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https://dudodiprj2sv7.cloudfront.net/product-logos/0P/Q9/A9AQNVR6GK0R.pngSisense LtdStill better than most of the competition by strides but needing a lot of work2017-12-20T20:39:05.446ZIt is currently being implemented to replace our organization-wide data warehouse and BI reporting platform. We've initially completed the data migration, and we are starting the build out of all of our organization reports as Sisense dashboards. Secondarily, we are utilizing their API capabilities to serve data to new websites we've recently launched.,Visual ETL and UI for data relationships and modeling within ETL.
Drill down and interactive reports with varying levels of filters for each dashboard.
Data alterations and updates are fast.,Their technical support has no option for immediate phone support in the event of a disaster or emergency. Their support staff is mainly located in Israel, so a ticketing system is relied on no matter what the urgency.
Their tech support also doesn't easily remote into your instance if you're hosting yourself to be able to quickly diagnose issues.
We've still been experiencing many random issues with Sisense like corrupt files and unexplained failures in production which seems very buggy.
Anytime deeply advanced SQL is used in the ETL section (Elasticube Manager) Sisense kind of falls apart. It needs any complex queries to be broken down into multiple, separate queries at the simplest denominator.,9,,7,8,Slack, Zoom, MongoDBJonathan GanucheauSisense : Great and Fastest Data Visualization Tool2019-03-06T15:22:18.435ZI have been using Sisense for many years now. Sisense is a data visualization tool, and it is the greatest step and latest in the Business Intelligence market. It provides the in-chip technology for accessing millions of data in the shortest span of seconds and provides the best visual efforts for your business data.,Fastest - due to its in chip methodology.
Using great visualization, BI becomes easier with Sisense.
Millions of data can be loaded in fewer seconds which didn't seem possible with other traditional reporting tools.
Robust Architecture and provides Rest APIs to access it externally.,Instability of the data cubes, runs and failures.
Unknown issues in widgets, dashboard, filters.
Republishing of the dashboards for every single change.
Variables, parameters cannot be used in the front end.,7,,8,7Surbhi SinghalReal world Sisense experience.2018-11-01T15:47:47.692ZSisense is being used across the whole company. We had issues with data from several sources - Salesforce, Google Analytics, and MS SQL Server. Sisense has allowed us to find the truth in our data.,Connects to all data sources.
Stylish dashboards.
Inbedability.,I believe an add-on marketplace for supported add-ons would be nice
Sometimes tech support doesn't realize the users are new to this.
More widget download options.,10,BOARD, Information Builders WebFOCUS and SAP Analytics Cloud,10,10,Microsoft SQL Server, JIRA Software, Atlassian ConfluenceChad VanscoySisense is a reliable way of displaying data2018-10-25T15:21:32.505ZWe made the decision to try out several dashboard type data services with Sisense being one of them a few years ago. We were using it to put together easy to read and accessible dashboards to display high level information for our senior executives. This became an ad hoc type of request and pulled in data from finance, sales, and security.,Drag and drop feature for creating a dashboard is very easy to use and intuitive.
Easy to share with other users especially if you want them to have a read only file.
Depending on the machine you have, it can be very fast and responsive when pooling data together.,Mobile system is wonky and not as intuitive as the desktop version. I would recommend against viewing the dashboards on a mobile device as well.,9,Tableau Desktop,9,8Joseph R. SweeneySisense a great solution to consolidate your Big Data Analysis Projects.2018-11-12T19:51:08.793ZWe use Sisense across our Business Finance models in the Financial and Accounting departments. We use it to develop and redesign the information stored in our Project Management Software and our ERP systems for the Construction and Real State Field. It gives us the perspective to consolidate everything in a single, easy to manage tool. Sisense reduces the time it takes to obtain complex reports from many different data sources, and controls a variety of formats in one single tool that enhances our BI platform and our internal and external resources delivered to our end clients.,Sisense is easy to set up and connect to a wide variety of formats and platforms.
Sisense reduces the time it takes to obtain an optimal ROI.
Sisense really delivers the instant analysis required to merge financial numbers and statistics with a pretty accurate dashboard landscape.,Sisense could work on their management strategy for dashboards that are created by multiple users, reducing the complexity and improving their management options and security premises.
The navigation and filtering options could be useful in the mobile version, but Sisense needs to work on the layouts to improve the UX.
Sisense is a heavy app so be careful if you deploy this powerful tool in a resource that is under its system requirements--it can drive you crazy waiting for optimal performance.,9,Microsoft Power BI, Domo and Tableau Desktop,9,9,Microsoft Power BI, Domo, Tableau DesktopVictor AranaWindows, Linux, Mac
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February 04, 2019
Sisense Review: "Still better than most of the competition by strides but needing a lot of work"
System Architect
The Seed CompanyNon-Profit Organization Management, 51-200 employees
It is currently being implemented to replace our organization-wide data warehouse and BI reporting platform. We've initially completed the data migration, and we are starting the build out of all of our organization reports as Sisense dashboards. Secondarily, we are utilizing their API capabilities to serve data to new websites we've recently launched.
