Sisense

Avantages

J'ai utilisé Sisense dans le cadre de la réalisation d'un test sur les outils d'analyse de données, il offre un tableau de bord explicite

Inconvénients

La première remarque est le coût trop élevé de Sisense

Avantages

Oui c'est un bon logiciel qui aide beaucoup

Inconvénients

Elle est bonne et facile à maîtriser et aide beaucoup

Avantages

The visualization part is very easy and convenient, there are no many small things to adjust like in other programs

Inconvénients

Lack of basic features like font formatting,
If you to so you can but only by javascript code.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à Sisense

Avantages

The ease of use, ease of setup, and the customizations.

Inconvénients

Roles and permissions for users could have more options.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à Sisense

Avantages

Sisense is powerful for visualisation and it supports a lot of different type of graphs. The caching layer is done well, reducing cost for processing on data warehouse.

Inconvénients

Some features are buggy for large enterprise. For example, the sidebar that syncs the schema and table available will stop syncing if the data warehouse has too many tables. These data are still queryable just not searchable on the UI.

Alternatives envisagées 

Avantages

Sisense's ability to handle complex data from multiple sources and its robust visualization tools stand out. The ElastiCube offers excellent flexibility, enabling custom transformations and efficient querying for large datasets. Its integration capabilities, including Salesforce and SQL, make it a powerful tool for seamless BI operations. The BloX widget is particularly valuable for creating interactive, customizable dashboards.

Inconvénients

The steep learning curve for new users and occasional performance lags with large datasets are downsides. Advanced features like BloX can be challenging without sufficient documentation, and the UI sometimes lacks intuitiveness. Customizations might require considerable effort

Avantages

Drag and drop interface, the way all widgets snap in place. Also, the fact that you can customize the interface with your own JavaScript and CSS code. In terms of dashboard exploration, Sisense has this easy to dive in feature, where you can zoom in in a certain area of a chart, and find more details about that specific segment.

Inconvénients

The Elasticub manager is a bit heavy environment, where data modeling sometimes is cumbersome. One cannot get a quick preview of data mashuo output.

Avantages

I think that there are lots of really good integrations and some really strong reporting and notification options

Inconvénients

This product seemed to take a long time to implement, but I wasn't on the team building the reports so I cannot say what problems they encountered along the way.

Avantages

Product is good but need lot of improvement.

Inconvénients

performance needs to be improve based on the large data the way customers uses

Avantages

It's provide sso configuration in easy way and it's provide react compose sdk integration

Inconvénients

It's not provided video documentation to easy understanding for non english people.

Avantages

Dashboards - basic and complex. For complex, need backend support.
API integrations to Zendesk which is a very nifty feature.

Inconvénients

A bit tricky when complex dashboards are being done.
Lacks features on further customization such as dashboard design.

Avantages

Unlike Looker or Tableau, you don't need an elaborate data model to start building dashboards. You can just plug in your data source and with some basic SQL, have decent dashboards. The verified badge on the dashboards and data alerts are also super useful.

Inconvénients

I don't think the data import options from various sources is working very efficiently.

Avantages

How quickly the data engineers can put together a dashboard for us.

Inconvénients

Loading times, sometimes a chart can take up to 15 minutes to refresh or might even throw an error.

Avantages

Intuitive data interface: Elasticube GUI is very intuitive to use, especially building calculated columns, duplicating a column, aliasing, etc.
Easy dashboard creation process: For simple dashboards, not much tech skills required. Advanced use-cases have a robust community in place where you pick up plugins that give the right solution to your problem, usually with examples which
Granular access control: with cube-level and row-level access restrictions, you can ensure that the right audience have access to the right information.
White-labeling and web integration with SSO: As an OEM, this was a primary ask and Sisense extended great support to help us achieve this.
Ability to consume huge data sets: No preaggregates and hence drill down to the most granular level.

Inconvénients

Limitations on how and where I would like my filters to go; ability to filter by clicking on legends; no proactive version upgrades on sisense managed cloud; greater control over retinal elements of visualization.

Avantages

- Integrated data connectors joining multiple data sources and formats
- Integrates with external web sites or web applications
- Integrates with web portals
- Interactive browser-based dashboards
- Removes limitations to data size
- Use Single-Sign-On to keep a single authentication mechanism
- Wide range of widgets such as gauges, charts, and graphs
- Can be set up and used entirely in-house
- Centralized data hub
- Complex business queries without programming or SQL writing
- Consolidates, stores, and accumulates data
- Data mash-ups
- Data unification
- Drag-and-drop user interface
- Intuitive `script-less user interface
- Embed entire dashboards or individual widgets
- Enables to deliver interactive terabyte-scale analytics
- Exports data to CSV, PDF, Excel, Images and other formats
- Eye-grabbing visualization
- Filters data by dropping fields on the canvas
- Handles data at scale on a single commodity server
- Identifies critical metrics using filtering, calculations

Inconvénients

Managing the elasticube was little difficult as it sometimes hangs while performing various activities.

