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Most Flexible BI Tool on the Platform
What do you like best about the product?
I like Sisense because it lets multiple team-members with varying levels of skillsets collaborate. The ability to create data tables directly from python code is a significant force multiplier. In addition, the robust suite of plugins and embedding options means we can get the data directly in front of the people that need to see it.
What do you dislike about the product?
I'd say documentation is the poorest aspect so far. They have a very robust JAQL schema that let's you customize dashboards and widgets in run-time but it's not explained well.
There's some other minor quirks - Multiple people cannot design and edit a dashboard at once. You have to make your changes, then make someone else the owner of the dashboard before they can make their edits. Another thing that bugs me is when creating widgets you can't customize the type of join between tables, it's always an inner-join,
There's some other minor quirks - Multiple people cannot design and edit a dashboard at once. You have to make your changes, then make someone else the owner of the dashboard before they can make their edits. Another thing that bugs me is when creating widgets you can't customize the type of join between tables, it's always an inner-join,
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We need a platform that can aggregate data from all the different sources used by our product and present a unified view of our current KPIs and progress towards hitting targets.
Brilliant to use! Slightly confusing if your not a developer
What do you like best about the product?
I absolutely love Sisense for several reasons! First and foremost, its user-friendly interface has made data analysis a breeze, even for someone like me who isn't a technical expert. The ease of creating and analyzing data reports and dashboards is a huge plus.
The analytics and data visualization features in Sisense are incredibly powerful. I can create highly informative and interactive dashboards that have greatly improved our data analysis capabilities.
What's even better is the level of customization it offers. I can tailor my dashboards and reports to suit my specific needs, adding widgets, charts, and other elements to make the data come alive.
The analytics and data visualization features in Sisense are incredibly powerful. I can create highly informative and interactive dashboards that have greatly improved our data analysis capabilities.
What's even better is the level of customization it offers. I can tailor my dashboards and reports to suit my specific needs, adding widgets, charts, and other elements to make the data come alive.
What do you dislike about the product?
While there's a lot to appreciate about Sisense, there are a few aspects that I found less than ideal. The cost can be a concern, especially for smaller businesses or startups, as it leans towards the pricier side. Additionally, despite Sisense's reputation for a user-friendly interface, there's still a learning curve, which might pose challenges, particularly for those new to business intelligence and data analytics tools. On the mobile front, Sisense's app and mobile responsiveness could use some improvement, making on-the-go data access less convenient. Depending on the size and complexity of your datasets, data loading speed can be somewhat sluggish, which may affect users dealing with extensive data. If you require advanced statistical analysis or machine learning capabilities, Sisense might not fully meet your needs, as its primary focus lies in data visualization and reporting. Finally, the process of customizing dashboards and reports can be a bit complex and time-consuming, which might not be suitable for users looking for quick and easy customization. In summary, while Sisense offers powerful features, these drawbacks should be weighed against your specific requirements when considering its adoption.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sisense has been a transformative solution for us, addressing key challenges and delivering substantial benefits. It streamlined our data analysis process by integrating data from multiple sources, providing a central hub for informed decision-making. The robust analytics and data visualization capabilities empower us with valuable insights, enhancing our data-driven decision-making. Sisense's scalability ensures our platform grows with our company, eliminating concerns of outgrowing our analytics tool. Moreover, the platform's strong data security features offer peace of mind. The support and active user community have been invaluable in overcoming challenges. In summary, Sisense has revolutionized our data integration, analytics, scalability, and security, making it an essential tool for efficient and informed operations in our data-driven world.
Easy to use with powerful data visualization capabilities
What do you like best about the product?
It is easy to create queries and display data in a variety of formats.
What do you dislike about the product?
For large data sets, loading times can be long.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sisense helps us make sense of how users are using our platform -- we can view trends over time and across different user groups.
A cloud solution to centralize and analyze all processes with technical support
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
Before Sisense, we didn't have a single platform to monitor our performance data. As a performance advertisement organization, we needed a place to monitor all performances. Sisense helped us achieve this by pushing our data into one place. Now, anyone in the organization can analyze any data point they need without looking at multiple locations.
What is most valuable?
It is easier to get on board with Sisense because of their custom support team. You have a dedicated team to help.
What needs improvement?
Sisense is good in terms of visualization, but it has some drawbacks. For example, it doesn't have any way to sort or filter tables directly on the server side. Also, you can't have multiple tabs; it has a single dashboard.
Sisense has multiple levels of filtering, including similarities. Sisense has a huge customer base and is constantly adding plugins, so it is possible to create tables the way you want.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Sisense for one to two months.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The product’s stability has no issue.
I rate the solution’s stability an eight or nine out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
30 users are using the solution, and we are planning to touch 100users mark.
I rate the solution’s scalability a seven or eight out of ten.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We used multiple other solutions, including Google Looker Studio, Quicksight, Superset, and Google Sheets dashboards. We wanted to consolidate all data, so we switched to Sisense.
How was the initial setup?
Migrating our data to Sisense was not easy since we were in a very busy period, and there were some issues during the first few months. This prompted us to look for a super site and other solutions. We were able to figure things out with the support of the Sisense team. It was a painful process, but we are happy with the results.
The deployment took around two months and four or five people to complete.
I rate the initial setup a three out of ten, where one is difficult and ten is easy.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The solution is not affordable for small businesses. It is cheaper for at least mid-stage startups to large scale. To get additional add-ons and plug-ins built by Sisense, we would need to purchase them as an extra package. There are also some extra costs associated with adding new profiles to Sisense.
