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How to Make Analytics Your Competitive Differentiator......................3
Top Approaches to Embedding Analytics & BI..........................................7
Partner with the Best: Sisense's OEM Solution.......................................11
Comparing Embedded Analytics Partners...............................................22
Unique Technical Benefits of Sisense OEM Solution............................31
OEM Customer Stories....................................................................................33
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Businesses across all applications and in
every industry are faced with mountains of
data. Finding a meaningful way to manage
this data has become a necessity, especially
when it’s data that can help your customers
or partners succeed. The only question is:
will data be your company’s weak point or
competitive differentiator?
In today’s ambitious business environment,
customers want access to an application’s
data with the ability to interact with the
data in a way that allows them to derive
business value. Afterall, customers rely on
your application to help them understand
the data that it holds, especially in our
increasingly data-savvy world.
How to Make Analytics
Your Competitive
Differentiator
section
1
To capitalize on the value of their information, many
companies today are taking an embedded approach
to analytics and delivering insights into the everyday
workflow of their users through embedded analytics and
business intelligence (BI). However, in order to successfully
expose analytics to customers and partners, companies
are faced with three main challenges:
This guide will help you gain a strong sense of the
embedded analytics marketplace and understand the
most strategic way your company can benefit from
embedded analytics.
Manage complex data (big and disparate
datasets) quickly
Securely share data and insights
Ensure the solution is built on scalable, cost
effective infrastructure
Learn all about embedded analytics in this guide, including
a general overview of embedded analytics, the different
approaches to embedding BI and analytics, and the
benefits and challenges of the most popular BI solution
technologies that offer OEM partnerships.
Gareth Barry, CEO and Founder of Unleashed
Sisense enables us to have information
at our fingertips and make decisions based
on data, we have created a competitive
advantage for ourselves and our customers.
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3
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Embedded analytics is defined as when analytical
capabilities such as data management, reporting and
visualization are built into other business applications
and solutions. Service providers, including on-premise,
cloud-based or hybrid solutions, can then offer customer-
facing dashboards, reports, and services such as software
infrastructure, platforms, and processes.
Gartner reported that today 25% of analytics capabilities
are embedded in business applications, while other
industry research firms stated that as high as 40% percent
of organizations are embedding analytics. Both numbers
show the incredible growth of embedding analytics and
point to a high-value return on investment.
What's
Embedded Analytics?
Many companies today are embedding analytics into
their application so users can access insights from their
data in easy-to-understand reports and dashboards.
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In fact, the value is two-fold: service providers who are using embedded analytics to help their customers be more
successful are simultaneously creating a powerful competitive differentiator. The outcome? Happier, more loyal
customers, and a strong competitive advantage for the company.
Other top benefits service providers are experiencing include improved user experience, new revenue streams, and
increased average customer value:
Figure 1: Embedded
Analytics What's in
lt for Me?
53%
37%
29%
26%
0% 20% 40% 60%
Differentiate products and develop competitive advantage
Improve end-user experience,
protect installed base
Create net- new revenue streams
Increase average
customer value
Service Providers
% of Respondents n=41
Source: Aberdeen Group, Juty 2015
Aberdeen Research Group discovered that 53% of service providers are embedding analytics to
drive competitive advantage, and the top service providers who did saw a 31% year over year
increase in customer base.
section
2 Top Approaches to
Embedding Analytics & BI
If your company is convinced it needs
analytics, but is still on the fence about
which approach to take, they are probably
engaging in the famous “Build vs. Buy”
debate- weighing the pros and cons of
building a BI solution versus buying an
embeddable BI solution.
At the heart of this decision is an assessment of your
organization’s R&D or IT capabilities and understanding
the risks and benefits that arise when relying on internal
development teams.
Build
Buy
vs.
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Building BI In-House
Considering the initial build of a BI solution and the
ongoing maintenance required is an important aspect to
the decision of ‘Build vs. Buy’. While building BI in-house
gives you complete control over features and integration,
it requires staffing an entire development team.
Specifically, R&D is an expensive resource that is not
only focused on internal systems, but also on developing
products and services. BI projects are long-term and
require constant iterations resulting in a serious cost to
divert expensive R&D resources to non-core activities
like building and maintaining an in-house BI solution.
This requires ongoing investments of time and budget
from R&D- a budget that is likely to get exorbitantly high
as data, users, and general analytics needs increase.
Another issue that arises from growing BI out of your
technical department is that the knowledge of the actual
BI needs stems from the business users rather than the
technical departments, leading to significant risk that the
BI solution will be misaligned with actual requirements and
need constant and time-consuming iterations.
Finally, as the amount of data and users grow and new
changes in your company arise, an in-house solution
will need to develop quickly to meet new, unanticipated
needs. Due to differences in priorities between R&D and
business departments, users often experience excessive
delays in getting the data or analysis in a timeframe that is
actionable and fail to deliver results.
Remember, an established BI tool grows and
innovates with the market, and an in-house BI tool
will require similar time and R&D investments.
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Becoming an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) Partner for BI
Today, it is much more common to embed an business
intelligence solution by working with a BI partner and
embedding their product through an original equipment
manufacturer (OEM) agreement. Becoming an OEM is
proven to be the easiest and most-effective way to offer
business intelligence because it allows you a fast time to
market using an established BI solution and technology.
Many of the resource allocation and budget issues
dissipate by embedding a BI solution, especially one with
technology built on cost effective infrastructure and that
can easily scale to your current and future data needs.
In fact, top BI analyst and researcher, Wayne Eckerson
described the movement towards embedding analytics as:
“The best way to simplify and operationalize BI is to embed
it directly into operational applications and processes
that drive the business. This is the definition of embedded
analytics, and it’s the next wave in BI.”
Eckerson went on to say that future of BI and its continued
success in terms of user adoption and extensive
deployments is dependent on embedded analytics.
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Since Sisense OEM partners specialize in business intelligence, we provide a solution built to deliver high-quality,
white-labeled, interactive data analytics that is scalable and cost effective.
Sisense’s single goal and R&D focus is to deliver powerful and intuitive business intelligence, so your application’s
analytics will be updated periodically and always stay on the cusp of a rapidly-evolving market.
With Sisense, you can easily get value from your data without
training or experience since it's just so easy to produce
quality, insightful analytics- a tool with no learning curve.
