Sisense Reviews

My current position is as a Senior Consultant. I sell Sisense to my customers in Thailand. It is used for reporting and as an analytic dashboard.

The best part about this solution is how easy it is to mash up the data from many sources. Sisense is fast compared to other solutions.

Sisense has a lot of feature functionality in the form of AI which helps with data analytics.

I would like Sisense to improve its performance, particularly when we are dealing with large-scale data.

I have been using Sisense for three years.

Sisense is stable.

The solution is scalable as it can access data that has more than 100,000,000 loads. 

Technical support at Sisense is good.

The initial setup of Sisense is quite easy. We use two people at each site to maintain the solution.

The entire deployment of the solution can take up to four months.

Sisense's return on investment depends on the point of view of the customer. It needs to be measured from the existing environment. If you are currently not using anything for analytic purposes, it will be very good. However, if you use other products, this solution may not be as good.

Sisense's pricing is based on an annual subscription of approximately $35,000 USD. It is a bit more expensive when compared to other products like QlikView, Tableau, or Power BI. However, these solutions price functionality separately if you select all the features. Sisense is less expensive.

I have evaluated Board International. Sisense is faster than that solution.

I would rate the solution a nine out of 10 overall.

We did not have a BI tool previously. We used spreadsheets, complicated pivot tables and macros. Using Sisense, we were able to get rid of those complex Excel sheets, improve the automation of the company and produce meaningful insights.

This solution is easy to learn how to use. 

This solution does not have tabs. In order to have tabs, you have to download an add-on to mimic the tabs. They should be integrated to improve the solution. 

We have also experienced bugs in the widget which has required us to delete the widget and recreate it. 

When one user adds filters to data, the next user sees the same results which can cause confusion. The next user can also make changes to the data. 

This is a stable solution. 

This is a scalable solution. 

They have a very good customer support team. We have biweekly meetings with them and they are very helpful.

Positive

The initial setup is straightforward.

This solution is more expensive than Tableau, Qlik and Dundas. It is an expensive tool. They charge $75,000 while Tableau is $45,000.

We are moving to a better tool. Technologically speaking, Dundas is ahead of other solutions on the market. The most impressive thing about Dundas is that if you have a graph, you can select a segment of that graph and drill down into the detail. You can make comments on the graphs for easy discussions.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten. 

We use the solution for data modeling and visualization to build dashboards for our healthcare product.

The solution is very intuitive, easy to use and learn. Even a new user can quickly understand and implement it.

The solution's setup process could be easier.

The solution was stable during POC.

The solution's technical support team is good.

Positive

The solution's initial setup process was complex. We had to collaborate with its support team quite a few times while executing it. I rate the process a five out of ten.

Collaborating with the solution's support team would simplify the setup process.

I rate the solution a six out of ten.

We use this solution for analyzing research data.

We like that this solution allows us to use data cubes to set up specific visualizations.

At present there are additional costs involved if we wish to share our data queues within this solution, which we would like to see removed.

We would also like to see more available data connectors.

We have been using this solution for over six years.

We would rate this solution a six out of ten.

I use Sisense to provide monthly information to executives and our sales team.

Sisense has helped us to migrate core functions of our previous tool in less than 90 days. The sales team used this information when communicating with customers.

• I have found the dashboard creating feature helpful. 
• It has allowed me to move my data to the cloud. 
• The customer support and onboarding features have been great.
  

They should improve the filters to create downloaded data by moving them to the top of the dashboard.

It was used to replace our BI tool, which was expiring soon.

Analytics and dashboards for product, sales, and marketing organizations. Merges data from many different data sources to deliver comprehensive views of the business. 

• Allows users to build their own solutions without as much reliance on technology staff.
• Ability to work with very large data sources without the limitations of Excel.

The dashboard design interface is very intuitive and allows you to quickly and easily produce professional, innovative dashboards.  

ElastiCube Manager allows you to combine multiple data sources and add additional fields and tables with ease. It gives you the power of ETL and data modeling in one easy to use tool.  

Minor improvements with formatting of data exports from dashboards. The ability for non-admin users to schedule the emailing of dashboards. I would like to see more development and growth for the support of Knowledge Base and Community forums.

Three to five years.

No issues with stability. It is a very stable solution.

No issues with scalability. I think this is a major strength of Sisense.

Support is very responsive and clearly one of the strengths of Sisense. I have always received a fast response and the staff is very helpful.  

I have used many different solutions recently including Tableau, Power BI and BusinessObjects. 

Sisense provides us with the best performance and the functionality that we need. Sisense provides both an on-premise and cloud solution, which meets our needs.  

A very simple setup: Easy to download, install, and updates are pain free.  

In-house. 

We did evaluate other options: Tableau and Power BI.

Embedded Sisense into our web/mobile application for customers and internal users to able to generate reports and insight from the data we collect.

While we are still in the middle of implementing, Sisense has helped us gain knowledge about our customers, as well as highlighting data quality issues to correct.

ElastiCube Manager is a very easy to use ETL tool, which includes the ability to easily transform raw data into reusable data. There are many built-in connectors, which allow us to easily add new sources of data, often in minutes.  

I would love to have more customization capabilities for building dashboards, especially in creating custom widget sizes. I would also like to be able to run a bursts of reports based on different field values with PDF output right in the tool, rather than filtering on each field value and generating each PDF manually.

I have worked with a lot of tools. This one was being used within hours of seeing it without much training.

Embedded analytics for Financial Technology provider. We are a multi-tenant SaaS provider servicing large global organizations. Sisense is our embedded BI solution for visualizing descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics in our product. 

Prior to Sisense, we had very limited reporting capabilities in our product. Most analyses were performed manually and delivered to customers in Excel or PowerPoint files. Because these analyses could not stand on their own, we needed a lot of business analysts to guide our customers to make the right business decisions and execute the strategies manually. 

The Sisense data cube allows us to execute heavy, complex computations on the fly so customers can slice and dice the data based on their business needs. The visualizations are adequate and the support from their team has been outstanding. Whenever we have an issue or are unsure how to proceed, they manage to simplify the issue and help us execute it in a graceful and scalable way.  

We struggled a bit to get the data cube setup in a way that could be built in a reasonable amount of time. The initial version we purchased only ran on Windows servers, which was less than ideal for our DevOps team. I believe that has been remedied in the latest release.