BI Analyst's Secret Weapon
September 28, 2018

BI Analyst's Secret Weapon

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Periscope Data

We use Periscope as our primary tool for insights to prepare our business leaders for strategic decisions. The ability to quickly stand up new dashboards or edit existing queries allows my small team of analysts to empower over 400 colleagues without bogging down the team in multiple coding languages.

Pros

  • Write query, get chart. Fast iteration.
  • Responsive support and product teams keep us current on product roadmap and enhancements.
  • Minimal onboarding required for new team members. Analysts don't need to learn a new language to begin development, just the appropriate flavor of SQL.
  • Caching simplifies ETL, mitigating dependency on data engineering for basic use-cases.

Cons

  • More controls around database settings and SQL views would enable more customized workflows.
  • Git integration would be amazing (I'm told this is coming soon)
  • An aggressive caching strategy enabled multiple cross database joins which sped up our development cycle by 6-12 months.
  • All SQL, only SQL, accelerated the growth rate of junior analysts
LookML was able to simplify development of views involving window calculations, but slowed down the overall development cycle as minor SQL edits required heavy code reviews.

Tableau has great interactive options but has proved non-performant with our database mix (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redshift).
Pick Periscope for an environment where analysts are fluent in SQL and business users want to explore charts and self-service data downloads.

Business users who want to explore for insights themselves but don't want to learn SQL may have some difficulty without training.

Sisense for Cloud Data Teams Feature Ratings

8.3
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
10
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
5
Predictive Analytics
10
10.0
Customizable dashboards
10
Report Formatting Templates
10
Pixel Perfect reports
Not Rated
8.0
Drill-down analysis
5
Formatting capabilities
7
Integration with R or other statistical packages
10
Report sharing and collaboration
10
10.0
Publish to Web
Not Rated
Publish to PDF
10
Report Versioning
10
Report Delivery Scheduling
10
Delivery to Remote Servers
Not Rated

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