Sisense vs Yellowfin comparison

Sisense and Yellowfin are both solutions in the BI (Business Intelligence) Tools category. Sisense is ranked #19 with an average rating of 7.8, while Yellowfin is ranked #42. Sisense holds a 1.5% mindshare in BIT, compared to Yellowfin’s 0.2% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Sisense users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Yellowfin users who would recommend it.

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95% willing to recommend

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 1, 2025

Sisense and Yellowfin compete in the business intelligence space. While Sisense has an edge in pricing and support, Yellowfin is known for its comprehensive feature set, which many consider justifies its cost.

Features: Sisense offers robust analytics, easy data integration, and customizable dashboards. Yellowfin provides storytelling capabilities, interactive reports, and collaborative features.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Sisense offers straightforward deployment with strong support. Yellowfin offers cloud and on-premise options with comprehensive training resources.

Pricing and ROI: Sisense involves higher initial costs but generates significant ROI through efficiency and integration. Yellowfin offers potentially lower upfront costs and delivers consistent ROI due to its competitive pricing structure.

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Categories and Ranking

Sisense

Ranking in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools

19th

Ranking in Reporting

14th

Ranking in Data Visualization

15th

Ranking in Embedded BI

9th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Analytics (4th)

Yellowfin

Ranking in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools

42nd

Ranking in Reporting

30th

Ranking in Data Visualization

26th

Ranking in Embedded BI

13th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the BI (Business Intelligence) Tools category, the mindshare of Sisense is 1.5%, down from 1.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Yellowfin is 0.2%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Wiboon Thabsuwan

Senior Consultant at IMD Company Limited

Helps businesses save time and offers good integration features

I would say that using Sisense on Linux's platform might not be advantageous for everyone. I am more familiar with Windows than Linux. With Windows, the system performs very fast. Even if your data size consists of like 10,00,00,000 loads or whatever, it works very fast. When using Sisense, it is better to have some people with a very good understanding of Linux. I need more technical people who understand about Linux OS. Only two people would be enough to operate the tool.

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it_user86469

Director with 51-200 employees

Very scalable design and easy to implement. It can reside alongside more complex enterprise systems.

I have been involved with the implementation of many BI products; many products are expensive, require complex and difficult implementations, and once installed it is only the start of a lengthy consulting engagement to get the installation to where the customer wants it to be. Yellowfin is the antithesis of this; it installs easily, the configuration is done quickly, and the user can come up to speed quickly (especially if they have used other BI products). As an implementer, this changes how we operate, because we can focus on providing the customer what they want, not just on technical wizardry to get the product operational.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The dashboard design interface is very intuitive and allows you to quickly and easily produce professional, innovative dashboards."

"ElastiCube Manager is a very easy to use ETL tool, which includes the ability to easily transform raw data into reusable data."

"The most valuable thing I have found is the ability for Sisense to connect data from totally different sources."

"No issues with stability. It is a very stable solution."

"The Sisense solution was very easy to set up, and its visualizations were effective."

"Allows us to execute heavy, complex computations on the fly so customers can slice and dice the data based on their business needs."

"The best part about this solution is how easy it is to mash up the data from many sources. Sisense is fast compared to other solutions."

"Support is very responsive and clearly one of the strengths of Sisense. I have always received a fast response and the staff is very helpful."

More Sisense pros

"It reduces time to reproduce reports, provides easy access to organisational data, and has the ability to generate a wide range of reports and analysis."

"It is a central source of up-to-date data and information."

"It is able to create information dashboards for various users' throughout."

Cons

"I would like to see more development and growth for the support of Knowledge Base and Community forums."

"I would like to see an improvement in the live data connection, specifically making the process faster."

"I would say that using Sisense on Linux's platform might not be advantageous for everyone."

"They should improve the filters to create downloaded data by moving them to the top of the dashboard."

"The initial version we purchased only ran on Windows servers, which was less than ideal for our DevOps team. I believe that has been remedied in the latest release."

"I would love to have more customization capabilities for building dashboards, especially in creating custom widget sizes."

"Larger datasets will sometimes give a "Accumulated logs" error when trying to make minor changes. T"

"I would also like to be able to run a bursts of reports based on different field values with PDF output right in the tool, rather than filtering on each field value and generating each PDF manually."

More Sisense cons

"It needs more presentation/charting capabilities and integration with GIS."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"This solution is more expensive than Tableau, Qlik and Dundas. It is an expensive tool. They charge $75,000 while Tableau is $45,000."

"Compared to Power BI or Tableau, Sisense is much more expensive."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

21%

Computer Software Company

15%

Government

University

Computer Software Company

28%

Educational Organization

13%

Government

10%

Insurance Company

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Sisense?

The solution's technical support team is good.

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What needs improvement with Sisense?

I would like to see an improvement in the live data connection, specifically making the process faster. Additionally, incorporating more self-service capabilities would benefit the product.

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Overview

Sisense is an end-to-end business analytics software that enables users to easily prepare and analyze large, complex datasets. Sisense’s Single-Stack BI software includes data preparation, data management, analysis, visualization and reporting capabilities.

Sisense

Yellowfin offers a business intelligence (BI) platform that allows users to interact with big data in a variety of ways. Yellowfin works to provide big data access to companies of all sizes, from small business to billion-dollar enterprises. It is designed for providing data quickly and allowing users to filter for specific results, maximizing gain from big data. Yellowfin has a variety of dashboards so the user can filter, drill to detail, and have data analysis in the same browser. The data can also be easily shared with others via email, wiki embed, and reports. There is a mobile app as well, which works automatically with the desktop dashboards to allow users to access their data on the go, and alerts can be set up to notify a user via email or push to a mobile device if the data is indicating a critical event taking place. Yellowfin also can map data to locations, providing not only the what of data, but also the where. Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust provides its community in England with mental health and community care services. Using Yellowfin's mobile business intelligence capabilities to deliver reporting and analytics to approximately 6000 clinicians, Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust was able to greatly improve the quality of its patient care. Yellowfin allowed the Trust to access and share independent data from mobile devices as well as create a Balanced Scoreboard to quickly gather and report information on the company's performance to its executives, management, and directors.

Yellowfin

Sample Customers

Ebay, WIX, Wave Accounting, ESPN.com, Magellan Luxury Hotel, Paylogic, Sony, Merck, EDA, One Hour Translation, NASA, Plastic Jungle, Philips, Yahoo

NCS, Universitat Konstanz, AT&T, PG&E, SingTel, InternetStores

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