SoftwareReviews has published its 2019 Business Intelligence (BI) Emotional Footprint Awards, naming Sisense as one of its six “Champions” and gold medalists in the space.

Sisense and Periscope Data are two of the more technology forward BI providers in the space, and though the May announcementfirst came as a surprise, we believe it to be a great match. Sisense has seen its star rise considerably in the crowded BI marketplace since CEO Amir Orad took over in February of 2015. As a result of the deal, Periscope Data founders Harry Glaser and Tom O’Neill and their teams are taking leadership roles in the combined business, which will operate under the Sisense brand.

“In terms of what this means for the evolution of AI, we’ve reached a point where we have more than enough anonymized data to train the system, and now it’s a matter of honing how we use the AI to extract the maximum value from data”—Amir Orad, CEO, Sisense

Periscope Data by Sisense picked up several awards this week in recognition of its strong company culture. The company was ranked by Comparably.com as one of the top companies in the U.S. in several categories, including the best CEOs for women, best CEOs for diverse employees and best leadership team among small and mid-sized businesses. The company was also named No. 8 on the Bay Area News Group “Top Workplaces” list.

Compensation, culture and career monitoring website Comparably, which released a list of the top-ranked CEOs for diversity on Tuesday based on ratings from a pool of ethnically diverse employees.

One issue which is growing in prominence at present is the idea of embedded BI, which Sisense explains as the idea of adding analytics into existing applications. It is seen as a good way to keep things simple and offer a straightforward user experience, while Sisense adds that it believes its use will only grow in the years ahead with the rise of the Internet of Things and wearable devices. Could this be an option for your company?

In May, Sisense, a business analytics software provider, merged with Periscope Data, a data visualization platform, with the goal of offering customers “a unified, end-to-end data science and business intelligence platform.”

BI specialists such as Sisense now offer scalable white label solutions as standard with their embedded analytics systems. With this advanced yet easy-to-implement technology, companies ultimately save themselves a lot of time, effort and investment compared with the task of building their own branded data architecture from scratch.

Sisense’s website and brand design are impeccable. The prominent yellow branding makes them stand out in a crowded business analytics market and it showcases their sense of fun. Their blog explains complicated business analytics concepts in an accessible way and they have plenty of advocates amplifying their message on social media. They keep things as light as a B2B company can with a clean and aesthetic website design, clear messaging, and a modern, edgy style. It’s all you could want for a BI platform.

With businesses around the country and the world facing continual disruption, technological tools are increasingly crucial to the success of established enterprises and start-ups alike. Which tools can you rely on? Working with Statista Inc., the globally recognized data research company, Newsweek has produced an authoritative list of America’s Best Business Tools.

Sisense CEO Amir Orad told InformationWeek that these acquisitions are very much about big cloud vendors looking to own data and data assets. “If they own the data, they own the future of the market,” he said. They will also have the power to provide greater integration of these analytics acquisitions with their own platforms than they do with the platforms of competitors. “Everyone officially says that they will continue to support data from outside their cloud. I don’t think they are lying,” he said. “But if you are Salesforce, do you invest as much into integration with Salesforce and with Microsoft Dynamics equally?”

Sisense has announced a new cloud-native Linux architecture of its analytics platform called Cloud-Native Sisense. The release is part of a series of product updates announced at the Sisense Eureka! customer conference and aimed at helping Sisense users to simplify complex data. Cloud-Native Sisense integrates with infrastructure to enable quicker delivery, scalability, and native DevOps support.

NEW YORK, June 11, 2019 (Newswire.com) – ​​​Sisense, the world’s leading modern platform for analytics builders, kicked off its second annual customer conference, Sisense Eureka!, with a series of product innovations designed to help developers, data scientists and business analysts simplify complex data and provide insights to everyone across a business.

Buck today launched bEquipped™, a digital-first analytics offering designed to bring its clients — and its people — a comprehensive view of financial, workforce, healthcare, diversity, and engagement data. Buck partnered with Sisense, a business intelligence provider, to advance its digital workplace offerings and redefine what people analytics means in the HR and benefits industry.

Big tech players are “snapping up data analytics companies with big price tags,” said Amir Orad, chief executive of Sisense Inc., which develops technology that speeds and simplifies the analysis of large, complex data sets. “Looker clearly demonstrates the value these companies have in the larger cloud ecosystem,” Mr. Orad said.

