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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
6.5
Number of Reviews
46
Ranking in other categories
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (12th), Cloud Analytics (4th), Reporting (10th), 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.
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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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 stability of this solution is fantastic, as it has not failed us for months and we use it extensively."
"The automatic update of the graphs from a dashboard is very convenient."
"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."
"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 user interface is very good, and the data visualization is simple and user-friendly."
"ROI was realized immediately by reducing manual report labor."
"It has allowed me to move my data to the cloud."
"We have been very pleased with our experience with Sisense to date."
"The best features Sisense offers include ease of use and the ability to associate the API integration down to the dashboard, which made it a little less overhead for us to scale the product into our existing SaaS platform, along with the availability of professional services that helped to get our development off the ground."
"We found the ease of use to be our primary factor for choosing Sisense."
"Overall I think, it is a fantastic value-for-money analysis tool and I would absolutely recommend it to anyone who looks for a up-to-date BI solution that can be customized to your specific needs."
"We like that this solution allows us to use data cubes to set up specific visualizations."
"The dashboard design interface is very intuitive and allows you to quickly and easily produce professional, innovative dashboards."
 

Cons

"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."
"Security could be improved thereby avoiding the necessity of a third party plugin."
"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."
"This solution should allow the user to combine two indices into one graph and it should provide a unique count."
"The document is definitely a sore spot as well as the limited inner join functionality of the cubes."
"I would like Sisense to improve its performance, particularly when we are dealing with large-scale data."
"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."
"I would like to see an improvement in the live data connection, specifically making the process faster."
"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."
"I would say that using Sisense on Linux's platform might not be advantageous for everyone."
"The initial version we purchased only ran on Windows servers, which was less than ideal for our DevOps team. I believe that has been remedied in the latest release."
"The application lacks a control of the exporting function."
 

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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Construction Company
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Comms Service Provider
10%
 

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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...
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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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