Sisense, a company that specializes in intelligence software, has launched in private beta an analytic dashboard for the Amazon S3 platform. Normally, developers would have to go through a ton of logs that Amazon provides to make sense of data. Sisense aims to be the Google Analytics for Amazon S3 with it's Prism dashboard by providing developers with a more visual interface. Best of all, it's free.
The Amazon S3 dashboard by Sisense is a pre-configured custom analytic dashboard. It connects with your Amazon hosted web service to provide better visuals of your service's statistics. Sisense utilizes the Amazon S3 log files to provide developers with a more visual view of their stats. You can view your data in tabular format, receive charts, review data from specified periods of time, and receive information with "Key Performance Indicators".
Thus far, the company offers services for Excel, MS SQL, MySQL, CSV, OLAP, and Oracle. Versions for Google spreadsheets, and Adwords are on Sisense's roadmap for the near future. While the product is great and more than useful for developers, the biggest concern for Sisense and similar cloud based services is whether these services are sustainable if the cloud computing platforms they cater too ever shut down.
Update: We have 50 invites available for Sisense. If you'd like to try Sisense simply use "S3!W435zar@50" as the invite code.
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Hi! Corvida
A typo got rolled into the title and first word (sisence instead of sisense)
-Mahesh
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Posted by: Mahesh | July 5, 2008 1:13 PM
Thanks for the update Mahesh.
Posted by: Corvida | July 5, 2008 1:33 PM
"the biggest concern for Sisence...is whether these services are sustainable if the cloud computing platforms they cater too ever shut down."
That's a pretty generic concern for essentially any business/platform/service built on top of another business/platform/service.
Posted by: Shane | July 5, 2008 2:02 PM
Is this windows only? Why is this not a web app?
Posted by: Alex Iskold | July 5, 2008 6:30 PM
It's only for windows at the moment. I agree that this gr8 application should also work for Linux mac etc.
Web app's are gr8 for portability but when it comes to analyzing million rows of data or even less than that web app's wont work at all they just can't handle this amount of data at the moment and in the near future.
ed
Posted by: Ed | July 6, 2008 12:37 AM
I can think up of a few advantages of having a desktop/web (RIA) model like Sisense has...
1. Take data offline.
2. Better Usability (drag & drop actually works :))
3. Personalize/Extend the S3 dashboard (or any dashboard for that matter) to my own needs.
The given Sisense S3 Dashboard is nice (very much like Google Analytics in terms of pre-configured queries/charts)
, but unlike Google analytics, i could think up of a lot of new questions i would like to have in it... and therefore, to me, the ability to edit the dashboard directly inside Sisense Analytics and apply new queries/widgets on it is by itself a life saver.
4. work with real-life data sets (= lots of data)
Posted by: cloudUser | July 6, 2008 4:38 PM
I have a global client who is commissioning business intelligence software for the fitness industry and I am trying to find a smart way to source great developers.
The dashboard in this posting is similar to what we are looking for at a summary reporting level, so I thought maybe someone might know of how I can find some great development talent?? Thanks in advance :)
Posted by: Rebecca Ganz | July 13, 2008 11:04 PM
Hi Rebecca,
The product which is featured with the amazon dashboard is called Prism, and you can produce this kind of dashboards yourself with no talent developers.
I work with Prism myself and its very easy to use, like working with office application.
I believe you can download it for free at their website.
http://www.sisense.com
Ed
Posted by: Ed | July 15, 2008 4:31 AM