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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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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.

9.6
Avg 8.4

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.

8.7
Avg 8.1
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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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Explore and Visualize Your Data Without Much Hassle

Rating: 9 out of 10
December 13, 2018
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sisense for Cloud Data Teams
1 year of experience
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.
  • 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
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.

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

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 06, 2022
AS
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sisense for Cloud Data Teams
3 years of experience
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.
  • 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.
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).

Periscope Data

Rating: 9 out of 10
September 14, 2017
PE
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sisense for Cloud Data Teams
2 years of experience
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.
  • 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.
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.

Periscope Data by Fintech scale-up

Rating: 9 out of 10
September 28, 2018
We use Periscope for visualising and tracking all data of our production database, CRM system, sales effort, and accounting. Combining all databases, in one intuitive environment for all our employees.
  • Easy filtering
  • Rapid queries
Cons
  • Requires knowledge of at least SQL
Well suited: Well structured production DB with a lot granularity and depth of data. Allows for rapid testing/prototyping Less suited: Combining different databases. UX is more error prone and tedious.

Periscope Data - It's In The Name

Rating: 8 out of 10
October 03, 2019
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sisense for Cloud Data Teams
2 years of experience
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.
  • 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.
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.
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