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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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Sisense made our data useful and ultimately boosted our productivity

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 20, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
In our organization we use Sisense for business intelligence. It helps us with complex data from multiple sources and provides awesome insights makes easy for us to decisions ...
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Dhruv Vig
Consultant - Sales
Consultant
gammastack
Sisense1 year of experience

Sisense : Great and Fastest Data Visualization Tool

Rating: 6 out of 10
April 11, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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...
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Surbhi Singhal
Engineer - Information Technology
Senior Software Engineer
BOLD
Sisense3 years of experience

Get insights into your work

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 26, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
This tool has given me the power to convert the data into new analytical applications that give me a transparent idea about working on multiple platforms. This is a cloud-base...
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Craig Varghese
Manager - Finance and Accounting
Group Manager, Revenue Accounting
Intuit
Sisense2 years of experience

Sr. BI Analyst's Review of Sisense

Rating: 9 out of 10
October 7, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Sisense is used in our organization as an OEM/white-labeled BI platform. We leverage external customer facing users and internal employee users. Each department and user has t...
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Mitch Siwy
Analyst - Information Technology
Sr. Business Intelligence Data Analyst
ALOM Technologies
Sisense2 years of experience

Sisense is moving on up in the BI world

Rating: 8 out of 10
July 9, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Sisense is being used for two primary purposes - internal analytics across all business units as well as embedded client-facing reports.
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Andrew Goss
Engineer - Engineering
Data Engineer
Interfolio
Sisense1 year of experience
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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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  • 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.

9.7
Avg 8.2

Ad-hoc Reporting

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

8.8
Avg 8.0

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

10
Avg 8.3

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.

9.5
Avg 7.9

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.

9.7
Avg 7.8
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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 Pixel Perfect reports and Customizable dashboards and Drill-down analysis 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 From Top Reviewers

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Sisense - the Right Fit for Ease of Use and Ease of Implementation

Rating: 9 out of 10
November 07, 2016
EZ
Eric Zuehlke
Vice President of Information Technology
NSi Industries LLC (Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sisense
1 year of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are in the early stages of implementing Sisense to our sales and executive teams. We have been a company that relies heavily on the use of Excel to export data from our ERP system and prepare pivot tables for our teams to use to help understand the performance of the business. Sisense was chosen to move us from a company that was using Excel-based data that was up to 30 days old to a real-time data-driven company that can analyze and talk to data that is refreshed multiple times a day. The ease of use of the backend and frontend have allowed us to build the environment, validate the data, and roll out the initial dashboards in less than 4 months.
Pros
  • Sisense owns the implementation by assigning a customer success manager that has the power to assign resources as needed to help you accomplish your goals.
  • The GUI (both front-end and back-end) is very intuitive and user-friendly, which allows the company to adopt it quickly and allows the administrators to focus on the layout and usage of the dashboards.
  • The technical support team and professional services team are both very knowledgeable and helpful.
Cons
  • The onboarding process that you start with misses the mark. The concept is for you to start slowly and build over time, which can be a challenge if you are a technical person and want to move rather quickly.
  • The exporting feature could use some improvement. There are four total options for getting the data out of the browser to be able to share, but there are no templates that allow administrators to have control of the output of the exports.
Likelihood to Recommend
Sisense is a great tool to provide non-technical users in your business [a way] to gain visibility to dashboards that display metrics defined by power users. It is well suited to bring in multiple sources of data and provide them in one interface to your user community. It is not well suited if you are looking for a tool to allow multiple users to perform analysis on your data and constantly change the metrics and parameters that are being investigated. The focus is on power users and administrators deploying dashboards that allow users to view metrics and slice data based on filters. The dashboards look very modern and the flexibility that the designers have to shape the dashboard is great.

Need a dashboard? Sisense It

Rating: 9 out of 10
July 03, 2018
Verified User
Employee in Other
Computer Software Company, 11-50 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We 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.
Pros
  • Ease of Use
  • Customer Service
  • Visualization
  • Customizability - SQL/CSS, iFRAME/JS
Cons
  • Missing functionality - Joins
  • More attention on community forums
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,.

Using Sisense

Rating: 7 out of 10
June 06, 2018
PB
Peter Breglio
Executive Director
The NPD Group (Market Research, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sisense
1 year of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros
  • Ease of use especially when it comes to building widgets
  • Customer Support & Professional Services
  • Implementation Support
Cons
  • 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)
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.

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

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
February 04, 2019
JG
Jonathan Ganucheau
System Architect
The Seed Company (Non-Profit Organization Management, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sisense
1 year of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros
  • 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.
Cons
  • 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.
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)

Sr. BI Analyst's Review of Sisense

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
October 07, 2019
MS
Mitch Siwy
Sr. Business Intelligence Data Analyst
ALOM Technologies (Warehousing, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sisense
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Sisense is used in our organization as an OEM/white-labeled BI platform. We leverage external customer facing users and internal employee users. Each department and user has their own/department dashboards that illustrate KPIs, metrics in real/near-real time. It solves many business problems that deal with Supply Chain. All areas from receiving, production and fulfillment have high-level to granularity data insights at the touch of their fingers for analyze.
Pros
  • Customer service is fast, accurate and helpful
  • 4 major Sisense version updates every year
  • Web-based JavaScript scripts allow for endless customization
Cons
  • Appending data delta updates only to the elasticube
  • Left joins
  • Richer widgets and web elements
  • pulse alerts on live-data sources
Likelihood to Recommend
In our VDI environment this lightweight web application is great for end users. Our end users can easily interact, drill down /into data like never before. It's excel on steroids for them!
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