SiSense in the News

• January 12, 2010 Dashboard Insight

  Featuring One Of Our Investment Management Dashboards

• December 9, 2009 The Data Warehouse Institute (TDWI)

  The Effects Of Technology On Business Intelligence For SMBs
  

• October 11, 2009 David Raab's BI Blog

  In-Depth Review of PrismCubed

• October 5, 2009 Dashboard Insight One-On-One

  SiSense CEO Interviewed On PrismCubed And Excel

• September 28 2009 B-Eye Network Spotlight

  SiSense CEO speaks on PrismCubed and SMBs

• September 21, 2009 The Data Warehouse Institute (TDWI)

  PrismCubed brings enterprise-class business intelligence to smaller businesses

• August 10, 2009 KMworld.com

  Sensible SMB BI

• August 10, 2009 Bmighty.com

  SiSense Beefs Up SMB BI Tools

• July/Aug 2009 Information Management

  Jordan Kitt's Music Deploys a Light Business Intelligence Solution over SQL Server

• June 28, 2009 ReadWriteWeb

  12 Companies Targeting Early Tech Adopters

• March 10, 2009 Chris Webb's BI Blog

  Guardian Data Store - free data and some ideas how to play with it

• May 1, 2009 Information Management

  Rapid Web Analytics and Reporting Using Business Intelligence Methods

• Feb 18, 2009 Ella Maschiach's BI Blog

  SiSense Prism Review

• Feb 6 2009, Dashboard Insight

  Using Business Intelligence to reduce and measure carbon footprint

• Jan 7, 2009 Flowing Data

  Using Visualization to Optimize Adwords: Time Series Visuals vs. the Pivot Table

• Dec 23, 2008 Dashboard Insight

  Wix.com: Using Business Intelligence for Instant Web Analytics and Reporting

• Dec 10, 2008 Chris Webb's BI Blog

  SiSense Prism

• Dec 2008, SQL Magazine

  New Products: Google Spreadsheets Support

• Nov 17, 2008 Enterprise Dashboard

  Project Gemini and Excel Dashboards

• Sept 23, 2008 The Dashboard Insight

  SiSense Launches its BI Software Solution

• October 23, 2008 B-Eye Network

  The Ins and Outs of Business Intelligence for the Mid-Market

• July 6, 2008 ReadWriteWeb

  SiSense - An Analytics Dashboard for Amazon S3

• July 6, 2008 TechCrunch

  SiSense Launches Amazon S3 Analytics

• July 3, 2008 CNet

  SiSense Launches Amazon S3 Analytics

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• August 10, 2009 SiSense's PrismCubed Brings Enterprise-Class Business Intelligence to SMBs at a Fraction of the Cost

  In-memory based business intelligence tool requires no programming, coding, or database design expertise. Large amounts of data coming from disparate sources can be visually merged into a secure, fast and flexible data repository with short implementation times and multi-user querying

   

  Netanya, Israel – August 10, 2009 – SiSense, Ltd., a provider of powerful business intelligence (BI) tools for small to medium businesses (SMBs), today announced the next generation of their successful Prism product, called PrismCubed. Providing enterprise-class business intelligence functionality that is easy to create and maintain, PrismCubed is an easy to use, low cost tool for in-depth, end–to-end business intelligence, capable of visual representation and ad-hoc queries of large amounts of integrated data from several data sources.

  “The face of BI needs a major lift. BI is old,” says Burton Group analyst Joe Bugajski. “Its wrinkles tell of hopeful days long ago. BI needs fresh faces to turn heads away from wizened products. Enter SiSense, a tiny Israeli BI tools company and one of the pretty, fresh BI faces seeking partners among SMBs.”

  SiSense’s PrismCubed satisfies SMBs' requirement for sophisticated, multidimensional analysis of accurate day-to-day business data, which until now, was limited to expensive BI tools used by resource-rich enterprises. With no coding, programming or scripting necessary, PrismCubed can be implemented quickly, with limited technical resources and at a very low cost.

  “PrismCubed is the breakthrough BI technology that finally brings enterprise-class analytics to SMBs,” said SiSense co-founder and CEO Elad Israeli. “SMBs need clean data that is ready for analysis and accessible by many. They need all the power and functionality of an enterprise analytics system brought to the fingertips of any executive or IT manager without the resource baggage of programming, long project cycles, training, and unnecessary drain on time and budget.”

