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Great experience with some nuances
What do you like best about the product?
It's relatively intuitive and easy to use.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is no Left Join capabilities which causes issues when modelling data directly from a transactional db
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Providing dashoards with actionable insights to our customers. Before Sisense it was too difficult to visualize large amounts (multi-terabytes) of data
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Without easy Left Join capabilities, be sure you will have your data structured in a way that will return all needed rows from your transactional DB.
Great Analytics tool, Easy to learn and easy to use
What do you like best about the product?
DAshboard creation made easy and simple. Good Customer support
What do you dislike about the product?
The infrastructure cost to set up and maintain.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Financial analytics
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you have a properly designed Cube, then analytics becomes very easy to the end user who doesn't need any knowledge on analytics.
BI tool useful for creating dashboards, however not all functions are intuitive.
What do you like best about the product?
Very good at displaying basic widgets, such as graphs and charts. I like the web implementation aspect of this software. The mobile app is nice and works much better than some other BI tools that are in circulation.
What do you dislike about the product?
Mapping is lacking in its current state.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Display KPI to internal/external clients across a variety of clients and programs.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This BI tool does a great job of displaying basic metrics, however it's "more complex" widgets sometimes fail or are not user friendly. In order to use Blox (for example) you need to be versed in JSON, in order to have state boundaries on a map, it appears we need to pay for a plugin for that to be displayed, whereas this comes standard almost anywhere else.
Overall very good experience and learning everyday
What do you like best about the product?
I'm not an advanced user, meaning I mostly create metrics and dashboards with existing databases. What I like best is how Sisense is smart and thus easy in the creation of metrics and how the data visualization options are great in terms of variety and beautiful in design.
What do you dislike about the product?
The online community is still not very strong and occasionally I struggle to find tips on how to solve problems online. Sometimes it's just a minor issue that would not require support from the IT teams if the online support was more helpful.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Mostly providing better visibility to business executives on revenue and margin trends. It has helped us being more efficient as we don't concentrate the information anymore and we don't have to create weekly updates anymore. I'm sure it also helps business executives make better decisions taking into account the context that they have and sometimes we don't.
good product. Lot of good capabilities and also support team has been very helpful
What do you like best about the product?
White labelling
Embeddability
Ability to work with various data souces
Embeddability
Ability to work with various data souces
What do you dislike about the product?
Extensability in terms i can extend to support more data sources
Different feature for Live connect and other options for data sources
Different feature for Live connect and other options for data sources
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Reporting specific to product. Ability to customize for different client needs
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
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