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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    InterSystems IRIS

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AInterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform that includes a multi-model transactional data management engine, an application development platform, and interoperability engine, and an open analytics platform. It is is the next generation of InterSystems' data management software. It includes…N/A

    Sisense

    Score6.9 out of 10
    N/ASisense 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
    InterSystems IRISSisense
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    InterSystems IRISSisense
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Must contact sales team for pricing.
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    Community Pulse
    InterSystems IRISSisense
    Considered Both Products
    InterSystems
    No answer on this topic
    Sisense Ltd
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    45 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    40 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    44 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    32 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    41 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    InterSystems IRISSisense
    Relational Databases
    Comparison of Relational Databases features of InterSystems IRIS and Sisense
    Feature
    InterSystems IRIS
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Sisense
    -
    Ratings
    ACID compliance10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database monitoring10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database locking8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Encryption10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Disaster recovery10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Flexible deployment7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple datatypes8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of InterSystems IRIS and Sisense
    Feature
    InterSystems IRIS
    -
    Ratings
    Sisense
    9.7
    47 Ratings
    17% above category average
    Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings10.037 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards00 Ratings10.047 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings9.033 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of InterSystems IRIS and Sisense
    Feature
    InterSystems IRIS
    -
    Ratings
    Sisense
    8.8
    47 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Drill-down analysis00 Ratings10.047 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities00 Ratings9.047 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings9.027 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings7.33 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of InterSystems IRIS and Sisense
    Feature
    InterSystems IRIS
    -
    Ratings
    Sisense
    10.0
    46 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Publish to Web00 Ratings10.036 Ratings
    Publish to PDF00 Ratings10.046 Ratings
    Report Versioning00 Ratings10.024 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings10.039 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of InterSystems IRIS and Sisense
    Feature
    InterSystems IRIS
    -
    Ratings
    Sisense
    9.5
    45 Ratings
    17% above category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings10.045 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings9.042 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics00 Ratings9.029 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of InterSystems IRIS and Sisense
    Feature
    InterSystems IRIS
    -
    Ratings
    Sisense
    10.0
    45 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings10.045 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings10.044 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings10.045 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of InterSystems IRIS and Sisense
    Feature
    InterSystems IRIS
    -
    Ratings
    Sisense
    9.7
    40 Ratings
    22% above category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings10.040 Ratings
    Mobile Application00 Ratings10.025 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings10.034 Ratings
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    InterSystems IRISSisense
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    Amazon RDS
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    SingleStore
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SAP IQ
    Score5.4 out of 10
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    InterSystems IRISSisense
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (45 ratings)
    10.0
    (58 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    8.9
    (14 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.4
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    7.1
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (47 ratings)
    Data Sources
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.2
    (47 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
    InterSystems IRISSisense
    Likelihood to Recommend
    InterSystems
    Intersystems IRIS is a really great tool for Interoperability. It has so many capabilities out of the box and then such a great developer community on top of that, that there are really no limits to what you can do in terms of data manipulation and translation. Personally I find it to be a great tool if you are looking for Interoperability software.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    InterSystems
    • Connecting with mutliple vendor platforms and systems allowing us to consume and provide data as needed.
    • Allowed us to implement our own RESTful api engine to server data to our internal applications.
    • Setting up their recommendations for high availability allow us to perform server maintenance with minimal down time to our users.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    InterSystems
    • Enhanced documentation, more comprehensive and user-friendly documentation, including detailed tutorials and examples
    • Improving compatibility and integrations with others programming languages
    • Introducing tools and techniques to optimize the performance of ObjectScript applications, such as profiling tools, performance monitoring utilities, and code optimization guidelines
    • A better compatibility with Python libraries
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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
    InterSystems
    No answers on this topic
    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
    InterSystems
    The interface is very intuitive, the documentation is very good so it is not complicated to operate.
    The security is complex, but you can create a special role to access and the user ONLY can operate with the part that it allows.
    Also, you can examine the data very quick with the SQL Browser integrated.
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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
    InterSystems
    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
    InterSystems
    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
    InterSystems
    The InterSystems WRC has always been helpful and responsive. The folks I have spoken with are always understanding of our needs and questions and regardless of if the question is simple or complex we are always met with the same professionalism and helpfulness every time. I have no hesitations contacting InterSystems for help!
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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
    InterSystems
    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
    InterSystems
    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
    InterSystems
    Will done based on a proper planning, so this will makes execution more easier and better.
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    Sisense Ltd
    Remember to migrate the plugins. The documentation however is pretty straight forward.
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    Alternatives Considered
    InterSystems
    We are using InterSystems IRIS [especially] for database operations as the query performance is really good for [a large] amount of customer data. You can easily integrate for any application like web, desktop, and many more. It also provides BI functionality which is also very easy to implement using InterSystems IRIS[.]
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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
    InterSystems
    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
    InterSystems
    • Very Fast and scalable software to deal with big data flow, safe and robust.
    • The studio IDE is quite old fashion and lacks a few facilities
    • amazing for complex data consumption, its milyi-model capability wich allows multiple different models for a single set of codes.
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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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