James Davison, Senior Data Analyst, Celestica
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Partner with the Best:
Sisense's OEM Solution
section
3
Sisense is a fully extensible, Since-Stack™ embedded BI
solution. Our unique Single-Stack™ solution provides an
end-to-end software that lets you easily prepare, analyze
and visualize complex data without any additional
tools- so that you and your users will have everything you
need to analyze big data from multiple sources.
This year, Sisense was named in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for BI and Analytics and singled out as having one of
the most powerful OEM partnership offers: “Sisense has a strong OEM partner network.” Gartner’s annual report
on Business Intelligence and Analytics is often considered the most well-researched and highly-regarded point of
reference to understand the layout of the BI landscape, which is why we are proud that Gartner highlighted that many
OEMs have been choosing Sisense as their embedded analytics solution:
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Fastest
Time to Market
Complete
Customization
Unparalleled
Scalability
Granular Data
Governance
Lowest
TCO
Agile
Analysis
1 2 3 4 5 6
Unique Business Benefits
of Sisense OEM Solution
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Though implementation of a BI solution can be a long and ongoing process with business users
struggling to define requirements upfront, Sisense mitigates this risk by offering a full stack,
self-service solution we call our Single-Stack ™ architecture. Sisense’s Single-Stack ™ solution is
designed for business users to iterate and explore questions quickly and independently.
Building and sharing dashboards is always a breeze with Sisense’s instant implementation and
white labeling. Connect to your data sources in a click, create a drag-and-drop data model and
immediately start building customer-facing, HTML5 dashboards and reports. Add your own branding
and customizations independently or with the help of our dedicated customer success team.
Sonny Rivera, VP of Information Technology at EDA
In our first year using Sisense we were able to
generate over seven figures in revenue...
We're not a big data company, we're a big insights
company and Sisense is a fundamental part of our
business strategy.
1 Fastest Time to Market
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Customization is important especially for OEM purposes, which is why we offer an API-first design
that allows for complete customization. Developers fall in love with Sisense because it enables
them to build their own data product on top of an extremely powerful backbone.
Every element in Sisense is designed to be accessed and modified via extensively documented
JavaScript and REST API. With single-click SSO and Active Directory integration, customization is
advanced and extraordinarily easy.
Sisense offers comprehensive features to customize to your business, such as SSO, embeddable
widgets and dashboards, comprehensive data and row level security.
2Complete Customization2Complete Customization
One of the toughest challenges when choosing a BI solution is the inability to predict future
requirements in scalability. Multiple factors change that demand more resources such as data
size, user numbers and the volume of analysis.
Sisense was designed from scratch with a scalable, memory-optimized columnar database
that can comfortably handle terabytes of data, many users and concurrent queries.
Our powerful and award-winning In-Chip™ data engine that powers Sisense makes our OEM
solution perfect for larger enterprise implementations or any business that experiences growth.
Performance never suffers, even when working with big data, dozens of disparate data sources,
and large amounts of concurrent users.
Quentin Villon, Qualifa Business Analyst at Qualifa
Our 200 or so users are able to see
dashboards with near real time data and
get an instantaneous response from a
single average server; no need for server
farms and complex Map/Reduce processes
that are outdated and difficult to produce.
3Unparalleled Scalability
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Control user access and define exact permissions on a need-to-know basis by limiting access of
database, row, dashboard or user level. Create out-of-the-box dashboards and reports or give
your users the freedom to create any view or visualization.
4 Granular Data Governance
James Davison, Senior Data Analyst, Celestica
Sisense changes the way you think about
analytics: instead of an arcane IT project, it's
something that a business user can use to
derive value immediately.
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When considering embedded analytics, the ability to quickly ask new questions is of high importance since
companies are always faced with the need to promptly satisfy customer requests. Sisense provides the only
business intelligence solution that lets users instantly analyze and visualize both big or disparate datasets with
agility. By covering the full scope of business analytics in one agile BI software, Sisense can take users from
preparing complex data for analysis to creating dashboards with a wide variety of visualizations in a single tool.
Users get instant answers to their new questions as the natural process of analysis progresses.
Some agile features include the ability to drill down to the most granular raw data across all data sources,
and add tables from multiple sources without creating aggregations, indexes, or summary tables in advance. The
ability to incorporate new data on the fly without a DBA, IT team, or specialized scripting empowers users to ask
new questions and act on the answers in the proper timeframe.
5Agile Analysis
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Adam Clark, the Product Manager at EEG Events
Because Sisense is hugely scalable and can
be easily white labeled and embedded, we are
already making our investment back- and it's
been just months.
The most significant cost of an embedded BI solution is often derived from maintenance and
upgrades. Continuous involvement of a development team and other skilled personnel to extend,
support and maintain a BI tool takes resources away from core applications.
Sisense provides full support maintenance and upgrades, and is easy for business users to use
and navigate. Sisense’s award-winning technology is built with an infrastructure that can be easily
customized to your business needs, requires a short time to value, and has the scalability to cope
with significant growth in data, users and queries. This drastically reduces total ownership costs by
mitigating the need for internal R&D teams to support constant changes for end users.
6Lowest Total Cost of Ownership
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True Long-Term Partnership
We see our OEM customers as partners and therefore Sisense provides all the dedicated support,
training and maintenance as it’s needed, when it’s needed. See why so many companies have chosen
Sisense as their embedded BI tool.
Scales to terabytes of data
Processes large volumes of data quickly
(terabytes of data, dozens of sources,
hundreds of millions of rows)
Mobile Embeddability
Users can take their own mobile apps
and embed Sisense widgets within
Extensible Visualization
Sisense API allows users to create
custom visualizations from popular
Javascript libraries (e.g. D3)
Scales to many concurrent users
Supports multiple concurrent user
queries, with the ability to customize
views of the data
Minimal Hardware Costs
Designed for commodity hardware
regardless of data size
Full White Labeling
Provides complete support in white labeling
and re-branding
Advanced Embeddability
Users can embed components of a
dashboard into any web-based application
from the entire layout to individual
visualizations or widget
Minimal Operational Costs
Minimal IT intervention, easily handled
by non-technical end users
Extensive Security & Governance
Use role level security management to
manage groups and individuals with
integration to active directory
Unique Open Platform (Sisense API Sets)
Sisense holds many API sets that act as
entry points to extend, customize and build
solutions on top of the product/add widgets
to the Sisense platform
Sisense Feature Overview
section
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Comparing Embedded Analytics Partners
Comparison Points:
Sisense Alternativesvs.