- Visual ETL and UI for data relationships and modeling within ETL.
- Drill down and interactive reports with varying levels of filters for each dashboard.
- Data alterations and updates are fast.
- Their technical support has no option for immediate phone support in the event of a disaster or emergency. Their support staff is mainly located in Israel, so a ticketing system is relied on no matter what the urgency.
- Their tech support also doesn't easily remote into your instance if you're hosting yourself to be able to quickly diagnose issues.
- We've still been experiencing many random issues with Sisense like corrupt files and unexplained failures in production which seems very buggy.
- Anytime deeply advanced SQL is used in the ETL section (Elasticube Manager) Sisense kind of falls apart. It needs any complex queries to be broken down into multiple, separate queries at the simplest denominator.
Well suited
You don't need an actual data warehouse with historical and live data
You don't need separate solutions for ETL, DW and Reporting
You need all your data available via API's automatically
Less appropriate
You want to be to run stored procedure or cursor logic as part of your ETL (not possible in Sisense)
You don't need an actual data warehouse with historical and live data
You don't need separate solutions for ETL, DW and Reporting
You need all your data available via API's automatically
Less appropriate
You want to be to run stored procedure or cursor logic as part of your ETL (not possible in Sisense)
March 06, 2019
Review: "Sisense : Great and Fastest Data Visualization Tool"
Senior Software Engineer
BOLDInternet, 201-500 employees
I have been using Sisense for many years now. Sisense is a data visualization tool, and it is the greatest step and latest in the Business Intelligence market. It provides the in-chip technology for accessing millions of data in the shortest span of seconds and provides the best visual efforts for your business data.
- Fastest - due to its in chip methodology.
- Using great visualization, BI becomes easier with Sisense.
- Millions of data can be loaded in fewer seconds which didn't seem possible with other traditional reporting tools.
- Robust Architecture and provides Rest APIs to access it externally.
- Instability of the data cubes, runs and failures.
- Unknown issues in widgets, dashboard, filters.
- Republishing of the dashboards for every single change.
- Variables, parameters cannot be used in the front end.
Well Suited when your company size is small and having billions of records and concurrent users are less.
If data can be stored in form of elasticubes and can be accessed offline. But for large organization, its not appropriate as large number of users required more logins and it leads to costing and maintenance issue.
Also, at times we have observed its instability.
If data can be stored in form of elasticubes and can be accessed offline. But for large organization, its not appropriate as large number of users required more logins and it leads to costing and maintenance issue.
Also, at times we have observed its instability.
November 01, 2018
User Review: "Real world Sisense experience."
Operations support services
ProxibidInternet, 201-500 employees
Sisense is being used across the whole company. We had issues with data from several sources - Salesforce, Google Analytics, and MS SQL Server. Sisense has allowed us to find the truth in our data.
- Connects to all data sources.
- Stylish dashboards.
- Inbedability.
- I believe an add-on marketplace for supported add-ons would be nice
- Sometimes tech support doesn't realize the users are new to this.
- More widget download options.
Multiple data sets and finding the truth in those data sets is a big help. I can't think of a situation where Sisense wouldn't be a good fit.
October 25, 2018
Review: "Sisense is a reliable way of displaying data"
Senior Analyst
The TJX Companies, Inc.Information Services, 10,001+ employees
We made the decision to try out several dashboard type data services with Sisense being one of them a few years ago. We were using it to put together easy to read and accessible dashboards to display high level information for our senior executives. This became an ad hoc type of request and pulled in data from finance, sales, and security.
- Drag and drop feature for creating a dashboard is very easy to use and intuitive.
- Easy to share with other users especially if you want them to have a read only file.
- Depending on the machine you have, it can be very fast and responsive when pooling data together.
- Mobile system is wonky and not as intuitive as the desktop version. I would recommend against viewing the dashboards on a mobile device as well.
Sisense is well suited for any organizational situation where you want to display data in an aesthetically pleasing and comprehensive way. It provides users with a way of communicating real time data with others in a company without having to constantly send updates or schedule meetings but rather having the data ready to present and accessible anywhere by anyone.
November 12, 2018
Review: "Sisense a great solution to consolidate your Big Data Analysis Projects."
IT Manager
Stoneleaf Construction LLCConstruction, 51-200 employees
We use Sisense across our Business Finance models in the Financial and Accounting departments. We use it to develop and redesign the information stored in our Project Management Software and our ERP systems for the Construction and Real State Field. It gives us the perspective to consolidate everything in a single, easy to manage tool. Sisense reduces the time it takes to obtain complex reports from many different data sources, and controls a variety of formats in one single tool that enhances our BI platform and our internal and external resources delivered to our end clients.
