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What do you like best about the product?
As an OEM the Sisense platform gives us the flexibility to offer BI tools both as a stand-alone product and embedded into our web application. The Sisense support has been helpful. The availability of plug ins and custom development are an advanatage.
What do you dislike about the product?
Migrating from the Windows platform to Linux, along with using the federator, has been long, time consuming and delayed our role out. Their pricing model for OEMs makes it difficult to have good margins.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Creating BI for our customers. The ability to correlate various data points into useful information, both for our customers and internally, has been a benefit driving decision making.
Sisense is a very nice BI tool.
What do you like best about the product?
I like the Elasticube Manager because you can connect data from multiple sources.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike that when you create a pivot table it automatically sort in ascending order.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
In our company we don't have a data warehouse or a data lake yet and we are using sisense to connect our databases.
Exceptional BI Tool That's Constantly Expanding
What do you like best about the product?
The thing about Sisense that I like best is that they're constantly improving and adding features. Obviously their acquisition of Periscope is a massive part of that, but even before the acquisition they were constantly improving and adding things at no additional cost. Specifically, they've continually improved their pivot table widget to increase performance. When you're running a pivot that manages so much data, it's nice that they're aim to increase performance without being asked or without any additional cost. There's also some great built in advanced analytics options, including regression analyses. There are a vast number of native connections and a lot more available utilizing CData connections. Sisense Custom SQL is intuitive and powerful and allows you a lot of flexibility transforming data within the tool to save on database/ETL costs/bandwidth. And Sisense support is incredibly helpful as well with generally quick turn around times - and almost immediate turn around times for business critical issues. There are so many features provided by Sisense that allow it to be the one stop platform of a data driven company.
What do you dislike about the product?
One of the very few things I dislike about Sisense is the lack of support for community created plugins. That's probably unfair since they allow the integration of community created plugins in the first place. I also understand that there are a lot and it's not their obligation or responsibility to manage them, but there are a few that are very helpful and very frequently used and it would be impressive if they'd adopt them and take them on as a supported feature. I also wish there were some more customization options in regards to the Sisense layout and using it as the end user facing reporting platform. Sisense looks very clean and is very intuitive, but it's obvious its primary function is to be embedded into other software. Currently we just have a Production folder where the organization can find reports ready for consumption and having some kind of end user landing page that was different from development would help put Sisense over the top.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We've been able to automate almost all of our manual reporting which saves countless working hours across the company and allows several departments instant access to raw data and data visualizations to help them make real-time business decisions. We have multiple dashboards support our call center teams - sales and customer service. We have marketing dashboards that serve both our internal marketing specialists as well as some of our external partners so we can be aligned on expectations and performance. Specifically, our summer sales force is a massive part of our growth strategy and currently we're able to track our summer sales reps from their recruitment through their assignment and arrival at an area all the way through their sales performance which allows for insights into specific bottle necks and staffing management. We're utilizing Sisense in every aspect of our business.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Sisense is unique in that it serves the needs of robust, established businesses as well as small, start-up companies and has pricing to match. While it may not be the absolute best in class for larger customers, the value is worth consideration. So far there has been almost no use cases for which Sisense doesn't have a solution, though some implementations are more difficult than others. For smaller or younger organizations, Sisense is an exceptional partner for beginning a journey to being a data driven company. Their onboarding process is well structured and they are as involved as you'd like them to be and they aim to immediately provide ROI from day one. Our preference is to rely more on our database connections and do more of our data transformations using SQL, but their options for creating custom tables and fields within cube models are tremendous. You could do all your data cleansing and transformation within Sisense if need be, and for data sources that require no transformation they provide a LiveConnect option as well which operates more similarly to other major BI tools. Sisense is also data source and product agnostic, which allows for a lot of flexibility. I would definitely recommend considering Sisense as your BI solution.
Great Business Intelligence for SaaS Platforms
What do you like best about the product?
Connecting data sources, building data models, and manipulating data are made easy with Sisense. The user-friendly interface is great for both us and our clients and allows us to quickly build the analytics that our clients need. We were also able to customize the look and feel of the embedded dashboards to closely match our platform. Additionally, consultants were on hand throughout our implementation process to guide us in using the platform.
