No new tools to adopt
Connect Kobo, Excel, Microsoft 365, SurveyCTO, Google Forms, SharePoint, CSVs, and APIs. Your teams keep working exactly as they do today—DIMES-BI syncs, detects schemas, and monitors freshness automatically.
Bring-your-own-data analytics
Use the data you already collect. Build dashboards, reports & analysis in one place.
Your organization collects data across Kobo, Excel, Google Forms, SurveyCTO, Microsoft 365, and more. DIMES-BI connects all of it—without changing a single workflow—so you can build interactive dashboards, track indicators, run spatial analysis, and deliver decision-ready reports from one trusted workspace.
Kobo · Excel · SurveyCTO · Google Forms · Microsoft 365 · CSV & APIs
One central platform for analysis
All your data—forms, spreadsheets, cloud files—lands in a unified semantic model. Define indicators, run cross-source queries, disaggregate, and track baselines to endlines in one place.
Dashboards, maps, reports & storytelling
Build KPI cards, bar and line charts, choropleth and bubble maps, pivot tables, spatial analysis, narrative blocks, and donor report layouts—all from the same governed data, tailored per audience.
Keep your workflows. Get real analytics.
Your teams keep collecting. DIMES-BI turns it all into insight.
No one has to adopt a new tool or change how they work. DIMES-BI pulls data from Kobo, Excel, SurveyCTO, Google Forms, SharePoint, APIs, and flat files into one central workspace—then lets you build interactive dashboards, choropleth and bubble maps, KPI cards, pivot tables, narrative reports, donor layouts, and spatial analysis views on top of it all.
See how BYOD worksCanada
United States
Nicaragua
Peru
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Kenya
India
Australia
Outputs/Q3 performanceResultsQualityLearning
Live workspace
Regional health program
12 projects4.2k responsesLast sync 2h
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Program health score
6.5On track
Blended across active indicators and data freshness.
Indicators vs target
45%
meeting or exceeding target this period.
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Behind
Fair
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Built for your organization
One workspace for every team, every program, every stakeholder.
Manage programs, projects, data sources, indicators, dashboards, reports, users, and permissions in one unified platform. Multiple workspaces and teams, built for organizations that work with complex, distributed data.
NGOs & INGOs
Multi-country, multi-program portfolios with donor reporting.
Donor-funded programs
Results frameworks, logframes, and polished dashboard exports.
Research teams
Cross-dataset queries, disaggregation, and baseline-endline analysis.
Government departments
Standardized indicators and geographic rollups at national scale.
Consultancies
Client-facing dashboards, branded report packs, and embeddable views.
Social impact orgs
Feedback tracking, accountability analysis, and beneficiary monitoring.
Dashboard & visualization builder
Every chart, map, table, and report your teams need—from one builder.
Drag-and-drop canvas with cross-filtering, drill-through, responsive layouts, theming, branding, and audience-specific views. A program officer, a country director, and a donor each see exactly the dashboard they need—all powered by the same underlying data.
Bar, line & area charts
Categorical comparisons, trends over time, and stacked cumulative views.
Pie, donut & scatter
Part-to-whole distributions and correlation analysis between measures.
Choropleth & bubble maps
Geographic distribution with color or size encoding—spatial analysis built in.
Tables & pivot views
Sortable, filterable data with conditional formatting and cross-tabulation.
KPI cards & progress bars
Single metrics with trend arrows, target status, and achievement percentage.
Timelines & milestones
Events, phases, and program milestones plotted over time.
Rich text & narrative
Formatted text, headings, images, and narrative blocks alongside data.
Filters & drill-through
Dashboard-level date, geography, partner, and project filters with drill-down.
Indicator & analytics engine
Build indicators with no code. Query across every source.
Create counts, sums, averages, percentages, ratios, conditional aggregations, disaggregations, baselines, targets, actuals, variances, and trends—all from a visual formula builder. Indicators are reusable across dashboards, reports, and results frameworks.
