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What is Sisense?

Sisense is a BI software and analytics platform. With what the vendor calls their In-Chip™ and Single Stack™ technologies, users have access to a comprehensive tool to analyze and visualize large, disparate data sets without IT resources.

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Best BI Tool

9 out of 10
October 22, 2018
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Popular Features

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  • Customizable dashboards (46)
    9.0
    90%
  • Publish to PDF (45)
    9.0
    90%
  • Formatting capabilities (46)
    9.0
    90%
  • Drill-down analysis (46)
    8.0
    80%
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What is Sisense?

Sisense is a BI software and analytics platform. With what the vendor calls their In-Chip™ and Single Stack™ technologies, users have access to a comprehensive tool to analyze and visualize large, disparate data sets without IT resources.

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.sisense.com/get/pricing

Offerings

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

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Product Demos

Locked Filter | Sisense Tutorials: Filtering Dashboard Data

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Adding a Custom Field | Sisense Tutorials: Preparing your Data Model

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Working with Tables and Fields | Sisense Tutorials: Preparing your Data Model

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Adding a Custom SQL Table | Sisense Tutorials: Preparing your Data Model

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Date and Time Functions | Sisense Tutorials: Preparing your Data Model

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Layout and Responsive Design | Sisense Tutorials: Creating your Dashboard

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Features

BI Standard Reporting

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

8.7
Avg 8.2

Ad-hoc Reporting

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

8.3
Avg 8.1

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

8.2
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.

9
Avg 8.1

Access Control and Security

Access control means being able to determine who has access to which data.

10
Avg 8.6

Mobile Capabilities

Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.

9
Avg 8.0
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Product Details

What is Sisense?

Sisense data & analytics platform is designed to make it easy to mashup data from across the entire data landscape and transform it into actionable analytics applications that can be embedded anywhere. The vendor boasts innovative startups and global brands like GE, Nasdaq, and Philips, as well as organizations worldwide are using Sisense to accelerate innovation and drive digital transformation by embedding Sisense into their businesses. Whether data is in the cloud, on-prem, or a mix of both, Sisense gives users everything needed to successfully deliver on analytics application strategy today, allowing you to:

  • Securely connect and ingest data into cloud data warehouses to create a single store for your data
  • Mashup data from dozens of sources for a complete view of your business
  • Leverage a combination of live or cached data models to optimize performance and manage resource utilization
  • Build beautiful visualizations and actionable application components using the robust library of integrated widgets and certified add-ons
  • Develop and white-label with ease using a full suite of APIs and developer toolkits
  • Differentiate products and services with fully integrated, white-label analytics in the office or on mobile devices for users on the go

Sisense Features

BI Platform Features

  • Supported: Administration via Windows App
  • Supported: Administration via MacOS App
  • Supported: Administration via Web Interface
  • Supported: Live Connection to External Data
  • Supported: Snapshot of External Data
  • Supported: In-memory data model
  • Supported: OLAP (Pre-processed cube representation)
  • Supported: ROLAP (SQL-layer querying)
  • Supported: Multi-Data Source Reporting (Blending)
  • Supported: Data warehouse / dictionary layer
  • Supported: ETL Capability
  • Supported: ETL Scheduler

Supported Data Sources Features

  • Supported: MS Excel Workbooks
  • Supported: Text Files (CSV, etc)
  • Supported: Oracle
  • Supported: MS SQL Server
  • Supported: IBM DB2
  • Supported: Postgres
  • Supported: MySQL
  • Supported: ODBC
  • Supported: Cloudera Hadoop
  • Supported: Hortonworks Hadoop
  • Supported: EMC Greenplum
  • Supported: IBM Netezza
  • Supported: HP Vertica
  • Supported: ParAccel
  • Supported: SAP Hana
  • Supported: Teradata
  • Supported: Sage 500
  • Supported: Salesforce
  • Supported: SAP
  • Supported: Google Analytics

BI Standard Reporting Features

  • Supported: Pixel Perfect reports
  • Supported: Customizable dashboards
  • Supported: Report Formatting Templates

Ad-hoc Reporting Features

  • Supported: Drill-down analysis
  • Supported: Formatting capabilities
  • Supported: Predictive modeling
  • Supported: Integration with R or other statistical packages

