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Lot of potential and room for improvement
What do you like best about the product?
The In Memory capabilities make Sisense really fast compared to other BI Tool. Changing filters are almost instant.
A lot of customization and cool features (such as Blox), but you have to learn javascript (and sometimes get your hands dirty).
Overall UI is nice and users love the responsiveness and interactivity!
Once everything is setup correctly, it works really well, but it takes a lot of time to get everything correct.
A lot of customization and cool features (such as Blox), but you have to learn javascript (and sometimes get your hands dirty).
Overall UI is nice and users love the responsiveness and interactivity!
Once everything is setup correctly, it works really well, but it takes a lot of time to get everything correct.
What do you dislike about the product?
- Cube Modelization : Inner join only, which is really not intuitive. Also, you really need to have clean data before building cubes.
- Formula Management : Every formula you save can be seen by every designer. If you edit a formula, it does not modify values where you placed the formula!
- Upgrading breaks a lot of things (in our case), and we are managed services.
- Folder ownership cannot be modified (at least in the ui)
Overall, it is not really flexible in an agile/modern data team because analytical needs change a lot. In tools like persicope, you can just write a quick query while in Sisense with elasticubes, you need to design your cube by having a complete picture of business needs (which is almost impossible).
- Formula Management : Every formula you save can be seen by every designer. If you edit a formula, it does not modify values where you placed the formula!
- Upgrading breaks a lot of things (in our case), and we are managed services.
- Folder ownership cannot be modified (at least in the ui)
Overall, it is not really flexible in an agile/modern data team because analytical needs change a lot. In tools like persicope, you can just write a quick query while in Sisense with elasticubes, you need to design your cube by having a complete picture of business needs (which is almost impossible).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Before we used Periscope but it was too ressource intensive on our data warehouse. Sisense solved it it elasticubes.
Sisense also helped us to better organize our tables and improved our data governance (a cube being a single source of thruth).
Sisense also helped us to better organize our tables and improved our data governance (a cube being a single source of thruth).
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Be sure to have clean data and well defined data business needs before using Sisense
not mature
What do you like best about the product?
The API is really complete and permit to automate lot of things
What do you dislike about the product?
Design is very hard and not flexible.
App not SaaS.
Missing to much widgets.
Missing most of the main features of competitors
App not SaaS.
Missing to much widgets.
Missing most of the main features of competitors
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Nothing, same issue and create new ones
Recommendations to others considering the product:
look at competitors features
Some functionality not working out of the box
What do you like best about the product?
Creating Datamodels and Dashboard is very intuitive, once properly configured, sisense is easy to use.
What do you dislike about the product?
some limitations on cube datamodels (composite keys) some basic functionalities as time filtering have some issues.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Dynamic dashboards are available for users, they can select dimensions and filter on a easy basis
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's a good BI tool
Fits all reporting needs
What do you like best about the product?
One of the only tools that properly connects to and works with our NoSQL database, and allows us to prototype and make changes for end-users quickly.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is slow to build from large datasets.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Avoiding the need for custom software.
Sisense Very Connected
What do you like best about the product?
The contacts at Sisense are very connected to the customers, very hands-on.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes I am confused by the product a bit, but the team helps me to work through any issues.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
General systems tracking. Have found efficiencies in business operation.
So intuitive and easy!
What do you like best about the product?
The dashboard building process is so easy and the product itself is very intuitive. Thank you for giving us something easier to use than other products out there.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing so far! I have only been a user for few months, but will report back.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
More up-to-date and reporting for our group. The dashboards are super easy.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
No recommendations to advise
Sisense has been an excellent tool that meets all of our dashboarding needs
What do you like best about the product?
I like the ease of building the data in the Elasticubes. It's fantastic. I like the ease of creating/changing dashboards. I have been able to train users to build dashboards in less than an hour.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not being able to easily customize the fonts/colors on dashboards. I get a lot of comments that some of the font is hard to read when added to presentations. Would like to at least be able to resize/recolor the font and adjust the automatic layout of the text.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have had completely siloed data. Our users would have to download data from multiple locations and use and Excel spreadsheet to combine all of the data. A lot of time has been saved with Sisense as well as access to much more data than before.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you have used an ETL or dashboarding software in the past you will be blown away at the ease of use of Sisense.
Better Insight in Less Time
What do you like best about the product?
The interface is easy to use and provides beautiful output for users.
What do you dislike about the product?
Data scrubbing can be a little cumbersome.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Information is at the fingers tips of the people that need it.
Ease of Use
What do you like best about the product?
From Designer to End User, Sisense allows anyone with basic data skills to build and analyze dashboards with ease. The data visual options provided with Sisense are simple and easy to use to build effective dashboards.
What do you dislike about the product?
The largest downside to Sisense is the difficulty to download PDF's of dashboards while still showing all of the data on just a few pages.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I've only ran into 2 problems while using Sisense.
1. Downloading PDF's of Dashboards that are nice enough to present in a Board Meeting. This is a constant struggling or resizing and adjusting widgets to size.
2. The ability to format numbers for banking terms. In banking, we like to present dollar amounts of loans in terms of MM.
Example $30,000,000 would be 30MM and Sisense does not allow us to format this way without adjusting every dashboard.
1. Downloading PDF's of Dashboards that are nice enough to present in a Board Meeting. This is a constant struggling or resizing and adjusting widgets to size.
2. The ability to format numbers for banking terms. In banking, we like to present dollar amounts of loans in terms of MM.
Example $30,000,000 would be 30MM and Sisense does not allow us to format this way without adjusting every dashboard.
Powerful, easy to use product
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to implement security down to a granule level. Connecting data sources into a data cube allows for easy and secure access to all of the data points needed.
What do you dislike about the product?
Inability to alter user interface or stylistic color schemes without using an open source.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
One of the issues we had was the ability to present data in report form in a way that the end user wanted to see it. We were limited to GUI's and canned reports available through applications. This was often not the specific data or data presented in a way that worked well for our end users.
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