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lead data engineer
What do you like best about the product?
easy to do data modeling and user friendly to implement reports
What do you dislike about the product?
Implementing Custom reports are not much easy.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Most of our business scenarios worked very well.
Excellent product to visualize data and presentation
What do you like best about the product?
Sisense is an extremely helpful tool to get a look-and-feel of data. It provides you with the platform to explain data in a chart/picture/graph format, which immensely helps in visualizing the data. You can make drop-down charts, geographical maps, bubble charts, scatter plots, bar and column charts and whatnot.
What do you dislike about the product?
It has fewer functionalities compared to other popular tools like Tableau, Power BI etc. Also, it is less intuitive compared to others. There is an add-on hassle of building cubes first and then presenting to a chart structure. It becomes difficult for the developer to understand the logic of cube building and then modelling it. Straight-forward implementation of charts is not present.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is very difficult to explain raw data to end-user. As very well said that "pictures speak louder than words". Sisense helps the developer to provide a pictorial representation of the raw data. There are various options to choose from like bar chart, pie chart, geographical representation etc. It becomes extremely easy for the end-user to comprehend the information presented. We use Amazon Redshift for the database in our organization. It is extremely easy to connect with the database and present to the user the information in the pictorial format without even going through the raw data in tabular form.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Everyone who is in the field of Business Intelligence or Data Analytics or Data Science should try sisense. At first, it would look a little difficult to work with it, but it becomes easy and when you continue using it.
Sisense is the best Data Analytics software out there
What do you like best about the product?
As far as Business Intelligence tools are concerned, I think Sisense is the best in the market. The following are the few things I like about Sisense:
1. The user interface is very good both for dashboards and datamodel
2. Interactive widgets
3. It is reasonably very fast
4. Sisense REST API
5. Wide range of widgets to choose from when building a dashboard
6. Creating custom columns in Sisense
7. Integrating Sisense with webpages worked out very well for us
8. Sharing dashboard and datamodel between groups and users
9. Build failure notifications can be integrated, we can receive notification though Google Chat, Slack etc
10. Dashboard can be exported as PDF
11. Sisense has online training sessions that help people get onboarded to Sisense fast
12. Drills down data to its finest granularity
13. Frequent updates
14. Sisense is very easy to use
1. The user interface is very good both for dashboards and datamodel
2. Interactive widgets
3. It is reasonably very fast
4. Sisense REST API
5. Wide range of widgets to choose from when building a dashboard
6. Creating custom columns in Sisense
7. Integrating Sisense with webpages worked out very well for us
8. Sharing dashboard and datamodel between groups and users
9. Build failure notifications can be integrated, we can receive notification though Google Chat, Slack etc
10. Dashboard can be exported as PDF
11. Sisense has online training sessions that help people get onboarded to Sisense fast
12. Drills down data to its finest granularity
13. Frequent updates
14. Sisense is very easy to use
What do you dislike about the product?
Here are some of the things I have found concerning:
I have noticed a few bugs with the plugins but nothing major so far
When we upgrade to a new version, the dashboards do not work the way they are expected to
There could be an automation for directly moving dashboards and Elasticubes from one environment to another.
The documentation can be improved
Sisense is a little too expensive I believe.
I have noticed a few bugs with the plugins but nothing major so far
When we upgrade to a new version, the dashboards do not work the way they are expected to
There could be an automation for directly moving dashboards and Elasticubes from one environment to another.
The documentation can be improved
Sisense is a little too expensive I believe.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Benefits: Helps in strategic decision making for the business.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Follow the best practices and guidelines when building the Dashboards and Elasticubes
Sisense For Next Generation Visualization
What do you like best about the product?
Sisense is a tool that helps providing great visualization. The cube functionality is back bone for this. Also it storage meta data into the mongodb that helps the performance tracking of dashboards. The are really great visualization, tabber functionality, connecting R and Python and doing time series analysis over here is super. It is very easy to create a cube and dashboard over it. It is like plug in. There is additional capability like creating your customer addon on java script and appending into this. There one additional awesome feature that is adding the other source dashboard into the sisense via iframe. It uses simple odbc connection. There is solid community support as well as well explain documents about its functionality. If I talk about data connection then it support most of the connection like excel, good sheet, custom query, redshift, sql etc.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is few constrain like case when doesn't support character data for condition. There is very few functionality of machine learning aspects etc. It is required to have more chart from d3 library. There is additional functionality required that can solve the problem of olap (online analytical processing) problems. Like defining the dimension. layer, hierarchy etc.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is used for reporting the all the possible business question a business leader can ask. It is very easy to use and very intuitive to understand. Business leaders with no tech experience, liked it very much.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you want to solve your end to end reporting and analytics problem, i would highly recommend to use the Sisense. It can solve your problem very easily and intuitively
Sisense - Modern BI Tool
What do you like best about the product?
