Geckoboard vs. Sisense

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Geckoboard
Score 6.4 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Geckoboard enables users to create real time dashboards using data from over 80 cloud services. It integrates with other products such as: AWeber, Basecamp, Campaign Monitor and HubSpot.
$35
per month
Sisense
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Sisense is a BI software and analytics platform. With what the vendor calls their In-Chip™ and Single Stack™ technologies, users have access to a comprehensive tool to analyze and visualize large, disparate data sets without IT resources.N/A
Pricing
GeckoboardSisense
Editions & Modules
Starter
$35
per month
Team
$159
per month
Team Plus
$275
per month
Company
$599
per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
GeckoboardSisense
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsMust contact sales team for pricing.
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Features
GeckoboardSisense
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Geckoboard
9.3
5 Ratings
13% above category average
Sisense
8.7
46 Ratings
6% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports8.03 Ratings8.036 Ratings
Customizable dashboards10.05 Ratings9.046 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates10.04 Ratings9.032 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Geckoboard
7.7
5 Ratings
5% below category average
Sisense
8.3
46 Ratings
2% above category average
Drill-down analysis8.04 Ratings8.046 Ratings
Formatting capabilities8.03 Ratings9.046 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages7.02 Ratings9.026 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration8.05 Ratings7.33 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Geckoboard
9.0
5 Ratings
7% above category average
Sisense
8.2
45 Ratings
2% below category average
Publish to Web10.05 Ratings8.035 Ratings
Publish to PDF9.01 Ratings9.045 Ratings
Report Versioning9.02 Ratings8.023 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling8.03 Ratings8.038 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Geckoboard
8.7
5 Ratings
7% above category average
Sisense
9.0
44 Ratings
11% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)10.05 Ratings9.044 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization10.05 Ratings9.041 Ratings
Predictive Analytics6.02 Ratings9.028 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Geckoboard
7.8
5 Ratings
10% below category average
Sisense
10.0
44 Ratings
15% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)9.05 Ratings10.044 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model7.03 Ratings10.043 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)9.03 Ratings10.044 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)6.12 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Geckoboard
9.5
5 Ratings
18% above category average
Sisense
9.0
39 Ratings
12% above category average
Responsive Design for Web Access9.05 Ratings9.039 Ratings
Mobile Application10.03 Ratings10.024 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile10.04 Ratings8.033 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Geckoboard
10.0
2 Ratings
23% above category average
Sisense
-
Ratings
REST API10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Javascript API10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
iFrames10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Java API10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
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Medium-sized Companies
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Score 9.9 out of 10
Enterprises
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User Ratings
GeckoboardSisense
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(6 ratings)
6.1
(57 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.0
(1 ratings)
8.9
(14 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(5 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(6 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.1
(3 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
GeckoboardSisense
Likelihood to Recommend
Geckoboard
Great value for the money. Excellent for smaller agencies with multiple projects and teams in a smaller space. We can quickly roll out mobile displays to help with a particular deployment push or monitoring a clients website engagement. It's also useful for showing live data without requiring analytics to run reports from a CRM, etc.
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Sisense Ltd
I believe Sisense is perfectly suited for any organization of any size that have access to the proper resources, as the tool is very expensive. The data connectors come in all shapes and sizes out of the box, which allows a great deal of data control within the ElastiCubes. Additionally, while the platform only runs on Windows platforms, the web application can be accessed on any client: mobile, Apple, Windows, etc. This allows a much more flexible user experience, resulting in data and dashboards reaching further than any other tool.
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Pros
Geckoboard
  • User self-help - the video tutorials and a robust publicly accessible knowledgebase.
  • Geckoboard can aggregate data from a number of other apps into a singular dashboard.
  • Sleek, dark UI.
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Sisense Ltd
  • Customization - lots of supported and community plugins available. Users can also adjust the look and feel through JavaScript.
  • Innovation - Sisense is continuing to push the envelope by developing new features through Sisense Labs.
  • Customer support - the commitment to excellent customer service and ensuring organizations get the most out of their investment.
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Cons
Geckoboard
  • A bit more flexibility in the number of columns would be nice.
  • Ability to scale to mobile device (web).