  Small and mid-sized businesses have multiple data sources that need to be integrated, and that need was previously served only by expensive tools that were difficult to implement. With PrismCubed, companies can easily and dynamically perform information analysis from existing company databases, deploy them to users and create a scalable and secure solution.

  The product’s interface is designed to make it extremely easy to use for business intelligence application creation, including intuitive dashboards and guided analytics from multi-sourced and disparate data. PrismCubed allows users to perform all data preparation, integration, synthesis and joins using a visual workflow, enabling the development of a robust and accurate business intelligence practice regardless of company size or resources.

  Optimized for unmatched query speed, PrismCubed’s new data store utilizes in-memory technology coupled with a columnar database, eliminating the need for resource-draining data warehouses or OLAP implementations. A unique feature of PrismCubed is the ability to connect directly to data sources such as Oracle, SQL Server MySQL and even an existing OLAP to show live dashboards and guided analytics applications.

  PrismCubed covers the entire process of building business intelligence applications powered by multidimensional analytics, from Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) of data coming from disparate data sources to dashboard and analytics creation and deployment.  Data from sources like Excel, csv, Access, Microsoft Analysis Services, SQL, MySQL, Oracle and others can be immediately sourced and processed for analysis by PrismCubed. The integrated centralized data can be deployed locally or on a server.

  “Four years ago, SiSense’s CEO, Elad Israeli, asked himself two questions: Does BI really need massive ETL, big iron servers, and large development teams to win SMB’s hearts and dowries? Can BI be easy to deploy, simple to use, and inexpensive to own?" Notes  analyst Bugajski. “Elad answered by building PrismCubed, that he claims – sans big iron, big development, and big costs – is pretty enough to win over eligible SMBs from Microsoft BI, Tableau Software, Actuate, Illuminate, or old folk with facelifts (i.e., SAP Business Objects, IBM Cognos, Oracle Hyperion, and MicroStrategy).”

  PrismCubed is available immediately and may be purchased as an individual license or server license. The server license enables unlimited users for a fixed price. A full-featured 30-day trial is available for download at: www.sisense.com

  About SiSense

  SiSense provides leading edge business intelligence tools to small and midsized-enterprises and to Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) for the creation of customized BI solutions for their clients.. Based on in-memory technology, SiSense’s PrismCubed product allows for the integration of disparate data sources and the creation of business intelligence applications, their deployment and easy formulation of end-user ad-hoc queries. PrismCubed is easy and quick to use, and requires no programming, scripting or data base knowhow. The company's vision is to bring enterprise-like robust business intelligence to smaller businesses without draining their resources. SiSense radically cuts business intelligence total-cost-of-ownership and makes business intelligence accessible to non-technical users.

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

• Feb 10, 2009 SiSense and T-Innova Launch SiSense Prism in Spain, an Easy to Use Business Intelligence Tool

  Makes easy- to-use, lowest- cost-of- ownership business intelligence software available to the small and mid sized enterprise market in Spain

  February 10th, 2009 – SiSense Ltd today announced that it has partnered with T-Innova to resell its business intelligence Prism software in Spain.

   

  T-Innova will serve as a SiSense partner in Spain, deploying and reselling SiSense's Prism software, a leading solution for easy to use business intelligence that requires no IT involvement and results in an exceptionally low total cost of ownership. SiSense Prism can both work in-memory or query databases and OLAPs live.

   

  Commenting on the choice of T-Innova and the Spanish market, Elad Israeli, the Company's Chief Operating Officer said: "Working with T-Innova in the past months has shown us that they are the best choice for us to launch our software in the Spanish small and mid sized enterprise market, especially with their existing sports center customers. The recent addition of SiSense customers in the Spanish market in the Sports Facilities industry are excellent proof of T-Innova's expertise and customer-facing capabilities".

   

  Ronald van Ginkel, CEO of T-Innova said: "We are very pleased to become the first SiSense reseller in Spain. The low total cost of ownership model presented by SiSense means that small and mid sized enterprises can access the insights generated by business intelligence, even in tough economic times and with shrinking IT budgets. Our existing customer base has already expressed interest in the product".