- Sisense is easy to set up and connect to a wide variety of formats and platforms.
- Sisense reduces the time it takes to obtain an optimal ROI.
- Sisense really delivers the instant analysis required to merge financial numbers and statistics with a pretty accurate dashboard landscape.
- Sisense could work on their management strategy for dashboards that are created by multiple users, reducing the complexity and improving their management options and security premises.
- The navigation and filtering options could be useful in the mobile version, but Sisense needs to work on the layouts to improve the UX.
- Sisense is a heavy app so be careful if you deploy this powerful tool in a resource that is under its system requirements--it can drive you crazy waiting for optimal performance.
Sisense is the best choice if your company is seeking a reliable, powerful and very accurate tool that can connect to a wide variety of standard and unconventional databases or data sources. With the proper assessment before its deployment, you can make it a win-win solution to deliver amazing dashboards and business reports that can consolidate different data sources, becoming a useful resource for both your business and your customers. If your company runs data analyses from multiple sources in the under 40 million rows or lower range, Sisense may be out of your league as a data analysis software.
October 22, 2018
Sisense Review: "Best BI Tool"
Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employeesSisense was being used by certain departments of our organization. Our organization is so huge that it could not be used in the entire organization as different departments have different requirements and have their own requirements. Sisense helped in creating the ultimate dashboards, GAP analysis, creating trends and understanding where we are heading. We could co-relate data from different sources and use it to draw conclusions. Also reporting was a breeze with this dashboard for all the different tools and databases that we had. We could use these for analytics of data from different software. This helped management see a single view and still drill down to the core.
- Great analytics and mashing up of data from different data sources.
- Easy deployment, creation of dashboards and sending reports across management and teams in the organization.
- Great support, GUI, flexibility, low hardware cost and handles huge data with a breeze.
- Mobile support could be improved. Navigations and filtering require improvement.
- Integration with some QA tools like Rally and HP QC would be a huge plus. These tools don't have a reporting structure. This feature is a major miss for our department as we cannot get real-time reports.
- There could be simpler ways for admin to share dashboard results.
Sisense is very well suited when data needs to be integrated with different data sources and produce results out of it. It provides top-notch dashboards and visualizations. It is also very easy to share these results across teams and organizations. It is only less appropriate in a very few scenarios which could also be improved. One of them is for mobile support. It can be slightly improved. The other one is for the admin to send results, which could be simplified. The other place for improvement is to make the plugins slightly easier.
July 10, 2018
User Review: "Sisense: your data mate"
Founder
izi'NovRetail, 1-10 employees
Sisense can be used by every department in the organization. It will help each teams to understand, explore and leverage their data for any of their business decisions.
- Sisense is amazing when it comes to ingest and mix all your data sources with no advanced IT skills.
- Sisense is the most efficient tools for data modelling. You build a data set in a snap, ready to be used for your dashboards.
- Sisense allows anyone to build their own dashboard. The interface is "uber" intuitive, and "uber" efficient : no need to declare filters, data hierarchy or anything. Once your data are loaded, just build dashboards. Once they access a dashboard, users can fully exploit it and interact with the data : drill anywhere, explore the filters, add filters by interacting with the data visualization.
- The platform do not natively support data set allowing the users to see the table name and field name in multiple language ; but there is an easy to use external plugin
- It is not possible for a "reader" to create on the fly custom data group
Sisense is extremely powerful for easily connect to data, mash them up and let non-technical users build the dashboard they need. The interface is very intuitive, both for data modelling and dashboarding. The solution is full web from end to end, and can run on premise, in private cloud or in public cloud. It is also extremely easy to manage the server. Even though the upfront investment is not nothing, the global TCO is extremely low as the product does not require specific technical skills. Plus Sisense provides a lots of documentation and self-service trainings.
May 30, 2018
User Review: "Sisense is good a dashboarding"
Manager of Application Services
Child and Family ServicesIndividual & Family Services, 501-1000 employees
Sisense is being used by a number of areas within our organization.
- Our board of directors appreciates the ability to present key metrics about our company on a single page. The graphs are easy to understand. The ability to gather information from disparate divisions and present a unified picture saves time and aids decision making.
- Our division heads use it to get a picture of how their individual divisions are working. The ability to show the data in graphical form with minimal programming allows them to make better decisions for their departments.
- Our compliance department uses the graphs to quickly find issues within the company. By highlighting outliers from a number of different systems, corrective actions can be taken quickly, eliminating potential legal issues.
- Sisense can display data in a variety of formats, tabular or graphical, with no programming necessary for the display logic
- One 'elasticube' or back end data source, can collect data from any number of different systems. Sisense provides connectors to more than 20 different back end technologies, including all of the leading databases and flat file formats. The Elasticube can contain a query that joins together data from disparate data sources.