Report Output and Scheduling Features

  • Supported: Publish to Web
  • Supported: Publish to PDF
  • Supported: Output Raw Supporting Data
  • Supported: Report Versioning
  • Supported: Report Delivery Scheduling

Data Discovery and Visualization Features

  • Supported: Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
  • Supported: Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
  • Supported: Predictive Analytics
  • Supported: Support for Machine Learning models
  • Supported: Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
  • Supported: Integration with R or other statistical packages

Access Control and Security Features

  • Supported: Multi-User Support (named login)
  • Supported: Role-Based Security Model
  • Supported: Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
  • Supported: Report-Level Access Control
  • Supported: Table-Level Access Control (BI-layer)
  • Supported: Field-Level Access Control (BI-layer)

Mobile Capabilities Features

  • Supported: Responsive Design for Web Access
  • Supported: Mobile Application
  • Supported: Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

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Sisense Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry
Supported CountriesAll

Frequently Asked Questions

Sisense is a BI software and analytics platform. With what the vendor calls their In-Chip™ and Single Stack™ technologies, users have access to a comprehensive tool to analyze and visualize large, disparate data sets without IT resources.

Tableau Public, GoodData, and Domo are common alternatives for Sisense.

Reviewers rate Multi-User Support (named login) and Role-Based Security Model and Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete) highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of Sisense 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!

Sisense is a versatile platform that addresses the needs of organizations across various industries. Users rely on Sisense to provide accurate and fast insights, reducing report response time and development time compared to manual coding and web UI controls. With Sisense, educators receive real-time feedback on student performance through integrated dashboards, allowing them to make informed decisions and improve teaching strategies. For businesses, Sisense serves as the executive dashboard and managerial reporting platform, providing comprehensive business performance insights at all levels of the organization. The software is also used by various departments such as sales, product management, purchasing, and eCommerce to track key performance indicators - KPIs, analyze sales performance, and answer complex questions about datasets. Additionally, Sisense is utilized by executives and managers to present key metrics, division heads to make better decisions, and compliance departments to quickly identify issues and take corrective actions. Overall, Sisense helps automate time-consuming reports, eliminates error-prone reporting, and creates a centralized data warehouse and portal for better decision-making across the organization. Whether it's analyzing marketing campaigns, managing agent performance or consolidating information in a single tool, Sisense offers a wide range of use cases that cater to the needs of diverse businesses.

Based on the user reviews, here are the three most common recommendations for Sisense:

  1. Users highly recommend using Sisense as a cost-effective and productive tool for businesses. They suggest utilizing the Linux version and the managed cloud environment for optimal performance.

  2. Users advise structuring data properly to take advantage of Sisense's easy left join capabilities. They mention that the software is quick to learn and intuitive but caution against allowing unfamiliar users to access it.

  3. It is recommended to make Sisense more user-friendly for non-technical users and improve filtering options. Users appreciate the deep insight and advanced analytics capabilities of the tool, but suggest not setting expectations too high. They also mention that a strong foundation in Java is necessary.

Overall, users highly recommend Sisense as an advanced analytics software and one-platform solution. They praise its comprehensive data analysis and visualization capabilities, as well as its simplicity, intuitive use, and continuous feature improvement compared to other BI vendors. It is suggested to engage with the Sisense community, conduct a tool evaluation, and have a comprehensive criteria and a senior BI sponsor in place. Implementing Sisense either in the cloud or on-premise with an in-house team of BI developers and data engineers is also advised. Additionally, following best practices when building dashboards and elasticubes is recommended.

