New Relic vs Sisense | TrustRadius

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Score 8.1 out of 10

Based on 156 reviews and ratings

Score 8.2 out of 10

Based on 102 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

New Relic

Sisense

Application monitoring

Database monitoring

Threshold alerts

Predictive capabilities

Application performance management console

Collaboration tools

Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications

Application dependency mapping and thresholding

Virtualization monitoring

Server availability and performance monitoring

Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting

IT Asset Discovery

New Relic

Sisense

Pixel Perfect reports

Customizable dashboards

Report Formatting Templates

New Relic

Sisense

Drill-down analysis

Formatting capabilities

Integration with R or other statistical packages

Report sharing and collaboration

New Relic

Sisense

Publish to Web

Publish to PDF

Report Versioning

Report Delivery Scheduling

New Relic

Sisense

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

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

Predictive Analytics

New Relic

Sisense

Multi-User Support (named login)

Role-Based Security Model

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

New Relic

Sisense

Responsive Design for Web Access

Dedicated iOS Application

Dedicated Android Application

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

Pros

New Relic lets you drill down into the nitty-gritty of your application, breaking down requests however far you want in order to inspect the performance of your application throughout the request lifecycle.
New Relic offers many integrations with other services and technologies, making it easy to get it set up and start using it.
New Relic offers many views and types of visualizations to help you understand what's going on in as much detail as you want to know.

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Head of Development Technologies

Top Floor TechnologiesInternet, 11-50 employees

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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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Data Engineer

InterfolioInternet, 51-200 employees

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Cons

Cloud-centric / OS-centric. There is no/limited ability to query metrics with an agent installed.
Insights-based queries (dashboards and alerts) are limited to 1000 (soon to be 2000) records and that doesn't work for enterprise scale.
NRQL is awesome -- except when it isn't. The replacement QL is more robust but is significantly more complex to learn.
No agent management tools in the platform. And, yes, you will want agent management tools after the first dozen or so deployments.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employees

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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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C-Level Executive in Corporate

Management Consulting Company, 11-50 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

New Relic 8.0

Based on 9 answers

I have not yet found any similar product that offers me this range of features to help us keep our online service fast and reliable. Besides this, New Relic is constantly evolving by adding new plugins to emerging technologies and platforms. Server performance measuring features are a key point as our user database grows.

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Analyst in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Sisense 8.9

Based on 14 answers

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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Analyst in Marketing

Retail Company, 51-200 employees

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Usability

New Relic 9.0

Based on 3 answers

New Relic interface can be tricky to setup sometimes, especially on dashboards, but the overall usability is great. We also find particularly interesting the chart creation tools. There are no major issues that prevented us using any of their services.

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Analyst in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Sisense 7.3

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

New Relic 10.0

Based on 1 answer

we have never had any down time issues!!!

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Jayson E. Conry

Lead Monitoring Engineer

Cambia Health SolutionsHealth, Wellness and Fitness, 5001-10,000 employees

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Sisense 8.2

Based on 2 answers

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

New Relic 8.0

Based on 1 answer

there are times where browser cache will cause issues that require you to clear your browser before continuing.

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Jayson E. Conry

Lead Monitoring Engineer

Cambia Health SolutionsHealth, Wellness and Fitness, 5001-10,000 employees

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Sisense 8.2

Based on 2 answers

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 Rating

New Relic 8.0

Based on 3 answers

There are times I feel that the initial support is lacking. And in some cases the automated responses of not hearing anything are annoying if the reason why there has been no movement is because we are still waiting to hear back from NR support. So, i think they should loose the automation as it can seem disingenuous

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Jayson E. Conry

Lead Monitoring Engineer

Cambia Health SolutionsHealth, Wellness and Fitness, 5001-10,000 employees

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Sisense 10.0

Based on 10 answers

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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Lead Data Scientist

WorkshareComputer Software, 51-200 employees

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In-Person Training

No score

No answers yet

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Sisense 7.3

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

No score

No answers yet

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Sisense 8.2

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 Rating

New Relic 8.5

Based on 4 answers

The documentation was clear and concise; the only issue we ran into was custom application naming. Due to HTTPD mod_fcgid and the need for the application name to be set in php.ini (not in .htaccess or the virtual host directive) ... we had issues setting this up.

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Systems Engineer

Penton MediaInformation Services, 1001-5000 employees

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Sisense 7.1

Based on 6 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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Alternatives Considered

We had originally looked into CloudWatch to monitor our resources since we have our stack built in AWS, but found that it would take additional work to setup the dashboards, alerts, and details that we wanted to see in our reports. It was worth the additional investment for us to get the data we needed with less work.

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Software Development Director

Fresh ConsultingInternet, 51-200 employees

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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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Verified User

Employee in Other

Computer Software Company, 11-50 employees

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Scalability

New Relic 8.0

Based on 1 answer

It's easy to scale. However, it isn't as easy to keep track of costs and who own's what/

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Jayson E. Conry

Lead Monitoring Engineer

Cambia Health SolutionsHealth, Wellness and Fitness, 5001-10,000 employees

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Sisense 8.2

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

New Relic helps us detect defects before our customers do.
New Relic helps us prioritize performance improvements. Engineers don't need to spend time measuring the latency of transactions themselves.
New Relic helps us notify the appropriate people rapidly when there are problems.

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Engineer in Engineering

Research Company, 11-50 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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Screenshots

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

New Relic Editions & Modules

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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

Modules

SAP Connector	¹

Per User per Month

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