UI (look and feel):
Interms of UI, sisense outrun most of its counterparts. I personally really like the way the reports look in sisense dashboards.
Functionality:
We were able to fulfill all kinds of requirements with sisense so far.
Support:
We were always felt really supportive whenever a support ticket or a query is raised to the sisense support. Kudos to the customer centric approach. Thanks for all the support.
Interms of UI, sisense outrun most of its counterparts. I personally really like the way the reports look in sisense dashboards.
Functionality:
We were able to fulfill all kinds of requirements with sisense so far.
Support:
We were always felt really supportive whenever a support ticket or a query is raised to the sisense support. Kudos to the customer centric approach. Thanks for all the support.
What do you dislike about the product?
Stability:
Most of the time, the main problem has been the stability of the application. Almost 90% of users has reported slowness of the issues. It could be due to the bad design of the datasources or dashboards. But, it has been a consistent problem.
Intermittent build failures due to various reasons has been a consistent problem.
Intermittently sisense shows wrong build status. After refresh, it shows correct.
Functionality:
Derived metrics (formulaes) cannot be created and stored at datasource level. So it has to be recreated for every dashboard that uses the same elasticube.
Migration (promoting dashboards and datasources to higher environments):
There could have been more smooth approach for migration.
Most of the time, the main problem has been the stability of the application. Almost 90% of users has reported slowness of the issues. It could be due to the bad design of the datasources or dashboards. But, it has been a consistent problem.
Intermittent build failures due to various reasons has been a consistent problem.
Intermittently sisense shows wrong build status. After refresh, it shows correct.
Functionality:
Derived metrics (formulaes) cannot be created and stored at datasource level. So it has to be recreated for every dashboard that uses the same elasticube.
Migration (promoting dashboards and datasources to higher environments):
There could have been more smooth approach for migration.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Generating insights with data from various business processes. Able to provide useful insights that helps in business decision making.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I recommend sisense in the scale of 7 out of 10
Sisense Use for day to day activity on business ground
What do you like best about the product?
Representation of the items and its User Interference. Clear Appearance of the columns and Attributes. Well distributed the chart formats and different table view options.
What do you dislike about the product?
Performance of the cubes during open as its slow while opening need to improve on this part.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Decision Making and Analysis. Business Requirements and Changings.
Day to day operations checks and its impact on the trends.
Day to day operations checks and its impact on the trends.
Good analytics platform
What do you like best about the product?
Simple to use, very flexible, updates frequently, and almost no downtime
What do you dislike about the product?
It takes some time to get used to the interface
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Sisense to monitor and track operational data.
Excellent technology for visualizing data
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to import data from multiple sources makes it very versatile. If there is a key that can be referenced to connect the data between the sources, the data can be collated and merged with great ease. The variety of data that it accepts also makes it very attractive - varieties of databases, individual files, even major web services from Google, Amazon, Salesforce, etc, can all be added into a single data cube and connected together1.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is a bit of a learning curve that comes with figuring out Sisense - mainly the UI. This is a hefty product with a great deal of features/capabilities, so this is to be expected.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am working with Sisense via Insights on Maximizer - a CRM platform that handles Address Book, Leads, Opportunities, Customer Service cases, etc. This solves the problem of consolidating bulky filtering UIs into a very simple interactive dashboard that achieves the same thing with a couple of clicks. It also offers a great deal of visual graphs and reports that would otherwise take a great deal of configuration and programming to achieve.
Sisense analytics gives a great overview of our organization's data
What do you like best about the product?
The graphs are really neat in their presentation and allow us several ways of viewing the analytics.
What do you dislike about the product?
At first, it seemed that integrating with our organization's spreadsheets would be a simple thing to do, but this has proven to be quite difficult - with changes by Google to their Google Sheets API.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We track behaviour change of users who come to our sites. Sisense allows us to easily review their responses to courses, quizzes and surveys, and lets us see where users might have dropped off, perhaps because content is too complex or needs to be explained in more detail.
Sisense is easy to start build dashboards and reports.
What do you like best about the product?
Easy and fast to build dashboards. Very nice for start with BI.
What do you dislike about the product?
They were few minor things that I didn't like, but it I can't reckon anything now.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The biggest benefit was that we could answer client questions very easy and fast.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Choose Sisense because it relatively easy, and nice administrate.
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