I rate the product’s pricing a nine out of ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive.
What other advice do I have?
There are multiple stages of the availability. The first primary thing is cost. The second one is how large your data is and whether you want to research data in real-time or if it's frequency-based. There are much better solutions like Superset or Looker. If you look at consolidated data that refreshes regularly, like once daily, Sisense is definitely on the good side. It doesn't offer anything extra except for the good visualizations. Sisense is on top of the market. There is an associated brand value. If you want to share reports with the clients, that would also be easier.
We were evaluating Sisense, but the pricing was too high for us. We decided to try it and purchased an initial membership plan for 10 or 13 people. We worked directly with the Sisense team, but for a long time, we could not onboard our dataset. We explored multiple solutions, including onboarding a sample dataset first or directly catching the data through queries inside items. This is their primary KPI and USP - you can write questions in site settings and people. We tried to host this somehow, but all of our attempts failed. After multiple discussions, I could onboard the queries directly with the help of the support team.
We have dashboards all over the place. It was getting tough for us to track down where the information was. We needed a central location where all the dashboards are present. We were also hopeful that the AI features in Sisense could help us point to deeper insights that we cannot find ourselves all the time.
We were evaluating between Sisense, Superset, and Looker Studio. And I think Sisense is relatively fast compared to Looker Studio, for sure. Looker Studio also has some build problems, such as the inability to support custom queries. So, it's not a scalable solution for us.
One person currently does maintenance, but we are considering two or three for this job.
Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.
Great working with sisense
What do you like best about the product?
AI feature of Sisense is very cool for forecasting. Dashboard widget are very good to create business value.
Ease of use and integrating with cornerstone is very amazing.
Ease of use and integrating with cornerstone is very amazing.
What do you dislike about the product?
Its hard to say that what I dislike but we can have more videos on how we can bring more insights to usecases on sisense.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sisense is helping us to create a dashboard for our reports for cornerstone job and helped in alerting when jobs are taking longer and other widgets to show usage to our leaders.
Next BI Booster in the industry.
What do you like best about the product?
It is at par with other visualization softwares such as Tableau and Power BI. It acts as a more user friendly option for those who want to work in the field of BI.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sisense can do better with more user discriptive tips withi the software. The icons are places trategically and well however looking at the icons alone and trying to understand what it does as a glance can be tough for a beginner.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is helpful to save time on dashboard creation and make things easier than an excel dashboard. It doesnt get stuck like other BI tools (Excel, Power BI) and has a very presentable UI which doesnt take much time to get accustomed with.
Good tool for BI
What do you like best about the product?
Cube creation and daily updates are easy and straighforward.
Creating report are easy.
Support team is diligent and helpful.
Easier to use than other tools.
Good is you don't have access to a database (my case)
Creating report are easy.
Support team is diligent and helpful.
Easier to use than other tools.
Good is you don't have access to a database (my case)
What do you dislike about the product?
Formatting is cumbersome.
PDF is not easy to format and reports don't look to the users the way I formatted them.
Needs coding for some things that should be more available (for example, combo boxes for viewers).
PDF is not easy to format and reports don't look to the users the way I formatted them.
Needs coding for some things that should be more available (for example, combo boxes for viewers).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sales information for the sales reps and some for finance and accounting.
Reports can be mantained and created faily quickly.
Business has not increased as expected (mainly COVID related issues), so it's difficult to tell.
Reports can be mantained and created faily quickly.
Business has not increased as expected (mainly COVID related issues), so it's difficult to tell.
Your data in 1 visual space!
What do you like best about the product?
Highy integratable with common databases in which you can turn into nice looking dashboards useful for monitoring and internal and external performance visibility tracking
What do you dislike about the product?
Set-up in terms if dashboard design can be tedious - would require someone to be well adept on designs to create a dashboard. The technical side can be intimidating as well as need fair knowledge on integrations.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Data are in silos and they don't communicate with each other. What's even more painful on the daily basis is that for someone, say an Analyst would need to open a lot of tools just to create a report.
Amazing, just amazing, it totally changed my worldview
What do you like best about the product?
It is an impressive tool to automate my processes and deliver them on an easy, streamlined way to the teams I create reports for
What do you dislike about the product?
Well I missed the lack of diffeent types of data sources. I use salesforce for some reports and connecting to the its API would be awesome
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
To create automated reports for the commercial teams I work for, it allows me to store them online securely and update its soruces almost automatically
Aesthetically pleasing visualizations for your data
What do you like best about the product?
I particularly like Sisense's ability to quickly and accurately analyze business data, its attractive interface design features, and the fact that it is constantly developing new ways to view information. In addition, the large selection of third-party modules available for creating custom report types and presentations for specific areas or industries within a company's ecosystem makes this an invaluable tool for any organization interested in improving its decision support capabilities through better insight into business performance.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike the complexity of installing Sisense. It requires numerous steps, each of which has its own unique challenges and requires extensive training to fully understand. In addition, it is not possible to organize fields in a hierarchy as they are simply listed alphabetically with no way to categorize them based on similarities or other factors. This limits the user experience when working within the dashboards and analysis capabilities offered by Sisense.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sisense solves the problem of manually compiling large amounts of data from multiple sources into a single Excel spreadsheet. Using Sisense, I can quickly and easily gain actionable insights by analyzing far more information in far less time than before.
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