Sisense Review

PROS: Sisense does things you'd never expect to come from a tool run in a simple web browser. The system is powerful, but not for developers who promise the moon and give you nothing to work around, but for you who are in control of data right now. The way how you manage data will be entertaining for you, and you'll employ some creativity to make your own data structures. Mighty, ain't it?

CONS: Great for the pocket, even better for the mind. Nothing to worry folks, it looks the way it sounds! That's why I love it!

PROS: Sisense enabled our business to grow and scale several times more than what we expected. We didn't even have to go for extra licenses, unecessary add-ons, or additional costs. We succeeded in merging more than a dozen data sources into one source of truth which offered effective insights into our business.

CONS: It's lacking some much needed visualizations. There are certain apps intended for iOS that just don't seem to work. If they can improve on both these areas, I'm sure it can go a long way to attract more users like me.

PROS: The experience was totally worth it. We're using Sisense internally and for reslling OEM to clients. The folks from Sisense did a wonderful job assisting us with our first-use cases, which we found to be an excellent source for hands-on eduction. We've been operating the platform for over a year now.

CONS: We found the mobile experience lacking. We did notice they've grown a bit since last year. But it still requires further capabilities for it to be that all-around package. What matters is that it's growing and it'll continue to expand its features.

PROS: The software is simple to develop. It's intuitive and easy to use. Sisense assisted our BI team and saved us plenty of time when constructing dashboards intended for our audiences. Its data source management is easy and gives room for customizations. Dashboards are simple to navigate and works really quick.

CONS: Regardless of the issue we faced, however big or small it may be, each one of them has been addressed. The Sisense team did an incredible job looking into each problem. With that in mind, I don't think there's anyting for me to hate. So that means I have no "dislikes" to report.

PROS: We use it to connect many different data sources together and to segment each of them on the dashboard in order to analyse it. The UI is already amazing, but it seems they will never stop improving it. I think that's amazing. The overall experience is somehow transparent, having a marvelous team to back you up in every situation. I guess this is the first time that I actually see a company so concerned about the way client use their product, and I am glad to provide any improvement hint they need.

CONS: We got confused in some situations, but the support team tackled those immediately. It means there is nothing I could complain about.

PROS: The tool provides immmense flexibility to gain access to more than one data source. I can easily link to Google Sheets, MySQL databases, and Zendesk. I'm able to come up with a custom query when making Elasticube. I can also further customizations of SQL within the Elasticube schema. It helps me ensure that I have the proper data intended for the dashboard designers.

CONS: I love having the ability to add other kinds of joins instead of the INNER within Elasticube. But I was aware beforehand of that feature on the software's roadmap. This makes things simpler when it comes to implementation. It would be a treat it this can operate on a Linux OS.

PROS: Sisense did the right thing by making good decisions in their system. The've adapted to an API-first approach with the technology they're providing. For a BI platform, it's rather unsuual. Yet, it makes this platfom very competitive whenever scaling for the cloud.

CONS: Sisense has rapidly grown over the year. So, expect a bit of dilution in their internal knowledge. The more intricate your implementation, the less support you're expected to get. You're far better off interacting with their professional service. This is quickly changing although it's not that quick enough in our eyes.

PROS: It's simple to utilize. The data interface is highly intuitive. The graphical user interface of Elasticube makes everything simple to set up from a data point-of-view. I like their dashboard creation process. I find it intuitive as well. You barely do tweaks and both your widgets and the dashboards look fantastic.

CONS: At the moment there's really no Elasticube manager for those using a Mac computer. I understand this very well. But expect incremental changes to be made with its future releases. I'm pretty sure the software itself will be available for users using different operating systems.

PROS: The thing we liked the most is flexibility, because the system allows us to customize the interface, and to drill deeper into our data with automatic reports and purposeful dashboards. It smoothened the sales process, and it did an amazing job with transparency. Communication is easy, which wraps all the features into an oustanding experience. We got to value the tool even more by contacting their support team. I deal with clients all the time, and I know how important it is to have reliable assistance all the time.

CONS: Honestly, nothing. Fails once in a blue moon, if you know what I mean.

PROS: The team got hands around Sisense almost immediately, and we ran it to see how it works. Help was not necessary even on the first day, and we created our dashboards and connected various data software on our own. The next thing was to explore the amazing on-board sessions organized by their engineers, and I think that was the moment we discovered that we have a software that can solve all of our problems. Support has been impeccable ever since -they reply immediately and have an answer to every question, but the best thing is that they motivate us to explore the features and to learn more.

CONS: I minded that there were not enough external connections, as for example Facebook Ads API. The team was there to give a tip or two, but they didn't provide direct connections yet. I hope they will!

