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Anaplan

Sisense

Anaplan

Score 8.3 out of 10

Based on 205 reviews and ratings

Sisense

Score 8.7 out of 10

Based on 88 reviews and ratings

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Feature Rating Comparison

Anaplan

7.4

Sisense

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Long-term financial planning

7.4

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Financial budgeting

8.1

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Forecasting

7.6

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Scenario modeling

6.5

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Management reporting

7.6

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Anaplan

6.5

Sisense

—

Financial data consolidation

7.7

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Journal entries and reports

6.6

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Multi-currency management

6.2

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Intercompany Eliminations

5.9

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Minority Ownership

6.0

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Local and consolidated reporting

7.1

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Detailed Audit Trails

6.1

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Anaplan

7.5

Sisense

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Financial Statement Reporting

7.0

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Management Reporting

8.3

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Excel-based Reporting

6.9

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Automated board and financial reporting

8.0

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Anaplan

6.7

Sisense

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Personalized dashboards

5.3

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Color-coded scorecards

6.0

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KPIs

7.0

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Cost and profitability analysis

7.0

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Key Performance Indicator setting

7.4

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Benchmarking with external data

7.2

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Anaplan

8.3

Sisense

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Flat file integration

8.3

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Excel data integration

8.3

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Direct links to 3rd-party data sources

8.2

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Anaplan

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Sisense

8.3

Pixel Perfect reports

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8.0

Customizable dashboards

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9.1

Report Formatting Templates

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7.9

Anaplan

—

Sisense

8.2

Drill-down analysis

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8.8

Formatting capabilities

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8.2

Integration with R or other statistical packages

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8.6

Report sharing and collaboration

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7.3

Anaplan

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Sisense

8.7

Publish to Web

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9.0

Publish to PDF

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9.0

Report Versioning

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7.7

Report Delivery Scheduling

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8.9

Anaplan

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Sisense

9.0

Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)

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9.2

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

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8.9

Predictive Analytics

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8.8

Anaplan

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Sisense

9.0

Multi-User Support (named login)

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9.0

Role-Based Security Model

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9.0

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

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9.0

Anaplan

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Sisense

8.2

Responsive Design for Web Access

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8.6

Dedicated iOS Application

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8.0

Dedicated Android Application

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8.3

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

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7.8

Pros

It is a very user-friendly platform that allows individuals without IT backgrounds to build models in simple syntax. If you know how to use Excel, you will be able to pick up model building in Anaplan with relative ease using the guided build methodology.
Anaplan is a blank slate that allows for multi-dimension models in which we determine the dimensions versus forcing us to adhere to predetermined dimensions.
Maintaining our company hierarchies in data hub allows us to change information there and have it automatically pushed out to all spoke models versus changing 10-20 spreadsheets.

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Senior Director, Planning & Analysis

Schneider Electric SoftwareIndustrial Automation, 10,001+ employees

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Ease of Use
Customer Service
Visualization
Customizability - SQL/CSS, iFRAME/JS

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Employee in Other

Computer Software Company, 11-50 employees

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Cons

The dashboard functionality is basic therefore, we have to bring in Tableau to provide a more professional view of the outputs as well as to allow management to more easily slice and dice data.
There is an Anaplan learning center however, I have not found it useful when I have questions. We are fortunate to have Aviana Global guiding us through the initial phases of our process. Without our consultants, learning Anaplan would be overwhelming.
The Anaplan Connect needs to be improved. We are considering a third party ETL, but we prefer that Anaplan have this capability built into its platform.

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Senior Director, Planning & Analysis

Schneider Electric SoftwareIndustrial Automation, 10,001+ employees

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The development and maintenance of complex and generic analytic cubes could be improved.
Export of data and visualisations to pdf and csv is possible. However the functionality is basic and limited.
No time format/datatype available. This requires JavaScript code to make it work.
JavaScript add-ons for bucket analysis and Gantt charts are limited and not supported.
Very limited trellis functionality
Cube field names cannot be changed without impacting the dashboards. Impact analysis is not available in standard software package.
Cannot rebuild cubes without making cube inaccessible during rebuild period.