CRITERION DESCRIPTION
Standalone Does not require additional tools from third party vendors
Scalability (Data / Users) The volume of data a single server can process, number of concurrent users
Time to Market The time it takes for embedded analytics to be in production
Data Preparation The ease of adding new data sources
Customization Extensibility, API sets, white labeling, custom visualizations, plugins and CSS customizations
Agility The ease of asking new questions and receiving answers quickly to satisfy customer requests
Embeddability Ability to build components (dashboard or widget level) into web-based platforms
Security Built in multi-tenant security, SSO, role level security
Required technical expertise The technical expertise required for setup and management
Software/Hardware/Operational Costs Average costs considering different external and intrinsic factors
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Stand-Alone BI Overview:
Stand-alone BI solutions provide a number of tools to
take you from start to finish in your data analysis process:
manage, visualize and integrate data.
The problem is, they are often complex to deploy
and use slower, more costly technology.
The most common example of stand-alone solution’s
technology is in-memory processing technology.
Since in-memory processing loads the entire database
from storage to RAM for analysis purposes,
When it comes to Embedded Analytics, it is dangerous to limit the amount of
data and users, since that is essentially limiting your growth and creates a slow
and limited experience for your end users.
the reliance on RAM becomes problematic- with
companies either needing to purchase additional RAM,
which is expensive on larger scales; or alternately to
leave some of their data ‘out of the picture’ in order to
accommodate the memory limitations.
Unfortunately, datasets larger than several dozen of
gigabytes often slow down or even break these types of
stand-alone tools. The challenge is compounded with
multi-user applications, since each user requires additional
memory space for user-specific operations.
1.Stand-Alone BI Solutions
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Similarly, many of the most popular stand-alone
solutions have their own proprietary scripting language
needed for data preparation, requiring companies to
recruit or outsource dedicated technical expertise. This
also makes extensibility and agility challenging since
business users are more dependent on technical teams.
Bottom line: Though stand-alone solutions can provide
a full stack BI tool, they are often built on legacy
technology that prevents the solution from scaling
past just 100GB of data or forces companies to invest in
expensive additional hardware and human resources.
Mike van Thiel, CEO and co-founder of Known Factors
With Sisense, I felt like I could create a BI
dashboard without becoming an expert in report
development. It was obvious that this is exactly
what our customers need.
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CRITERION SISENSE STAND-ALONE BI SOLUTIONS
Standalone solution Yes Yes
Scalability (Data / Users) Terabytes Gigabytes
Time to Market Days/Weeks Months/Years
Data Preparation Yes No - Requires proprietary scripting
Customization High Moderate
Agility High Moderate
Embeddability High
Moderate - Requires users to first build
on desktop and then publish to the web
Security High Varies
Required technical expertise Low High
Software costs Moderate Moderate
Hardware costs Low Varies - Higher as data grows
Operational costs Low High
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Data Visualization Overview:
Data visualization tools are used to present data in a
variety of colorful graphics that are easier for business
users to consume than lists of numbers. While data
visualizations themselves are valuable, data visualization
tools cannot be considered a complete analytics solution
since they do not provide: data management capabilities
(data preparation / data compilation), advanced analytics,
or scalable data storage and integration features- which is
especially important for OEMs.
Ironically, some of data visualization tools today cost as
much as full-fledged analytics solutions. Many buyers are
sold on the front-end (pretty dashboards), not realizing
that the software lacks a back-end to actually get the data
in a format that can be plugged into a data visualization tool.
The easiest way to understand the limitations of data
visualization software is to request a POC (Proof of
Concept) using your own data, not sample data, to see
how accurately and quickly the tool can get your messy
data into a format that can be visualized.
Bottom line: Many problems will arise from having only
half a data analytics tool, including the most costly:
the need to invest in third-party ETL solution for data
management- as well as the extra skillset to manage it. Gareth Barry, CEO and Founder of Unleashed
Not only are we able to quickly create a
meaningful dashboards using Sisense, but we
can link up the data and drill down into any
piece of data in one click. If you can dream it,
you can do it in Sisense.
Data Visualization Tools2.
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CRITERION SISENSE DATA VISUALIZATION TOOLS
Standalone solution Yes No
Scalability (Data / Users) Terabytes Gigabytes
Time to Market Days/Weeks Months/Years
Data Preparation
Yes- Minimal IT support required to
add new data sources
No - Requires third-party software for
data management/ETL
Customization
High - Full white labeling, custom
visualizations, developer API sets
Moderate - Often no API
Agility High Low - Managing multiple tools
Embeddability High High
Security High Varies
Required technical expertise Low Low
Software costs Moderate High
Hardware costs Low Low
Operational costs Low
Varies; based on cost of additional
third-party software
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Cloud BI Solutions Overview:
Many expect that choosing a cloud platform as their OEM
solution is the best way to get a BI tool with the maximum
level of self-service. Businesses hope to experience fully-
managed Cloud BI the same way they experience other
fully cloud-based self-service applications like Salesforce
and Google Analytics.
Unfortunately, this is not the case with cloud BI solutions
that have to plug into existing data sources. Then, adding
and synchronizing data becomes a constant battle, since
BI software is best deployed to be as “close” as possible to
the data it feeds off of in order to minimize the overhead of
transferring data from sources to BI software.
Due to the challenge of synchronizing data and data
preparation overhead, Cloud BI solutions require end
users to either call the customer support or bother their
IT department every time they want to add data or alter a
field-which is a frequent occurrence in data analysis.
This is because the same process of transferring and
handling data that’s required for on-premise will also be
required for a cloud platform.
Additionally, data that is transferred over the open Internet
needs to be encrypted and then decrypted - slowing the
data management process down by an additional 60%.
The ongoing introduction of new data sets or sources quickly
becomes very resource-heavy.
Cloud BI Solutions3.
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Bottom Line: Cloud BI solutions often require countless service hours, an expensive ROI model, and a rigid data-driven
environment with little tolerance for change. Quite the opposite of the personal control Cloud BI implies with its self-
service association. If a BI solution is not self-service on-premises, it sure as won’t be self-service in the cloud, so test it on
your own data before making an investment.  
Sisense Cloud Options:
Sisense believes in self-service BI regardless of whether a company deploys BI on the cloud or on-premises. If you are
truly looking for a cloud-based or fully-managed BI service, Sisense offers the option of setting up a machine on Amazon
(or other cloud services) and providing self-service dashboarding, reporting, analysis and collaboration via Sisense Web.
