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As someone coming from more of an enterprise tool level Sisense seemed like a step down at first. Compared to other tools in the market or tools that it replaced (Looker), it provides far better data integrations and the ability to build their data cubes meant less reliance on internal servers or engineering heavy tasks. It still requires a core set of development skills but is fairly portable and requires a lot less long term maintenance. Its ease of use also meant the learning curve and growth of usage was far easier.
July 09, 2019
Sisense is moving on up in the BI world
Sisense was chosen as our BI platform for a few key reasons. Excellent customer support is a key reason why. Additionally, continuing innovation in new product features and the ability to embed reports and do quite a bit in terms of customization.
October 07, 2019
Sr. BI Analyst's Review of Sisense
Sisense is a differentiator in the marketplace. They help align companies who need a BI solution and a quick and reliable way to get up to speed fast.
Sisense - in POC alongside Birst and Qlik, Sisense ran circles around Birst and Qlik and made them look stupid by comparison
Birst - ETL was super slow and complex AND requires you to learn a proprietary scripting language
Qlik - No out of the box API access to your data and also requires learning a proprietary scripting language
Pentaho - huge and bloated architecture with way too many moving parts
Domo - Final winner we ended up replacing Sisense with. Domo is much more stable and does everything Sisense did and didn't do for us.
Birst - ETL was super slow and complex AND requires you to learn a proprietary scripting language
Qlik - No out of the box API access to your data and also requires learning a proprietary scripting language
Pentaho - huge and bloated architecture with way too many moving parts
Domo - Final winner we ended up replacing Sisense with. Domo is much more stable and does everything Sisense did and didn't do for us.
March 06, 2019
Sisense : Great and Fastest Data Visualization Tool
It totally depends on your system requirements, as already shared its features, pros and cons, please select tool accordingly.
November 01, 2018
Real world Sisense experience.
- BOARD, Information Builders WebFOCUS and SAP Analytics Cloud
Sisense worked out of the box, there was a lot of setup with the other 3. Out of the 3 others Board's was the only one that connected to Salesforce without a problem like Sisense. Sisense pricing destroyed the other 3 as well.
October 25, 2018
Sisense is a reliable way of displaying data
We chose Sisense due to pricing structures as well as its speed and ability to connect to more robust data sources. Ultimately, the differences were minimal in regards to abilities and functionality; we just felt that Sisense provided the most reliable and consistent results among our test trials.
Sisense truly stacks up against Power BI, Domo or Tableau as one of the most accurate data analysis applications that offers an intuitive approach to data exploration. You can use its web-based interface to tap the expertise of your data analytics team. They can build and share easily and quickly, so that other teams can benefit from the knowledge they create. Also with this complexity comes a powerful resource that can handle a multiple user management collaboration upon a single or multiple dashboards, enhancing the results.
July 10, 2018
Sisense: your data mate
Sisense can't compare to any tool for the ease of user, intuitive interface and "time to data". I gave been working with both large enterprise and small SMB's using Sisense, and it is amazing to see how small companies quickly learn how to use it and how practical and efficient they can be.
The global productivity is also amazing: with only a few clicks, anyone can design a useful dashboard, that anyone will enjoy using.
May 30, 2018
Sisense is good a dashboarding
Crystal Reports is much better at building static reports than building dynamic dashboards.
Visual Studio will allow you to build anything that you want to display your information, but the programming effort will be much higher.
Kendo UI gives some of the graphical tools that Sisense provides, but the programming effort involved is much higher.
Visual Studio will allow you to build anything that you want to display your information, but the programming effort will be much higher.
Kendo UI gives some of the graphical tools that Sisense provides, but the programming effort involved is much higher.
December 28, 2017
Flexible BI single stack solution
Sisense's greatest advantage is its ability to import the data into sisense, perform in-server data modelling, and then create dashboard reports from the modelled data. This takes load off of your production database servers, and leverages sisense's technology for handling huge volumes of data efficiently.
November 13, 2017
Impressed, and Excited for Future Adoption!
Sisense can crunch loads more data and has consistently better performance than other modern BI tools; It successfully retains the best of the Cube world and also provides the power of modern in-chip visualization engine.
May 10, 2017
Sisense is on the way to market leadership
Sisense allows you to export individual widgets as iframes. It provides cube and row level security and can manage lots of data without interfering with the data sources. Tableau data sources were harder to manage and version. The customer support team with Sisense was head and shoulders above any other vendor. Looker restricted you to one DB instance.
August 11, 2017
Sisense a great tool, looks professional and is easy to use.
Have more options for datasource connection. Possibility to add personalized widgets or improve the ones they already offer.
- Sisense can be fully embedded into our product.
- Ease at which the provided widgets can be customized.
- Data governance controls the chance of two dashboards giving conflicting results.
- Separation of tools hides the complexity of the data connections and modeling from the end user.
February 09, 2017
Sisense is a great value
Price compared to DOMO, Qlik and Tableau, not to mention the simplicity with which it handles large data sets is why we selected it.
September 13, 2016
Beginner's Thoughts on Sisense
Few companies worked as hard to gain our business as Sisense - they were committed to getting us a working demo using our actual data to show us it was possible. Sisense isn't the cheapest but it is not the most expensive either by far. The single stack approach [played a role in our selection].
November 07, 2016
Sisense - the Right Fit for Ease of Use and Ease of Implementation
In the vendor selection phase of the project, we evaluated Tableau, Domo, Qlik, Phocas, Dundas, and Thoughtspot. The initial evaluation of overall TCO eliminated Thoughtspot. The major drivers of the project were ease of use and ease of implementation. We felt that Phocas and Dundas did not fit those requirements. Once we got to the final four contenders, we built a POC for each of them and evaluated each with our own data. Both Tableau and Qlik seemed to be more focused on everyone being power users and creating their own dashboard to research the data. We were looking to implement a product that had a small number of power users that would build dashboards and publish them to our user base. Domo and Sisense were the two products that fit that architecture well. As we allowed our internal users to evaluate the software, there was a clear preference to Sisense.
September 03, 2016
SiSENSE as web service platform.
- QlikView,InForum,JetReports
Less resource consuming and faster deployment. Also very extensive embeding capabilities, that make it a perfect tool for OEM customers.
October 24, 2019
Provides great analytics to all the data you feed Sisense
We evaluated IBM Cognos Analytics and it was vastly more expensive and offered less features than what Sisense offered.
Pros:
- Better backend architecture
- High performing querying capabilities
- Simpler UI
- More AI-oriented development
Cons:
- Less scalable pricing model
- Less advanced UI and visualization capabilities
Performance and ease of use.
June 14, 2016
SiSense new user
Lower cost; easier front end user interface
May 23, 2016
TRULY try it, you'll like it. Have a plan.
Basically, less resource intensive, lower cost and time to production, faster results with less time and fewer headaches while providing incredible service response time.
Sisense Scorecard Summary
Feature Scorecard Summary
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: Dedicated iOS Application
- Supported: Dedicated Android Application
- Supported: Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
Sisense Screenshots
Sisense Integrations
- Splunk Enterprise
- Salesforce
- Google Adwords & Analytics
- SAP & all database servers
- Excel & CSV Files
Sisense Competitors
- Tableau Public
- GoodData
- Domo
- DbFace
- Tableau
- Microstrategy
Sisense Pricing
Sisense Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise, SaaS |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry |
| Supported Countries | All |
Frequently Asked Questions
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.
What are Sisense's top competitors?
What is Sisense's best feature?
Reviewers rate Multi-User Support (named login) highest, with a score of 9.7.
Who uses Sisense?
The most common users of Sisense are from Mid-size Companies and the Computer Software industry.