Some of you may have probably noticed that apart from sheets, a Prism document may also contains 'questions'. Unlike a sheet that is used to visualize data, a question is a special type of canvas used to visually create filters and segment data...

Sometimes, data in an Excel file is not structured ideally to be imported by Prism. Occasionally, the data is presented in a Pivot-like manner that is more readable and takes up less storage space. A good example for this is marketing survey data that...

Dennis Howlett quotes Sun Microsystems' Tim Bray on surviving the tough economic times . John Doerr lists ten points for companies to stay afloat on Venture Beat . Being frugal has become hip, there's no doubt about that. Both people quoted above...

If you’ve dug around the product and/or the online documentation, you must have encountered the filtering and segmentation features Prism offers. If not, this is a good time to get acquainted with this powerful feature here . The first advantage of a...

For some time now, we've been looking at including Google spreadsheets as one of the data sources that SiSense Prism supports. We've just launched this, in a public beta, and I wanted to tell you why I think this is an important move. Our philosophy...

We're used to think about BI in terms of business use only. But BI is applicable at home too. If we have the tool to analyze any sort of data, why not use it at home? Here's an example: Most credit card companies let you download your personal...

We've just released a private beta for Amazon S3 users. The idea is that if you use Amazon's Simple Storage Service (that's where the S3 comes from) you get information about what you're using, why and how much it costs you. However, all...

One day I was browsing around Amazon looking for a book about some boring technical stuff (diving into the company pocket is always a good way to start a lazy morning). When I finally found the book I was looking for, I immediately got a list of products...

Ok, this one isn't from me, it's from one of our users who wanted to show us how he handled currency conversions with Prism. Thank you! I've simplified his scenario, just to get the main point across. Note that this user was working with Excel...

Prism dashboards often contain a Date Picker or a Drop-down List that affects the entire dashboard. This is very useful when you wish to go back and forward in time, and see the figures for the selected time period(s). Usually, when I refresh the entire...

A typical dashboard or report has several widgets that require query execution in order to present up-to-date results. Some widgets may need to be updated frequently, some on a daily basis, or on a weekly basis - and so on. After you are done creating...

Hi everyone, Since the Web 2.0 boom, many of our users are companies that have websites which are the foundation of their business. These users often use Prism to analyze user activity on their site. The table(s) they use to perform this analysis usually...

How does Prism decide what the data type of each field is when I connect to a data source? This is a question that keeps popping up, usually because it has direct implications on the type of analysis you can later perform on these fields. More specifically...

Welcome everybody! The SiSense Blog (SiBlog) is finally here. We get a lot of requests about topics to address here. We will do our best to cover as many as we possibly can. Feel free to comment on any post (you must sign in before you can do that). Be...