Companies can use Sisence’s powerful technology for easy and accurate data management, while being less
dependent on software than any other vendor using traditional 3rd party data warehousing and ETL tools.
On top of that, Sisense Web offers an extremely easy browser-based BI application.
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CRITERION SISENSE CLOUD BI SOLUTIONS
Standalone solution Yes Yes
Scalability (Data / Users) Terabytes Varies - typically GB scale
Time to Market Days/Weeks Weeks/ Months
Data Preparation Yes Varies - often require scripting
Customization High Low
Agility High Moderate
Embeddability High High
Security High Moderate - issues with synchronization
Required technical expertise Low Low
Software costs Moderate High
Hardware costs Low No direct hardware costs
Operational costs Low No direct operational costs
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Unique Technical
Benefits of Sisense
OEM Solution
section
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In-Chip Engine™
Sisense’s In-Chip Engine™ is proprietary technology that
lets you run any ad-hoc query and receive answers on the
spot, without the need to prepare data in advance for each
new question.
The Sisense’s In-Chip Engine™ maximizes existing
computational resources, including disk storage, RAM and
CPU cache for the most efficient compression techniques,
and  uses advanced and innovative querying algorithms to
bypass limitations imposed by the operating system.
Therefore, only a fraction of the data must be stored in RAM
in order to attain the same or better performance as other
BI solutions, making Sisense the fastest BI solution- even on
big and disparate datasets.
Our In-Chip technology allows Sisense to achieve a definite
edge on other BI solutions in terms of performance, even at
terabyte-scale datasets, and at much lower hardware costs.
An Investors Dashboard with Sisense
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Single-Stack™ Architecture
Sisense’s Single-Stack solution describes our instantly deployed, end-to-end BI software that
includes everything you to need to prepare, analyze and visualize data of any type and size.
Our Single-Stack™ architecture takes you from data integration to visualization with a
single BI solution.
Using our Single-Stack™ solution eliminates the need to use additional tools, saving
companies the need to invest in data warehouses, visualization tools or professional
services. With no DBA required to manage the platform, no manual mashups to maintain,
and no special scripts to learn, Sisense Single-Stack™ is able to provide a complete business
intelligence platform at unmatched TCO.
Ewa Jakubowska, Data Analyst at NetBet
Sisense has saved our lives.
We were struggling to put together
information from many data sources, and
now a big report that previously took days,
takes just minutes with Sisense.
section
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OEM Customer Stories
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Entertainment
EEG Events Group (EEG), a world-class global event management service, was juggling multiple data sources
from hundreds of clients and their events, but lacked a reporting tool that could consolidated the data into one
report to send to their customers.
After choosing Sisense from over 16 other BI tools, EEG confirmed that Sisense is the best Business Intelligence
solution to: analyze complex data, embed and brand dashboards and reports, scale to any amount of users, and
implement quickly- requiring no training or coding
Our job is to provide tools to our clients that help them
go home happy after an event, and we can do that with
Sisense's OEM capabilities. Sisense isn't just about business,
but it's a tool that helps me make my customers happier.
Adam Clark, Product Manage at EEG Events
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Consumer Goods
Equipment Data Associates (EDA) collects and analyzes industry data to extract market insights for their
customers in industries that require financing heavy capital purchases such a construction, machine tools,
and agriculture (e.g. John Deere or Caterpillar equipment). Now, EDA uses Sisense as an integral part of its
growth strategy:
The ROI is really impressive and the response from our clients is great.
We're getting amazing feedback from clients who say they love the data
analysis and reports. Now our clients are requesting a custom interface
and we're building that with the tools provided by Sisense...
We couldn't have delivered to the market so fast and we couldn't have
gotten such performance out of it without Sisense.
READ CASE STUDY >>
Sonny Rivera, VP of Information Technology at EDA
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Computer Software & Technology
READ CASE STUDY >>
Mike van Thiel, the CEO and co-founder of Known Factors
Known Factors provides Business Intelligence services for a variety of industries including real estate, travel, automotive,
ecommerce, healthcare and political campaigns. Today, many of Known Factor’s customers need help managing their data
which is often too complex, large or too widely distributed to manage internally.
Therefore, Known Factors became an OEM customer of Sisense and uses Sisense embedded analytics to enable their clients
to build dashboards easily and independently without investing in extra staff or expensive internal projects. This allows Known
Factor’s customers to deliver the same competitive advantages provided by BI tools used by large corporations.
Sisense is as easy as dragging and dropping in Excel,
except you get interactive, powerful reports.
The capabilities of the Sisense report builder are just so
powerful and slick. The kicker? Sisense is completely
extensible which is perfect for white labeling.
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Manufacturing Industry
Lacking a quick, reliable forecasting and demand planning, James Davison, Senior Data Analyst at Celestica, the multinational
contract electronics manufacturing services that supplies a variety of leading OEMS and handles $500-600 billion dollars of
goods, decided the company needed BI software.
Sisense provided Celestica with an easy way for everyone in the company to produce quality data analytics with no training,
as well as a white labeled embedded analytics service for their clients. After being deployed in just days, Sisense was adopted
virally across the company, empowering everyone with the ability to build compelling dashboards. The company’s quick
adoption of Sisense has already saved weeks of time on every report
Sisense is being eagerly embraced. In fact, it's
going viral. Our demand analyzer is now built into
Sisense and is deployed around the globe, running
over 200 users. It performs so quickly, it's getting
used as an enterprise scale application.
READ CASE STUDY >>
James Davison, Senior Data Analyst at Celestica
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Qualifa is an award winning, and innovative B2B telemarketing lead generation company solely focused on the
technology sector. Qualifa runs exciting international campaigns for media clients, building business development
pipelines with high quality targeted qualified marketing-ready-leads.
When Quentin Villon, the top Business Analyst at Qualifa used the free trial Sisense, he was able to install and
configure it and produce useful dashboards on top of what was a very complex data model, all within hours.
Since Sisense was integrated at Qualifa, there's been a 43%
increase in productivity in which Sisense played a significant role.
I am saving approximately 50 hours per month on standard tasks
while others in the company are now also saving significant time
with all their reports being created automatically.
Quentin Villon, Business Analyst at Qualifa
READ CASE STUDY >>
Marketing & Sales
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  • 1.
