Sisense

About Sisense:

Sisense, headquartered in New York, is a Business Intelligence solution designed to simplify analysis by transforming complex data into visuals. With detailed visuals, businesses can make informed decisions. Sisense lets you connect various data, even from multiple sources, to create visual representations like graphs, charts etc., to analyze the data in a simpler way.

What’s Good in Sisense:

1. The software is visually appealing. The creation of visuals from data is outstanding!
2. You can connect data from different sources. That will be an awesome tool for companies with tons of data from different sources.
3. The process of converting data to analysis is very fast!
4. Multiple visualization techniques to represent the data like bar charts, pie charts, line charts, area charts, column charts etc.
5. Creates an entire dashboard of the data. So, you can have a lot of information in graphical form on a single screen.
6. The prepared dashboards can be saved in pdf format.

What Can be Improved:

1. It will have been more convenient if the modules for data preparation (Elasticube Manager) and analysis be on the same platform.
2. The tool is a bit complicated to understand. As a user, you might need a few tutorials to understand.

Full Sisense Review:

As a software reviewer, I constantly look for tools that can simplify complex tasks, and one such example is Sisense. Sisense lets you convert various complex data to visual representation so that you can make informed, logical decisions.

Elasticube Manager:

Elasticube manager is a space where one can prepare the data for analysis. In this module, you can prepare data for analysis from various sources. Suppose I have two different sources of data, but both the data have interconnection. It would be very tough for a user to combine both data manually to analyse. But with Sisense, you can connect various data, irrespective of their source. Have a look:

Elasticube manager is basically a platform to create food for analysis. By connecting different data sources, you can make fused data which can be used for the analysis. You can add data in various formats, like Excel files, and CSV formats, through database servers or directly from various web services like Google Analytics. Here I have taken two data sources and connected with each other.

Dashboard:

The data created in Elastic Manager will be used in the SaaS module. Here dashboard will directly lead you to upload the data and start the analysis.

By taking the previous example: I have a list of States in the United States of America and the amount of taxes collected. Within the same data, I have much information such as type of tax, survey year etc. Here I can select the widgets the user wants for the analysis. Forex: States and Tax amount collected. Sisense allows the user to create various kinds of charts like bar charts, area charts, column charts, pie charts etc. The user can create various charts by selecting various widgets like:

By creating various charts for the same datasets, a user can create an entire dashboard which will give various graphical representations on a single screen! You can access the dashboard via mobile app & web, and you can also download the dashboard in pdf format. Have a look:

Bottom line:

As a BI software user, you will find it extremely easy to combine complicated data sets and make a graphical representation of various kinds. Using the In-Chip engine, Sisense will serve you analysis material within a few seconds. Although, I do think both these modules (Elasticube Manager & Analysis dashboard) should be in the same place. But, Sisense does make it extremely easy when you have multiple data sources.

As a business, Sisense is a great tool to analyze your business activities which are generally distributed in various channels. You can bring all these information sources to one platform and simplify analysis!