, etc. 

Integrate Your Authentication System into Dundas Dashboard

Dundas recognizes that you may have existing authentication systems that you wish to use in a dashboard solution.  With Dundas Dashboard’s Authentication Provider API, you can:

  • Leverage your existing user accounts within Dundas Dashboard so you don’t have to recreate them
  • Create, update and remove user accounts in your native authentication system via our user management interface