Ariel Katz appointed as Chief Products and Technology Officer and the General Manager of Israel

• The company also announced that it has achieved operational profitability
• In his previous positions, Ariel participated in leading the development of key cloud products at Microsoft including Power BI and Dynamics 365 for Sales and was a member of the senior management team of the Microsoft Israel Development Center
• Amir Orad CEO of Sisense: “Ariel brings extensive experience in building leading advanced cloud and analytics products and is an important asset for the continued growth of our company”

Ariel Katz has been appointed the company’s Chief Products and Technology Officer and General Manager (GM) of Israel. Ariel brings over 25 years of experience to the world of technology and the development of large enterprise cloud products. He played a leading role at Microsoft in establishing and building Power BI, one of the world’s leading cloud BI services. Later, he led the development of Dynamics 365 for Sales, and helped turn it into a smart and modern cloud service. Ariel was part of the senior management team at Microsoft’s development center in Israel and was previously the site’s Chief Technology Officer.

In his new position as Sisense’s Chief Products and Technology Officer, Ariel will be responsible for defining and developing the company’s product line and will manage a large group of engineers, product people, user interface designers, and data scientists globally. In addition, he will also manage the Sisense site in Israel.

“Sisense is in one of the most fascinating stages in its history. Our company focuses on building solutions for implementing rich business analytics, in a simple way, in applications. This year, we reached approximately 150 million USD in annual recurring revenue, and achieved operational profitability, which is even more critical in this economic period,” says Amir Orad, CEO of Sisense.

“Ariel brings with him vast experience in leading advanced BI products aimed at a huge market, leading global organizations, and is an important asset for the continued growth of the company.”

– Amir Orad, CEO

The company has thousands of customers and partners around the world such as Wix, and Nasdaq. In addition to that, Sisense also works with the likes of General Electric, Air Canada, UiPath and other leading partners such as Snowflake and AWS.

“After many years managing the flagship products of a leading, global company like Microsoft, I am excited by the challenge of joining an innovative and growing start-up like Sisense,”

– Ariel Katz, Chief Products and Technology Officer and General Manager of Israel

“The global market is thirsty for advanced analytics solutions in the cloud and Sisense is at the technological forefront bringing fresh solutions and important thinking to the field.”

About Sisense

Sisense goes beyond traditional business intelligence by providing organizations with the ability to infuse analytics everywhere, embedded in both customer and employee applications and workflows. Sisense customers are breaking through the barriers of analytics adoption by going beyond the dashboard with Sisense Fusion – the highly customizable, AI-driven analytics cloud platform, that infuses intelligence at the right place and the right time, every time. More than 2,000 global companies rely on Sisense to innovate, disrupt markets and drive meaningful change in the world. Ranked as the No. 1 Business Intelligence company in terms of customer success, Sisense has also been named one of the Forbes’ Cloud 100, The World’s Best Cloud Companies, six years in a row. Visit us at www.sisense.com and connect with us on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.