- No-code formula builder with field picker, operators, and real-time preview
- Cross-dataset queries: join data from multiple sources using shared dimensions
- Saved queries power multiple widgets and dashboards simultaneously
- Logframes, theories of change, results chains, and MEAL frameworks built in
- Direct SQL access for advanced users with appropriate permissions
Count
4,218
beneficiaries reached
Percentage
73%
target achievement
Trend
+12.4%
quarter-over-quarter
Disaggregation
3 dims
gender × age × region
MEAL-specific workflows
Not just charts. The full monitoring, evaluation, and learning cycle.
DIMES-BI goes beyond dashboarding. It supports the workflows MEAL teams actually use—baseline to endline, disaggregation, target tracking, beneficiary monitoring, feedback loops, and learning reviews.
Baseline → midline → endline
Link the same indicator across data collection rounds. Visual comparison views, change percentages, and statistical significance flags.
Target tracking & traffic lights
Define baseline, target, and actual values per indicator per period. Auto-calculate achievement, variance, and on-track / at-risk / off-track status.
Disaggregation by any dimension
Break down every indicator by gender, age, geography, partner, vulnerability group, or any custom dimension. Detect and flag gaps in coverage.
Beneficiary tracking & dedup
Track individuals and households across multiple collection rounds. Unique ID matching, cohort analysis, and deduplication detection.
Feedback & accountability
Ingest complaint, feedback, and hotline data. Categorize, trend, and link feedback themes to program performance indicators.
Learning reviews & snapshots
Attach observations, lessons learned, and recommendations. Snapshot dashboards for specific reporting periods—archived and immutable.
Comment & tag
Comment on dashboards, tag teammates, annotate charts, and explain unusual trends.
Narrative reporting
Combine data visualizations with written explanations, lessons, recommendations, and evidence.
Decision capture
Record decisions alongside the data that informed them. Searchable and linked to indicators.
Period snapshots
Freeze a dashboard for Q1 Review or Year-End—archived, immutable, and always accessible.
Collaboration & storytelling
Beyond dashboards—a learning and decision-support environment.
Teams don't just need charts. They need to explain what changed, capture what they learned, and show stakeholders why decisions were made. DIMES-BI lets you annotate, comment, snapshot, and build narrative reports directly alongside your data.
Automation, exports & sharing
Schedule refreshes. Get alerts. Export to PDF, PowerPoint, or a shareable link.
Data stays fresh automatically. When indicators cross thresholds, the right people know immediately. Reports are exportable to every format stakeholders expect—or embeddable directly in external portals.
Scheduled data refreshes
Configurable sync intervals—real-time, hourly, daily, or weekly. Never stale.
Threshold alerts
Automated notifications when indicators go off-track. Email, Teams, or in-app.
PDF, PowerPoint & images
Export dashboards and reports in donor-ready formats with one click.
Shareable links & embeds
Publish dashboards as secure web links or embed them in external portals and websites.
Connectors
Connect every source your teams already use.
Each connector handles authentication, schema detection, field mapping, incremental sync, scheduled refresh, health monitoring, and failure alerts. Your teams don't migrate—they just keep collecting.
FAQ
Common questions
- What is DIMES-BI?
- DIMES-BI is a bring-your-own-data (BYOD) MEAL and analytics workspace. It connects Kobo, Excel, SurveyCTO, Google Forms, Microsoft 365, CSVs, and APIs so teams can model indicators, build dashboards, and publish donor-ready reports without replacing existing collection tools.
- Do we have to migrate off Kobo or Excel?
- No. Teams keep collecting in the tools they already use. DIMES-BI syncs and maps data into a shared semantic model for indicators, dashboards, maps, and narrative reports.
- Who is DIMES-BI for?
- MEAL officers, program managers, country directors, data analysts, partners, and donors who need governed analytics across fragmented program data — from single projects to multi-country portfolios.
- How is DIMES-BI different from DIMES IDMS?
- DIMES-BI focuses on the analytics layer: connectors, indicators, dashboards, and reporting. DIMES IDMS is the hosted program management platform (field workflows, org accounts, subscriptions). Many teams use both — connect sources in BI, operationalize programs in IDMS.
- Can I try it now?
- Yes. Use “Try the workspace” to open the interactive demo — create a dashboard, import sample or your own data, and explore indicators and maps without installing anything.
Start with DIMES-BI
Open the workspace, connect a source, and publish your first live-linked dashboard — about 10 minutes in the demo.