In a larger sense, this multibillion-dollar cloud data acquisition is unsurprising when considering the significance of the cloud in the coming years, according to Amir Orad, CEO of Sisense, a business analytics company that last month made a similar acquisition of data science platform Periscope Data. “Companies must get on the cloud, or they will die,” Orad told PitchBook. “I know that sounds harsh, but that’s the reality. The future is in data. … Data is the new oil, and people have fought wars over oil.”

The issue was handed over to Cause + Effect, an analytics-driven marketing agency, to look into. By using Sisense’ss data analytics platform, they were able to discover a marketing approach that appealed to the sort of audience that they had previously been missing out on. In the case of the PGA Seniors events, this process brought up the possible benefits of introducing a younger crowd with more contemporary tastes, as well as more female audience members. Part of the eventual solution was to put more of a focus on the food and social aspects of the 2019 KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship at Oak Hill, in Rochester in May.

Israeli business intelligence software provider Sisense said it acquired Periscope Data, a U.S. provider of analytics for cloud data professionals.

The New York City-based Business Intelligence and Analytics leader Sisense has announced that it will be merging with San Francisco-based Periscope Data. The merger will see Sisense acquire Periscope Data’s assets, people, and overall business operations.

With the acquisition, Sisense will surpass the $100 million mark in annual recurring revenue.

Sisense has merged with analytics software provider Periscope Data in a deal that will see Sisense acquire Periscope Data’s assets, employees and business operations. Founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, Periscope Data was valued at $100 million in 2016 with a $25 million Series B from investors including Bessemer Venture Partners and Susa Ventures.

Periscope Data offers an analytics platform geared toward more technically savvy users. The startup has built out extensive data integration features that provide the ability to combine information from multiple sources into a single dashboard. A marketing team, for instance, could create a report that displays Google Ads performance metrics alongside statistics about a company’s Facebook and Twitter presence.

“I realized over the last 18 months [as we spoke] that we’re actually building leadership positions into two unique areas of the market that will slowly become one as industries and technologies evolve,” Sisense CEO Amir Orad told TechCrunch.

Sisense, the leader in empowering analytic builders to simplify complex data and provide insights to everyone, today announced its merger with Periscope Data, the world’s leading analytics platform for cloud data professionals. Sisense delivers deep expertise in mashing up disparate data sets, building and embedding analytic apps and intuitive data exploration. Companies like GE and Nasdaq rely on Sisense to build operational analytics applications. Periscope Data is used by sophisticated data experts in organizations like Tinder and Flexport for advanced analytics and data science in the cloud.

Sisense, though, has developed technology that allows business users to do all of that themselves, on the fly. “We give users access to dynamic dashboards so they can slice and dice information about the business on their own,” says Sisense CEO Amir Orad.

Sisense partners with Amplifi, a leading strategy and information management consultancy that works with some of the world’s largest brands, to help extend analytical insights.

A CDO’s most important job is identifying opportunities to monetize data across an enterprise, and then activate them. The good ones start adding value to their organizations fairly quickly, and turn traditional cost centers into lucrative profit centers in the first 100 days of their tenure.

“It is clear that employee performance and engagement are keys to the success at Sisense,” said Maria Jimenez, Chief Nominations Officer of Business Intelligence Group. “The Best Places to Work awards program puts the power of determining winners into the hands of employees, and they have spoken: Congratulations to Sisense for being named the top place to work, as judged by the people who work there.”

Amir Orad is a prominent CEO, entrepreneur, and big-data technology thought leader. Prior to his current role as CEO of Sisense, Orad was CEO of NICE Actimize, the financial crime and analytics software leader that monitors billions of transactions for the world’s top institutions. Prior to Actimize, he was Co-founder and CMO of Cyota Inc, a cyber analytics-powered company that was acquired by RSA Security in 2005. Orad came to cybersecurity from the world of cyberwarfare; he was recruited while still in high school by the elite 8200 division of the Israeli army, which brings together the best minds in Israel to build cutting-edge technologies to protect national security.

The business intelligence software-as-a-service company, led by  Amir Orad, is based in both Manhattan and Tel Aviv, Israel. Sisense works with small businesses and Fortune 100 companies. “We take the deep data companies generate and help businesses obtain insight from complex data,” said Orad…

Other analytics vendors find a quicker way by developing an Alexa skill around their core functionality, like Sisense did to offer its Sisense-Enabled Echo for voice-based business intelligence (now in beta).

Sisense has been named a winner by the Business Intelligence Group in its 2019 BIG Innovation Awards. BIG Innovation Awards is an annual program that recognizes breakthrough ideas in business. Sisense Hunch represents a new class of big data analytics, data cognition engines, which can be applied to a number of revolutionary applications that were impossible due to latency and cost.