  • 2. How to Make Analytics Your Competitive Differentiator......................3 Top Approaches to Embedding Analytics & BI..........................................7 Partner with the Best: Sisense's OEM Solution.......................................11 Comparing Embedded Analytics Partners...............................................22 Unique Technical Benefits of Sisense OEM Solution............................31 OEM Customer Stories....................................................................................33 Contents 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
  • 3. Businesses across all applications and in every industry are faced with mountains of data. Finding a meaningful way to manage this data has become a necessity, especially when it’s data that can help your customers or partners succeed. The only question is: will data be your company’s weak point or competitive differentiator? In today’s ambitious business environment, customers want access to an application’s data with the ability to interact with the data in a way that allows them to derive business value. Afterall, customers rely on your application to help them understand the data that it holds, especially in our increasingly data-savvy world. How to Make Analytics Your Competitive Differentiator section 1
  • 4. To capitalize on the value of their information, many companies today are taking an embedded approach to analytics and delivering insights into the everyday workflow of their users through embedded analytics and business intelligence (BI). However, in order to successfully expose analytics to customers and partners, companies are faced with three main challenges: This guide will help you gain a strong sense of the embedded analytics marketplace and understand the most strategic way your company can benefit from embedded analytics. Manage complex data (big and disparate datasets) quickly Securely share data and insights Ensure the solution is built on scalable, cost effective infrastructure Learn all about embedded analytics in this guide, including a general overview of embedded analytics, the different approaches to embedding BI and analytics, and the benefits and challenges of the most popular BI solution technologies that offer OEM partnerships. Gareth Barry, CEO and Founder of Unleashed Sisense enables us to have information at our fingertips and make decisions based on data, we have created a competitive advantage for ourselves and our customers. 1 2 3
  • 5. 5 Embedded analytics is defined as when analytical capabilities such as data management, reporting and visualization are built into other business applications and solutions. Service providers, including on-premise, cloud-based or hybrid solutions, can then offer customer- facing dashboards, reports, and services such as software infrastructure, platforms, and processes. Gartner reported that today 25% of analytics capabilities are embedded in business applications, while other industry research firms stated that as high as 40% percent of organizations are embedding analytics. Both numbers show the incredible growth of embedding analytics and point to a high-value return on investment. What's Embedded Analytics? Many companies today are embedding analytics into their application so users can access insights from their data in easy-to-understand reports and dashboards.
  • 6. 6 In fact, the value is two-fold: service providers who are using embedded analytics to help their customers be more successful are simultaneously creating a powerful competitive differentiator. The outcome? Happier, more loyal customers, and a strong competitive advantage for the company. Other top benefits service providers are experiencing include improved user experience, new revenue streams, and increased average customer value: Figure 1: Embedded Analytics What's in lt for Me? 53% 37% 29% 26% 0% 20% 40% 60% Differentiate products and develop competitive advantage Improve end-user experience, protect installed base Create net- new revenue streams Increase average customer value Service Providers % of Respondents n=41 Source: Aberdeen Group, Juty 2015 Aberdeen Research Group discovered that 53% of service providers are embedding analytics to drive competitive advantage, and the top service providers who did saw a 31% year over year increase in customer base.
  • 7. section 2 Top Approaches to Embedding Analytics & BI If your company is convinced it needs analytics, but is still on the fence about which approach to take, they are probably engaging in the famous “Build vs. Buy” debate- weighing the pros and cons of building a BI solution versus buying an embeddable BI solution. At the heart of this decision is an assessment of your organization’s R&D or IT capabilities and understanding the risks and benefits that arise when relying on internal development teams. Build Buy vs.
  • 8. 8 Building BI In-House Considering the initial build of a BI solution and the ongoing maintenance required is an important aspect to the decision of ‘Build vs. Buy’. While building BI in-house gives you complete control over features and integration, it requires staffing an entire development team. Specifically, R&D is an expensive resource that is not only focused on internal systems, but also on developing products and services. BI projects are long-term and require constant iterations resulting in a serious cost to divert expensive R&D resources to non-core activities like building and maintaining an in-house BI solution. This requires ongoing investments of time and budget from R&D- a budget that is likely to get exorbitantly high as data, users, and general analytics needs increase. Another issue that arises from growing BI out of your technical department is that the knowledge of the actual BI needs stems from the business users rather than the technical departments, leading to significant risk that the BI solution will be misaligned with actual requirements and need constant and time-consuming iterations. Finally, as the amount of data and users grow and new changes in your company arise, an in-house solution will need to develop quickly to meet new, unanticipated needs. Due to differences in priorities between R&D and business departments, users often experience excessive delays in getting the data or analysis in a timeframe that is actionable and fail to deliver results. Remember, an established BI tool grows and innovates with the market, and an in-house BI tool will require similar time and R&D investments.
  • 9. 9 Becoming an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) Partner for BI Today, it is much more common to embed an business intelligence solution by working with a BI partner and embedding their product through an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement. Becoming an OEM is proven to be the easiest and most-effective way to offer business intelligence because it allows you a fast time to market using an established BI solution and technology. Many of the resource allocation and budget issues dissipate by embedding a BI solution, especially one with technology built on cost effective infrastructure and that can easily scale to your current and future data needs. In fact, top BI analyst and researcher, Wayne Eckerson described the movement towards embedding analytics as: “The best way to simplify and operationalize BI is to embed it directly into operational applications and processes that drive the business. This is the definition of embedded analytics, and it’s the next wave in BI.” Eckerson went on to say that future of BI and its continued success in terms of user adoption and extensive deployments is dependent on embedded analytics.
  • 10. 10 Since Sisense OEM partners specialize in business intelligence, we provide a solution built to deliver high-quality, white-labeled, interactive data analytics that is scalable and cost effective. Sisense’s single goal and R&D focus is to deliver powerful and intuitive business intelligence, so your application’s analytics will be updated periodically and always stay on the cusp of a rapidly-evolving market. With Sisense, you can easily get value from your data without training or experience since it's just so easy to produce quality, insightful analytics- a tool with no learning curve. James Davison, Senior Data Analyst, Celestica
  • 11. 11 Partner with the Best: Sisense's OEM Solution section 3 Sisense is a fully extensible, Since-Stack™ embedded BI solution. Our unique Single-Stack™ solution provides an end-to-end software that lets you easily prepare, analyze and visualize complex data without any additional tools- so that you and your users will have everything you need to analyze big data from multiple sources.