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Reviews

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April 11, 2022

Sisense : Great and Fastest Data Visualization Tool

Surbhi Singhal | TrustRadius Reviewer
Surbhi Singhal
Senior Software Engineer
BOLD (Internet, 201-500 employees)
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
May 26, 2021

Get insights into your work

Craig Varghese | TrustRadius Reviewer
Craig Varghese
Group Manager, Revenue Accounting
Intuit (Computer Software, 5001-10,000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Sisense is a reliable analytics platform that helps us fetching data effectively. Also, the visualization of data is easy. I will recommend this tool to those organizations that are dealing with their business on various platforms and trying to manage their online stores.
January 24, 2020

Great BI tool for a great cost and easy to roll out to the organization

Verified User
Director in Marketing
Medical Practice Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Sisense is a great cost-effective middleware and frontend for any organization that has multiple data feeds and is looking for a large amount of usage without a ton of cost. While it doesn't have every feature of far more expensive enterprise tools for a cost/benefit analysis, it has been one of the best tool values we have. I would not use it if you are still in a Google Analytics phase, nor if you are overly reliant on attribution, but for daily use and combining data systems, especially for a multi-touch call center or lead generation organization it is a great cost-effective way to get the data out without huge development costs.
October 24, 2019

Provides great analytics to all the data you feed Sisense

Verified User
C-Level Executive in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
If your company produces tons of data and you need to analyze a vast amount of data then Sisense is great for compiling easy to see and understand statistics. If your data keeps growing Sisense will start to bog down. In enterprise environment this could become any issue since it's not very easy to scale up.
October 16, 2019

Very solid BI platform for every day use, not just a visualization tool.

Verified User
Team Lead in Engineering
Gambling & Casinos Company, 201-500 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
Perfect BI solution on top of big data platform architecture to process and pre-aggregate data. Minimal supervision and database understanding is required. Also, perfect for businesses without big data, as it avoids additional headcount to package and present the data in a digestible format. Not as great when highly complex visualizations are required with a high level of customization. UI is not as enticing as Tableau.
October 02, 2019

Changed the way we looked at data!

GB
Gudrun Bonte
VP Product Management
SA International (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Sisense is well suited for many applications as long as the data does not get too big. We use it to analyze sales, active vs. canceled subscriptions, usage of features in our software, etc. For big data it becomes a problem. Our software is deployed to several hundred thousand users worldwide - and continually reports back. This means the data grows exponentially.
February 04, 2019

Still better than most of the competition by strides but needing a lot of work

Jonathan Ganucheau | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jonathan Ganucheau
System Architect
The Seed Company (Non-Profit Organization Management, 51-200 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
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)

November 12, 2018

Sisense a great solution to consolidate your Big Data Analysis Projects.

Victor Arana | TrustRadius Reviewer
Victor Arana
IT Manager
Stoneleaf Construction LLC (Construction, 51-200 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
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 25, 2018

Sisense is a reliable way of displaying data

Joseph R. Sweeney | TrustRadius Reviewer
Joseph R. Sweeney
Senior Analyst
The TJX Companies, Inc. (Information Services, 10,001+ employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
October 22, 2018

Best BI Tool

Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
September 19, 2018

Sisense: Best Data Visualization Tool in 2018.

Verified User
C-Level Executive in Corporate
Management Consulting Company, 11-50 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
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

Sisense - The analytics tool you've been looking for!

Verified User
Analyst in Product Management
Computer Software Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
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 10, 2018

Sisense: your data mate

David Hertzberg | TrustRadius Reviewer
David Hertzberg
Founder
izi'Nov (Retail, 1-10 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Reseller
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
July 03, 2018

Need a dashboard? Sisense It

Verified User
Employee in Other
Computer Software Company, 11-50 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
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,.
June 06, 2018

Using Sisense

Peter Breglio | TrustRadius Reviewer
Peter Breglio
Executive Director
The NPD Group (Market Research, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
May 30, 2018

Sisense is good a dashboarding

GG
Glenn Gordon
Manager of Application Services
Child and Family Services (Individual & Family Services, 501-1000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
  • 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.
December 28, 2017

Flexible BI single stack solution

AH
Adi Hecht
HCS & CC Team Leader
Bynet (Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend

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 18, 2017

Sisense Review

Verified User
Director in Marketing
Marketing and Advertising Company, 11-50 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
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
December 14, 2017

Great Product - We Enjoy Pushing The Limits

Brian Tait | TrustRadius Reviewer
Brian Tait
Chief Technology Officer
ReMy Health Inc (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
December 07, 2017

Sisense Review - December 2017

Verified User
Analyst in Finance and Accounting
Publishing Company, 51-200 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
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