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OpenText Intelligence vs Sisense comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 29, 2026

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Categories and Ranking

OpenText Intelligence
Ranking in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools
37th
Ranking in Reporting
28th
Ranking in Data Visualization
24th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.7
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Sisense
Ranking in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools
12th
Ranking in Reporting
11th
Ranking in Data Visualization
11th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
48
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Analytics (4th), Embedded BI (6th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the BI (Business Intelligence) Tools category, the mindshare of OpenText Intelligence is 0.9%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sisense is 1.6%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Sisense1.6%
OpenText Intelligence0.9%
Other97.5%
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools
 

Featured Reviews

it_user220707 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director & Lead Consultant at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
The Briefing Book feature enables measures to be filtered and viewed based on different criteria by end users.
This software is targeted at executive users, not the data analysts who want to slice and dice. The software will not replace your BI tools, but it will sit nicely on top of a BI tool if you want management to have quick and easy access to performance data. Initiative Management Metrics Management – Key Interfaces
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

"It is a comprehensive solution for performance management, and yet it is easy to setup and easy to use, especially in comparison with Oracle, SAS, Hyperion and SAP."
"Sisense has helped us gain knowledge about our customers, as well as highlighting data quality issues to correct."
"Deploying it was smooth as butter, and there was little to no down time after lab testing."
"We found the ease of use to be our primary factor for choosing Sisense."
"I have found the dashboard creating feature helpful."
"Sisense is one of the best BI tools that can load more data and has consistently no downtime compared to other modern BI tools."
"Ability to work with very large data sources without the limitations of Excel."
"Using JavaScript in Sisense made a significant difference for our team because we wanted more custom dashboards for the CEO, whose requests were very specific, and we created interesting graphs that we were unable to do in Tableau and other dashboard tools."
"In a short period of time, my team acquired the necessary skills to deploy a very high quality BI tool across the company, integrating all our data sources and building dashboards expected by different business units for a long time."
 

Cons

"It needs to have better quality built in reports."
"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."
"Sisense doesn't have connections with statistical packages like R, SAS, etc."
"I would like to see more development and growth for the support of Knowledge Base and Community forums."
"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."
"I did encounter an issue with the Dashboard load time to be slow considering that we had a basic dashboard with five reports and no more than 300 rows was disconcerting."
"Sisense has no native support for week as a data dimension, which is a major issue for us."
"I'd like to see branding features and more layout possibilities."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
14%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Insurance Company
8%
Construction Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Comms Service Provider
10%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business32
Midsize Enterprise8
Large Enterprise16
 

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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 ...
 

Also Known As

OpenText Magellan Analytics Suite, BIRT iHub Visualization Platform, OpenText Actuate Information Hub
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