- The graphical front end facilitates filtering the back end dataset, both at design time and at run time, allowing the user to see just the necessary data set.
- Graphical views can be linked, allowing the user to drill down to see more details of any part of the database.
- My non-IT users are often confounded by the techniques necessary to build beautiful dashboards
- The web version of the elasticube manager does not do everything that that the desktop application does. With version 7.1, this seems to be getting better. More to follow...
- Our primary contact person keeps changing, leading to difficulties in continuity of support. On the plus side, it is nice having a dedicated support person.
- Sisense is a dashboarding tool. It is very appropriate for delivering summary or exception data to the users, presenting it in a fashion that is easy to digest.
- It is not as good at presenting tabular or raw data, showing the details that support the conclusion. If you need to see reams of data for the application, a reporting tool will be better suited to the job.
June 13, 2018
Sisense Review: "A nice BI tool that still needs some work"
Lead Data Analyst
GuestyComputer Software, 51-200 employees
We are using Sisense both for business and marketing analysis, and for product analysis. Therefore, our challenges vary, from more straightforward financial analysis to very case-specific cases, that require a different approach.
- Easily answer common business questions
- Helpful support team
- Creating new widgets and making changes in the existing ones is fairly easy
- Charts are limited and important options such as additional data on hover or sorting stacked bar charts by value. Some of these options can be achieved with Javascript though
- Filtering on dashboard confuses a lot of the users. There is no easy way to filter a specific widget (not by editing it)
- Drill downs are not very straightforward, and field names cannot be displayed differently on drill down
- The default color schemes could be better
- Querying data on the dashboard level is limited, and visually uncomfortable
- No readymade templates
I believe it's very suitable for simple business cases and for presenting simple data. It's less suitable for more complex data sets, mainly because there's little options of querying raw data and plotting it on the go.
June 06, 2018
User Review: "Using Sisense"
Executive Director
The NPD GroupMarket Research, 1001-5000 employees
Currently, Sisense is being used to pull data from various systems and sources giving our Financial Planning & Analysis team a one-stop shop for analysis.
- Ease of use especially when it comes to building widgets
- Customer Support & Professional Services
- Implementation Support
- Accessing NetSuite data through ODBC has been a bit of a challenge if you are not 100% familiar with the data structure
- Some of the widget labels that need to be updated/maintained via script can be challenging to a novice user (non-technical user)
If you are currently transacting/maintaining multiple systems Sisense "sits" on top of them nicely. the ability to not only link to existing systems but add flat files to the Elasticube directly gives you additional flexibility.
June 04, 2018
Sisense Review: "Professional support, great visualization and control"
BI Analyst
One Hour TranslationTranslation and Localization, 5001-10,000 employees
Initially, Sisense was used only by top management but now it's being used by almost all managers in some scale. We use the platform before taking business decisions and to monitor new procedures and projects.
- Give junior and medium level managers more control over data and take data driven decisions.
- Take control over large users data and attributes
- Visualization and aesthetics of dashboards and widgets is top tier
- No immediate support for extremely urgent issues like system errors/crashes or phone support
- Viewers option to drill into data is somewhat clumsy and needs adjustments
- Build time and duration expectancy changes a lot for no apparent reason.
- There are no proper metrics regarding dashboards/tables use and workload. Effects optimization and schema size
Would highly recommend Sisense for small-medium companies.
September 19, 2018
Review: "Sisense: Best Data Visualization Tool in 2018."
Verified User
C-Level Executive in Corporate
Management Consulting Company, 11-50 employeesAs a Business Intelligence professional, I live to learned about new solutions to create opportunities in different sized organizations. We implemented Sisense in order to help visualize data across different organizations. As of now the tool is used to display performance indicators and to help develop and maintain the performance-based budget.
- The biggest pro I found with Sisense is that you do not need a DBA in order to manage the system. This makes the learning curve really easy, which helps lots when thinking of implementation across a whole organization. This reflects well for the tool, since it is powerful, but easy to use.
- ALL-IN-ONE! Sisense answered all of my customers and our company's requirements, to include data modelling and complex calculations.
- Sisense is as accurate as your data, and best of all, it is real time. After using other visualization tools, I learned that when using multiple sources, errors occur. Sisense prevents this risk by allowing all of the resources to be managed at their engine, maintains connections, and as a developer, the EliastiCube allows you to source large volumes of data with an easy click.
- 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.
Sisense offers multiple flexible pricing plans that can be suitable for all types of industries and company sizes. From a small business as ours, to a large enterprise. The Vendor allows you to try the product and develop a proof of concept before buying the product. So why not? Test drive your solution. This is what allowed us to understand how this BI tool would boost our company's productivity.
September 17, 2018
Review: "Sisense - The analytics tool you've been looking for!"
