Sisense and Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) are two competing products in the business intelligence and reporting sectors. Sisense appears to have the upper hand with its ease of use and support, although SSRS has strong integration into the Microsoft ecosystem and is known for its stability.
Features: Sisense is noted for its powerful visualization capabilities, ease of deployment, and ability to combine disparate data sources. SSRS stands out in report design, database connectivity, and provides reliable management dashboards, especially beneficial within the Microsoft ecosystem.
Room for Improvement:Sisense could improve in providing more flexibility for advanced users and more native support for statistical tools like R. SSRS users desire enhanced integration capabilities, simpler setup processes, and more advanced visualization features.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service:Sisense offers flexible deployment options including on-premises, public cloud, and private cloud solutions. It is praised for its customer service and technical support. SSRS is primarily an on-premises solution with hybrid and public cloud options, with customer support being satisfactory but with a need for faster resolutions.
Pricing and ROI:Sisense is regarded as more expensive than competitors like Tableau and Power BI but is justified through reduced manual labor and increased efficiency. SSRS is seen as budget-friendly yet expensive under its licensing model. Both products' ROI depends significantly on specific business needs.
Any tool which obviates the need for a lot of coding will definitely save at least 60-70% of effort.
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.
Reaching out to Microsoft took a prolonged time to the extent that we were wondering why Microsoft was unable to get its own logs to us.
I have not reached out to tech support at Microsoft for Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services because it is my job to know how to get this tool to work.
The support was very good.
Sisense works really well for simple to medium use cases and scales well.
Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services is not difficult to use, but my main issue is troubleshooting whenever there is any problem, as the logs can be unclear.
I am thinking that with all the Copilot integration within the Microsoft environment, that could be integrated as well, so that you could issue a prompt and it generates designs.
Sisense should provide more support for CI/CD, as we found the CI/CD approach quite limited.
I would like to see an improvement in the live data connection, specifically making the process faster.
Otherwise, you need to write a lot of code or API calls to generate reports if using some other tool outside of the ecosystem, which definitely requires additional effort and therefore additional cost and time.
There was no significant difference in pricing between Sisense and ThoughtSpot.
I had been trying to develop a solution using SSRS to view some data while allowing me to modify data and update the table in the back end, but it seems SSRS isn't the tool for that.
The best features of Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services are that it is easy to get the reports out because it is integrated with SQL and we have many of these tables.
Sisense positively impacts our organization by speeding up the process of getting and presenting the data to customers or stakeholders.
It offers two ways to access data: by cubing the data or hitting it live.
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services | 3.3% |
| Sisense | 2.3% |
| Other | 94.4% |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 5 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 4 |
| Large Enterprise | 15 |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 27 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 7 |
| Large Enterprise | 11 |
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