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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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Sisense is working well so far

Rating: 8 out of 10
April 12, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We were using Power BI but our customers wanted an export of their data and Sisense for Cloud Data Teams offered the subscription and dashboard characteristics that we were lo...
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Ryan McLean
Analyst - Product Management
Senior Data Analyst
Imagine Learning
Sisense for Cloud Data Teams1 year of experience

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

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 6, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
I started using Sisense for Cloud Data Teams at ADCS for data visualization (structured, unstructured, and geospatial). I still use it to date at my current corporation to per...
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Alicia Sigler
Analyst - Corporate
Corporate Development Specialist
Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission
Sisense for Cloud Data Teams3 years of experience

Best and amazing software.

Rating: 8 out of 10
February 24, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We have used Sisense for Cloud Data Teams to manage and handle massive amounts of clients' data. Sisense for Cloud Data Teams offers their users a free version trial so that s...
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Nitish kumar
Engineer - Information Technology
System Engineer
Infosys
Sisense for Cloud Data Teams1 year of experience

Make Sense of Your Customers' Data

Rating: 7 out of 10
October 6, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use Periscope Data to handle and manage massive amounts of customer data. Our team of analysts uses it to create dashboards, graphs, and charts to visually demonstrate busi...
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Adam Montgomery
Consultant - Engineering
Energy Efficiency Consultant
SEMCO
Sisense for Cloud Data Teams1 year of experience

The Go-To Analytics Platform for Modern BI teams

Rating: 10 out of 10
June 21, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Periscope data is used across our organization here at Squadlocker. It serves all reporting/data needs for various departments like Marketing, Sales, Design and day to day mon...
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Arnob Bordoloi
Analyst - Engineering
Data Analyst
SquadLocker
Sisense for Cloud Data Teams2 years of experience
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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…

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Features

BI Standard Reporting

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

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Ad-hoc Reporting

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

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Product Details

What is Sisense for Cloud Data Teams?

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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 From Top Reviewers

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

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
April 06, 2022
AS
Alicia Sigler
Corporate Development Specialist
Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission (Public Policy, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sisense for Cloud Data Teams
3 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I started using Sisense for Cloud Data Teams at ADCS for data visualization (structured, unstructured, and geospatial). I still use it to date at my current corporation to perform the same projects.
Pros
  • Collect data across all ETL services.
  • Integrate with extensive range of external applications and APIs.
  • Offers free trial and support is available 24/7/12/365.
Cons
  • More documentation for available features would be better to simplify customization.
  • Do not have online community for peers and Sisense users.
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).

Explore and Visualize Your Data Without Much Hassle

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
December 13, 2018
Verified User
Analyst in Engineering
Hospitality Company, 51-200 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sisense for Cloud Data Teams
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Periscope Data is used by most of the departments within my company. Analysts use Periscope Data to explore production datasets and create initial visualizations easily, which are later consumed by the business users. Besides visualizations, business users often download raw data provided via tables on Periscope Data, which helps as a workaround when our internal tools are still limited.
Pros
  • quick and helpful response from support
  • various visualization options
  • enables cross-database joins
  • enables shared dashboards via email
  • has alert features
Cons
  • no connection to Treasure Data
  • query error feedbacks aren't easily understood, especially on cross database joins
  • still limited filter feature for BigQuery
  • chart drill down is quite difficult to use
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.

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

Rating: 10 out of 10
October 01, 2018
AP
Anthony Pecorella
Director of Platform Content
Kongregate (Computer Games, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sisense for Cloud Data Teams
5 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Kongregate is a very data-driven company and Periscope has been an integral part of how we visualize and analyze data for over 5 years now (we were one of their earliest customers). We use Periscope for deep analytics but also for many of our non-technical departments that just need reports and information about our product and services. It's so ingrained in our company's culture and experience at this point that one of the new employee tasks that every employee, in every department, does is try out making a Periscope dashboard. Periscope-generated charts and graphs are presented in company meetings, emailed out for daily reports, shared with our users, and just generally are part of the daily experience for many of our employees.
Pros
  • Provides experiences that are useful both for those with lots of analytics and SQL experience and for those who just want to use pre-designed dashboards.
  • Very flexible and robust with new features and capabilities, such as clever SQL shortcuts, being developed regularly.
  • Ridiculously quick and knowledgeable customer service department (response times are typically literally in seconds).
Cons
  • Dashboard layouts can be a bit fiddly at times.
  • External dashboard sharing tools exist but are still fairly basic.
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.

Periscope Love

Rating: 10 out of 10
September 28, 2018
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Waitr has just started to use Periscope, and we already love it. Between the documentation for Redshift in general, and Periscopes help files and outstanding customer support team we can get most things done easily or at least find out why they aren't working and try a new approach. They have been very attentive to our needs, and are rolling out new (and more importantly useful) features.
Pros
  • Organization of disparate data sources
  • Ability to run complex calculations using up to date and standardized tooling via Python and R
  • Their customer support team would keep me here even if they were missing features we needed
Cons
  • The UI can be nit-picky about not showing you full table names if they are long
  • There are some arbitrary restrictions on field content length that are removable, but not obvious to the end user
  • No way to make Python/R libraries to enable code reuse. Of note, they are working to fix this however with git integration.
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.

Periscope Data

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
September 14, 2017
PE
Pat Effinger
Lead Sales Engineer
DOmedia (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sisense for Cloud Data Teams
2 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
My company uses Periscope to generate visually appealing dashboards/graphs/reports for internal and external use.

Internally, we utilize the dashboards we've set up to understand where we stand on a variety of KPIs. For example, we've connected Salesforce to Periscope and created a dashboard that shows how many calls a particular salesperson made in the previous day/week/month. That dashboard is always accessible via Periscope but also is sent to the appropriate members of my team each morning.

Externally, our customers utilize similar dashboards to understand how they're using our platform. For example, we offer a media buying platform and Periscope allows us to show our customers how much money they've spent on media through our platform.
Pros
  • Periscope makes it very easy to write SQL queries to pull in critical information and KPIs that live in our database.
  • Periscope allows us to visualize those data points and KPIs in a aesthetically pleasing way that we've never visualized them before.
  • Periscope allows us to email those dashboards to the key stakeholders on a regularly scheduled basis so we don't always have to access and reference those reports in Periscope's application.
Cons
  • I haven't really seen many negative aspects of Periscope because I had very little to do with the implementation. I know we relied heavily on our systems engineer to connect Periscope with our database and with our instance of Salesforce but I think that comes with the territory of using a tool like periscope.
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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