Sisense Adds Machine Learning to BI Platform

Machine learning continues to make serious inroads in big data markets, most notably in the automation of tedious business intelligence tasks. Among the emerging applications is discerning and highlighting patterns in enterprise data, then alerting users in real time to any anomalies. That's the premise of a new analytics platform designed to alert users to data deviations and unveiled this week by business analytics specialist Sisense. Its "Pulse" platform leverages machine learning to analyze complex data sets, and then alerts users to anomalies that can be used to track key performance indicators. New York-based Sisense said the automation of performance tracking would free users from having to monitor multiple dashboards and tasks such as manually running analyses to spot anomalies.