   

  T-Innova, located in Castelldefels, Spain is a subsidiary of Systemtronic Software, a Spanish provider of ERP systems to sports facilities.

   

  About SiSense

  SiSense Prism is a powerful business intelligence tool, easy to learn and use. With free versions and pricing at tens of dollars per month, Prism is the industry's lowest cost business intelligence tool. Using an in-memory database, Prism connects to data and immediately presents it to the user, with no IT support. A unified model presents SQL, MySQL, Microsoft Analysis Services, Excel, Oracle, csv files as well as Google spreadsheets in a format that is ready for analysis, dashboarding and reporting. The stunning visual results and reports are easy to share or publish. Presenting the data under Prism's unified model saves backend work. Connection takes a click and either pulls data into an in-memory database, or queries a live data source. SiSense radically cuts business intelligence total-cost-of-ownership and makes business intelligence accessible to non-technical users. Download SiSense's free version at http://www.sisense.com

   

  About T-Innova

  T-Innova, located in Castelldefels, Spain is a subsidiary of Systemtronic Software, a Spanish provider of ERP systems to sports facilities with 15 years of presence in the market, and actually the reference solution provider for that industry in Spain. T-Innova aims to become a leading player in the Spanish Business Intelligence Market aimed at small and mid sized businesses, by integrating Prism to its Business Intelligence new product line and expanding to other industries and productive sectors. Visit T-Innova's site to download SiSense Prism for a free trial http://www.sisense.es

   

   

• Jan 19, 2009 SiSense Announces Academic Discount Program of its Business Intelligence Software

  Lets academic institutions, staff, faculty and students use business intelligence for their internal needs or to train business, computer science and economics students in charting, visualization, reporting and data analysis

   

  Netanya, Israel – January 19, 2009 – SiSense Ltd today announced an academic edition of its Prism Business intelligence software, at a 50% discount off its regular pricing, bringing prices to less than $ 50 a year, for its beginner package. 

   

  "We want students and faculty to have the broadest access possible to our business intelligence tools. Universities are the cradle of innovation and many IT and business analysts shape their vision there," said Elad Israeli, a founder and Chief Operating Officer at SiSense "our easy to use interface, sharing and easy connection to datasets gives students, universities and faculty much better access to leading edge visualization, charting and dashboards".

   

  The SiSense Academic Version software is full version software and requires proof that the buyer is a full or part time student, staff or faculty at a junior college, college, university, or scientific or technical school that is either institutionally accredited by an accrediting agency nationally recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education or a similar institution outside the US. In addition, anyone can use SiSense Prism's free version, limited to up to 2,000 rows of data.

   

  About SiSense

  SiSense Prism is a powerful business intelligence tool, easy to learn and use. With free versions and pricing at tens of dollars per month, Prism is the industry's lowest cost business intelligence tool. Using an in-memory database, Prism connects to data and immediately presents it to the user, with no IT support. A unified model presents SQL, MySQL, Microsoft Analysis Services, Excel, Oracle, csv files as well as Google spreadsheets in a format that is ready for analysis, dashboarding and reporting. The stunning visual results and reports are easy to share or publish. Presenting the data under Prism's unified model saves backend work. Connection takes a click and either pulls data into an in-memory database, or queries a live data source. SiSense radically cuts business intelligence total-cost-of-ownership and makes business intelligence accessible to non-technical users. Download SiSense's free version at http://www.sisense.com

   

   

• Dec 19, 2008 Wix.com uses SiSense Prism's Business Intelligence for Leading Edge Web Analytics

  Takes control of large website analytics with an easy-to-use, low cost business intelligence tool

   

  Netanya, Israel – December 17, 2008 – Wix is a content generation tool for high-end graphics web sites. Wix lets you make stunning flash web pages with no more effort than creating presentation slides.  The Wix beta launched in mid 2008 as a free service. In late 2008 Wix revealed its monetization model – charge users $5-10 for premium features. With more than a quarter million Wix users, all of them power users, and tens of millions of page views, Wix had become a very complex site. Monetization became a process that needs to be closely monitored and managed.