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BI Architect

PluripharmHospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Anaplan8.2

Based on 3 answers

I don't think we could function without the collaboration capabilities built into Anaplan that replaced disparate Excel files in the workforce planning model

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Manager, Financial Systems

Research NowMarket Research, 1001-5000 employees

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Sisense8.9

Based on 14 answers

SiSense will continue being a great solution for BI / Data delivery in my company

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Hui (Ken) Zheng

Senior Insight Lead

WaveAccounting, 51-200 employees

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Usability

Anaplan8.2

Based on 2 answers

There is a dependency in this rating - in that I find Anaplan extremely easy to use, but I've spent the necessary time developing a strong understanding of the platform. Once you understand how to use it, the platform is flexible, easy to use, and fun to use.

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Chris Friederich

Director, Financial Planning & Analysis

Cherwell SoftwareComputer Software, 201-500 employees

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Sisense7.3

Based on 4 answers

New V5 is ground floor of an exciting collection of possibilities. Weekly Sisense developers come up with new functionality that they share with us in their forums. The move to HTML5 has been pleasing in that widgets auto size themselves into appropriate forms in the board but everyone of them can be popped out to full page size to be looked at in more detail

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Director of Data and Innovations

GOAL AcademyPrimary/Secondary Education, 201-500 employees

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Reliability and Availability

Anaplan10.0

Based on 1 answer

In nearly 3 years, I have only had 1 issue of being unable to access my model for an unplanned maintenance. Even planned maintenance windows are handled during low traffic hours on the weekend.

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Manager, Financial Systems

Research NowMarket Research, 1001-5000 employees

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Sisense8.2

Based on 1 answer

There are very few situations when there is unexpected downtime. Mostly during development, new dashboard implementation and during upgrades. other then that there were very few crashes.

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Head Analyst

Wbliskosci.plInternet, 11-50 employees

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Performance

Anaplan9.0

Based on 1 answer

Everything is calculated in memory in the cloud. It's nearly instantaneous updates when you make changes. The only time things get a little slow is when you have a massive model with very intricate calculations...but "slow" for Anaplan is not what I would call "slow" for something like Hyperion. We used to have Hyperion calcs that ran for 60 mins before you could use data. The equivalent would be 60 seconds in Anaplan.

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Manager, Financial Systems

Research NowMarket Research, 1001-5000 employees

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Sisense8.2

Based on 1 answer

SiSense is usually performing better then other solutions even if going for complex reports/dashboards(of course within reasonable frames). I haven't noticed any bad influence on other systems, usually if something happens it stays within SiSense.

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Head Analyst

Wbliskosci.plInternet, 11-50 employees

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Support

Anaplan8.0

Based on 2 answers

I feel like the support team is a little lacking in product knowledge. Several times I have contacted them to get help, and ended up finding a solution to my own problem before the team could get back to me with anything useful. I have also submitted a few bugs, and never got updates to when they were fixed in later releases.

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Manager, Financial Systems

Research NowMarket Research, 1001-5000 employees

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Sisense10.0

Based on 5 answers

This team is one of the few companies where I can literally Skype them for help and they respond immediately. Most don't realize how rare that actually is in the industry. Expanding their presence to the eastern time zone of the United States has made them more accessible as a result

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Director of Data and Innovations

GOAL AcademyPrimary/Secondary Education, 201-500 employees

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In-Person Training

Anaplan3.0

Based on 1 answer

The in-person training is simply not worth the cost. After a few weeks of playing in Anaplan, I went to the basic training and knew more than the person teaching it. a year down the road, I was the first person to complete the advance training, and again could have been teaching the class better than the person running the session. Spend some time on your own trying out different things and you will get all the understanding you need to be successful.

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Manager, Financial Systems

Research NowMarket Research, 1001-5000 employees

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Sisense7.3

Based on 1 answer

Easy and free training that allowed us quickly understand basics in SiSense and start using them. More advanced features requires some browsing through SiSense forums, but there is always support to help, and SiSense support is one of the best whith which I worked so far.

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Head Analyst

Wbliskosci.plInternet, 11-50 employees

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Online Training

Anaplan5.0

Based on 1 answer

I'm giving this a 5 simply for the anapedia outline of calculations. The online videos and trainings leave a lot to be desired, but having anapedia around to help you understand calculations has been helpful. The drawback to anapedia is the depth they go into for calculations, it is lackluster at times. Because of that, I have been working through a much more in-depth look at each calculation on my website for users to reference: http://www.anaplanguru.com/formulas/

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Manager, Financial Systems

Research NowMarket Research, 1001-5000 employees

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Sisense8.2

Based on 1 answer

Many examples, videos and scenarios which you try on your own right away. This combined with in-person training gives you enough to utilize most of SiSense's power.

