Sisense


This tool has solely been researched by the WilsonHCG Innovation team.

Summary

Bringing Intelligence to Every Business User

Analytics is no longer the rarified realm of data scientists. Today, business users need the ability to instantly discover important insights to rapidly take informed and data-driven action. Sisense makes every business user data fluent. Through ‘badass’ technology, Sisense’s data analytics software allows every user to easily discover meaningful business insights – no PhD required.

Sisense Isn’t About Being Different. It’s About Being Better.

Sure, Sisense was the first data analytics tool on the market to offer a single-stack solution. And, yes, our In-Chip analytics provides the fastest analytical processing power on the planet. But our goal was never to be different, just better. Better for customers, better for users… better for business.

The Sisense Difference

Sisense’s end-to-end, agile BI platform is built to eliminate the barriers between users and the business analytics softwarethey need to make smarter, faster data-driven decisions.


1. Open,Single-Stack™ Architecture

  • End-to-end BI software: Database, ETL, Analytics, Visualizations
  • Open API framework allows customization to meet your needs.


2. In-Chip™ Technology

  • Best-in-class analytics engine, 10-100x faster than in-memory.
  • Easily tears through terabytes of data.
  • Eliminates onerous data prep work.


3. Machine Learning

  • Smarter insights augmented by machine learning anomaly detection.


4. Sisense Everywhere

  • Delivery of insights beyond the dashboard.
  • Cutting edge technology to easily engage business users – bots, alerting, IoT and more.

Additional Resources

Technology Demo Notes

1.30.2018 Call Notes

User policy - No sharing of logins

  • Security reasons

  • User activity tracking

Directly connect to data sources

  • Key to creating a self-service platform

Solution

  • Sources

  • Data Prep Interface

  • High Performance Data Engine

  • Analytics Interface

  • Login through any browser & mobile device

Ability to integrate chatbots

Proof of concepts

  • Engineer and Sales @ Sisense partnered with WHCG

  • Use our data with a provisioned server

  • Shows us what it looks like to use the tool

  • 1 - 4 90 minute sessions

Ability to auto-update down to the second

  • Recommend 1 hour or 30 minutes for client dashboards

No limit on the number of dashboards

Unlimited visualizations

Pulse sends notifications at thresholds, intervals, or when the system detects anomolies

  • Notifications can be sent to individuals or groups

  • Integration with Active Directory

24 visualizations out of the box, however, they offer additional integrations

Adjustments via filters help to reduce duplication in reporting

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  • High Performance Data Engine: helps query data faster
  • Can integrate chatbots or AI tools (like Alexa) 
  • Simple report build: ElastiCube Manager 
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  • Able to handle large amounts of data
  • Can schedule "refresh" updates down to the second
  • No limitation on the number of dashboards (ElastiCubes) 
  • Can set up notifications - set thresholds on when we dip below SLAs/KPIs 
  • Can set up business workflows based on notifications (think about escalations) 
  • Artificial intelligence = the more we interact with it the more it can predict anonmlys
  • Can interact with the data to drill down - self service to understand the data 
  • Can create a custom hierarchy on the drill downs to limit clients on what they can and cannot see 
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We have a set of standard reports - recreate those and have people select filters? Or do we create individual ElastiCubes for each account? 
  • One and can apply security parimeters at the ElastiCube level, at the object level and at the data level 
Custom queue - can the managers use this? 
  • Yes, all depends on how you want to set it up
Create client sites:
  • copy/paste URL into another window
  • add "embed=true" to the URL 
  • OR you can do a tighter integration through Java script 
Branding
  • Can completely brand
  • Need to look into branding for each client 
Exporting 
  • PDF creator, you can even move around the graphics in the creator
  • Can auto email 
  • Can schedule reports - all end users need to be licensed Sisence users 
  • will it happen if some kind of data fails?
Will narrate analysis: Through a 3rd party 
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