  This is why Wix chose SiSense's Prism tool, a sophisticated business intelligence tool that would allow it to perform ad-hoc analytics and report on the results, helping it create the leading edge web analytics it needed. Since its beta was launched, Wix has experienced significant growth with the resulting growth in metrics and logs indicating how users work with Wix and what they do with it.  "The site mushroomed" says Avishai Avrahami, Co-founder and Co-CEO of Wix "There are 20 million views of Wix widgets and a similar count of page views. There are multiple traffic sources and a conversion process that is relatively lengthy".

  Implementing SiSense Prism took Wix several hours; today Wix is using SiSense Prism over a MySQL database. Web Analytics at Wix is a succession of real-time ad-hoc analytics and then reporting of the results.  Reports are distributed several times a day. "The management team wants to see what drives conversion, which of our traffic sources are profitable and by how much" says Avrahami. "Analytics systems like Google Analytics are very rigid", says Avrahami "When you drill down all you do is change some parameters, but you still end up looking at the same user group from a different angle".

   

  The company had no shortage of IT staff or programmers to write SQL queries. But writing SQL queries for quick and dirty ad hoc analysis took too long. This is why SiSense Prism was exactly what Wix needed. "Setting up Prism took a fraction of the time of setting up MySQL" he says. "Prism lets us create a visible system for the management team. We needed a front end that lets us quickly research a hunch. We can then send everyone the results as a report. We're a curious bunch:  every day someone else has an idea of how to optimize the system. With Prism we can check it immediately and then, in a matter of minutes, publish a report for everyone to see". Since the reports are interactive, they let viewers filter, sort and sum the data.

   

  Avrahami points at one of the Prism widgets he often uses: time aggregations (by week, day, month, quarter). "I can do this in SQL" he says "but I need to be able to generate a report in a minute. I love the ability to analyze the data at the marketing level without asking the R&D people to do this". Using prism profoundly affected the way Wix conducts their business. "Prism allowed us to immediately change the way we use our channels and drive traffic".

  About SiSense

  SiSense Prism is a powerful business intelligence tool, easy to learn and use. With free versions and pricing at tens of dollars per month, Prism is the industry's lowest cost business intelligence tool. Using an in-memory database, Prism connects to data and immediately presents it to the user, with no IT support. A unified model presents SQL, MySQL, Microsoft Analysis Services, Excel, Oracle, csv files as well as Google spreadsheets in a format that is ready for analysis, dashboarding and reporting. The stunning visual results and reports are easy to share or publish. Presenting the data under Prism's unified model saves backend work. Connection takes a click and either pulls data into an in-memory database, or queries a live data source. SiSense radically cuts business intelligence total-cost-of-ownership and makes business intelligence accessible to non-technical users. Download SiSense's free version at http://www.sisense.com

• Sep 22, 2008 SiSense Launches Pricing and General Availability of its Prism Business Intelligence Software

  Product is designed to democratize business intelligence and bring it to the individual analyst or small and mid-sized business.

   

  Licensing, which begins at $ 50 per month for a workgroup (and $ 10-20 a month for additional users), makes Business Intelligence pervasive and affordable, even with today's budgetary constraints

   

  September 22, 2008 – NETANYA, Israel

  SiSense, a company that provides ad-hoc business intelligence software to individual analysts and small and mid-sized businesses, today announced general availability and pricing of its Prism software. SiSense democratizes business intelligence by letting users access raw business data just by clicking "connect". Its desktop-based product allows any user to unleash the power of business intelligence, regardless of technical knowledge. SiSense's Prism has strong analytics, reporting and graphing capabilities and is the only business intelligence software which doesn't require IT support to work. No scripting or programming is involved. 

   

  "Our goal is to help individual analysts as well as small and mid sized businesses do a better job without taxing their resources", said Eldad Farkash, the company's Co-founder and CEO "All of today's business intelligence tools require that data be moved and manipulated. This problem applies equally when people send each other excel sheets and when power users query an OLAP. SiSense eliminates the tremendous behind-the-scenes IT work that is necessary to make business intelligence work. We give our users the ability to work on their own desktop and access the raw data by themselves. Our in-memory technology serves the raw data in a manner that makes sense to users".

   

  Key Facts about Prism 1.0

  • Directly connects to MS SQL Server, My SQL, MS Access, Excel, csv files, Oracle, Google Spreadsheets and Amazon S3 logs
  • Supports sharing and distribution in workgroups, allows real time and offline analysis
  • Powerful analytics with an intuitive user interface
  • Pay-as-you-go licensing model allows for flexible payment plans and no financial commitment.  This is especially important in today's financial environment and cost cutting requirements.

