Manage Analytics Challenges with Sisense for Custom Furnishings and E-commerce

Paul Auen’s team began evaluating traditional business intelligence platforms, but when he heard about Sisense as an up-and-comer in the Big Data Analytics space, he was intrigued and decided to test out the solution; he threw all his data at it, and soon was impressed. “We could easily import our data structure’s model without scripting, quickly build dashboards, and share analytics in minutes. We could do all that with the free trial before we had to put any money into it,” he said. “We could prove Sisense worked before we had to make an investment in it.” Auen appreciated the out-of-the box aspect of the Sisense solution – in one package, the solution provided a high-performance analytical database, along with reporting capabilities any business user could use to work with large data sets ad-hoc. Once he installed the software, he configured it to make sure it was connected to the many data sets Online Commerce Group uses. Deployment was so efficient that Auen was able to run reports on day 1, without training. This was far from the experience he had had with traditional vendors or even the more modern in-memory or visualization vendors. Auen can now accommodate his need to work with data in a constant state of change. No matter how data changes in structure, Auen can swap out dimensions and create reports by customer, website, or salesperson without having to completely rewrite the report. Data size is not an issue either – Auen can breeze through half-a-terabyte of data in minutes on standard hardware. This is important, as his need for real-time analytics has grown: reports to management and teams are automatically published to the company intranet – without bogging down the server.