  • 12. This year, Sisense was named in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for BI and Analytics and singled out as having one of the most powerful OEM partnership offers: “Sisense has a strong OEM partner network.” Gartner’s annual report on Business Intelligence and Analytics is often considered the most well-researched and highly-regarded point of reference to understand the layout of the BI landscape, which is why we are proud that Gartner highlighted that many OEMs have been choosing Sisense as their embedded analytics solution:
  • 13. 13 Fastest Time to Market Complete Customization Unparalleled Scalability Granular Data Governance Lowest TCO Agile Analysis 1 2 3 4 5 6 Unique Business Benefits of Sisense OEM Solution
  • 14. 14 Though implementation of a BI solution can be a long and ongoing process with business users struggling to define requirements upfront, Sisense mitigates this risk by offering a full stack, self-service solution we call our Single-Stack ™ architecture. Sisense’s Single-Stack ™ solution is designed for business users to iterate and explore questions quickly and independently. Building and sharing dashboards is always a breeze with Sisense’s instant implementation and white labeling. Connect to your data sources in a click, create a drag-and-drop data model and immediately start building customer-facing, HTML5 dashboards and reports. Add your own branding and customizations independently or with the help of our dedicated customer success team. Sonny Rivera, VP of Information Technology at EDA In our first year using Sisense we were able to generate over seven figures in revenue... We're not a big data company, we're a big insights company and Sisense is a fundamental part of our business strategy. 1 Fastest Time to Market
  • 15. 15 Customization is important especially for OEM purposes, which is why we offer an API-first design that allows for complete customization. Developers fall in love with Sisense because it enables them to build their own data product on top of an extremely powerful backbone. Every element in Sisense is designed to be accessed and modified via extensively documented JavaScript and REST API. With single-click SSO and Active Directory integration, customization is advanced and extraordinarily easy. Sisense offers comprehensive features to customize to your business, such as SSO, embeddable widgets and dashboards, comprehensive data and row level security. 2Complete Customization2Complete Customization
  • 16. One of the toughest challenges when choosing a BI solution is the inability to predict future requirements in scalability. Multiple factors change that demand more resources such as data size, user numbers and the volume of analysis. Sisense was designed from scratch with a scalable, memory-optimized columnar database that can comfortably handle terabytes of data, many users and concurrent queries. Our powerful and award-winning In-Chip™ data engine that powers Sisense makes our OEM solution perfect for larger enterprise implementations or any business that experiences growth. Performance never suffers, even when working with big data, dozens of disparate data sources, and large amounts of concurrent users. Quentin Villon, Qualifa Business Analyst at Qualifa Our 200 or so users are able to see dashboards with near real time data and get an instantaneous response from a single average server; no need for server farms and complex Map/Reduce processes that are outdated and difficult to produce. 3Unparalleled Scalability
  • 17. 17 Control user access and define exact permissions on a need-to-know basis by limiting access of database, row, dashboard or user level. Create out-of-the-box dashboards and reports or give your users the freedom to create any view or visualization. 4 Granular Data Governance James Davison, Senior Data Analyst, Celestica Sisense changes the way you think about analytics: instead of an arcane IT project, it's something that a business user can use to derive value immediately.
  • 18. 18 When considering embedded analytics, the ability to quickly ask new questions is of high importance since companies are always faced with the need to promptly satisfy customer requests. Sisense provides the only business intelligence solution that lets users instantly analyze and visualize both big or disparate datasets with agility. By covering the full scope of business analytics in one agile BI software, Sisense can take users from preparing complex data for analysis to creating dashboards with a wide variety of visualizations in a single tool. Users get instant answers to their new questions as the natural process of analysis progresses. Some agile features include the ability to drill down to the most granular raw data across all data sources, and add tables from multiple sources without creating aggregations, indexes, or summary tables in advance. The ability to incorporate new data on the fly without a DBA, IT team, or specialized scripting empowers users to ask new questions and act on the answers in the proper timeframe. 5Agile Analysis
  • 19. 19 Adam Clark, the Product Manager at EEG Events Because Sisense is hugely scalable and can be easily white labeled and embedded, we are already making our investment back- and it's been just months. The most significant cost of an embedded BI solution is often derived from maintenance and upgrades. Continuous involvement of a development team and other skilled personnel to extend, support and maintain a BI tool takes resources away from core applications. Sisense provides full support maintenance and upgrades, and is easy for business users to use and navigate. Sisense’s award-winning technology is built with an infrastructure that can be easily customized to your business needs, requires a short time to value, and has the scalability to cope with significant growth in data, users and queries. This drastically reduces total ownership costs by mitigating the need for internal R&D teams to support constant changes for end users. 6Lowest Total Cost of Ownership
  • 20. 20 True Long-Term Partnership We see our OEM customers as partners and therefore Sisense provides all the dedicated support, training and maintenance as it’s needed, when it’s needed. See why so many companies have chosen Sisense as their embedded BI tool.
