Sisense Version 6 Opens Up Business Analytics to More Users

Using business analytics tools can revolutionize the way business operates overall. It can allow certain trends to be more readily spotted and taken advantage of, improving business performance and key bottom-line metrics. Actually using these tools, however, can seem daunting to some. That's a development Sisense wants to fix with its newest version.

Sisense's newest version gives the system some impressive new capabilities, but beyond that, it also steps up its overall ability to slot into current operations and become a well-used part of the overall system. Sisense already sported the ability to quickly handle large and complex data sets, making it useful in a variety of situations, but the new additions only improve on that.

Now, the system uses In-Chip analytics technology, a system that allows for much simpler access using Sisense dashboards. With In-Chip, data can be processed as much as 100 times faster, which means that more efficient, reliable data. Sisense also taps R, the open source language that focuses on statistics, to help drop down the time required to make complete data analysis possible.

The combined force of Sisense and R, according to Act-On Software's senior business strategist James Levine, means that users will be able to start preparing data with one tool, analyze it with another, and then return to the first tool to display that data, which should yield “great insight.” Over the last 12 months alone, the company has doubled the overall size of its business, and taken home several awards including Frost & Sullivan (News - Alert)'s Customer Value Leadership Award for Business Intelligence.

Ventana Research's vice president and research director Tony Cosentino noted that 70 percent of businesses are compiling six or more information sources, and 79 percent plam to turn to analytics in the next year. That means a big opportunity for Sisense to offer a new alternative that's both powerful and easy to use. It doesn't really matter what a device or software platform is capable of doing if no one can actually work with it; Sisense's move to make big data more accessible, therefore, should drive some further sales gains in its direction.