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IBM Turbonomic vs Sisense comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 2, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
7.2
IBM Turbonomic offers quick ROI by reducing hardware costs, optimizing resources, and decreasing operational expenses through automation and efficiency.
Sentiment score
7.0
Results with Sisense vary; some see immediate benefits, while others struggle to measure improvements or efficiency gains.
Due to the data presented to stakeholders, they are able to make informed decisions that impact the day-to-day operations of the client, giving them more insights into what's happening within their organization.
System Integration Specialist at a non-profit with self employed
I have seen a return on investment in that we can manage the Sisense environment with a very small number of users.
Project Manager at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
8.9
IBM Turbonomic's customer service is highly rated for its responsiveness, knowledge, and effectiveness, despite some mixed post-acquisition experiences.
Sentiment score
7.6
Sisense is praised for exceptional, responsive customer service and skilled technical support, focusing on client success and prompt assistance.
The support was very good.
Business Intelligence & Reporting Manager at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
We typically get responses within 24 hours.
Project Manager at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.9
IBM Turbonomic is scalable, seamlessly integrating with various environments while its licensing supports expansion, focusing on additional requirements.
Sentiment score
7.4
Sisense scales well for medium to large businesses, handling over 100 million data loads despite increased querying times.
It is scalable to a very large extent and we can integrate any third-party tools.
Project Manager at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Sisense works really well for simple to medium use cases and scales well.
System Integration Specialist at a non-profit with self employed
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.4
IBM Turbonomic is praised for stability and robust performance, with minor update issues swiftly resolved by support.
Sentiment score
7.8
Sisense is generally stable and reliable, with occasional data import and dashboard load issues mitigated by caching.
 

Room For Improvement

IBM Turbonomic needs an improved interface, better reporting, clearer documentation, more integrations, and a stable, mobile-compatible platform.
Sisense users face dataset handling issues and seek improvements in speed, interface, integration, customization, and documentation.
I would like to see an improvement in the live data connection, specifically making the process faster.
Business Intelligence & Reporting Manager at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
Sisense should provide more support for CI/CD, as we found the CI/CD approach quite limited.
System Integration Specialist at a non-profit with self employed
I give Sisense a nine because the integration with some third-party tools is good.
Project Manager at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
 

Setup Cost

IBM Turbonomic offers flexible, competitive pricing models, providing value through resource optimization and reducing hardware expenses effectively.
Sisense offers competitive pricing with extensive features, ideal for mid-size and large organizations, but less affordable for smaller businesses.
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing shows that pricing is a little bit higher when compared to other applications, but that justifies the use case.
Project Manager at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
They were practically dead even from a pricing perspective.
Business Intelligence & Reporting Manager at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
 

Valuable Features

IBM Turbonomic enhances efficiency through automation, capacity management, reporting, and planning, optimizing resource allocation and infrastructure decisions.
Sisense excels with multi-source integration, ease of use, fast deployment, data visualization, and robust real-time analytics support.
It offers two ways to access data: by cubing the data or hitting it live.
Business Intelligence & Reporting Manager at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
Sisense has positively impacted my organization by drastically reducing the time taken to build the data cube, and we can see real-time analytics.
Project Manager at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Sisense positively impacts our organization by speeding up the process of getting and presenting the data to customers or stakeholders.
System Integration Specialist at a non-profit with self employed
 

Categories and Ranking

IBM Turbonomic
Ranking in Cloud Analytics
1st
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
205
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Migration (6th), Cloud Management (5th), Virtualization Management Tools (4th), IT Financial Management (1st), IT Operations Analytics (5th), Cloud Cost Management (1st), AIOps (11th)
Sisense
Ranking in Cloud Analytics
5th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.2
Number of Reviews
43
Ranking in other categories
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (17th), Reporting (14th), Data Visualization (13th), Embedded BI (7th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Cloud Analytics category, the mindshare of IBM Turbonomic is 23.3%, down from 38.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sisense is 3.0%, up from 2.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Analytics Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
IBM Turbonomic23.3%
Sisense3.0%
Other73.7%
Cloud Analytics
 