What do you dislike about the product?
We occasionally encountered performance difficulties, but nothing that couldn't be sorted out by support reps.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are embedding Sisense into our platform to help our clients understand their data more intimately, and help them make more informed decisions.
Great Data aggregation and visualizations
What do you like best about the product?
Ability to bring in multiple sources of data into a single Cube, don't need to build a separate data warehouse to combine all the different data sources.
What do you dislike about the product?
Having to write SQL to join data sets where lookup tables are used, otherwise some odd results can occur
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Much improved Program monitoring and reporting. Have been able to identify negative and positive trends through the daily reports and alerts much sooner allowing us to prepare or remediate sooner.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Keep system up to date, updates are made regularly and have new features and fixes. CSMs and AMs are very helpful, use them as needed. Support team is good, very responsive to requests.
Very simple yet detailed in the options you can use to customize your work
What do you like best about the product?
i like the way it flows in dashboard creation
What do you dislike about the product?
It'd be nice to have more sizing and formatting options with margins, gridlines, axis', etc.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am solving for more efficient labor force with reps on customer service calls.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
similar to Tableau at a fraction of the cost.
Great Tool for Analyzing Very Large Datasets
What do you like best about the product?
It is easy to import and combine data from many different data sources. Handles very large with good performance. Ability to create computed fields and computed tables. Can run on commodity servers, virtual machines, or in the cloud. Rich dashboard functionality with many different widgets and filters. Ability to create and save formulas. Good documentation and training. Excellent customer support. Sisense is continually enhancing and improving their product.
What do you dislike about the product?
Buckets must be created as computed fields if you want to use them in filters. Users cannot dynamically define buckets. Developers must be careful to avoid many-to-many relationships. New releases tend to be buggy. Sisense is expensive.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are analyzing billions of records of data, and we are developing and deploying Sisense more user-friendly dashboards in a fraction of the time that it used to take us with SSRS. Sisense has empowered many of our analysts to design their own dashboards thus relieving the burden on the development team.
Sisense combine multiple data sources
What do you like best about the product?
Sisense is able to pull multiple data sources into one Elaticube and they provide all the connectors that I can think of. Sisense has very nice and easy to use web interface. Business users able to create simple dashboards on their own. I like the Live Connect the most, it solve some of the performance issue that we have on the very large table in the Elasticube. Sisense always add new features. The Sisense support is good, they always response in a reasonable time and most of they can help to solve the problem that we have.
What do you dislike about the product?
Most of the new versions released with some bugs that prevent us from upgrading to the new version, hope Sisense can improve the QA and release with less major bugs. Sisense can handle large datasets, but still has performance issue for very large datasets, we are having performance issue when table has over 800 million records. instead of spend most of the time on new cool features, Sisense also should spend more time on improve the product itself and make it more usable and add more basic function, even those are not fancy, but a lot of users need.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sisense helps to improve development time and improve dashboard performance. Compare to SSRS, we use a lot less time to implement the same reports in Sisense. Sisense is easy to handle permission, it provide multiple roles so we can assign different permission to different user groups.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Sisense is easy to use and it can handle large datasets.
Overall very satisfied with the product and service.
What do you like best about the product?
The data prep/cube manager side is very intuitive and relatively easy for non-developers to learn.
What do you dislike about the product?
We've had a few instances of bugs, especially after upgrading versions.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It has allowed my colleagues and clients to analyze massive amounts of data in a clean and intuitive interface.
Great tool for easily creating clean and useful dashboards
What do you like best about the product?
It's easy to use! I had never been exposed to a BI tool like this before, but I was able to learn how to do basic things relatively quickly.
What do you dislike about the product?
I can't say at this point. My job has been more focused on other things, so I haven't had a lot of time to do much experimenting with Sisense. I have liked what I've seen so far.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
One thing that I consider to be a huge benefit is the fact that the it's connected to the database so the dashboards update automatically.
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