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Customer Base Doubles

Jan 24, 2012 - Menlo Park, California - SiSense, a leading provider of data discovery solutions, today announced record results for 2011 with total bookings up over 350% compared to the prior year. SiSense added many significant new customers, including Ernst and Young, Caterpillar, and Magellan Vacations.

"After looking at many Business Intelligence tools and evaluating competitive offerings including Qlikview, we selected SiSense Prism to handle all of our internal reports and analyses. The ease of use of SiSense Prism enables business development, marketing and sales management to interact with the data directly and reach faster business decisions without the typical IT resource bottlenecks. We are also taking SiSense dashboards directly to our sales agents, providing near real time results to the sales floor." Says Andrew Vignuzzi, Chief Operating Officer, Magellan Vacations. "In a ‘sense', we doubled our IT headcount with a simple software deployment."

Carmel Ventures, Colt Telecom, Deloitte, Fusion-io, Inteva Products, Multipass Payments, Plastic Jungle, Texas Roadhouse and Uber Technologies all selected SiSense in 2011.

"SiSense Prism is very easy to deploy and very easy to operate. Because of the system's ease of use, custom reports can be made in minutes, providing a powerful way to quickly test any hypothesis." Says Bart Wesselink, Chief Financial Officer, Paylogic. "In addition, the SiSense team have been very knowledgeable and service-oriented."

"2011 was an amazing year for SiSense," said Crispin Read, Executive Chairman. "Customers of all sizes understand the importance of analytics for their organizations and are excited to see how SiSense offers a complete solution at a small fraction of the cost and complexity of traditional BI software. Our tremendous growth is a reflection of this customer enthusiasm and success."

About SiSense
SiSense is simply the fastest way to go from data to actionable intelligence. We are creating a new type of business intelligence, where fast and flexible BI is available to any business user, where analyzing any type or amount of data is easy, fast, and doesn't rely on IT. So advanced it's simple, SiSense technologies deliver an end-to-end BI solution that allows non-technical users to turn mountains of data into actionable intelligence in less than a day. SiSense is high performance, do-it-yourself BI; without IT, data warehouse systems, OLAP cubes, or programming. And, it runs on standard PC hardware. For more information and a free trial download of the software please visit www.sisense.com

Easily Incorporate Windows Azure and SQL Azure Cloud Data into Business Intelligence Dashboards, Reports and Analytic Applications

Sep 12, 2011 - Palo Alto, California - SiSense, a provider of leading-edge business intelligence (BI) solutions, announced that its BI software now provides native access to cloud data hosted by Microsoft's SQL Azure.

The Windows Azure and SQL Azure cloud are an ideal platform for cloud-hosted relational databases and applications. The platform provides high availability, fault tolerance, disaster recovery and easy scalability while customers only pay only the resources actually consumed.

"Companies from small startups to Fortune 500 companies are using Windows Azure and SQL Azure to host applications and data. Since SiSense caters to the same range of customers, it is only natural that we would ensure native connectivity to SQL Azure databases from our BI software," said Elad Israeli, CEO of SiSense. "Powerful do-it-yourself BI dashboards, reports and analytic applications can now easily incorporate data hosted at SQL Azure."

To incorporate SQL Azure data into a SiSense ElastiCube data model, the user simply needs to supply the SiSense software with the server name and credentials. From that point on, the user sees SQL Azure data, for all intents and purposes, as if it were a local SQL Server, Oracle or MySQL database.

As our customer base has been growing rapidly, we want to ensure that we remain able to provide first-class support and a terrific user experience for all of our customers. The new Help Desk system is now up and running, and will help us efficiently handle all the end-user support requests that we receive.

The new system includes:

   –Ticketing System – When a new support request is received, it is automatically assigned a ticket which makes it easier for us to track each case and ensure that it is properly addressed.

   –Forums – The new discussion forums allow an efficient means of communication between customers and SiSense, as well as among customers themselves.

   –Announcements – Customers will never miss an important announcement regarding Prism.

   –Feature Requests – We welcome customers to help us improve the product by submitting feature requests.

Our goals are to deliver the best business intelligence software on the market along with the best customer support experience. If you have any suggestions for how we can serve you better, we would love to hear from you.

SiSense, a provider of leading-edge business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced that Crispin Read has joined the board of directors of SiSense as Executive Chairman, effective immediately.

"We are delighted to welcome Crispin as Executive Chairman," says Elad Israeli, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of SiSense. "Crispin's experience and track record at Business Objects, Cartesis and Microsoft, give him the perfect background to support SiSense as we continue to execute our ambitious global growth strategy."

