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Sisense provides an enterprise way to consolidate, transform and visualize your data without losing collaboration activity and drill down into details. It is the most business ready solution out there in the market and that is after comparing it to Power BI and Tableau. In addition to the basic use of Sisense they have added the AI analysis of data that really allows users to focus on what the data is telling them vs in dealing with the data. With its efforts in making it easy to install and easy to use, Sisense has kept its ability to extend and provide custom interfaces via modules which are simple to create to make a true solution that fits any company. It has been amazing how we have been able to integrate Sisense across a large number of our data sources thus correlating many of our activities and bringing even more value to our day to day work. We are consistently in Sisense, monitoring dashboards and easy to view reports that provide near real-time insight into our operation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Earlier versions were difficult to install but they have corrected much of that with their latest 2023 releases. I like that we have easy to apply updates. Some of their best support folks are overseas so there have been some late night sessions with them but they are very dedicated and driven to get to a solution. They have improved their support system and appreciate their turn around times which are much better but still more work on getting information here. Still find a few bad instructions on their docuementation but have seen work done there too. There are so many variables in installing Sisense that you need to make sure you are looking at the right version with the right OS and it is hard to see what things apply to both versions MS vs Linux. Cost is always something that needs to be address but overall they deliver more value for the cost of the software comparably. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The fundamental thing is the ease of use, our customers and ourselves love the way it is straight forward in designing data sets, publishing dashboards.
The overall interface is intuituve and for anyone with a little experience, they can get to grips with only a small amount of effort when compared with our similar products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The biggest draw back would be when updating our version of the software, in some cases the new version broke existing dashboards due to new bugs, or new ways of doing things. The other is when we do updates we have to manually apply specific settings for our installation to use the resources on the server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I like the customization from the standpoint of changing the fonts colors and buttons to make it consistant with our companies colors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Falls really short compared to Power BI and Tableau.
The data model view is very clunky and makes it difficult to easily understand the relationships of the data.
It is missing what I consider to be basic functionality that their competing tools handle such as min(date) and max(date).
I have not found a way to incorporate user inputted parameters such as a desired threshold to use in calculations without some sort of filter hack, another thing that is easy to do in Tableau or PowerBI.
You cannot just do a simple case statement on a dimension without changing this in the data model.
Formula syntax is clunky and weird. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
We have been partners with Sisense for multiple years now. The collaboration from the CS and support teams are great, as we were able to resolve almost all of the issues that we encountered. The data modeling and data base building side of the platform is intiutive and easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Sometimes the process of resolving an issue required a lot of work from the customer side, includeing sending HAR files, logs, etc. I understand that in order to be able to resolve an issue, all the relevant data should be made available, but it still feels that the customer is required to invest considerable amount of time in order to facilitate the investigation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Sisense CDT - is made for data teams in small org, this is no frills SAAS tool which takes no time to setup and start working on data finding and insights. Deep linking and filter options makes it very easy to maintain the dashboards
As of now we use the tool daily for all the operations, sales and finance data needs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
the only issue we have Sisense CDT is Invoicing system. this is not automated and we have to connect with RM to get the monthly invoice Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I enjoy the speed and how easy the UI is for our end users. Easy to integrate without a data warehouse. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Building cubes and other functionality needs a decent amount of work. Slight nuance items need to be addressed that would make the design a lot smoother.
Cost is a large factor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Helpful:
1. Data security
2. Dashboard designing with co-authoring
3. Sharing/publishing
4. Ease of Integration
5. SSO
Upsides:
1. Ease of Implementation
2. Ease of Use
3. Infra management
4. AI/ML Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Least helpful:
1. Subscription
2. Pulse
Downside:
1. Few canned set of chart types
2. Fewer examples on the Developer portal
3. Sections on the developer portal are not properly categories
4. Usage analytics doesn't support embedded dashboard usage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Being able to pull data from various sources, and create a data story to help user navigate complex data, into an actionable dashboard to show trends, and results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Some larger data sets can be mildly slow in data queries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I like that we can build our own data models and customize report widgets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
A lot of features don't exist or aren't fully fleshed out. Filtering or customizing data for reports is difficult. Data model crashes often. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
