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Sisense for Cloud Data Teams

Sisense for Cloud Data Teams
Formerly Periscope Data

Overview

What is Sisense for Cloud Data Teams?

Sisense for Cloud Data Teams (formerly Periscope Data) is a data visualization tool that allows users to connect to their SQL databases to create sharable, interactive dashboards. In addition to SQL, its analytics integrate with R and Python, allowing users…

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Recent Reviews

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Periscope Data's platform and API have been utilized by a wide range of professionals, including pharmacy owners, managers, and pharmacy …
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BI Analyst's Secret Weapon

10 out of 10
September 28, 2018
We use Periscope as our primary tool for insights to prepare our business leaders for strategic decisions. The ability to quickly stand up …
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Periscope Love

10 out of 10
September 28, 2018
Waitr has just started to use Periscope, and we already love it. Between the documentation for Redshift in general, and Periscopes help …
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Popular Features

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  • Formatting capabilities (18)
    9.2
    92%
  • Customizable dashboards (19)
    9.1
    91%
  • Report sharing and collaboration (19)
    8.6
    86%
  • Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.) (18)
    8.3
    83%
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Pricing

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What is Sisense for Cloud Data Teams?

Sisense for Cloud Data Teams (formerly Periscope Data) is a data visualization tool that allows users to connect to their SQL databases to create sharable, interactive dashboards. In addition to SQL, its analytics integrate with R and Python, allowing users to prep datasets, perform analysis, and…

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Features

BI Standard Reporting

Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.

9.2
Avg 8.4

Ad-hoc Reporting

Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.

8.9
Avg 8.0

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

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Data Discovery and Visualization

Data Discovery and Visualization is the analysis of multiple data sources in a search for patterns and outliers and the ability to represent the data visually.

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Product Details

What is Sisense for Cloud Data Teams?

Sisense for Cloud Data Teams Technical Details

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Frequently Asked Questions

Sisense for Cloud Data Teams (formerly Periscope Data) is a data visualization tool that allows users to connect to their SQL databases to create sharable, interactive dashboards. In addition to SQL, its analytics integrate with R and Python, allowing users to prep datasets, perform analysis, and create their own visualizations. Sisense acquired Periscope Data in mid-2019.

Reviewers rate Report Formatting Templates and Publish to Web and Publish to PDF highest, with a score of 9.6.

The most common users of Sisense for Cloud Data Teams are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Periscope Data's platform and API have been utilized by a wide range of professionals, including pharmacy owners, managers, and pharmacy operations stakeholders, to deploy business intelligence dashboards. This has enabled them to add value to their products and services. Furthermore, companies like Kongregate, a data-driven organization, have been relying on Periscope Data for over 5 years to visualize and analyze data. The platform not only caters to deep analytics but also serves non-technical departments that require reports and information about their products and services.

Sisense for Cloud Data Teams has proven to be a valuable asset for testers and analysts. It empowers them to create powerful dashboards, accurate graphs, and precise charts that effectively demonstrate client issues. Additionally, the subscription and dashboard characteristics offered by Sisense fill the gaps that were present in Power BI. Customers can now export their data and handle massive amounts of customer data seamlessly.

The versatility of Periscope Data is evident in its widespread use across organizations. Various departments such as marketing, sales, design, and production leverage the platform's capabilities to meet their reporting and data needs. With Periscope Data, ad-hoc reports can be easily created and interactive dashboards are at their disposal. This enables quicker decision-making processes based on real-time insights.

Moreover, Periscope Data plays an essential role in tracking resources and linking databases with Salesforce for monthly reports. By combining all databases in one intuitive environment, it allows employees to visualize and track production database, CRM system, sales effort, accounting data, making it an indispensable tool for all departments.

Another use case of Sisense for Cloud Data Teams lies in its ability to facilitate bug fixes and provide seamless sales experiences. Its custom dashboard creation feature allows users to showcase visually appealing reports externally to clients while internally organizing copious amounts of data effectively.

The analytical power of Periscope Data is leveraged by analysts to explore production datasets, create visualizations, and provide raw data to business users when internal tools fall short. With over 400 colleagues benefiting from the quick creation and editing of dashboards and queries, strategic decisions are supported efficiently.