   

  "There are two pieces to the business intelligence puzzle", said Elad Israeli, the Company's Co-founder and CTO, "connecting to a data source and expressing queries to analyze the data. While we support the intuitive expression of queries, creating reports, widgets and graphs, the key to democratizing BI is the connection to the data source, making raw data accessible and meaningful to users. Only when a user can click "connect", access the data source with no intermediaries and immediately begin exploring it with our OLAP on the fly, then Business Intelligence becomes pervasive. We are proud to have accomplished this."

   

  Pricing

  Pricing begins at $ 50 per month for a workgroup (and $10-20 a month for additional users). Free and personal versions (at $ 100/year) are offered as well. A trial version can be downloaded at https://www.sisense.com/register.aspx.

   

  Loyal User Base

  Since the product's beta launch in March, the company has amassed 2,700 users, from companies on the Fortune 500 to small corporations, business intelligence analysts and consultants.

   

  "I love SiSense. I use it to create professional dashboards for executive use. They are easy to create and yet provide in-depth detail"

  said Shams Jiwani of Piedmont Healthcare

   

  "At Samsung Telecommunications Americas, we use Sisense to graphically display business performance metrics and present the results to our senior management, using color codes.  Basically, we use SiSense as a dashboard that makes it easy to understand when performance is changing without having to go through endless numbers"

  said Richard Schrader of Samsung Telecommunications Americas

   

  "At Wix.com our challenge was analyzing user behavior. Our product is very complex and offers multiple user interactions and we needed a way to give management and analysts a way to data mine without asking the research and development department to create reports. SiSense's Prism has been doing exactly this for us. It is very powerful, but has a simple User Interface that makes it as easy to use as Excel", said Avishai Abrahami of wix.com

   

   

  About SiSense

  SiSense provides common sense business intelligence software that assists in visualization, analysis, dashboarding and reporting. SiSense uses a unique in-memory database that allows for complex analytics without building a middle tier for the data, so no scripting, programming or IT efforts are required. SiSense connects to Excel, Google spreadsheets, MySQL, MS SQL server, MS Access, Oracle and csv files and allows analysis and reporting as deep as if there existed an OLAP cube. Building a Dashboard takes less than 5 minutes, there is no scripting or programming. SiSense offers a fully functional trial, free of charge, for 30 days. The trial software can be downloaded at http://www.sisense.com

• Aug 04, 2008 SiSense Adds Google Spreadsheets Support to its Business Intelligence Software

  For the first time, enterprise level business intelligence can be performed directly on top of Google spreadsheets data. Complex filters, analyses, top ten lists and dashboards can be used with no scripting, programming or IT resources

   

  August 4, 2008, NETANYA, Israel

  SiSense Ltd, a company that provides business intelligence software to enable the analysis and visualization of data, today launched support for Google spreadsheets as a data source. The software is available as a free download at: http://www.sisense.com/google-spreadsheets.aspx

   

  With this latest release, enterprise level business intelligence can be performed on any data stored or shared in Google spreadsheets. "This adds to our support of  SQL, MySQL, Oracle, Excel and SQL Analysis Services" said Eldad Farkash, SiSense co-founder and CEO "our vision is to bring business intelligence everywhere, to everyone. The way to do so is to allow anyone to directly query the data, so no additional IT effort is required to prepare the data for analysis".

   

  "No other solution on the market enables complex-yet-easy business intelligence on Google spreadsheets data" commented Elad Israeli, co-founder and VP R&D. Israeli said that for a small business that stored sales data on Google spreadsheets, Business Intelligence basics such as "10 best selling products" "top sales regions" required moving the data to SQL or complex scripting and OLAP creation. Multi-dimensional formulas were impossible. "Current solutions, even if they are easy to use, don't go much farther than a simple pivot table or a chart" commented Israeli "but pervasive business intelligence means much more than that".