Verified User
Analyst in Product Management
Computer Software Company, 1001-5000 employeesOur company was in need of a comprehensive analytical tool in which we could develop actionable insights in relatively real-time dashboards. Most departments have some form of reporting tool that does not play well with others and organizational data is as disparate as they come. Sisense was demoed in hopes of alleviating these pain points for a detailed view into all areas of the organization based off data aggregated into a single, flexible platform.
- Great management of large amounts of data from numerous sources.
- Beautiful visualization capabilities.
- Fantastic support of customizations through custom JS plug-ins.
- Implementation requires very little effort allowing users to start working with their data in a short amount of time.
- After initial implementation, learning spikes up rather quickly in regard to SQL joins and custom table manipulation.
- There is plenty of documentation surrounding how to do specific tasks, but not as it pertains to errors and why other things do not work. However, this is constantly improving as the community grows and collaborators contribute content.
- There are quite a few tasks that require significant manual input and design. This is ideal in many situations; however, many users would like a more intuitive engine that can create working widgets automatically based on the type of data fed. Again, this is already a work in progress and will likely need much more data to establish a learning engine.
I believe Sisense is perfectly suited for any organization of any size that have access to the proper resources, as the tool is very expensive. The data connectors come in all shapes and sizes out of the box, which allows a great deal of data control within the ElastiCubes. Additionally, while the platform only runs on Windows platforms, the web application can be accessed on any client: mobile, Apple, Windows, etc. This allows a much more flexible user experience, resulting in data and dashboards reaching further than any other tool.
July 03, 2018
User Review: "Need a dashboard? Sisense It"
Verified User
Employee in Other
Computer Software Company, 11-50 employeesWe used Sisense to provide analytics for our software users. In the company, we have a lot of data on our users, and we want to use this data to empower our users. Building an analytics tool will take a huge amount of time and resources. Sisense gave us the ability to easily provide analytics due to their ease of use as an EBI. It is currently being used by 700 active users.
- Ease of Use
- Customer Service
- Visualization
- Customizability - SQL/CSS, iFRAME/JS
- Missing functionality - Joins
- More attention on community forums
If you are looking to have an analytics tool for your company, or if you have a lot of data/data points.. then look no further. Sisense provide you with a comprehensive business intelligence tool for you to make the right decision with their intelligence capabilities. Don't build it yourself as it will take a lot of time and effort,.
December 28, 2017
Sisense Review: "Flexible BI single stack solution"
HCS & CC Team Leader
BynetInformation Technology and Services, 201-500 employees
We are using Sisense as platform for providing reports and business intelligence for our customers. In essence, we are using the platform as OEMs.
With Sisense, we provide reports and insights for contact center solutions which we implement to our customers.
- Excellent single-stack BI solution, allowing great flexibility for data-modelling within the Sisense platform itself, with no need to perform the data modelling on a separate platform. The data modelling is implemented using standard SQL which makes anyone familiar with SQL already able to use the system.
- Virtually unlimited customization options using Java Script, allowing you to modify and enhance existing functionality.
- Great support from the both customer support and the user community.
- Some functionality is missing as built-in functionality, and can only be added by using Javascript, which requires technical knowledge of JS from the dashboard designer to implement. So although almost anything is possible to implement, some things which should be basic require high-level skills.
- Viewers of dashboards have very limited customization options, almost any customization requires the dashboards designer to implement.
- Particularly, viewers are unable to select conditional formatting, rename fields, change the order of items, etc.
Well suited for almost any BI implementation across any subject matter, and especially where a lot of data modelling must be performed on the data before used in the reports.
Somewhat lacking where the users/viewers of the dashboards need to have customization options of the dashboard per-user, such as when the same report might be used by different customers.
December 14, 2017
Sisense Review: "Great Product - We Enjoy Pushing The Limits"
Chief Technology Officer
ReMy Health IncInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Real-time Internal visibility to operations for accounts and executive management, also providing similar visibility directly to clients through OEM license of Sisense. We've become dependent on the operational analytics from Sisense for both assessing the success of recent feature updates and prioritizing new features.
- Data visualization and exploration. It's very easy to create useful widgets and explore data.
- Extract Transform and Load (ETL). The ETL ability of Sisense should be promoted heavily. Their ability shaved weeks off our implementation compared to other products and continues to make adding/updating datasets simple.
- The product does not have the ability to view its own operational metrics on a dashboard. We pointed this out during our implementation more than a year ago, and this is still lacking in the product. We've built our own functionality around this since, but it should have come out-of-the-box.
- The mobile experience also isn't nearly as rich as we'd like. They've grown quite a bit there in the last year but still needs more capabilities.
The speed at which we constructed our original solution, and several solutions since is outstanding. That speaks to the product functionality and performance, and the people at Sisense that have helped us along the way.