“We are the bridge where data is made available. Sisense… is a powerful leading business intelligence and artificial intelligence platform, which converts data into actionable insights, whether it is for internal consumption… or, even better, to allow enterprises to expand their data ecosystem to their clients, turning data into insights which they can then monetize.”

Bol.com, the leading webshop in The Netherlands and Belgium for 16 million items turns its headquarters into a laboratory to create what may be the largest ever in-office study of worker collaboration, efficiency, and happiness, using Measuremen and Sisense

Sisense develops software that allows companies with large datasets to gain insights on customers and users without requiring professional data analysis. Customers include Nasdaq, Rolls-Royce PLC, and General Electric. Based in Ramat Gan in the greater Tel Aviv area, the company has over 450 employees in Israel, Kiev, Tokyo, New York, and Scottsdale, Arizona.

“The data world is undergoing a big change,” said Amir Orad, CEO of business intelligence startup Sisense Ltd. (at Calcalist’s annual Mind the Data conference). “Companies are starting to sell insights as a product in itself. Data isn’t used to manage the company better now, it is used to create something new. The next trend is insight as a service.”

This new database, containing only the questions and answers obtained from the original data, is lightweight, and can fit on small devices such as smartphones, wearables and sensors, enabling big data analytics on IoT devices. The condensed data packet enables a less compute-intensive and faster way to query the data and find insights.

Sisense has the highest rating of any BI and analytics solution Though Sisense didn’t have the most user reviews (387 to be exact), its core functionality led the pack with an average rating of 4.5 stars.

The Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Business Intelligence recognizes product excellence, as rated by users.

This video from Sisense is part of the Radical Transparency series. The company’s Vice President of Go-To-Market PeggySue Werthessen discusses the rise of embedded analytics in the BI world. She also does a deeper dive on the past and present of the data analytics space as a whole.

Sisense is a global business analytics software company with offices in New York City, Phoenix, Tokyo, and Tel Aviv. The company’s BI software makes it easy for organizations to reveal business insight from complex data in any size, and from any source. Sisense embedded analytics provide full customization and white-labeling, built-in security and simple deployment. The tool allows users to customize system-generated content and alter dashboard style sheets for near-native integration. Sisense connects directly to third-party applications as well.

Teddie Wardi, Principal at Insight Venture Partners, chats with Amir Orad, CEO of Sisense, about his entrepreneurial background and how their team will utilize this recent investment to continue growing the business globally.

The DFJ-backed analytics startup today unveiled Hunch, an artificial intelligence engine that it claims can condense large datasets into a size manageable even for connected devices. The software does so by creating a neural network that acts as a stand-in, taking up only megabytes of space for every terabyte of information being substituted.

The new Sisense Hunch product represents a “new class of big data analytics” that can be applied to applications that were previously impossible on the Internet of Things, due to its latency, power, storage, and cost challenges.

Sisense’s Boto is a bit different. The free chatbot works across Facebook Messenger, Skype and Slack. Users access Boto simply by adding it to their contact list and using a drag-and-drop interface to upload data the bot can automatically analyze.

Business analytics platform Sisense has raised $80M in Series E funding from investors that include Bessemer Venture Partners, Battery Ventures, Insight Venture Partners, Genesis Partners, Opus Capital, and DFJ Growth.

Sisense today announced that it has expanded its global footprint with the opening of a new office in London to accelerate its European growth. The move follows significant client growth in the UK and globally, driven by increased demand for full-stack analytics solutions and a growing need for agile data-driven insights.

Sisense is at the forefront of “self-service” business intelligence by giving businesses total control over data and the ability to add datasets and analyze them without the need for dedicated data scientists. The service can even extract key data points and insights from IoT devices like smart light bulbs and Amazon’s Alexa.

Sisense, whose technology enables non-technical people in businesses to connect multiple data sources and prepare professional reports, said Thursday it raised $50 million in one of the biggest fundraisings ever by an Israeli startup.

Business analytics is one of the hottest B2B sectors, and business intelligence company Sisense has $80M more in its war chest to prove it. The newly announced funding, led by New York based Insight Venture Partners, brings Sisense’s total funding to date to around $200M. That strategic versatility, which is data-agnostic and plug-and-play, is the new normal in business analytics, and it’s giving rise to some novel applications. One of Sisense’s clients, Captis Intelligence, has been using the company’s hybrid-cloud analytics to extract insights from publicly accessible social media feeds and posts on the unindexed deep web about crimes and credible threats to safety, including in schools. Captis calls its analytics tool PRISM and uses Sisense for its data digesting and to run the analysis.