   

  This delivers on SiSense’s vision of bringing business intelligence everywhere, to everyone. SiSense’s solution requires no programming or OLAP, and no dedicated IT infrastructure, yet it allows ease of use (using drag-and-drop) and the ability to benefit from the same sophisticated analysis and insights. SiSense accomplishes this by using its unique technology which automatically builds a multidimensional model that simulates an OLAP cube, using an in-memory database. Recently, SiSense announced a dashboard that takes Amazon Web Service S3 data and presents users with the ability to chart, analyze and optimize their S3 use.

   

   “One of the key advantages of Google spreadsheets is the ability to build a collaborative spreadsheet. SiSense now takes this ability and adds to it operational business intelligence within a wrokgroup" said Farkash.

   

  SiSense is in public beta and offers its software free of charge. Once the company is out of beta, it will announce pricing for its software.

   

  About SiSense

  SiSense provides common sense business intelligence software that assists in visualization, analysis, dashboarding and reporting. SiSense uses a unique in-memory database that allows for complex analytics without building a middle tier for the data, so no scripting, programming or IT efforts are required. This leaves the  data at the original data source and the analysis at the desktop, where SiSense is installed.  SiSense connects to many data sources (Excel, Google spreadsheets, MySQL, SQL server, Oracle, csv and OLAP) and allows analysis and reporting as deep as if there existed an OLAP cube, or one were to be created on the fly. Building a Dashboard takes less than 5 minutes, there is no scripting or programming. Read more in the SiSense Blog (http://community.sisense.com/blogs/)  and try the service for free for yourself (http://www.sisense.com).

• July 14, 2009 SiSense Upgrades its Business Intelligence Software With a New Release to Support Analysis and Charting on top of CSV, Excel 2007, Access 2007 Files

  SiSense upgrades its business intelligence visualization and analysis solution to cover more data sources on top of SQL, MySQL, Oracle and Excel 2003, extending its solution to provide more common sense business intelligence and uncommon insight that requires no IT resources, programming, or the creation of OLAP cubes

   

  July 14, 2008, NETANYA, Israel

  SiSense Ltd, a company that provides business intelligence software to enable the analysis and visualization of data, today announced a new release that adds support for csv and excel 2007 files. This new beta release is available as a free download at http://www.sisense.com.

   

  This latest release adds csv and excel 2007 to the data sources already supported by SiSense: SQL, MySQL, Oracle, excel 2003 and SQL Analysis Services. This delivers on SiSense’s vision of bringing business intelligence everywhere, to everyone. SiSense’s solution requires no programming or OLAP, and no dedicated IT infrastructure, yet it allows ease of use (using drag and drop) and the same sophisticated analysis and insights. SiSense accomplishes this by using its unique technology which automatically builds a multidimensional model that simulates an OLAP cube. SiSense recently launched a private beta of an Amazon S3 Analysis Dashboard based on its SiSense Product.

   

  “We want to make business intelligence accessible to everyone. Small and mid sized business are inundated by data but visualizing and analyzing it requires too much resources. It requires programming expertise and dedicated IT infrastructure” said Eldad Farkash, SiSense’s CEO and Co-Founder. “We’ve decided to make business intelligence, which is a very important tool, much easier to master, purchase and operate, for everyone” he said.

   

  The release extends the ability of the software to serve any excel user by enabling them to easily create advanced applications that deliver insight in real time. Charts and pivot tables created by SiSense can be easily be used by business users to show and analyze data, with considerably less labor. An effective business intelligence practice can thus be created in hours, rather than months. Additional features in the release are:

  • A new search widget
  • A new action widget that exports the widget’s underlying data to excel
  • A new look & feel that allows for more sophisticated graphs

   

   “Our product has been in beta for the last several months, and we are focused on adding functionality that allows analysis of any data, regardless of its format”, said Farkash “adding csv and Excel 2007 brings us much closer to this mark”.

   

  SiSense is in public beta and offers its software free of charge. Once the company is out of beta, it will announce pricing for its software.

   

  About SiSense

  SiSense provides common sense business intelligence software that assists in visualization, analysis, dash boarding and reporting. SiSense connects to many data sources (Excel, MySQL, SQL server, Oracle, csv and OLAP) and allows analysis and reporting as deep as if there existed an OLAP cube. Building a Dashboard takes less than 5 minutes, there is no scripting or programming. Read more in the SiSense Blog (link) and try the service for free for yourself (link).