Very solid BI platform for every day use, not just a visualization tool.
October 16, 2019
Very solid BI platform for every day use, not just a visualization tool.
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Sisense
It's being used across the whole organization. It serves us as our BI self-service and business insights discovery tool of choice. We have several business users exploring data on their own as well as a set of business reports produced and maintained by the central data team. We also use it for KPI alerting and ad hoc visualization and plugins we build on top of Sisense and run on the WebApp.
- Very intuitive UI, minimal learning curve even for non-technical users.
- Solid backend architecture, very high-performance platform.
- Cubes of data are segregated from original data sources and stored on disk, ensuring data on source databases are not impacted by querying activity.
- Very helpful and quick support provided.
- Cube management logic is growing old. It needs a revamp, more languages supported, and a more advanced fault-tolerant incremental build mechanism.
- Out of the box visualizations and reporting features are a bit too basic compared to the market leaders (Tableau, Qlik, etc.).
- Concurrent cube scalability is an issue, as even on high memory availability servers it does not manage to build more than 3 cubes at a time.
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