For the use case, the tool is mostly used from an analytic point of view. We are focused on huge data size because the last time we worked with the tool, it was very good.
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Massive return for a portion of time spent
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.
Our customers use Sisense to over see their social programs and how the progress impacts individuals.
Very flexible way to create diverse dashboards on high volume data
Broad choice of dashboard types and graphs.
Fast view on changes, good or bad, following SW upgrades and/or config changes
Helps businesses save time and offers good integration features
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
Sisense is one of the best, and that is because of the product itself. Sisense can integrate with multiple sources at one time. If you have many databases, you might have CSV files, Excel files, or any kind of data files that Sisense can connect and wrap up everything in a single time. Another thing is predictive analytics. I would say that they are using a lot of AI features to advise the end user to understand the data, which is valuable. The tool gives us a lot more answers to help us understand many parts of the data.
What needs improvement?
I would say that using Sisense on Linux's platform might not be advantageous for everyone. I am more familiar with Windows than Linux. With Windows, the system performs very fast. Even if your data size consists of like 10,00,00,000 loads or whatever, it works very fast.
When using Sisense, it is better to have some people with a very good understanding of Linux. I need more technical people who understand about Linux OS. Only two people would be enough to operate the tool.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Sisense for four or five years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I haven't mostly found any problems with Sisense, so I would say that it is a stable product.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Scalability-wise, it is a great solution.
How are customer service and support?
The solution's technical support is good. I rate the technical support a nine out of ten.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
The scalability offered by Sisense is better than what Board offers. In Sisense, the AI feature associated with predictive analytics is good.
How was the initial setup?
The solution can be deployed in a day.
The solution's technical support is good. I rate the technical support a nine out of ten.
What was our ROI?
Fr return on investment, the tool probably saves a bit of time. It might not be good enough for the region I work in currently. The time-saving part can offer a lot after the installation or implementation is completed. After implementation is completed, it can help businesses in a more valuable manner.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The pricing is subscription-based and on a yearly basis.
Compared to Power BI or Tableau, Sisense is much more expensive. Suppose you look at the features provided by Power BI or Tableau. In that case, it includes everything, making it pretty hard to compare the pricing of Sisesne with others because of the structure of the pricing of the other products. There are tools like Power BI and Tableau that offer support, and its pricing model may look cheap. If you like to have the full feature set or functions, there will be a lot of similarities between Power BI, Tableau, and Sisense.
What other advice do I have?
Normally, you have to maintain it by upgrading the product quite often because of its Linux component since it has a lot more things inside of it, like Kubernetes. The tool has a version of the Kubernetes, and it also has a lot of versions of the server, which is why the problem is you have to upgrade it frequently.
I rate the tool a nine out of ten.
Overall, my experience with Sisense is satisfactory.
Falls short compared to other BI Tools
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.
Experience has been good. Customer service is A+. The product leaves a little to be desired.
Product Maager's View
Customization on the go
Look and feel of UI
Branding guidelines set up
Agility and Flexibility
Enhanced Collaboration
Gives good flexibility but doesn't have intuitive filtering
- Data breach
A customizable tool for data storytelling
2. years of using Sisense - Product Review
New UI bugs and issues with every release
Poor logging of elasticube build failures