Featured Reviews

Dan Ambrose - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Engineer 4 at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Helps visibility, bridges the data gap, and frees up time
We use IBM Turbonomic in a hybrid cloud environment. Although it supports multi-cloud capabilities, we currently operate in a single-cloud setting. Turbonomic offers visibility into our environment's performance, spanning across applications, underlying infrastructure, and protection resources. The visibility and analytics help to bridge the data gap between disparate IT teams such as applications and infrastructure. This is important for awareness collaboration, cost saving, and helping to design and improve our application. Enhanced visibility and data analytics have contributed to a significant reduction in our mean time to resolve. Tools like Turbonomic provide crucial visualization and insights, empowering us to make data-driven decisions instead of relying on assumptions as we did before. This newfound transparency translates to a massive improvement, going from complete darkness to having a clear 100 percent view of the situation. Although our applications are not optimized for the cloud we have seen some improvement in response time. IBM Turbonomic empowers us to achieve more with fewer people thanks to automation. Previously, customers frequently contacted us requesting resource increases to resolve issues. Now, we have a tool that allows us to objectively assess their needs, leading to a deeper understanding of our applications. This solution also generates significant cost savings in the cloud and optimizes hardware utilization within our data centers. Its AI algorithm intelligently allocates servers on hosts, maximizing efficiency without compromising performance. By fine-tuning resource allocation without causing performance bottlenecks, Turbonomic extends the lifespan of existing hardware, postponing the need for new purchases. This effectively stretches our capital expenditure budget. We started to see the benefits of IBM Turbonomic within the first 60 days. IBM is a fantastic partner. Their tech support has been outstanding, and the product itself is excellent - a very solid offering. By automating resource management with Turbonomic, our engineers are freed up to focus on more strategic initiatives like innovation and ongoing organizational projects. Previously, manually adding resources was a time-consuming process that interrupted workflows. Now, automation handles scaling efficiently, saving us thousands of man-hours and significant costs. It has illuminated the need for SetOps. It has highlighted areas of overspending, and the actions we've taken have demonstrated significant cost savings. IBM Turbonomic has positively impacted our overall application performance. IBM Turbonomic has helped reduce both CAPEX and OPEX. It has also significantly reduced cloud build times.
Vishal Halbe - PeerSpot reviewer
System Integration Specialist at a non-profit with self employed
Has improved project turnaround time with customizable dashboards and faster data delivery to stakeholders
Sisense has some limitations, especially in rendering tables or graphs. For example, if you want to perform custom sorting or searching based on multiple columns, that becomes quite tricky. Providing more control over how the data is sorted or filtered would be quite useful. Additionally, it could provide more connectors to integrate with emerging different data sources to exponentially increase the amount of data it can handle. Sisense should provide more support for CI/CD, as we found the CI/CD approach quite limited, which is something that can be worked on. Some data scientists suggested more features can be offered by providing different models for data analytics. Sisense can improve by adding more features for handling complex schemas and making the pricing straightforward. The dashboarding features are good enough, but additional features could make it even more attractive. Also, CI/CD support or source control support would be really helpful.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
11%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Insurance Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Government
7%
Computer Software Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business41
Midsize Enterprise57
Large Enterprise147
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business28
Midsize Enterprise7
Large Enterprise11
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Turbonomic?
It offers different scenarios. It provides more capabilities than many other tools available. Typically, its price is set as a percentage of the consumption of some of our customers' services. The ...
What needs improvement with Turbonomic?
The implementation could be enhanced.
What is your primary use case for Turbonomic?
We use IBM Turbonomic to automate our cloud operations, including monitoring, consolidating dashboards, and reporting. This helps us get a consolidated view of all customer spending into a single d...
What needs improvement with Sisense?
Sisense has some limitations, especially in rendering tables or graphs. For example, if you want to perform custom sorting or searching based on multiple columns, that becomes quite tricky. Providi...
What is your primary use case for Sisense?
Sisense was used for one of our clients to enable analytics and dashboards for their applications, which were supposed to get the data from different partners for that specific client. Sisense is w...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Sisense?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing shows that pricing is a little bit higher when compared to other applications, but that justifies the use case.
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

Turbonomic, VMTurbo Operations Manager
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Overview

 

Sample Customers

IBM, J.B. Hunt, BBC, The Capita Group, SulAmérica, Rabobank, PROS, ThinkON, O.C. Tanner Co.
Ebay, WIX, Wave Accounting, ESPN.com, Magellan Luxury Hotel, Paylogic, Sony, Merck, EDA, One Hour Translation, NASA, Plastic Jungle, Philips, Yahoo
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