  • 21. Scales to terabytes of data Processes large volumes of data quickly (terabytes of data, dozens of sources, hundreds of millions of rows) Mobile Embeddability Users can take their own mobile apps and embed Sisense widgets within Extensible Visualization Sisense API allows users to create custom visualizations from popular Javascript libraries (e.g. D3) Scales to many concurrent users Supports multiple concurrent user queries, with the ability to customize views of the data Minimal Hardware Costs Designed for commodity hardware regardless of data size Full White Labeling Provides complete support in white labeling and re-branding Advanced Embeddability Users can embed components of a dashboard into any web-based application from the entire layout to individual visualizations or widget Minimal Operational Costs Minimal IT intervention, easily handled by non-technical end users Extensive Security & Governance Use role level security management to manage groups and individuals with integration to active directory Unique Open Platform (Sisense API Sets) Sisense holds many API sets that act as entry points to extend, customize and build solutions on top of the product/add widgets to the Sisense platform Sisense Feature Overview
  • 22. section 4 Comparing Embedded Analytics Partners Comparison Points: Sisense Alternativesvs. CRITERION DESCRIPTION Standalone Does not require additional tools from third party vendors Scalability (Data / Users) The volume of data a single server can process, number of concurrent users Time to Market The time it takes for embedded analytics to be in production Data Preparation The ease of adding new data sources Customization Extensibility, API sets, white labeling, custom visualizations, plugins and CSS customizations Agility The ease of asking new questions and receiving answers quickly to satisfy customer requests Embeddability Ability to build components (dashboard or widget level) into web-based platforms Security Built in multi-tenant security, SSO, role level security Required technical expertise The technical expertise required for setup and management Software/Hardware/Operational Costs Average costs considering different external and intrinsic factors
  • 23. 23 Stand-Alone BI Overview: Stand-alone BI solutions provide a number of tools to take you from start to finish in your data analysis process: manage, visualize and integrate data. The problem is, they are often complex to deploy and use slower, more costly technology. The most common example of stand-alone solution’s technology is in-memory processing technology. Since in-memory processing loads the entire database from storage to RAM for analysis purposes, When it comes to Embedded Analytics, it is dangerous to limit the amount of data and users, since that is essentially limiting your growth and creates a slow and limited experience for your end users. the reliance on RAM becomes problematic- with companies either needing to purchase additional RAM, which is expensive on larger scales; or alternately to leave some of their data ‘out of the picture’ in order to accommodate the memory limitations. Unfortunately, datasets larger than several dozen of gigabytes often slow down or even break these types of stand-alone tools. The challenge is compounded with multi-user applications, since each user requires additional memory space for user-specific operations. 1.Stand-Alone BI Solutions
  • 24. 24 Similarly, many of the most popular stand-alone solutions have their own proprietary scripting language needed for data preparation, requiring companies to recruit or outsource dedicated technical expertise. This also makes extensibility and agility challenging since business users are more dependent on technical teams. Bottom line: Though stand-alone solutions can provide a full stack BI tool, they are often built on legacy technology that prevents the solution from scaling past just 100GB of data or forces companies to invest in expensive additional hardware and human resources. Mike van Thiel, CEO and co-founder of Known Factors With Sisense, I felt like I could create a BI dashboard without becoming an expert in report development. It was obvious that this is exactly what our customers need.
  • 25. 25 CRITERION SISENSE STAND-ALONE BI SOLUTIONS Standalone solution Yes Yes Scalability (Data / Users) Terabytes Gigabytes Time to Market Days/Weeks Months/Years Data Preparation Yes No - Requires proprietary scripting Customization High Moderate Agility High Moderate Embeddability High Moderate - Requires users to first build on desktop and then publish to the web Security High Varies Required technical expertise Low High Software costs Moderate Moderate Hardware costs Low Varies - Higher as data grows Operational costs Low High
  • 26. 26 Data Visualization Overview: Data visualization tools are used to present data in a variety of colorful graphics that are easier for business users to consume than lists of numbers. While data visualizations themselves are valuable, data visualization tools cannot be considered a complete analytics solution since they do not provide: data management capabilities (data preparation / data compilation), advanced analytics, or scalable data storage and integration features- which is especially important for OEMs. Ironically, some of data visualization tools today cost as much as full-fledged analytics solutions. Many buyers are sold on the front-end (pretty dashboards), not realizing that the software lacks a back-end to actually get the data in a format that can be plugged into a data visualization tool. The easiest way to understand the limitations of data visualization software is to request a POC (Proof of Concept) using your own data, not sample data, to see how accurately and quickly the tool can get your messy data into a format that can be visualized. Bottom line: Many problems will arise from having only half a data analytics tool, including the most costly: the need to invest in third-party ETL solution for data management- as well as the extra skillset to manage it. Gareth Barry, CEO and Founder of Unleashed Not only are we able to quickly create a meaningful dashboards using Sisense, but we can link up the data and drill down into any piece of data in one click. If you can dream it, you can do it in Sisense. Data Visualization Tools2.
  • 27. 27 CRITERION SISENSE DATA VISUALIZATION TOOLS Standalone solution Yes No Scalability (Data / Users) Terabytes Gigabytes Time to Market Days/Weeks Months/Years Data Preparation Yes- Minimal IT support required to add new data sources No - Requires third-party software for data management/ETL Customization High - Full white labeling, custom visualizations, developer API sets Moderate - Often no API Agility High Low - Managing multiple tools Embeddability High High Security High Varies Required technical expertise Low Low Software costs Moderate High Hardware costs Low Low Operational costs Low Varies; based on cost of additional third-party software
  • 28. 28 Cloud BI Solutions Overview: Many expect that choosing a cloud platform as their OEM solution is the best way to get a BI tool with the maximum level of self-service. Businesses hope to experience fully- managed Cloud BI the same way they experience other fully cloud-based self-service applications like Salesforce and Google Analytics. Unfortunately, this is not the case with cloud BI solutions that have to plug into existing data sources. Then, adding and synchronizing data becomes a constant battle, since BI software is best deployed to be as “close” as possible to the data it feeds off of in order to minimize the overhead of transferring data from sources to BI software. Due to the challenge of synchronizing data and data preparation overhead, Cloud BI solutions require end users to either call the customer support or bother their IT department every time they want to add data or alter a field-which is a frequent occurrence in data analysis. This is because the same process of transferring and handling data that’s required for on-premise will also be required for a cloud platform. Additionally, data that is transferred over the open Internet needs to be encrypted and then decrypted - slowing the data management process down by an additional 60%. The ongoing introduction of new data sets or sources quickly becomes very resource-heavy. Cloud BI Solutions3.
  • 29. 29 Bottom Line: Cloud BI solutions often require countless service hours, an expensive ROI model, and a rigid data-driven environment with little tolerance for change. Quite the opposite of the personal control Cloud BI implies with its self- service association. If a BI solution is not self-service on-premises, it sure as won’t be self-service in the cloud, so test it on your own data before making an investment.   Sisense Cloud Options: Sisense believes in self-service BI regardless of whether a company deploys BI on the cloud or on-premises. If you are truly looking for a cloud-based or fully-managed BI service, Sisense offers the option of setting up a machine on Amazon (or other cloud services) and providing self-service dashboarding, reporting, analysis and collaboration via Sisense Web. Companies can use Sisence’s powerful technology for easy and accurate data management, while being less dependent on software than any other vendor using traditional 3rd party data warehousing and ETL tools. On top of that, Sisense Web offers an extremely easy browser-based BI application.
