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Sisense Review

The rapid development of the product is good, but it has limited inner join functionality of the cubes.

Valuable Features

The ability to combine multiple data sources in a cube environment is essential. The speed has been very good as well.

Improvements to My Organization

We are now able to increase our visibility into our business beyond the canned reports available in our ERP (NetSuite) and provide actionable, timely insight to our leadership.

Room for Improvement

The document is definitely a sore spot as well as the limited inner join functionality of the cubes.

Use of Solution

We have been using this product for approximately two months now and are close to our final implementation.

Deployment Issues

Only trying to understand some of the functionality and our internal business rules.

Stability Issues

No issues with stability have been encountered yet.

Scalability Issues

We are very early in our project but do not see any major limits yet.

Customer Service and Technical Support

Customer Service:

Customer service has been excellent.

Technical Support:

Technical support is very good. The rapid development of the product has some features that are new even to the tech support staff.

Previous Solutions

No previous solution was in place.

Initial Setup

The connections to the SQL data were straightforward.

Implementation Team

We utilized the Sisense staff for implementation along with our internal BI group. They are very helpful, knowledgeable and responsive.

ROI

Unknown at this time.

Other Advice

Understand your business hierarchies intimately. Create flattened data files for roll-ups.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.

Jun 18 2015

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Boris Kacevich

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This review is insightful.

30 June 15

Boris Kacevich

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What is the data scale you are working with?

30 June 15

Product Manager with 201-500 employees

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Hi there,

As Director of Product Management of Sisense I would love to shed some light on the inner join issue you mentioned. In general I will say that there are two ways to address it:

1. You can still always create an inner join with the custom SQL feature, if it's absolutely necessary.

2. It's true that the ElastiCube Manager (visual data modeling environment) doesn't show inner joins as a configuration option. However, it's quite possible that if you find yourself looking to do inner joins, you're not utilizing the full power of the product:

Most solutions rely heavily on joins in the data prep phase to create a single view.
What's unique about Sisense is that you don't *need* to flatten the data during the data preparation stage. Sisense only performs joins when it needs to answer a query, such as when a new visualization is created. The joins are performed ad-hoc and the system automatically detects which type of join is most effective for that particular data scenario. So 99% of the time, you shouldn't be dealing with these join headaches in the first place.

08 July 15

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Sisense Review

The rapid development of the product is good, but it has limited inner join functionality of the cubes. ​

Valuable Features

Improvements to My Organization

Room for Improvement

Use of Solution

Deployment Issues

Stability Issues

Scalability Issues

Customer Service and Technical Support

Previous Solutions

Initial Setup

Implementation Team

ROI

Other Solutions Considered

Other Advice

The rapid development of the product is good, but it has limited inner join functionality of the cubes.