PROS: The amazingly easy deployment and the intuitive interface. Improvement is always work in progress for their team, and there is nothing wrong to expect miracles from them. I've seen those happening.

CONS: Great product, what could I say? A slightly better javascript would be awesome, but I can go on without it.

PROS: Sisense has made it possible for us to carry out intricate business logic across our organization. It's a self-refreshing customized data model that can be showcased and be made available for users. The tool is one solution offering responsive and knowledgeable support. It has platform layers with a very powerful data warehouse.

CONS: Running with highly intricate visualizations and super fast feature development, glitches occur every now and then. Typically, refreshing the browser will resolve the issue. But persistent glitches are already happening. Thankfully, the support team is honest enough and has the knowledge to understand things that we did wrong.

PROS: The UI is simplified to the max, dashboards are easy to make, the connection manager is impeccable, and works perfectly with SQL to build custom fields. It is self-hosted, just so you know.

CONS: Analysis are not that good, there is not a Plan B option. Dashboards are awesome, but that doesn’t mean you'd have no trouble to transfer them form one elasticube to the other. SQL is not the same, can't hold a candle to MySQL or the MS SQL server.

PROS: It's a complete stack BI all rolled up in a single product. It's really fast, simple to utilize, and with a lot of features. The REST API is automatically made on any data being brought to Sisense's backend. Reports and dashboards are embeddable and interactive.

CONS: They're Israel-based (partly). So expect some support techs to not be fluent in the English language. But if you compared that to other support from other countries, they're not as bad as many would assume.

PROS: Its Elasticube data prep layer makes it all too simple in denormalizing data straight from our operation data stores. All this without dealing with overhead that comes with an ETL layer and legacy datawarehouse. It's so convenient.

CONS: Support isn't that great when it comes to DevOps automation, modern SDLV, and source control. It appear as if this will be coming around soon. It's a price to pay for the other things Sisense is looking for after you including great, interactive dashboards with an editor, caching and speeding up slow data sources, and etc...

PROS: It has a simple structure. Using it is a breeze. There's a lot of documentaion to help you get things started. It's capable of offering data in various employee levels that can fit their needs. It can quickly come up with a report for just about any reason or a group of people out there.

CONS: Its Elasticube has a ton of problems. If you're dealing with data tables (20+), the cube can get pretty complicated to review. I just wish you're given the chance to get the background colored to specifically indicate which kinds of data were available in that area.

PROS: I've been using Sisense the past several years. I love the new functionalities added to the latest version. The data security per user group scopes data according the to group to which a user is specifically assigned to. Data table views can be expored seamless to CSV for Excel.

CONS: There are several areas that I'd like to see from the software. In my opinion, I want to see added flexibility of join types in an Elasticube. I wanted to go beyond the typical "inner" part. It'd be nice to have further granularity in its pre-installed map widgets.

PROS: I like every feature of the system, but just to mention few: comprehensive dashboards that are easy to use, end-user friendly interface, trendy ad-ons, well-connected platforms, reliable support, mobile dashboards.

CONS: The database doesn’t refresh automatically after a field is added/viewed. It may require you to re-add the same field to the elasticube multiple times. Otherwise, all fine.

PROS: Its Elasticube manager makes it simple to make datasets quickly and eaisly. I was able to come up with a huge, intricate dataset. I saw myself doing dashboard designs in as little as half an hour. Being able to branch out the capabilities via plugins is important to acquiring good results.

CONS: The designer is so easy to use. But sometimes, it has restrictions, which makes it inferior compared to other platforms. There's a way to get things done through a plugin or by doing a bit of workaround. While the Elasticube Manager is a great module, but its ablity in carrying out transformations wasn't as smooth.

PROS: The system appeared so good that I did a double take to see if there was something wrong about it. And there wasn't. It made it absolutely possible to evaluate different time periods, and to dive within a particular one without any concern. We are constantly observing clients, being able to respond to any of their needs, and we're also filing reports to crew members outside the system. Overall, we feel well connected.

CONS: This is one of my most positive software experiences, I really can't criticize anything about it.

PROS: This is what Sisense did for us: combining data from various sources, adjusting the data with new custom fields, customizing SQL expressions to free the engineering team from dealing with every problem, building amazing business metrics (systematization included), building functional dashboards, and doing many more magic tricks I can't think of now. What I know for sure is that this is the best value on a reasonable price that you could possibly get.

CONS: I'm not impressed by the mobile UX, mostly because I cannot upload large databases.

Pros: Great tool for analyzing bigger datasets. Really nice UI and visualizations look good on most devices as well.

Cons: None so far. We had some minor hiccups at the beginning but the support was phenomenal so now all is good.