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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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The Go-To Analytics Platform for Modern BI teams

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
June 21, 2019
AB
Arnob Bordoloi
Data Analyst
SquadLocker (Sporting Goods, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sisense for Cloud Data Teams
2 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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 monitoring for the Production and Art departments. Easy to create Ad-hoc reports, interactive dashboards are easy to share and used by various partners. Leveraging the Redshift data warehouse along with Periscope's database caching strategies and other ETL processes provides for an efficient data analysis platform for Product and Data Science Teams.
Pros
  • Data integration with support for various databases and popular tools.
  • Built in SQL formatter.
  • Use SQL to prepare and publish data sets for use with built in support for Python and R.
  • Quick setup for SQL Alerts, Views and Snippets.
  • Excellent on demand support team.
Cons
  • Caching tables can be problematic and views without unique columns do not cache accurately
  • SQL query parsing errors for queries running directly against databases can be confusing.
  • Issues with data sync in the Salesforce Integration.
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.

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).

Make BI work for you with Periscope Data

Rating: 10 out of 10
October 16, 2018
BK
Brian Kichler
EVP, Operations & Pharmacy Analytics
RxSafe, LLC (Medical Devices, 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
We use Periscope Data's platform and API to quickly deploy business intelligence dashboards to our user base, which is comprised largely of pharmacy owners, managers, or pharmacy operations stakeholders. Periscope is the customer-facing side of our data warehouse strategy, and we use it primarily to add value to our products and services, and give our customers a "one stop shop" to be able to see how our automation products are affecting their businesses.
Pros
  • Rapid deployment of polished T-SQL-based data visualization charts and dashboards. Periscope supports a variety of database technologies, and allows users to write custom queries to display data.
  • Included caching to reduce server load.
  • Outstanding customer service/support, with expert advice as needed.
  • Constant updates and new features.
  • Built-in SQL formatters take the pain out of manipulating date/time objects.
Cons
  • Query parsing errors do not display the line number of the error, this is a pain point for BI developers.
  • Caching large tables can be problematic and cause issues with queries and display of data.
  • Embed API documentation should be more thorough with plenty of examples.
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.

Periscope Data - It's In The Name

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
October 03, 2019
Verified User
Employee in Marketing
Computer Software Company, 51-200 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sisense for Cloud Data Teams
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Periscope Data allows us to create custom dashboards for our clients externally, and organize copious amount of data internally. Being able to create separate dashboards allows us to work on bugs in data on one branch within our engineering department while still allowing our sales team to have a seamless experience when showing the platform and it's inherent data reports to prospective clients.
Pros
  • Organization and security in only allowing access to certain aspects by certain users
  • Ease of access to information in user friendly charts and graphs
  • Ability to download reports used for sales, billing, engineering, and marketing.
Cons
  • Include more appropriate updates in their monthly newsletter as opposed to the general overview that doesn't always have the most pertinent information at the forefront.
  • There are bugs at times when certain dashboards are down, though not in an overwhelming way.
  • If you do not tag something it shows up in multiple views and may be accessible to people that it should not be, though that is a user error it may make sense to prompt for a tag and security setting.
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.

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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