  • App capabilities are missing on Android.
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Sisense Ltd
  • The usability of the application on mobile devices needs some improvement, especially navigation and filtering.
  • Dashboards that are created by multiple users can be a bit of a hassle to share by Admins.
  • If you need to embed dashboards into your website, you are require to buy a license separate from the user and platform license. This is a norm on most BI visualization tools, but Sisense can seem a bit on the high side, cost-wide.
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Likelihood to Renew
Geckoboard
My company did not renew due to changes in the organization.
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Sisense Ltd
I think the business and myself as a user has come to rely on SiSense as a dashboarding and quick ad-hoc reporting tool. I am hoping to integrate SiSense dashboards into more parts of the business in the future. We have reduced our report turn-around time for the most part from hours/days to minutes and in some cases almost the speed of thought. Reports are also easier on the eye and more easily distributed. I would also like to say that the support and professionalism from the SiSense team has been excellent.
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Usability
Geckoboard
With a simple interface and available templates, creating basic dashboards is easy. Obviously depending on the data you want to visualize, there may be higher learning curves. That being said, they have a huge amount of integrations and extensible frameworks. If you are using anything made in the past ten years there is an API function or integration that can get it talking to the platform. As such, it's pretty easy to hit the main data points you want and get it on a cheap display in front of your team.
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Sisense Ltd
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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Reliability and Availability
Geckoboard
No answers on this topic
Sisense Ltd
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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Performance
Geckoboard
No answers on this topic
Sisense Ltd
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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Support Rating
Geckoboard
The support levels vary based on the level of plan that you have but that's to be expected. Virtually everything except the Enterprise plan has basic chat/email support. While they are responsive they are not going to be much assistance in helping you figure out API calls or implementing 3rd party integrations. That is to be expected and the support community can pretty much get you in the right direction if you look.
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Sisense Ltd
SiSense's support ninjas are very knowledgeable and are exceptionally responsive. So far, all of the issues we ran into were resolved within minimum time. My sense of dealing with the support staff at SiSense is that they are very focused on not just answering your immediate question, but also to delve into the cause of the matter.
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In-Person Training
Geckoboard
No answers on this topic
Sisense Ltd
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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Online Training
Geckoboard
No answers on this topic
Sisense Ltd
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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Implementation Rating
Geckoboard
No answers on this topic
Sisense Ltd
Remember to migrate the plugins. The documentation however is pretty straight forward.
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Alternatives Considered
Geckoboard
Domo is more robust. We do use both because Geckoboard is really easy to show the rest of our team without the need for additional licenses.
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Sisense Ltd
1) Easy to use, really, there is nothing too much to say. The set up is easy and not confusing. You can use it internally or externally.
2) Customer Service, having spoken to various product reps from similar industry. Sisense rep provides you with the best support to get started, and it is really appreciated.
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Scalability
Geckoboard
No answers on this topic
Sisense Ltd
Product is quite easily scalable. The whole installation can be easily moved to stronger machine if needed.
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Return on Investment
Geckoboard
  • While we originally used this as an internal IS tool, we eventually have expanded it to be used by nearly every department.
  • Because pricing is monthly, we can grow or decrease our usage based on our current client needs.
  • Because it is low cost and easy to deploy, we can utilize it in place of considerable resources in analytics and reporting by delivering snapshots of data without pulling reports.
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Sisense Ltd
  • 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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ScreenShots

Geckoboard Screenshots

Screenshot of Create live KPI dashboards in minutes. No coding or training required.Screenshot of Easily pull in real-time data from over 80 different tools, including spreadsheets and databases, as well as popular business tools like Salesforce, Zendesk, Google Analytics and many more.Screenshot of Anyone can build custom dashboards that make data and KPIs look professional and are easy for everyone on the team to understand at a glance.Screenshot of Get important numbers in front of the team or stakeholders, whether they're in the office or WFH.Screenshot of Every part of your organisation can surface metrics that matter to them and show progress towards their goals.