Periscope Love
September 28, 2018
Periscope Love
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.
- 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
- 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.