Periscope Data's ability to extract meaningful insights from a central database serves organizations across multiple industries. It empowers users to create endless combinations of graphs, charts, and other data visualizations. Additionally, it serves as a general reporting tool and provides embedded reporting for licensed applications, making it a comprehensive solution for reporting needs.

Rapid Deployment Process: Many reviewers have praised Periscope Data for its rapid deployment process, allowing users to quickly start using the platform and benefit from its features.

Polished T-SQL-based Data Visualization: Users have highly regarded Periscope Data's polished T-SQL-based data visualization charts and dashboards. They appreciate the clean and professional look of the visualizations, which help them effectively analyze and present their data.

Outstanding Customer Service and Support: Numerous users have expressed their admiration for the outstanding customer service and support provided by Periscope Data. The knowledgeable support team has been commended for providing expert advice and quick responses, ensuring that users can make the most out of the platform.

Missing Line Numbers in Query Parsing Errors: Some users have expressed frustration with the absence of line numbers in query parsing errors, making it difficult for BI developers to identify and fix errors. This issue has been mentioned by multiple reviewers.

Issues with Caching Large Tables: Users have reported that caching large tables can cause issues with queries and the display of data, which is a pain point for them. Several reviewers have mentioned this problem.

Lack of Thoroughness in Embed API Documentation: The Embed API documentation has been criticized by users for lacking thoroughness and examples, making it challenging for them to effectively utilize this feature. Multiple reviewers have expressed this concern.

Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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April 12, 2022

Sisense is working well so far

Ryan McLean | TrustRadius Reviewer
Ryan McLean
Senior Data Analyst
Imagine Learning (Research, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
We have customers who want scheduled updates of their data. This product allows for those subscriptions and automated exports of their data without custom code involved. In my opinion, you either need to pay for software or software developers and to solve this problem, the company decided to shift into the pay for software solution and so far it has gone well.
April 06, 2022

My Go-to Data Visualization Platform (Sisense for Cloud Data Teams)

Alicia Sigler | TrustRadius Reviewer
Alicia Sigler
Corporate Development Specialist
Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission (Public Policy, 51-200 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Sisense for Cloud Data Teams is a perfect match for SMEs and large corporations with less complex data. It has been effective to discover, collect, connect, model, and visualize data across all data sources (on-premise and cloud-based software).
February 24, 2022

Best and amazing software.

Nitish kumar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Nitish kumar
System Engineer
Infosys (Computer Software, 10,001+ employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Sisense for Cloud Data Teams is suited so well for our project that works with lots of data and needs some ways to share data internally or externally with our clients. It's very easy to pull out the data from the sense in best and in a suitable format and moreover a huge number of options are available there to represent the data. All features of this Sisense for cloud data teams software can be taken advantage of if you have a team who are well versed in data analytics, data management, and programming.
October 06, 2019

Make Sense of Your Customers' Data

Adam Montgomery | TrustRadius Reviewer
Adam Montgomery
Energy Efficiency Consultant
SEMCO (Renewables & Environment, 51-200 employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Periscope Data is really well suited for organizations that work with a lot of data and need ways to share data internally or externally with clients. All of the features of the software can fully be taken advantage of if you have staff that is well versed in data analytics, data management, and programming.
October 03, 2019

Periscope Data - It's In The Name

Verified User
Employee in Marketing
Computer Software Company, 51-200 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
If you are a technology company that is reliant of accessible data then this is the platform for you. We work with over 10,000 clients with an average of a couple hundred data point per client on any given day. If your volume of reporting and metrics is not at that level yet, it may not be as useful (or, rather, may overload you with information that distracts from your specifics). The use of charts and vanity metrics, however, is incredibly useful for everyone from sales to marketing and everything in between. It helps make data actionable.
June 21, 2019

The Go-To Analytics Platform for Modern BI teams

Arnob Bordoloi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Arnob Bordoloi
Data Analyst
SquadLocker (Sporting Goods, 51-200 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
- Perfect for use cases which have multiple data sources with a range of databases, CRM tools, and marketing tools to solve data integration issues towards achieving a single source of truth.
- Despite having an excellent support team it is recommended to have good SQL knowledge to get the best out of data analysis using Periscope Data.
December 13, 2018

Explore and Visualize Your Data Without Much Hassle

Verified User
Analyst in Engineering
Hospitality Company, 51-200 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
If your company is still on the early stage yet it produces data with various domains, your analysts will be grateful to have Periscope Data as the main tool. Although they might not be able to combine your data here - except relies on Periscope cache (which is super helpful!), they could explore the data quite easily and produce visualization without additional coding skills. Periscope Data's support team is quite responsive and they don't hesitate to jump in and help to solve your problems.
November 26, 2018

Easy to use and beautiful dashboards!