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Head Analyst

Wbliskosci.plInternet, 11-50 employees

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Implementation

Anaplan6.8

Based on 12 answers

Implementation using Anaplan's internal customer success team left much to be desired. We've found much better success with outside consultants

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Christopher Pope

Manager

Seagate TechnologyComputer Hardware, 10,001+ employees

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Sisense7.1

Based on 3 answers

Remember to migrate the plugins. The documentation however is pretty straight forward.

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BI Architect

PluripharmHospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees

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Breadth of Deployment

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We currently have 50 users using Sisense. These users are spread across all departments in the corporate office. It is also being used by general managers and franchise owners across 40 offices around the world.

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Chief Technology Officer

Online Trading AcademyEducation Management, 501-1000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Honestly, having implemented Anaplan at another company, I knew it would suit our needs here and convinced management to get the tool on that basis. We already use a mix of Cognos BI, Tableau, and Excel ... but our need was something apart from what those can provide.

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Head of Sales Compensation

Robert HalfStaffing and Recruiting, 10,001+ employees

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We chose Sisense due to pricing structures as well as its speed and ability to connect to more robust data sources. Ultimately, the differences were minimal in regards to abilities and functionality; we just felt that Sisense provided the most reliable and consistent results among our test trials.

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Joseph R. Sweeney

Senior Analyst

The TJX Companies, Inc.Information Services, 10,001+ employees

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Lines of Business and Business Impact

In simplest terms, Anaplan has enabled us to make better, more informed decisions quickly. We have been able to reduce the cycle time of iterations requested by executive management, which in turn, has allowed us to explore more possibilities than we otherwise might have. It has also enhanced our confidence in the modeling we have done, improving the buy-in of leadership.

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Robert HalfStaffing and Recruiting, 10,001+ employees

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Selection Process

Adaptive and Host Analytics

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More flexible and able to handle more data.

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Sr. Manager, Finance

AtlassianComputer Software, 1001-5000 employees

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Data Integration

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Sisense8.9

Based on 40 answers

Easy to use, quick mashup of data from different data sources, easy deployment, mobile support, integration with other tools, easy to distribute reports, excellent visualizations, pdf reports, excellent analytics, pixel perfect reports, open source BI platform, ability to modify reports, low hardware cost, support for multiple users, role based support. These are the reasons for a strong rating.

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Professional in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Scalability

Anaplan7.0

Based on 1 answer

It's going to handle most of what you can throw at it. The problem lies in the sparsity of some datasets. When you have over 5ish dimensions of sparse data, the size of the model gets bloated for not much value. In several cases, I have had to adapt my model to account for sparsity in a way that minimized use of space, but also made interacting with the data more cumbersome.

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Manager, Financial Systems

Research NowMarket Research, 1001-5000 employees

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Sisense8.2

Based on 1 answer

Product is quite easily scalable. The whole installation can be easily moved to stronger machine if needed.

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Head Analyst

Wbliskosci.plInternet, 11-50 employees

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Return on Investment

Workforce Planning efficiency - so much easier than excel to maintain sensitive information planning
Long range plan lead time - the old excel model took weeks to update. The Anaplan model takes hours

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Manager, Financial Systems

Research NowMarket Research, 1001-5000 employees

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Report development time is reduced from 2~3 days to 2~3 hours.
Report querying time is improved from 0.5~10 mins to 2~30 seconds.
A 2-staff team delivers 10 times the BI output that we did on the old system.
We were able to deliver BI and data analysis for all business functions instead of a very limited group of users

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Hui (Ken) Zheng

Senior Insight Lead

WaveAccounting, 51-200 employees

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Anaplan

Platform - Align business investment to corporate and departmental goals. Gain control over IT projects and reduce time and cost overruns. Easily manage IT shared service costs and allocations. Quickly report progress and impact to the business with live scorecards. Continuously optimize teams and priorities to deliver the most relevant value.

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Pricing Details

Anaplan

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

Anaplan Editions & Modules

Anaplan

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Additional Pricing Details

Request a personal demo: https://www.anaplan.com/request-demo/ Free trial for existing customers for any app in the App Hub: https://apphub.anaplan.com/

Sisense

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Sisense Editions & Modules

Sisense

Modules

SAP Connector

1

1. Per User per Month

Additional Pricing Details

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Rating Summary