With over 20 years of experience in business intelligence and business applications marketing, Crispin Read currently serves as Vice President of Business Intelligence Investments at Opus Capital. Read joined Opus Capital from Microsoft Corp., where he served as General Manager of Microsoft's ERP business, leading product management and marketing for Microsoft Corp.'s portfolio of enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications. In this role he was responsible for ERP strategy and execution worldwide. Prior to Microsoft, he was Chief Marketing Officer at Cartesis SA, a venture-backed financial performance management company that was acquired by Business Objects in 2007. From 1995 to 2004, Crispin served in various roles at Business Objects, including Vice President of Product Management and Vice President of Product Marketing. During this period Business Objects grew revenues from $30M to $930M.

"SiSense has absolutely amazing technologies that vastly reduce the cost and complexity of BI deployments. As a result, countless companies and departments will now be able to enjoy previously unobtainable benefits of business intelligence", says Crispin Read. "I'm excited to join the talented and visionary SiSense team on this journey."

About SiSense
SiSense is leading the way to a new era of business intelligence, where fast and flexible BI is available to any business user analyzing any type or amount of data. Based on advanced technologies developed during the course of five years, SiSense delivers an end-to-end BI solution that allows organizations to mash-up a variety of data sources containing mountains of data into server-based interactive dashboards and reports in less than a day, thus securing immediate ROI. SiSense customers enjoy very high performance do-it-yourself BI, without IT projects, data warehouse systems, OLAP cubes or programming. For more information and a free trial download of the software, visit www.sisense.com.

Ease of implementation, query performance, business user autonomy and lower total cost of ownership cited as main reasons for the choice.

SiSense, a provider of leading-edge business intelligence (BI) solutions, announced that its Prism BI software was selected by WeFi to analyze and report on a rapidly-growing database of more than 600 million rows of data. WeFi is a Web-based business dedicated to helping its millions of users find and enjoy the more than 75,000,000 Wi-Fi access points around the world cataloged in its system.

WeFi was looking for a business intelligence solution that would quickly perform advanced reporting and analysis over large amounts of data, including the behavior of millions of WeFi users, the performance and activity of wireless networks to which its users are connected and the activity records of active clients. Furthermore, the company wanted a solution which would allow its analysts and management to design and customize reports, dashboards and analytics without heavy involvement of IT staff.

SiSense was chosen over competing in-memory BI vendors for its shorter implementation time, faster query response performance, better scalability, lower total cost of ownership and more user-friendly report/dashboard design. Soon after deploying Prism, the company's business users were already creating their own reports and analyses.

WeFi is currently running most of its reporting and BI dashboards over Prism, using an off-the-shelf PC with a Xeon 5520 CPU, 64GB RAM and Windows 2003 as its server.

"One of our primary assets at WeFi is our data. Prism is a key weapon in our strategic arsenal," said Amit Shaked, Vice President, Products and Marketing, WeFi. "Business users have extensive autonomy to create and modify their own dashboards and reports, dramatically shortening the time it takes to get new data insights."

"SiSense is rewriting the rules of the BI industry by making powerful and scalable BI available to any company or department, large or small, without the need for large up-front investments, time-consuming implementation projects or prior BI experience," says Elad Israeli, CEO of SiSense. "WeFi is a perfect case in point, as a company which bases its key strategic decisions on daily analysis of large and rapidly growing amounts of data."

About SiSense
SiSense is redefining business intelligence (BI) by making enterprise-grade BI available to any company or department, large or small. SiSense's mission is to allow its customers to set themselves up with high-performance reporting, interactive dashboards and ad hoc business analytics in hours or days, without the expense, hardware or much longer time frames required for conventional data warehouse or OLAP-based solutions. SiSense's unique, cutting-edge technologies enable even those without prior BI experience to quickly and easily implement a full-fledged, end-to-end BI solution without compromising on functionality, scalability, manageability, flexibility, governance, collaboration or ease-of-use. SiSense is unique in the market, offering customers the opportunity to put fully-functional BI applications in the hands of their business users with no up-front costs, no professional services and no risk – and then to pay a only modest monthly subscription fee.

Opus Capital, Genesis Partners, and Eli Farkash invest in next-generation business intelligence platform.

SiSense, a provider of leading-edge business intelligence (BI) solutions, has secured $4 million in Series A funding from Opus Capital, Genesis Partners and private investor Eli Farkash. SiSense will use the funding to ramp up marketing and sales operations in the US, and to further develop its ground-breaking BI product.

SiSense has been developing its technology for the past five years. Unusual at the Series A funding stage, the company already has a shipping product and dozens of paying customers.

Unlike traditional BI implementations, which require expensive and time-consuming IT projects, data warehouse systems and custom coding, SiSense's Prism delivers powerful, end-to-end BI which can be implemented in a matter of hours with no special expertise. Unique technologies developed by the company, including just-in-time in-memory processing, allow Prism to execute complex ad hoc queries against millions or billions of records in just seconds, using ordinary PC hardware.

