Toucan vs Sisense for Embedded Analytics

Sisense is a mature analytics platform that supports embedded analytics across many use cases, but its flexibility often comes with added complexity when building truly product-native analytics experiences.

Toucan is designed for customer-facing analytics inside SaaS products. It helps product teams embed analytics faster, with strong customization, clear governance, and AI-assisted capabilities that drive adoption.

This comparison highlights how Toucan and Sisense differ across embedded analytics, scalability, and product experience, so you can choose the right fit for your product.

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What Makes Toucan a Better Fit Than Sisense

We’ve compared both platforms to show how Toucan makes embedded analytics easier to deliver, faster to launch, and more aligned with product-native experiences built for SaaS users.

Toucan

Sisense

Embedded Analytics

✔ Product-native embedded analytics experience

✔ Multiple embedding options with JS SDK, iFrame, Compose SDK

End User Dashboard Creation

✔ Designed for product teams to enable end-user dashboards

◑ Self-service dashboards primarily designed for internal users; external user creation often requires additional controls

White-labeling

✔ Full customization of look & feel

✔ White-label dashboards and widgets

Custom CSS Styling

✔ Strong styling control for fully native embedded UI

◑ Styling mainly handled through SDKs and configuration rather than direct CSS control

Localization

✔ Built-in multi-language support

✔ Supported through platform configuration

Multi-tenant Architecture

✔ Optimized for SaaS multi-tenant use cases

✔ Enterprise-ready, scalable multi-tenant support

AI-Assisted Insights

✔ Integrated AI to accelerate insights

✔ AI insights and analytics assistant available

Custom Visualizations

✔ Flexible visualization options for product use

✔ Custom visualizations via SDK and code

Interactivity & Filters

✔ Advanced interactions for embedded workflows

✔ Interactive dashboards with filtering and exploration

Scalability

✔ Scales with SaaS user growth

✔ Enterprise-grade performance and scalability

Data Preparation & ETL

✔ Supports integration workflows

✔ Flexible data modeling and integration options

Customer-Facing Reporting

✔ Built to deliver analytics for external users

✔ Embedded dashboards designed for product use

Real-Time Data Updates

✔ Designed for real-time and near-real-time embedded analytics

◑ Fast analytics with caching and refresh strategies rather than real-time by default

API & SDK

✔ Full API & SDK for deep embeds

✔ Robust APIs and Compose/JS SDK for embedding

Data Governance & Auditing

✔ Fine-grained governance for multi-tenant SaaS

✔ Strong governance and enterprise compliance

From Data to Insight in Just a Few Steps

Deliver astonishing analytics in your product in a 4 step process.

Connect

Compute

Visualize

Embed

Unleash Your Data, Instantly

Dozens of connectors

Native connectors for state of the art data warehouses and data bases on the market and a web service connector to connect to any API using Rest.

Built-in Storage

Store your metrics Toucan to reduce calls to your data stack. Automate refreshes and combine with live connection if you need the freshest data.

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Transform Your Data with Ease

No-Code Data Preparation

Prepare your datasets without writing a single line of code, using YouPrep™ for data joins, filtering, aggregation, and more.

SQL expert? Create your own optimized and complex queries, you can jot down some SQL in our editor.

Comprehensive DataHub

Manage all your datasets in one place. Easily create, edit, duplicate, tag, retrieve and delete datasets.

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Bring Your Data to Life

Intuitive Dashboard Builder - Fully Customizable

Create stunning, user-friendly dashboards with our intuitive drag-and-drop interface.

Tailor every chart to your brand with customizable colors, layouts, and styles to match your brand.

Data Storytelling

Transform your charts into compelling stories, by enriching them with contextual text, tips, glossaries, medias and more.

Manage multiple languages to reach a global audience.

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Deliver Insights Where They Matter

Effortless Product Integration

Embed your dashboards into your product with a few lines of code. Provide your users with real-time, interactive insights—right where they need them.

Security down to row-level

Ensure the right people see the right data with granular access controls, personalized views, and a built-in token management system that keeps users on your side without replication.

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Connect

Unleash Your Data, Instantly

Dozens of connectors

Native connectors for state of the art data warehouses and data bases on the market and a web service connector to connect to any API using Rest.

Built-in Storage

Store your metrics Toucan to reduce calls to your data stack. Automate refreshes and combine with live connection if you need the freshest data.

Learn more

Compute

Transform Your Data with Ease

No-Code Data Preparation

Prepare your datasets without writing a single line of code, using YouPrep™ for data joins, filtering, aggregation, and more.

SQL expert? Create your own optimized and complex queries, you can jot down some SQL in our editor.

Comprehensive DataHub

Manage all your datasets in one place. Easily create, edit, duplicate, tag, retrieve and delete datasets.

Learn more

Visualize

Bring Your Data to Life

Intuitive Dashboard Builder - Fully Customizable

Create stunning, user-friendly dashboards with our intuitive drag-and-drop interface.

Tailor every chart to your brand with customizable colors, layouts, and styles to match your brand.

Data Storytelling

Transform your charts into compelling stories, by enriching them with contextual text, tips, glossaries, medias and more.

Manage multiple languages to reach a global audience.

Learn more

Embed

Deliver Insights Where They Matter

Effortless Product Integration

Embed your dashboards into your product with a few lines of code. Provide your users with real-time, interactive insights—right where they need them.

Security down to row-level

Ensure the right people see the right data with granular access controls, personalized views, and a built-in token management system that keeps users on your side without replication.

Learn more

Create dashboard in minutes

Turn your data into an engaging and accessible experience. Discover how Toucan can help you integrate interactive dashboards and enhance your analytics effortlessly.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the difference between Toucan and Sisense?

Toucan and Sisense both support embedded analytics, but they are built with different priorities. Sisense is a powerful analytics platform designed to cover a wide range of BI and embedded use cases, often requiring more configuration to deliver a fully product-native experience. Toucan focuses on customer-facing analytics, helping product teams embed analytics that feel native to their SaaS product.

Is Toucan or Sisense better for customer-facing analytics?

Toucan is purpose-built for customer-facing analytics, with features designed to support external users, multi-tenant environments, and branded in-product experiences. Sisense can be used for customer-facing analytics, but it is often optimized first for internal BI and analytics teams.

How do Toucan and Sisense compare on AI capabilities?

Both platforms offer AI-powered analytics features, but with different approaches. Toucan enables natural language queries that can be turned into charts, helping users explore data and generate visual insights directly from questions asked in plain language. Sisense provides AI capabilities such as natural language queries and automated insights, typically used within its broader BI and analytics workflows.

Can end users build and customize dashboards?

Toucan allows product teams to enable dashboard creation and customization for end users directly within the embedded experience. In Sisense, dashboard creation is primarily designed for analysts and internal users, with additional configuration often required to expose similar capabilities to external users.

Is Toucan suitable for large, multi-tenant SaaS products?

Yes. Toucan is designed to scale across complex, multi-tenant SaaS environments, with fine-grained access control and performance patterns tailored for large numbers of external users. Sisense also supports large-scale deployments, but its architecture is often centered around centralized BI use cases.

Can I try Toucan before choosing a solution?

Yes. Toucan offers a free trial, allowing you to explore its embedded analytics capabilities, customization options, and AI-assisted features before making a decision.