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Software Development Manager
What do you like best about the product?
Researching new technologies and implementing them
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't like if a software has too many configuration steps.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We want a dynamic dashboard which can be built by the customers with minimal training. The data should be real time. Sisense dashboard are very powerful and can be easily built with minimal training. We are working on getting the real time data into the dashboards at his point.
Advanced report builder, advanced data modeler
What do you like best about the product?
Easiness of the ETL process that can be stepped up for advanced users.
Abilty to create values in the frontend and to use integrated filters within the formula
Abilty to create values in the frontend and to use integrated filters within the formula
What do you dislike about the product?
Backend: lack of meta information
Frontend: lack of distribution capabilities. (Only dashboard and limited output formats).
Lack of pixel perfect reporting!
Frontend: lack of distribution capabilities. (Only dashboard and limited output formats).
Lack of pixel perfect reporting!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Analysis and day to day reporting
Great software and useful training
What do you like best about the product?
I like the visualization of the key metrics
What do you dislike about the product?
It can be difficult to get to the underlying data
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Cost control
Simple BI for end users
What do you like best about the product?
Dashboard widget interactivity is what sells it to our end users
What do you dislike about the product?
Server maintenance, seems to eat up disk space in RabbitMG folder
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Supplying easy to use BI for end users
Very good product, getting better all the time!
What do you like best about the product?
There are a LOT of powerful-yet-easy-to-use charts & other presentation tools, that can be used to build a Dashboard in a very short time, with minimal expertise. In addition to the mostly pre-formatted graphic 'widgets', they offer multiple APIs for customization and integration, which require a lot more time & effort, but recent videos & webinars are helping ease the 'learning curve' on that as well. The wide range of connectors and modeling dynamics available in their ElastiCube design help ensure that the fullest access methods/modes and most elegant structural designs can be applied to the supporting data. And their ever-growing list of supported 'add-ons' and 'plug-ins', coupled with their strong technical support and very 'active' customer management style, guarantees the greatest probability of success.
What do you dislike about the product?
Their overall website design, & specifically support ticket interface, is somewhat less-than-intuitive at times, but they do 'welcome' feedback (even if response/resolution time is a little disappointing).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sisense is helping us gain a better understanding of the data we have to work with. This includes discovering previously-unknown correlations or disparities, as well as data entry &/or quality shortfalls. The insights into trends and real-time status monitoring and notification tools are raising management awareness and moving us closer to a proactive vs. reactive posture.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Take utmost advantage of as many current webinars as possible, as they offer latest/greatest info on capabilities & changes, and allow you the opportunity to ask specific questions of the company's best experts & 'insiders'. Also, try to fully utilize the requirements analysis tools (documents & techniques) provided by the Customer Success Manager (CSM) and make the most of your interactions with them and any technicians with whom you're placed in contact.
First grip on our data.
What do you like best about the product?
The speed and ease of combining data sources is great. For our company it gives the first realtime insight in our sales, but also really helps analysing more complicated data questions. Currently we're still implementing the solution, gradually building useful dashboards. But from the start we've had added value of the insights.
What do you dislike about the product?
As Sisense is rapidly growing and developing the system is not always 100% stable. More often than not it's because of a user error, which can be hard to pin down on yourself. Luckily the support of Sisense has always helped find a solution.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Combining sales data with our costs data, coming both from different sources, we're getting realtime insights in our product performance. Also we're doing analysis on long term high frequency data sets of about 40m rows. The speed of querying is great, and the patterns you can discover with big data are insightful
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Do the trial, get a real business example with your own data, the Sisense team goes quite far helping you to evaluate the purposes.
Clear analytics
What do you like best about the product?
The UI is very easy for our customers to use and get interactive reporting. The ability to easily slice data up improves our customer engagement with our reporting.
What do you dislike about the product?
No a lot. I have not used the system in anger to understand where the frailties are.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We wanted to provide customers with visibility our page impressions of syndicated content we have distributed to our Global Shopper Network. SiSense has enabled us to provide customers with a self service reporting capability to get more than just a flat lifeless report.
suprisingly easy to use
What do you like best about the product?
very easy to use
doesn't require programming skills to create dashboards
flexible permissions system
active development
doesn't require programming skills to create dashboards
flexible permissions system
active development
What do you dislike about the product?
windows-based solution only at the moment
limited options to sharding/scaling big cubes
rendering performance for some widgets (e.g. pivot tables)
limited options to sharding/scaling big cubes
rendering performance for some widgets (e.g. pivot tables)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Web analytics for multiple customers.
Beautiful results from the whole package
What do you like best about the product?
Once you are acclimated to the environment, spinning up data models and creating visualizations is very easy. You can make a professional-looking dashboard, or even a set of related dashboards, within a few hours. Visualizations are beautiful. Elasticubes are wonderful at bringing in a creating a relational data model out of disparate data sources. I often combine Excel docs, Access DBs and MySQL DBs into a singular data model and then quickly whip up a dashboard that combines all three. I also like that it's an all-in-one package, with the data modelling software, front-end editors, plus data security implementation and entitlement measures, etc.
What do you dislike about the product?
Despite what is professed by their ads, some level of SQL and/or Javascript is needed to do anything beyond the most basic setups. For example, only inner joins are available in a data model; custom SQL coding is needed to create any other kind of join. Though an Elasticube can crunch millions of rows of data in a few minutes, the visualizations themselves can be very slow to load (via browser), especially when plotting more than a few hundred data points. The visualizations also leave much to be desired in the way of formatting options (knowledge of Javascript, css and angular.js is needed to do any custom formatting, such as making a font bigger).
However, if you're just setting up a few simple visualizations for your sales database for internal use, this product would be fantastic and you'd probably not end up coding.
However, if you're just setting up a few simple visualizations for your sales database for internal use, this product would be fantastic and you'd probably not end up coding.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Sisense as an OEM product, taking the data our company collects data and creating interactive, branded dashboards for our clients to browse. The wonderful thing about Sisense is it provided a one-stop-shop for everything we needed. As a full-stack BI tool, it has the backend data modelling software, data connectors, front-end visualization and dashboard editor, data security measures, automated email notification process, the ability to white-label the product...I could go on and on. But don't be fooled--you will likely end up coding.
Sisense puts data science in your hands... What you do with it is up to you
What do you like best about the product?
All of the tools are there to adequately design a serviceable Data model for reporting against. There is enough ETL capability to hack it all together and provide the front end with what it needs to display data accurately.
What do you dislike about the product?
ETL is limited to SQL mainly. This seems to make the design and implementation of a full enterprise data warehouse extremely difficult. The front end can be a little clunky, especially the PDF printing which never seems to get the format correctly. It is mostly meant to be used with dashboards in browser, which I understand but doesn't work for the technically illiterate (Which we have more of than I'd like to admit at my 3PL company)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sisense allows us to produce good looking accurate reports out of multiple legacy systems which was previously only possible via intensive manual processes. It makes the analysis of or data possible across many dimensions nearly instant (after proper modeling). It also allows us to construct a single source of truth which is desperately needed due to poor data governance across several redundant data entry systems.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The product fits well for our business which is medium size ~200 employees. Our data is not overly complex but the quality/governance is poor so single source of truth generation and consolidation is a high priority. ETL is almost purely SQL which makes it accessible and learnable as long as you know your data sources well. You don't get your hand held but it'll get the job done if you are competent
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