"Business intelligence is a multi-billion dollar market overdue for some serious technological innovation," said Dan Avida, General Partner, Opus Capital. "We have been very impressed both with SiSense's founders and with the fantastic technology they have developed. We are excited about helping SiSense grow into a major force in the BI space."

"Both business users and IT experts are consistently amazed at the ease-of-use, fast deployment and incredible performance of SiSense Prism in real-world BI scenarios," said Elad Israeli, CEO and Co-founder, SiSense. "In just a number of months, we have already sold our breakthrough BI product to more than 80 companies. This new funding will enable us to communicate to the wider market that an entirely new generation of fast, inexpensive, do-it-yourself BI is now possible."

A free, full-featured 30-day trial version of SiSense Prism is available for download at www.sisense.com.

About SiSense
SiSense is leading the way to a new era of business intelligence, where fast and flexible BI is available to any business user analyzing any type or amount of data. Based on advanced technologies developed during the course of five years, SiSense delivers an end-to-end BI solution which allows organizations to mash-up up variety of data sources containing mountains of data into server-based interactive dashboards and reports in less than a day, thus securing immediate ROI. SiSense customers enjoy very high performance do-it-yourself BI, without IT projects, data warehouse systems, OLAP cubes or programming. For more information and a free trial download of the software, visit www.sisense.com.

About Opus Capital
Opus Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm with more than $1 billion of committed capital under management, investing in committed, high integrity entrepreneurs building market-leading technology companies. The team has participated in the successful outcomes of more than 80 companies (including 50 IPOs) in the US and Israel including Adaptec, AirGate PCS, BlueNile, Brocade, Ciena, DoubleClick, Electronics for Imaging, FedEx, Genesys, Harmonic, Informatica, Kidaro and Vantive. Opus Capital is headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California. For more information, visit www.opuscapital.com.

About Genesis Partners
Genesis Partners is a leading Israeli venture capital firm focused on Investing in the earliest stages of Israeli innovation in the information and communication technology fields. early stage companies in the information and communication technology (ICT) sectors. Established in 1996, Genesis Partners manages over $600 million in capital commitments across four funds, and has made over 80 investments with 28 successful exits, including AudioCodes (Nasdaq: AUDC), ClickSoftware (Nasdaq: CKSW), Fundtech (Nasdaq: FNDT), Modem-Art (acquired by Agere) and Allot Communications (Nasdaq: ALLT). Genesis Partners has strong ties to the Israeli entrepreneurial community and the global technology industry, and a strong team of venture professionals with extensive experience in venture capital, technology, operations and entrepreneurship. For more information, visit www.genesispartners.com.

About Eli Farkash
Eli Farkash, a private investor, co-founded SiSense and was the original seed investor in the company.

SiSense, developer of the Prism business intelligence (BI) software system, announced today the beta availability of two new data connectors for Prism: Google AdWords and Google Analytics. These additions significantly improve Prism's applicability for analyzing Google data sources, either alone or in mash-ups with other online and in-house data sources. Data sets of any size can be processed for immediate ad hoc analytic queries, without the need for reprocessing existing data in the system or for aggregations or pre-calculations.

While Prism users have been able to manually export their Google data to CSV and then import it into Prism, they can now connect directly to the Google data source. Automatic syncs at regular intervals can be scheduled. This functionality is especially valuable for online marketing agencies who serve numerous clients. Instead of manually generating reports for each client, they can streamline the process using this new automated functionality.

The alpha versions of these new data connectors have already been in use by a number of customers, and SiSense is now inviting all Prism users to try the beta versions. Following a successful beta period, the company will release the new Google data connectors as part of a new version of Prism.

New users are invited to download the free, fully-functional 30-day trial version of Prism. For a limited time, SiSense is offering a free one-hour phone/Web conference session with new users. During this brief session, the users will use Prism's visual BI studio to import and/or connect to multiple data sources and create an actual interactive dashboard on their own data.

Users interested in learning more about Prism's new Google AdWords and Google Analytics data connectors and how they're used, are invited to watch the free recorded Webinar available here.

In-memory-based business intelligence tool requires no programming, coding, or database design expertise

SiSense, a provider of advanced business intelligence (BI) tools, has updated PrismCubed, an easy-to-use, low-cost tool for in-depth, end-to-end business intelligence that can visually represent, and perform ad-hoc queries on, large amounts of integrated data from several data sources.

SiSense's PrismCubed provides multidimensional analysis of accurate day-to-day business data, which has been limited to expensive BI tools. With no coding, programming, or scripting necessary, PrismCubed can be implemented quickly with limited technical resources and at a very low cost.

SiSense co-founder and CEO Elad Israeli said, "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 midsize 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 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 its ability to connect directly to data sources such as Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, and 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 the extract, transform, and load (ETL) of data from disparate data sources to dashboard and analytics creation and deployment. Data from sources such as 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.