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Great BI tool with good implementation and constant support.
What do you like best about the product?
Sisense is easy to install and configure. It is easy to use, both in data modeling and in the design aspects of the board. It is the perfect tool to quickly configure value-added panels and begin your shift towards understanding your data. It helps me to make sure I have the right data for panel designers. It also has excellent customer service and ensures that organizations make the most of their investment.
What do you dislike about the product?
Regardless of the problem we face, however large or small, each of them has been addressed. The Sisense team did an amazing job analyzing each problem. Which means I have no dislikes with this tool.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sisense is used in the organization, both to view the internal data of our accounting software and for the aggregated data collected from our software solutions implemented worldwide. For our executive and internal sales team, it addresses the visibility of sales figures and trends. For our product managers, it provides information about the use of our software and the needs that may arise. For external purposes, we provide reports to our customer base about your personal use of the system.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Sisense is very suitable for many small and medium sized businesses as long as the data is not too large. We use it to analyze sales, active versus canceled subscriptions, use of functions in our software, etc. For big data it becomes a problem
Easier to use than expected even with little to no SQL experience
What do you like best about the product?
Once onboarded and in the tool, it is very easy to navigate. I also like the visibility into the data and what the programming is doing. Some other tools we used I felt like I lost visibility and it was very hard to QC that what I wanted to do was actually being done correctly. Sisense does a great job at allowing the user to be able to get insights very clearly into what is happening on the backend to QC on the frontend.
What do you dislike about the product?
I would like some more formatting features on the dashboard; minor things like fonts, being able to bold, etc.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using Sisense to do Client Response Analysis. This analysis was almost impossible to do on a recurring basis because it took so long to do offline and manually. We are now able to take a report that would take 3-4 days to update it in 15 minutes. We are seeing more accuracy and a ton of time savings.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make sure you have the time to spend during implementation and onboarding. If you put the time in upfront the ease of use comes quickly. We had to start and stop a lot due to scheduling and work load and it made the learning curve take longer than it probably should have. Now that we're in the tool on a daily basis it does not feel intimidating or cumbersome.
Great for data teams
What do you like best about the product?
Periscope is great for people who know how to write SQL and have their data in tabular format. It allows you to write SQL queries and directly make them into charts rather than the Tableau and Looker approach of having proprietary abstractions from the SQL code.
Anyone who knows how to write SQL will be able to use Periscope very quickly.
Anyone who knows how to write SQL will be able to use Periscope very quickly.
What do you dislike about the product?
The actual Periscope dashboards are relatively basic but you can use different Python/R packages to make different kinds of charts.
Also, if you have a lot of people who do not know SQL but want to explore the tabular data themselves, this is probably not the tool for you because the "Data Discovery" tool is very basic. Not sure how it compares to other products in that regard but it is definitely not as good as Thoughtspot.
Also, if you have a lot of people who do not know SQL but want to explore the tabular data themselves, this is probably not the tool for you because the "Data Discovery" tool is very basic. Not sure how it compares to other products in that regard but it is definitely not as good as Thoughtspot.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Periscope for basically all data analytics and reporting. The "Periscope cache" is very useful because it basically acts as a mini data warehouse, allowing you to join disparate data sources. Also, the UI is great. It makes making materialized SQL views very easy and straightforward. Also, the customer support is great.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If your data team needs a tool use Periscope. If you have picky business users who don't write SQL, you'll need something else.
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What do you like best about the product?
easy to use, very self explanatory, and templates are useful to create fast dashbaords
What do you dislike about the product?
Even though the dashboards are easy to use, their is no flexibility to customizing the view of a dashboard, i feel like there is too much open space especially when you are trying to create 2-3 KPI side by side, and the fonts are very limited function, therefore in some cases the difference between one number to the next is off.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
being able to create graphics to better explain the data in a summarized way
Intuitive Yet Robust
What do you like best about the product?
I like that the Cubes & Dashboards can be as complicated as you like. If it's a simple calculation - I can have a dashboard put together in an hour. If I want to spend time and build something very specific using SQL, I can also do that. I haven't seen a program before that has both functionalities - out of the box use and super-customizable options. The add-ons are endless - any thing you could imagine. The ability to code ontop of the dashboards has potential once I learn javascript.
What do you dislike about the product?
It does have some technical problems every once and a while. Usually logging out & back in solves it.
The install team had issues getting the software correctly installed and running with our production tables.
Some add-ons stop working repeatedly.
The install team had issues getting the software correctly installed and running with our production tables.
Some add-ons stop working repeatedly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am providing metrics and tracking for other depts as to their KPIs.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
They provide a trial version where they connect a trial version of their software to our own data - really helpful to see exactly how well it works and practice around for a few days. The on-boarding and training was conducted thoroughly and well.
Expert overview to get all business data in one view
What do you like best about the product?
The slick UI and simple integrations that saves you time and implemenetation cost.
What do you dislike about the product?
Support could be a bit faster to reply but that is a minimal issue.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Better overview and insights have led us to improve business and finally increase rev.
Great BI solution for your business
What do you like best about the product?
Sisense helped us develop dashboards that showcase all the data we have in a meaningful way for our business. We love the degree of customization and connectivity between our CRM and other platforms we use. This tool saves us from manually building our reports and saves us so much time. Being able to share the information across our organization is a big win.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is nothing that I dislike about Sisense but I would definitely like to see more options in terms of customer experience data. Sisense is very good on quantitative data but I'd like to see dashboards that could showcase qualitative data and trends to provide customer insight to the business.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
With Sisense we no longer have to manually build our reports. Now that the data is all configured to appear the way we need it in our dashboards, we spend less time manipulating the data and more time analyzing it to improve our performance and provide insights to the business! It is also easier to share the data within our organization.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Sisense is a great product. Make sure your data is clean before building your dashboards and it will help your business for sure!
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What do you like best about the product?
We have been able to handle most types of reports and dashboards and Sisense continues to grow and expand its capabilities
What do you dislike about the product?
- limitations in terms of size of data which in this age of big data can be limiting in our specific use cases
- somewhat opaque architecture requiring too much trial and error
- somewhat opaque architecture requiring too much trial and error
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- create operational reports and dashboards for large clients who are insurance companies
Pretty good BI tool
What do you like best about the product?
Pretty easy to set up and use for a beginner.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not may options for data visualizations.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Everyday analysis, business reporting.
Sisense the trending BI tool
What do you like best about the product?
Sisense enables any setup to rationalize the semantics for their Data and provide all around analytics for their customers. Their Data modeling using Live Models and ecubes provides data mapping capabilities to achieve optimum efficiency for analysis.
What do you dislike about the product?
The Sisense tool still needs to be optimized for better efficiency in terms of speed for data processing,
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are able to provide our customers with tools and framework to improvise their workbench having the analytical widgets for data manipulation and interpretation.
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