November 29, 2017
Sisense Review: "Go from nothing to an enterprise BI solution *quickly*"
Lead Data Scientist
WorkshareComputer Software, 51-200 employees
SiSense is used to distribute data and information inside our organisation such that the right colleagues have access to the right data, ultimately to service our customers better. SiSense's configurable cube-level and row-level security makes this data and information sharing possible in a way that is compliant.
- From the admin/data engineering perspective: Data preparation is very intuitive - the Elasticube builder interface makes the creation of the data structures (Elasticubes) very straightforward.
- From the content creator's perspective: Dashboards are easy to create, maintain, copy and backup. Also, there are community-created D3 visualisation add-ins, which extends the standard set of widgets.
- From users' perspective: Dashboard interaction is intuitive. Downloading the data underpinning graphs and tables (widgets) are easy.
- From data compliance officers' perspective: setting data access controls are easy; these can be implemented at a dashboard level, Elasticube level and row level.
- Elasticube builder only works on Windows (set to change in future releases).
- The smallest possible rollout is to install SiSense Server on a Windows server. There is currently no stand-alone desktop version.
SiSense is great for going from zero to publishing engaging dashboards to a big audience quickly. You can quite easily go from having nothing to publishing sophisticated and beautifully designed dashboards in less than a week. Learning to use the technology is easy, pulling in data is easy and modeling data relationships is easy. Dashboard creation is also very intuitive and the so too is dashboard interaction.
If your use-case involves small installations with few users and/or a need to have offline access to packaged dashboards, SiSense might be a bit big for you: Sisense currently only has a server-based solution. To get to your dashboards you need to either have access to the machine where SiSense Server is installed or have web access to said server. There is currently no lite reader or desktop-only installation. This limitation would not have an impact in instances where the goal is to roll out an enterprise-wide BI solution, though.
November 13, 2017
Sisense Review: "Impressed, and Excited for Future Adoption!"
Director of IT
Labatt Breweries of CanadaFood & Beverages, 1001-5000 employees
Sisense started being used by a single department and has taken off across multiple departments across the company. Our legacy and newer BI tools struggled with speed to develop and mash up different and large data sets - Sisense has bridged that gap and taken off as a result.
- Ease of Use: Non-technical users can quickly get up to speed and become dashboard developers in a matter of a few days if they have a mind for data
- Speed: Massive datasets are easily crunched on basic hardware. Ad hoc analysis on hundreds of millions of rows of transactional data is a snap
- Support: The Sisense team from top to bottom is passionate about their product, and in fact when we log issues, we have a hard time keeping up to their speedy responses
- Some of the enterprise functions are not fully baked (admins can't see all use and dashboards easily)
- Missing a few critical connectors (e.g. Teradata)
Very well suited to rapid data mashup for massive datasets and self service BI deployment with a very smooth user experience
December 07, 2017
"Sisense Review - December 2017"
Verified User
Analyst in Finance and Accounting
Publishing Company, 51-200 employeesSisense is available to about half of our 200 employees and is used to review and analyze supply chain data as pertains to the publishing industry.
- Easy to implement. Robust data modeling back-end.
- User-friendly front-end. Dynamic widgets that are minable by anyone.
- Excellent customer service.
- Some basic data analysis functions should be productized (ex. MIN/MAX on date data fields, for dashboard designers).
- Administrative oversight by way of dashboards is lacking.
Sisense is great for us namely because we don't have a traditional data warehouse.
There's room for Sisense to add more ways for users to collaborate on a dashboard, so if you have many people capable of designing dashboards, you have to do some workarounds.
There's room for Sisense to add more ways for users to collaborate on a dashboard, so if you have many people capable of designing dashboards, you have to do some workarounds.
October 31, 2017
Review: "Sisense has made a positive impact on our agency."
Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Government Administration Company, 201-500 employeesWe use Sisense across our entire organization. It allows us to bring together data from multiple sources into one spot where we can easily, efficiently, and effectively perform analysis. The widgets provide a easy-to-view way to see data, filter, sort, and drill-down. What once took us weeks to do can now be accomplished in a matter of minutes.
- Creates visualizations of data
- Allows what-if capability
- Allows users to filter, sort, and drill-down
- I would like to see Sisense change its license policy so we could make our dashboards available to more users.
Sisense is a great tool to quickly bring together data from various sources and visually display in a dashboard. Sisense may not be the tool for you if you are looking to do a lot of traditional reporting with rows and columns of data.
December 18, 2017
"Sisense Review"
Verified User
Director in Marketing
Marketing and Advertising Company, 11-50 employeesWe are using Sisense to help us both internally and externally to analyze our data and make better buying decisions.
