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ELK Kibana vs Sisense comparison

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Categories and Ranking

ELK Kibana
Average Rating
7.2
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Sisense
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
48
Ranking in other categories
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (12th), Cloud Analytics (4th), Reporting (11th), Data Visualization (11th), Embedded BI (6th)
 

Featured Reviews

KJ
Engineer at Raytheon Technologies
Visualization tools are optimized providing us with increased flexibility
One area that could be improved is security. Being an open source product, if you want to add security, if you want to add authentication, you've got to use a third party plugin that may or may not cost you, or alternatively upgrade to their subscription service, which is a downside as well. I think the types of visualizations are nice, but I think there's room to add more without having to go to third party plugins to do that. Just comparing the total number of visualizations that it provides compared to Grafana, you can see that it's lacking. The UI experience isn't as rich as it is with Grafana or certain other tools. I would like to see better authentication options, typical authentication options, like active directory and LDAP as well, just a richer UI with more graph type options.
Gemipas Micah - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Software Engineer at Ernst & Young
Unified finance dashboards have accelerated data-driven decisions and improved forecasting
The best features Sisense offers include that it is fast due to its In-Chip methodology. It uses great visualization. BI becomes easy with Sisense. Millions of data can be loaded in a few seconds, which did not seem possible with other traditional reporting tools. It has a robust architecture and provides REST APIs to access it externally. That speed impacts my workflow significantly as it represents the greatest step and latest in the business intelligence market. It provides In-Chip technology for accessing millions of data in the shortest span of seconds and provides the best visual efforts for our business data to make data-driven decisions easily. Sisense has positively impacted my organization as it reduces the time it takes to obtain an optimal return on investments. It delivers the instant analysis required to merge our financial numbers and statistics with a pretty accurate dashboard landscape. Hence, we are able to make data-driven decisions easily. Sisense has improved our decision-making speed and saved my team, especially the data team, time. They are able to focus on more strategic other tasks because Sisense has done the work of providing analytics and deep insights where we are able to make data-driven analytics easily.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The optimization and flexibility of visualization tools."
"The automatic update of the graphs from a dashboard is very convenient."
"Some visualization tools are optimized for time series like Kibana, which allows you to do both, and we like the flexibility of being able to analyze different types of data."
"The stability of this solution is fantastic, as it has not failed us for months and we use it extensively."
"The user interface is very good, and the data visualization is simple and user-friendly."
"Having a tool where you can find logs that were generated months ago, and being able to search over a long period of time, is great."
"Sisense has helped us gain knowledge about our customers, as well as highlighting data quality issues to correct."
"We monetize Sisense to our customers so they can transform it into their application, and it works as a native application."
"We implemented the solution into an environment that had been using Excel as a business intelligence tool with data delivered on a monthly basis and we have freed our sales staff from being Excel pivot table experts."
"We like that this solution allows us to use data cubes to set up specific visualizations."
"There are many built-in connectors, which allow us to easily add new sources of data, often in minutes."
"It has allowed me to move my data to the cloud."
"Ability to work with very large data sources without the limitations of Excel."
"Sisense positively impacts our organization by speeding up the process of getting and presenting the data to customers or stakeholders, which normally takes a lot of time due to curation and presentation efforts."
 

Cons

"Security could be improved thereby avoiding the necessity of a third party plugin."
"This solution should allow the user to combine two indices into one graph and it should provide a unique count."
"One area that could be improved is security. Being an open source product, if you want to add security, if you want to add authentication, you've got to use a third party plugin that may or may not cost you, or alternatively upgrade to their subscription service, which is a downside as well."
"Populating data sometimes is also difficult for the user."
"Having a kind of wizard that would help you when you are typing your search would make it easier and quicker to refine your search, and ultimately find what you are looking for."
"I would like to see an improvement in the live data connection, specifically making the process faster."
"I'd like to see branding features and more layout possibilities."
"The only thing I am missing is the option to plug in any data from any source easily since Sisense only offers a limited amount of supported data providers."
"I would love to have more customization capabilities for building dashboards, especially in creating custom widget sizes."
"We are moving to a better tool."
"The solution's setup process could be easier."
"Some flexibility with the labeling of visualizations would be nice."
"There are some functionalities missing regarding built-in capabilities, which can only be added by using JavaScript, requiring technical knowledge from the dashboard designer to implement."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"This solution is more expensive than Tableau, Qlik and Dundas. It is an expensive tool. They charge $75,000 while Tableau is $45,000."
"Compared to Power BI or Tableau, Sisense is much more expensive."
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Comms Service Provider
11%
 

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Midsize Enterprise8
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What needs improvement with Sisense?
Areas where Sisense can be improved include AI integration, particularly effective deployment of the AI tool, rather than just having AI, and addressing the challenges around infra-scaling to suppo...
What is your primary use case for Sisense?
My main use case for Sisense during our three-year period involved a review, an implementation, and then a progression upgrade. A specific example of how I used Sisense during that time is that we ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Sisense?
Regarding pricing, setup cost, and licensing, the version six point three point one release was good initially, but I had to keep a close eye on costs, as it requires maintaining a tight format to ...
 

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