Verified User
Account Manager in Sales
Information Services Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Any time you're trying to create graphs and charts from large amounts of data. You can select and update data in real time, and provide on going changing and live graphs. It's very helpful for creating impressive dashboards to visually understand data quickly and effectively. You can also use Periscope for drawing conclusions from sales and performance metrics.
October 16, 2018

Make BI work for you with Periscope Data

Brian Kichler | TrustRadius Reviewer
Brian Kichler
EVP, Operations & Pharmacy Analytics
RxSafe, LLC (Medical Devices, 11-50 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
What makes Periscope an outstanding platform is the value it creates for BI developers. Dashboards and charts are easy to create with some basic T-SQL knowledge, and can be quickly deployed. The API can be leveraged for internal or customer-facing business applications that need to embed BI charts. Periscope's customer support is awesome, with knowledgeable agents who are always ready and willing to help, and will run down bug reports/issues with the software team quickly, usually responding within a day if escalation is needed. The cost is reasonable, and the platform is constantly improving.
October 01, 2018

Fantastic data visualization package that is integral to our company's day-to-day operations

Anthony Pecorella | TrustRadius Reviewer
Anthony Pecorella
Director of Platform Content
Kongregate (Computer Games, 51-200 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
Periscope is great if you have a few technical people in the company who know SQL well and want to be able to set up dashboards for use by both technical and non-technical users in the company. It is very good at visualizing raw data through standard charts, though if you want something more elegant or complicated than tables, bar, and line graphs you may need to look elsewhere.
September 28, 2018

BI Analyst's Secret Weapon

Verified User
Director in Other
Consumer Goods Company, 201-500 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
Pick Periscope for an environment where analysts are fluent in SQL and business users want to explore charts and self-service data downloads.

Business users who want to explore for insights themselves but don't want to learn SQL may have some difficulty without training.
September 28, 2018

Periscope Love

Jared Beekman | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jared Beekman
Software Developer
Waitr (Hospitality, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
Your data is eventually consistent, this includes your data pipeline to your warehouse, to roughly an hour so real time metrics are difficult if your time constraints are less than that. I have yet to find a position/department in our company that could not benefit from Periscope. In fact we are moving several of our other data visualizations off other systems and into Periscope since it is so very much better suited to those roles.
March 14, 2018

Periscope - Powerful Customizable Dashboards

Gwen Rivet | TrustRadius Reviewer
Gwen Rivet
Growth Manager
OpenClassrooms (Higher Education, 51-200 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Periscope is well suited when an organisation is relying very much on data to make informed marketing and business decisions. It's an easy way to visualise data in a simplified manner without having to deal with extensive Excel sheets with a lot of incomprehensible tables. Each dashboard can be specific to a department and each KPI can be displayed.
December 13, 2017

Periscope Provides Our Teams with the Data We Need to Succeed!

Michael Kim | TrustRadius Reviewer
Michael Kim
Usability Research Recruiter (Project Manager)
UserTesting (Internet, 201-500 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It's very well suited for keeping track of sales data and other performance data within your various departments. If you have a lot of customers, you can track data that is in your CRM. Through customization, you can create reports depending on what you need. It's less appropriate if you don't have a lot of data or moving parts you need to track. Smaller companies with simple sales and expenses don't need a tool like this.
September 14, 2017

Periscope Data

PE
Pat Effinger
Lead Sales Engineer
DOmedia (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Periscope is well suited to turn large batches of data into visually appealing reports and graphs. You can create "dashboards" that house multiple reports and graphs in a single interface as well.

Periscope is less appropriate for businesses that don't have much data to visualize or don't have a technical expert to implement the solution.
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