  • 30. 30 CRITERION SISENSE CLOUD BI SOLUTIONS Standalone solution Yes Yes Scalability (Data / Users) Terabytes Varies - typically GB scale Time to Market Days/Weeks Weeks/ Months Data Preparation Yes Varies - often require scripting Customization High Low Agility High Moderate Embeddability High High Security High Moderate - issues with synchronization Required technical expertise Low Low Software costs Moderate High Hardware costs Low No direct hardware costs Operational costs Low No direct operational costs
  • 31. 31 Unique Technical Benefits of Sisense OEM Solution section 5 In-Chip Engine™ Sisense’s In-Chip Engine™ is proprietary technology that lets you run any ad-hoc query and receive answers on the spot, without the need to prepare data in advance for each new question. The Sisense’s In-Chip Engine™ maximizes existing computational resources, including disk storage, RAM and CPU cache for the most efficient compression techniques, and  uses advanced and innovative querying algorithms to bypass limitations imposed by the operating system. Therefore, only a fraction of the data must be stored in RAM in order to attain the same or better performance as other BI solutions, making Sisense the fastest BI solution- even on big and disparate datasets. Our In-Chip technology allows Sisense to achieve a definite edge on other BI solutions in terms of performance, even at terabyte-scale datasets, and at much lower hardware costs.
  • 32. An Investors Dashboard with Sisense 32 Single-Stack™ Architecture Sisense’s Single-Stack solution describes our instantly deployed, end-to-end BI software that includes everything you to need to prepare, analyze and visualize data of any type and size. Our Single-Stack™ architecture takes you from data integration to visualization with a single BI solution. Using our Single-Stack™ solution eliminates the need to use additional tools, saving companies the need to invest in data warehouses, visualization tools or professional services. With no DBA required to manage the platform, no manual mashups to maintain, and no special scripts to learn, Sisense Single-Stack™ is able to provide a complete business intelligence platform at unmatched TCO. Ewa Jakubowska, Data Analyst at NetBet Sisense has saved our lives. We were struggling to put together information from many data sources, and now a big report that previously took days, takes just minutes with Sisense.
  • 34. 34 Entertainment EEG Events Group (EEG), a world-class global event management service, was juggling multiple data sources from hundreds of clients and their events, but lacked a reporting tool that could consolidated the data into one report to send to their customers. After choosing Sisense from over 16 other BI tools, EEG confirmed that Sisense is the best Business Intelligence solution to: analyze complex data, embed and brand dashboards and reports, scale to any amount of users, and implement quickly- requiring no training or coding Our job is to provide tools to our clients that help them go home happy after an event, and we can do that with Sisense's OEM capabilities. Sisense isn't just about business, but it's a tool that helps me make my customers happier. Adam Clark, Product Manage at EEG Events
  • 35. 35 Consumer Goods Equipment Data Associates (EDA) collects and analyzes industry data to extract market insights for their customers in industries that require financing heavy capital purchases such a construction, machine tools, and agriculture (e.g. John Deere or Caterpillar equipment). Now, EDA uses Sisense as an integral part of its growth strategy: The ROI is really impressive and the response from our clients is great. We're getting amazing feedback from clients who say they love the data analysis and reports. Now our clients are requesting a custom interface and we're building that with the tools provided by Sisense... We couldn't have delivered to the market so fast and we couldn't have gotten such performance out of it without Sisense. READ CASE STUDY >> Sonny Rivera, VP of Information Technology at EDA
  • 36. 36 Computer Software & Technology READ CASE STUDY >> Mike van Thiel, the CEO and co-founder of Known Factors Known Factors provides Business Intelligence services for a variety of industries including real estate, travel, automotive, ecommerce, healthcare and political campaigns. Today, many of Known Factor’s customers need help managing their data which is often too complex, large or too widely distributed to manage internally. Therefore, Known Factors became an OEM customer of Sisense and uses Sisense embedded analytics to enable their clients to build dashboards easily and independently without investing in extra staff or expensive internal projects. This allows Known Factor’s customers to deliver the same competitive advantages provided by BI tools used by large corporations. Sisense is as easy as dragging and dropping in Excel, except you get interactive, powerful reports. The capabilities of the Sisense report builder are just so powerful and slick. The kicker? Sisense is completely extensible which is perfect for white labeling.
  • 37. 37 Manufacturing Industry Lacking a quick, reliable forecasting and demand planning, James Davison, Senior Data Analyst at Celestica, the multinational contract electronics manufacturing services that supplies a variety of leading OEMS and handles $500-600 billion dollars of goods, decided the company needed BI software. Sisense provided Celestica with an easy way for everyone in the company to produce quality data analytics with no training, as well as a white labeled embedded analytics service for their clients. After being deployed in just days, Sisense was adopted virally across the company, empowering everyone with the ability to build compelling dashboards. The company’s quick adoption of Sisense has already saved weeks of time on every report Sisense is being eagerly embraced. In fact, it's going viral. Our demand analyzer is now built into Sisense and is deployed around the globe, running over 200 users. It performs so quickly, it's getting used as an enterprise scale application. READ CASE STUDY >> James Davison, Senior Data Analyst at Celestica
  • 38. 38 Qualifa is an award winning, and innovative B2B telemarketing lead generation company solely focused on the technology sector. Qualifa runs exciting international campaigns for media clients, building business development pipelines with high quality targeted qualified marketing-ready-leads. When Quentin Villon, the top Business Analyst at Qualifa used the free trial Sisense, he was able to install and configure it and produce useful dashboards on top of what was a very complex data model, all within hours. Since Sisense was integrated at Qualifa, there's been a 43% increase in productivity in which Sisense played a significant role. I am saving approximately 50 hours per month on standard tasks while others in the company are now also saving significant time with all their reports being created automatically. Quentin Villon, Business Analyst at Qualifa READ CASE STUDY >> Marketing & Sales
  • 39. 39 Explore Other Resources Additional Resources Developers Community Download Free Trial Product Demo Schedule 90 min POC Tutorials Why Sisense 100% ROI in 6 Months A Case for Embedded Analytics 5 Do’s and Don’ts of Embedded Analytics A Beginners Guide to Embedded Data Analytics 3 Use Cases for Embedded Analytics Related Webinars Related Whitepapers Access the help of thousands of developers from around the world, including the experts and solution architects at Sisense. Join Developers Community OEM Case Studies We see our OEM customers as partners and provide dedicated support, training and maintenance as it’s needed, when it’s needed. That’s why leading companies all over the world have chosen Sisense as their embedded BI tool. Read Case Studies