Avantages

Developing widgets for a dashboard (even complex ones) is far easier and faster than it is with competing products. User community is a strong asset. Elasticubes are able to accommodate many different files types with ease.

Inconvénients

The initial set up turned out to be complicated and required IT investment, but perhaps that is due to the unique nature of our company's setup. Product is a bit costlier than Power BI, but the feature set and ease of use makes the cost well worth it. Though Sisense is Elasticube allows the software to quickly pull large data sets, it's difficult to create for the average user and requires a lot of technical expertise. In many cases, users must write SQL code, even though Sisense promotes its codeless reporting. However, to get to this codeless reporting you must have a very technical person to write the SQL to build their Elasticube and there are some limitations such as join types and such that create difficult workarounds. We have had former Sisense users complain to us that they experienced a lot of errors getting the Elasticube to load, and because the system relies upon the cube, Sisense won't work if the cube isn't working.

Avantages

What I like the most about SiSense is the easiness of use and how quick we were able to be up and running. SiSense is a feature rich application, which can be even "richer" by using community build plugins and scripts.

It must be said that the Customer Support is sublime. They take Customer Succes to an entire new level

Inconvénients

As an OEM user management is bit of an hassle. With alot of users and groups it takes a while to do this manually. They do have a rich API, but you need to develop an application to use these apis properly.

Sharing dashboards among users and groups could also be more user friendly. Batch sharing dashboards or a folder is not possible at this time

Avantages

Complete service from A to Z. They guide you through setup with custom support and provide an amazing learning program to ensure you have continued success at a reduced support level.

The only limit with this software is your ability to dream. We had over a dozen systems that we collected data within separately and had no idea how to get it into a central location let alone getting it connected so that we could glean valuable insights. Departments have been able to cut meetings in half & it has helped develop an inclusive culture as a result because we are no longer in the dark across our silos of data.

Inconvénients

Learning curve would be steep if you don't have dedicated team focused on learning. They give you every available resource to be successful but it would be easy to purchase and fail without a clear objective in advance.

Avantages

I get very valuable visualizations from ERP data which are indispensable for our sales management and sales people. Easy to use and customize, e.g. get data from different data sources (even from Domino database), create dashboards, synchronize update intervals, manage user groups. Very flexible dashboard use: via web browser or embed to ERP, great mobile application to see own dashboards. Good documentation. The best part is unparalleled customer support.

Inconvénients

You have to invest your time to learn the concepts of BI (same for all BI tools) and to setup data sources. It is essential to plan what you need to show and how. I investigated all major BI software and I am very pleased with Sisense. Not cheap but the value for money is great.

Avantages

The dashboard creation wizard is pretty robust and fairly easy to use. You will need an SME within the organization - this isn't a tool that I would simply throw at someone and expect them to learn in a few weeks, but that's largely due to the wide range of capabilities the tool has. However, the wizard is much more intuitive compared to a tool like Tableau.

The UI of the dashboards is beautiful and offers a nice range of customization features. It's a much prettier dashboard than Tableau.

Finally, the ability to write custom Javascript for formatting preferences has proven to be a very nice feature.

Inconvénients

The cube processing itself is quite limited - this is not a big data tool. Cube builds on our dataset take almost two hours. Part of this has to do with our Elasticube design being suboptimal, but I would argue that just provides evidence that you need a very technical SME within your organization who has experience designing OLAP models.

My major objection is pricing - they charge on multiple vectors; by cube and also by a user. It's complex and the costs ramp up very quickly. I wish they'd pick one vector to price on, as it would make both budgeting and affordability much better.

Avantages

The ability to 'plug in' and connect a variety of tools within sisense is great. (API Integration).
Sisense can handle large data sets which is easily view-able. The ability to bring in a number different data sources into one elasticube provides a great centralised data hub. From this we can quickly create dashboards.

Inconvénients

There are some simple user friendly functionality pieces missing. Such as the ability to copy/ move folders across the platform.

Avantages

- Data Modeling on Sisense is easy to learn and Sisense has lots of good tutorials
- Large selection of widgets and indicators to add to your dashboard
- The dashboard UI is intuitive and visually appealing
- Great customer service that offers live support and resolves issues quickly
- Mobile app allows you to view your dashboards on the go

Inconvénients

- Connections to third-party software is limited, there still building connections to programs though
- No easy way to control font, font size or padding around widgets, they should add this feature

Avantages

Sisense allows us to pull data from multiple sources and make available for easy analysis. Finally, we have one source of truth. Sisense widgets allow us to easily analyze the data and make critical business decisions.

Avantages

The Customer Service & Support is second to none. When launching and using a product especially in such a complex area as BI it's important to have the support. Dashboard designer is great and easy to use and the schema management tool is extremely powerful.

Inconvénients

Sisense does not yet a fully fledged "cloud" solution, but this is coming and will make the administration of the schema alot simpler for none IT savvy departments.