CEO Amir Orad says investors like their mission of simplifying complex data with analytics and business intelligence and delivering it in whatever way makes sense. That could be on screens throughout the company, desktop or smartphone, or via Amazon Alexa. “We found a way to make accessing data extremely simple, mashing it together in a logical way and embedding it in every logical place,” he explained.

In the past year, the company also raised a previously unannounced sum of $20 million, bringing the company’s overall equity funding to $200 million

If there’s one word to describe business analytics software company Sisense, it’s “big” — big data, big clients, and now, a big round of funding. The company just announced it raised an $80 million Series E, with participation from Insight Venture Partners, Battery Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, DFJ Venture Capital, Genesis Partners and Opus Capital.

Sisense today announced that it had been given top-honors by three separate groups: Dresner Advisory Services (“Dresner”), JMP Securities LLC (“JMP Securities”), and FinancesOnline.

For the moment, the human element is a necessary one; the technological limitations of AI means that it’s not yet ready to infer small subtleties in the sales interaction — things like mood, tone and sarcasm, for example. Functionality aside, there’s also the negative association with automation in a luxury setting. For an affluent, frequent customer, a single call to a service line that reaches the automated phone tree might be enough to scotch the brand experience. To be sure, as consumers become more comfortable with the technology, especially as more and more millennials reach a point of affluence, humans may no longer be a requisite part of the mix. For now we better augment humans rather than replace them.

“An increasing number of service businesses are leveraging AI to increase margins, but luxury has been something of a holdout,” (said Guy Levy-Yurista, PhD, VP Strategic Growth and Innovation at Sisense). “Affluent customers have demanded concierge-like service which could only be delivered by humans.” But this is changing, he said. Levy-Yurista looks to systems that can anticipate questions before they’re asked and fulfill needs that buyers weren’t even aware of, calling them “the essence of excellent, high-touch service.”

In the intensely competitive visual analytics market, Sisense stands out from the crowd with impressive innovation and staggering growth while most other vendors in the same space are losing market share. Sisense was named one of Forbes’ Next Billion Dollar Startups, and named to the inaugural Forbes 100 Best Cloud Companies list. The company is ranked 8th in the 2016 Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Israel, a ranking announced at the end of 2016 that recognizes the fastest growing technology companies. Sisense also surprised market pundits with strong Visionary placement Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for BI and Analytics Platforms.

Amir Orad, CEO of business analytics software Sisense, says that children should be multidisciplined. “Our tradition of schooling from the Industrial Age makes you really, really good at one thing,” he says. “I think that’s very dangerous for the next generation.” Parents should encourage kids to be good at more than one thing as a way of being flexible, he says. By choosing interdisciplinary courses of study, kids will not only develop a variety of skills, they’ll also be knowledgeable about more than one subject area, giving them some adaptability as jobs change. Another way to think about it? Try out a lot of different stuff. Having a variety of experience will prove valuable in the future, he says.

We will be heading over to Atlanta for the CDO Executive Summit which focuses on driving a competitive advantage and improving performance using Big Data and analytics.

Sisense today announced the successful conclusion of Eureka!, its sold-out, invitation-only, global client event in New York City June 12 through June 13, 2018. Air Canada, Skullcandy, and WeWork were among the key speakers at this premier event for the business analytics community.

As has been the case for several years now, analytics will play a big role. We are using a dashboarding and visualization tool called Sisense, which has transformed the way the business uses data day to day. We are also exploring next steps with text analytics, and trying to understand how we can take the mountains of review data, social media and customer interactions and use it to drive process and product improvements.

Bots are just a user interface of a much bigger revolution that is surrounding us these days — the artificial intelligence revolution… The technology has the ability to interact with us in new, surprising and unprecedented ways, provide us insights we were previously blind to, and is quickly becoming the new user interface for platforms like bots. With this, we’re going to start to see a new class of bots become as ubiquitous as smartphones — not just in business, but in every aspect of human life.

Sisense ranks #1 in ComputerWorld’s overview of mobile apps for business intelligence: “The platform is fully browser-based which eliminates the need to download any software, and also makes it easier to share interactive dashboards to collaborate with other team members.”

Amir Orad joins BBC Business Live to discuss the future of business intelligence and the Sisense Coming Up For Air program.

We are excited to be attending TDWI Chicago.  Visit us at booth #208 to learn how you can develop an insight-driven organization that leverages analytics to enable faster, smarter business decisions.

Disconnecting from work outside of the office needs to be a habit — not just something leaders allow employees to do when they go on vacation. This is why New York-based business intelligence software company Sisense created its “Coming Up for Air” program. Once a quarter, the company schedules a long weekend and requires that all employees disconnect out of the office. No phone calls or emails between team members are permitted.