- Simplifies business analytics for our teams and allows them to make better decisions
- Reveal actionable insights of our data in a much faster way
- Allows us to share and present these insights with co-workers, management, and clients
- They could have better connections to digital marketing tools, I know they are working on that
If you have huge amounts of data and you would like to get answers to what your next move is but you just can't figure it because of all the noise Sisense can help you
May 10, 2017
Review: "Sisense is on the way to market leadership"
Senior Manager Business Intelligence Data Architect
LifesizeTelecommunications, 201-500 employees
We use Sisense to report KPIs to executives and managers. We use dashboards to provide insights and direction. We are currently developing dashboards we will expose to our customers and sales partners. Sisense is our platform for single source of truth and sharing consistent and correct information across the organization.
- Ingesting and modeling data from multiple sources
- Responsive web based dashboards that scale to many users
- Customer obsession, we get quick answers to technical questions and new features almost every month.
- The web page can be radically customized, but there's not a lot of documentation to help you
- Some widgets don't work quite as expected or have little bugs
- A wide variety of plugins exist, it's hard to know what all is out there and what works with your version
We've found Sisense to work well as an EDW, combining many data marts and sources in easy to understand data models. This also makes all your data easily surfaced into visualizations, empowering the curious and data scientists in the organization.
August 11, 2017
Review: "Sisense a great tool, looks professional and is easy to use."
Intern at Digital Leadership Technology Program (DLTP)
GE DigitalComputer Software, 10,001+ employees
Sisense has been used across multiple businesses within GE, because users enjoy how easy it is to work with it. As part of the SCM main concerns, employee safety and accurate risk and crisis management are the top. We need visual aids to be clear on GED employees and facilities, numbers, locations, and the employees breakdown per function and parent business.
- Elastic Cubes are easy to build, and make changes to them is easy.
- Implementing a dashboard is super simple and you just need to have the right data.
- Implementing new widgets and customizing them is very easy.
- I was never able to share my dashboards with other users.
- I couldn't solve setting widgets below each other.
- The PDF visualization cuts the dashboards even in landscape format.
Well suited when you know what you want to build and show and when you already have a server to deploy your Elasticubes and your dashboards.
August 11, 2017
Sisense Review: "Great solution for even the most technically-challenged users"
Verified User
Team Lead in Finance and Accounting
Insurance Company, 501-1000 employeesSisense is being used through our entire organization. It allows us to provide data analysis and reporting to external customers as well as internal users. It drastically reduces the volume of reports being manually run.
- Simple, clean user interface. Sisense offers the most options to the designers and admins. Leaving the end-user the abilities only they need. No confusing layers of options they can't use or understand.
- Fast building of metadata layer over millions of records.
- Ability to interface (reliably) with various databases/systems including IBM iSeries.
- Better ability to download data to excel in a readable format close to what appears in the dashboard.
- Knowledge base is vast but not easily searched.
- More customization options for UI.
Great for simple, clean reporting to all customers. Particularly appreciated by customers who get intimidated by too many options in other tools.
August 04, 2017
Review: "Pushed for Sisense...never looked back!"
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employeesWe brought Sisense into our company because we needed a solution that : (1) could scale for enterprise deployment, (2) enabled self-service analytics, and (3) allowed end-user customization. Our team provided data analytical support for the entire organization (100K+), so we needed a tool that would put the power of data mining and visualization back in the hands of the users. We compared other BI tools like Tableau, Pentaho, and Spotfire and found that Sisense was truly a leader in these three categories. In fact, bringing Sisense in-house for self-service analytics allowed us to scale back our development resources and focus our energy on other, value-generating endeavors.
However, the best part of using Sisense was the partnership. Not only where we assigned an account rep, but we had a dedicated product engineer at our finger tips to help with questions related to data modeling, dashboards, and custom enhancements. The service and attention we received from that duo was world-class. It is rare to work with a company of this size and consistently receive same-day service with high quality, knowledgeable engineers.
Overall, Sisense has a great, innovative product and is an excellent partner. You will not be disappointed with their service.
However, the best part of using Sisense was the partnership. Not only where we assigned an account rep, but we had a dedicated product engineer at our finger tips to help with questions related to data modeling, dashboards, and custom enhancements. The service and attention we received from that duo was world-class. It is rare to work with a company of this size and consistently receive same-day service with high quality, knowledgeable engineers.
Overall, Sisense has a great, innovative product and is an excellent partner. You will not be disappointed with their service.
Great for ...
