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Sisense pros and cons

Vendor: Sisense

4.4 out of 5

47 reviews
95% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

Sisense empowers organizations with robust BI capabilities, connecting multiple data sources to enhance decision-making and business strategies. Its ElastiCube Manager simplifies ETL processes, while customization options minimize IT dependency. Users appreciate its speed and integration ease, though JavaScript knowledge is necessary for dashboard design. Some challenges include initial Windows server reliance, large dataset issues, and additional costs for data sharing. However, Sisense offers responsive support to address these swiftly.

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PROS

Sisense enables organizations to connect multiple data sources, facilitating data-driven decision-making and improving business strategies.

ElastiCube Manager is a straightforward ETL tool, making it easy to transform raw data into reusable data.

Sisense supports heavy computations and allows customization to meet business needs without over-relying on IT staff.

Users appreciate the ease of integrating diverse data sources and its speed compared to other BI tools.

Technical support for Sisense is responsive and effective in solving challenges swiftly and gracefully.

CONS

Several functionalities require JavaScript, demanding technical knowledge from the dashboard designer.

Handling large datasets may lead to "Accumulated logs" errors when making minor changes.

Initial versions ran on Windows servers, posing challenges for some DevOps teams.

Additional costs are involved when sharing data queues with other users.

Performance issues arise, particularly with extremely large data sets.

Sisense Pros review quotes

Infrastructure Expert at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nov 18, 2013

Deploying it was smooth as butter, and there was little to no down time after lab testing.

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Techno-Functional Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

Jan 19, 2015

The client we have deployed this for is now able to easily make decisions based on the visualizations from this BI solution.

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Section Editor: Print Software at a printing company with 51-200 employees

Apr 22, 2015

We found the ease of use to be our primary factor for choosing Sisense.

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Senior Manager of IT at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jun 18, 2015

We are now able to increase our visibility into our business beyond the canned reports available in our ERP (NetSuite) and provide actionable, timely insight to our leadership.

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Business Analyst at a media company with 501-1,000 employees

Sep 22, 2015

Overall I think, it is a fantastic value-for-money analysis tool and I would absolutely recommend it to anyone who looks for a up-to-date BI solution that can be customized to your specific needs.

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Data Analyst at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Sep 25, 2015

Sisense can do both in a much much faster way, which drives our reporting efficiency into another level.

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Product Owner of Business Intelligence at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

Oct 20, 2015

Time to deployment was one of our most critical factors in choosing a BI vendor, and I am not sure you can get to deployment faster than Sisense.

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PROJECT MANAGER - Fleet production optimization & monitoring. Quarry/Mining/Construction at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Feb 14, 2016

It's really user friendly and fast, so I can use the product during customer meetings not only to show dashboards, but to create and process data analytics in real-time, making it perfect for consultant workshops where you can't work with static dashboards.

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Director, Business Operations at a university with 51-200 employees

May 3, 2016

Sisense's documentation and video tutorials were thorough and helpful in starting off with the basic usage of the product.

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Business Analyst - Canada at a marketing services firm with 51-200 employees

May 17, 2016

Sisense also allowed us to achieve some less conventional projects like abstracting the effect of the price increases on our sales.

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Sisense Cons review quotes

Infrastructure Expert at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nov 18, 2013

Some have outright rejected it due to lacking visualization and readouts.

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Techno-Functional Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

Jan 19, 2015

Sometimes the platform works great, but other times, it's a drag and users are always on our necks to speed it up.

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Section Editor: Print Software at a printing company with 51-200 employees

Apr 22, 2015

For very complicated blended data from multiple sources we would like Sisense to add a "nerd mode" where we can geek out without the visual connecting of tables and data elements.

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Senior Manager of IT at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jun 18, 2015

The document is definitely a sore spot as well as the limited inner join functionality of the cubes.

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Business Analyst at a media company with 501-1,000 employees

Sep 22, 2015

The only thing I am missing is the option to plug in any data from any source easily since Sisense only offers a limited amount of supported data providers.

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Data Analyst at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Sep 25, 2015

Sisense doesn't have connections with statistical packages like R, SAS, etc.

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Product Owner of Business Intelligence at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

Oct 20, 2015

Users with viewer access have less capabilities than similar users in Tableau.

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PROJECT MANAGER - Fleet production optimization & monitoring. Quarry/Mining/Construction at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Feb 14, 2016

I'd like to see branding features and more layout possibilities.

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Director, Business Operations at a university with 51-200 employees

May 3, 2016

I did encounter an issue with the Dashboard load time to be slow considering that we had a basic dashboard with five reports and no more than 300 rows was disconcerting.

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Business Analyst - Canada at a marketing services firm with 51-200 employees

May 17, 2016

When your data cubes become too complex (many layers of custom tables), the performance of the tool might be slightly affected.

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