The chatbot application that I’m most excited for is business intelligence (BI). Real potential is unleashed when we marry AI and BI. Companies like Sisense have already developed technologies that enable chatbots to assist executives in answering critical business questions–the latest sales trends, data about a customer, insights about a competitor, and more. If you’re considering a chatbot, consider the multitude of different challenges you’d like to solve. Chances are there’s a chatbot that can help.

Sisense, a BI and analytics platform, offers an API so users can leverage Amazon’s Echo and use voice commands to widgets and dashboards to retrieve and hear numeric data as well as dashboard summaries. In reference to using natural language search for Sisense, John Loury, president of Cause + Effect Strategy and Marketing, said, “(T)he insights pulled through NLP are… still fantastic to non-analysts. If that person can interact with Alexa or a chatbot…to access insights, we should nurture that. With NLP, it’s not just analytics on demand, it’s analytics the way you want them… and the ways that are easiest to consume.”

Solutions Review sits down with Amir Orad CEO of Sisense to discuss: why a simplified single-stack approach to analytics is so critical in today’s data-intensive landscape, how small businesses are using analytics to stay competitive, and why traditional IT approaches to data don’t cut it in today’s market.

Sisense was “positioned in the top quartile for its vision on product strategy, which is supported by a solid development roadmap with innovative capabilities. As workforce diversity helps with innovation, it is noteworthy that more than 30% of leadership positions in Sisense are held by women, above the industry average.” Kudos. Refreshing. Rare. Gartner went on to share the vendor’s total company revenue grew by an estimated 70% for 2017, with 1,000 customer deployments. Reference customer scores also placed Sisense in the top quartile for its ethics, culture and diversity, with 100% of its references evaluating the vendor as “excellent.”

Sisense partners with BI-focused system integration firm to reach Japanese enterprise market

Sisense is named a Visionary for the second consecutive year, positioned highest on the ability to execute axis in the Visionaries quadrant in the 2018 report

Historically, BI tools required specialized expertise and applications. As a result, IT departments have traditionally owned responsibility for BI. That may be starting to change not only with self-service BI, but with the ability to embed BI directly into other platforms, as Clearlink’s use of Sisense shows.

Sisense continues to build its market momentum by strengthening its product offering, adding domain and operational expertise, and growing its technology industry endorsements. Mr. Zolfaghari has a deep understanding of the enterprise analytics, business intelligence, and database industries, having spent nearly two decades as an operating executive in those markets. Over a fourteen-year career at BI provider MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR), Mr. Zolfaghari served in many senior executive roles, including EVP of Global Operations and President.

Sisense wants to improve data quality by taking advanced design and visualization concepts typically reserved for the final product of a BI solution, namely dashboards and reports, and put those to work at the very beginning of the analytics lifecycle. Does it make data preparation a much more practical endeavor? Yes and absolutely yes.

Every BI company is talking about their ability to make simple data easy to analyze, but our goal with 7.0 is much bigger than that. We want to make all levels of analytics accessible to everyone, regardless of their technical skills or expertise. With the rise of machine learning and other innovative technologies, there’s no reason that BI shouldn’t be intuitive and easy for anyone to make sense of.

“’We use Sisense BI because of its ability to easily merge diverse and siloed data sets that exist inside and outside of a company’s four walls,’ (explained John Loury, President of Cause and Effect Strategy, a marketing and analytics agency based in upstate New York.) ‘In some cases, we can connect in near real-time and aggregate data sources like Facebook, Salesforce, and Google Analytics that are siloed, along with data that’s stored internally like sales, accounting, (and) homegrown CRM…'”

Israeli-born tech entrepreneur and CEO of business intelligence (BI) startup Sisense Ltd., Amir Orad, believes part of a CEO’s job is to be afraid. “If you’re not constantly afraid, there’s something wrong with you,” Mr. Orad said in an interview with “30 Minutes or Less” podcast by Microsoft Accelerator TLV, which aired on Calcalist last week.

Amir Orad, the CEO of business intelligence platform Sisense, stresses the need for someone who can simplify data on behalf of an entire organization without turning all existing processes upside down. “You need someone who can lead the adoption of analytics and intelligence throughout the firm,” Orad says. “You don’t want this person coming in to create a silo around business intelligence, nor should this person attempt to retrain the employee base to ‘learn’ analytics.”

Sisense wins Best Business Intelligence Software Award for the second consecutive year based on speed of data preparation and ease of use.