Periscope Love
September 28, 2018

Periscope Love

Jared Beekman | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Periscope Data

Waitr has just started to use Periscope, and we already love it. Between the documentation for Redshift in general, and Periscopes help files and outstanding customer support team we can get most things done easily or at least find out why they aren't working and try a new approach. They have been very attentive to our needs, and are rolling out new (and more importantly useful) features.

Pros

  • Organization of disparate data sources
  • Ability to run complex calculations using up to date and standardized tooling via Python and R
  • Their customer support team would keep me here even if they were missing features we needed

Cons

  • The UI can be nit-picky about not showing you full table names if they are long
  • There are some arbitrary restrictions on field content length that are removable, but not obvious to the end user
  • No way to make Python/R libraries to enable code reuse. Of note, they are working to fix this however with git integration.
  • We've been able to automate certain reporting that required far too much manual work saving time and money as a result
  • We are very early in our use, but the sky is literally the limit with Periscope.
This is currently our primary visualization tool. There is no real option to do any meaningful math on your data, and you only have access to a very, very limited subset of information you stream into the cache. Periscope far exceeds this tool with the ability to combine data sources across disparate servers and perform detailed analysis upon the query results.
Your data is eventually consistent, this includes your data pipeline to your warehouse, to roughly an hour so real time metrics are difficult if your time constraints are less than that. I have yet to find a position/department in our company that could not benefit from Periscope. In fact we are moving several of our other data visualizations off other systems and into Periscope since it is so very much better suited to those roles.

Sisense for Cloud Data Teams Feature Ratings

9.0
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
10
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
Not Rated
Predictive Analytics
8
10.0
Customizable dashboards
10
Report Formatting Templates
10
Pixel Perfect reports
10
8.7
Drill-down analysis
Not Rated
Formatting capabilities
9
Integration with R or other statistical packages
10
Report sharing and collaboration
7
7.3
Publish to Web
9
Publish to PDF
8
Report Versioning
Not Rated
Report Delivery Scheduling
5
Delivery to Remote Servers
Not Rated

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