Sisense is an embedded analytics platform that puts BI dashboards and AI answers inside a software maker's own app, run in the cloud or on-premises.
Sisense turns company data into charts, reports and plain-language answers that appear inside the applications people already use. Rather than sending customers to a separate reporting tool, a software maker builds analytics into its own product with Sisense underneath. Sisense Ltd. develops it from offices in New York and Ramat Gan, Israel. The same platform also serves internal teams that want governed dashboards drawn from a cloud warehouse. Data arrives through ElastiCube models, which import and rebuild on a schedule, or through live models that query a warehouse such as Snowflake directly. Analysts shape it with custom tables, columns and import queries, then define a semantic layer that every dashboard shares. The Widget Designer builds charts from chosen fields, and a selection on any chart filters the dashboard or drills deeper. Simply Ask answers natural-language questions with a visualisation, while Sisense Intelligence adds auto-narratives and built-in predictive analytics add forecasts and anomaly detection. Dashboards export as paged PDF reports, go out by email through the Sisense Scheduler, and open in Sisense Mobile on Android and iPhone. Product and engineering teams that owe their customers analytics are the core audience, from startups shipping a first dashboard to enterprises in regulated industries. Its industry solutions cover healthcare, financial services, supply chain, technology and manufacturing. Developers embed the work by iframe or with the Compose SDK, and enterprise buyers can run it as SaaS, in a dedicated cloud or on their own servers. Smaller teams sign up for the Self-Serve plan, and larger organisations arrange the Enterprise plan with the sales team. A common job is a SaaS company giving every customer a dashboard that shows only that customer's records, enforced by data security rules at row level. Another is a data team pointing live models at Redshift so reports read current figures without a nightly copy. Releases move from development to production by promoting data models and dashboards through version control. Where a source database sits behind a firewall, an SSH tunnel or VPN reaches it without opening a direct connection. Sisense fits wherever analytics has to ship as part of another company's product.
Features
- Included: Drag-and-drop report builder
- Included: Live connection to cloud data warehouses
- Included: Scheduled data extract refresh
- Included: Semantic data model with governed metrics
- Included: Self-service data preparation
- Included: Natural language questions on data
- Included: Ad hoc drill-down and cross-filtering
- Included: Paginated print-ready reports
- Included: Scheduled report subscriptions by email
- Included: Automated anomaly and trend insights
- Included: Row-level security by user attributes
- Not included: Data lineage and impact analysis
- Included: Version control and deployment pipelines
- Included: Native mobile apps for reports
- Included: On-premises data gateway
- Not included: Free viewer seats for report consumers
- Included: Self-hosted BI server option
Additional Features
- Compose SDK for embedding analytics in code
- iframe embedding in any tech stack
- Widget Designer for building charts from fields
- ElastiCube data models with scheduled builds
- Live models that query the warehouse directly
- Shared semantic layer for every dashboard
- Custom tables, columns and import queries for data prep
- Simply Ask natural-language questions
Best for
- Software companies building customer-facing analytics into their product
- Startups and growing teams shipping a first embedded dashboard
- Enterprises in regulated industries such as healthcare and financial services
- Organisations that must run analytics on-premises or in a dedicated cloud
- SaaS vendors serving many customers from one multi-tenant setup
- Product teams that want analytics under their own brand
- Data teams on Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift or Databricks
Use cases
- embedding dashboards in a SaaS product for end customers
- letting customers ask questions of their data in plain language
- limiting each customer to its own rows of data
- querying a cloud warehouse live without importing a copy
- rebuilding imported data models on a schedule
- emailing dashboard snapshots on a schedule
- exporting dashboards as paged PDF reports
- promoting dashboards from development to production
- reaching a database behind a firewall over an SSH tunnel or VPN
- checking dashboards on an Android phone or iPhone
- adding forecasts and anomaly detection to an application
- healthcare, financial services and supply chain analytics
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