(1) orgs that want to abandon the traditional DWH model and allow users to ingest data from ANYWHERE
(2) orgs that want teams to collaborate and move fast
(3) orgs that want to explore IoT integrations
(1) orgs that want to abandon the traditional DWH model and allow users to ingest data from ANYWHERE
(2) orgs that want teams to collaborate and move fast
(3) orgs that want to explore IoT integrations
Sisense Scorecard Summary
Feature Scorecard Summary
Pixel Perfect reports (31)
7.9
Customizable dashboards (39)
9.0
Report Formatting Templates (28)
8.0
Drill-down analysis (39)
8.6
Formatting capabilities (39)
8.1
Integration with R or other statistical packages (22)
8.7
Report sharing and collaboration (3)
7.3
Publish to Web (29)
9.1
Publish to PDF (38)
9.0
Report Versioning (19)
7.9
Report Delivery Scheduling (31)
8.7
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.) (38)
9.2
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization (35)
8.9
Predictive Analytics (22)
8.7
Multi-User Support (named login) (37)
8.9
Role-Based Security Model (36)
8.9
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete) (37)
8.7
Responsive Design for Web Access (32)
8.6
Dedicated iOS Application (19)
7.9
Dedicated Android Application (16)
8.2
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile (27)
7.8
About Sisense
Sisense simplifies business analytics for complex data. Powered by its unique In-Chip™ and Single Stack™ technologies – Sisense delivers unmatched performance, agility and value, eliminating much of the costly data preparation traditionally needed with business analytics tools and providing a single, complete tool to analyze and visualize large, disparate data sets without IT resources. With more than one thousand customers in over 50 countries, including global brands like Target and Samsung, Sisense was recently designated a hot company to watch by CIO, CRN and Information Management and recognized as one of the "10 Most Innovative IT Ventures" at Under the Radar. Its solution won the "Audience Choice" award at the O’Reilly Strata conference and its CTO won the World Technology Award for the invention of In-Chip™ analytics
Sisense Features
BI Platform Features
Has featureAdministration via Windows App
Has featureAdministration via MacOS App
Has featureAdministration via Web Interface
Has featureLive Connection to External Data
Has featureSnapshot of External Data
Has featureIn-memory data model
Has featureOLAP (Pre-processed cube representation)
Has featureROLAP (SQL-layer querying)
Has featureMulti-Data Source Reporting (Blending)
Has featureData warehouse / dictionary layer
Has featureETL Capability
Has featureETL Scheduler
Supported Data Sources Features
Has featureMS Excel Workbooks
Has featureText Files (CSV, etc)
Has featureOracle
Has featureMS SQL Server
Has featureIBM DB2
Has featurePostgres
Has featureMySQL
Has featureODBC
Has featureCloudera Hadoop
Has featureHortonworks Hadoop
Has featureEMC Greenplum
Has featureIBM Netezza
Has featureHP Vertica
Has featureParAccel
Has featureSAP Hana
Has featureTeradata
Has featureSage 500
Has featureSalesforce
Has featureSAP
Has featureGoogle Analytics
BI Standard Reporting Features
Has featurePixel Perfect reports
Has featureCustomizable dashboards
Has featureReport Formatting Templates
Ad-hoc Reporting Features
Has featureDrill-down analysis
Has featureFormatting capabilities
Has featurePredictive modeling
Has featureIntegration with R or other statistical packages
Does not have featureReport sharing and collaboration
Report Output and Scheduling Features
Has featurePublish to Web
Has featurePublish to PDF
Has featureOutput Raw Supporting Data
Has featureReport Versioning
Has featureReport Delivery Scheduling
Does not have featureDelivery to Remote Servers
Data Discovery and Visualization Features
Has featurePre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
Has featureLocation Analytics / Geographic Visualization
Has featurePredictive Analytics
Has featureSupport for Machine Learning models
Has featurePattern Recognition and Data Mining
Has featureIntegration with R or other statistical packages
Access Control and Security Features
Has featureMulti-User Support (named login)
Has featureRole-Based Security Model
Has featureMultiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
Has featureReport-Level Access Control
Has featureTable-Level Access Control (BI-layer)
Has featureField-Level Access Control (BI-layer)
Does not have featureSingle Sign-On (SSO)
Mobile Capabilities Features
Has featureResponsive Design for Web Access
Has featureDedicated iOS Application
Has featureDedicated Android Application
Has featureDashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding Features
Does not have featureREST API
Does not have featureJavascript API
Does not have featureiFrames
Does not have featureJava API
Does not have featureThemeable User Interface (UI)
Does not have featureCustomizable Platform (Open Source)
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Sisense Screenshots
Sisense Integrations
Splunk Enterprise, Salesforce, Google Adwords & Analytics, SAP & all database servers, Excel & CSV Files
Sisense Competitors
Pricing
Has featureFree Trial Available?Yes
Does not have featureFree or Freemium Version Available?No
Has featurePremium Consulting/Integration Services Available?Yes
Entry-level set up fee?No
| Modules | Pricing Details | Terms |
|---|---|---|
| SAP Connector | Per User per Month |
Sisense Support Options
| Free Version | Paid Version | |
|---|---|---|
| Phone | ||
| Forum/Community | ||
| FAQ/Knowledgebase |
Sisense Technical Details
| Deployment Types: | On-premise, SaaS |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems: | Windows, Linux, Mac |
| Mobile Application: | Apple iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry |
| Supported Countries: | All |