INSIA Reviews

Simply put: INSIA is legitimately the BEST financial analytics software ever created and delivered upon mankind.

Why is that? Well, if you REALLY want to succeed in business, you must know your numbers, model and most importantly: How those numbers translate to real-world productivity, sales, and beyond.

Whether you're retail, restaurant, brewery, nightclub, it just doesn't matter. With over 700+ KPIs for any industry you can imagine, on top of custom KPIs, this is an enterprise solution rolled out for small businesses. Nothing else on the market comes close. Not Futurli, Fathom, etc...

Let's not forget to mention the insane power of keyword searching, then saving those searches into dashboard items you need to see at a glance, completely customizable to your, or a client's business.

Drilldown is incredible! You're able to visualize down to the dagnab HOUR a sale or sales volume occurred, with a combination of other factors that would matter to your specific situation.

Sales > SKU or Item type > Date > Time, this will get you on the path to really diving into where problems are or could be. You can apply this across one, or ALL of your retail locations, for example.

EXTREME POWER!

Plus you can connect all your data sources from FB, to Google, Quickbooks or Excel. Prasoon has created an incredible product that only an amateur in business would ever rate below 5 stars. With his experience working for Coca Cola, Velora and other billion-dollar brands, the man has brought you a million-dollar product for pennies, that you'll NEED the Growth plan for ANYTHING serious, beyond basic needs.

The pareto chart should be a main staple on your retail, beverage, restaurant, whatever biz you've got because you'll be able to see where you're LOSING money on underperforming products so you can focus on selling MORE of what's driving your revenue, reduce your costs, thus boosting your income to allow better pivots based on what's ACTUALLY making you money -- not what your emotions want to do.

If you're a business advisor, CXO, data analyst, serious entrepreneur, you NEED INSIA. There is no white label capability for the simple fact that the amount of computation power that drives millions of rows of spreadsheet and code is expensive.

Go into INSIA knowing this is for SERIOUS BUSINESS and removing the guesswork from your company or someone else's.

I'm fine with this being a 1-year deal as I understand the need to make the service sustaining. What I don't appreciate is all the limitations imposed in the system. If you have a basic knowledge of Excel, you can re-create the charts easily. Anything interesting and new that Insia provides, you cannot do because you have to upgrade. On this basis, it does not offer that much value to me because I can do everything in Excel. The speed benefit of the analysis does not provide enough value to justify keeping this. You still have to tinker with your data to get meaningful output, which you would do with anyway in Excel. If I can get a refund, I would. Unfortunately, I can't because I didn't need to use it till now and it's too late.

The product is quick and works as described. I would recommend INSIA to any business if they have data available on excel or google sheets.
Hoping more connectors like google ads are made available.

If user-friendliness, speed and effectiveness were the yardstick for a best-in-class analytics product, INSIA would win hands-down (even against established incumbents who, to their credit, are continuously innovating). Don’t be fooled by the simplicity; this is a powerful product available at an unbelievable price point. I have used it to run quick analyses, and here are my thoughts.

I have been working with CXOs of large MNCs for over a decade, and while they love data, they are seldom hands-on with hypothesis testing or data visualization. Understandably so. Most senior execs with whom I have worked have never truly experienced “no code” and therefore think of it as a tech marketing gimmick. Many in the middle management (think Channel / Product Marketeers, Demand Planners, Finance Business Partners) are believers, but get tripped on pre-requisites such as SQL, RDBMS, etc. The result: democratization of analytics at several large companies remains a pipe dream. In fact, it also explains the proliferation of governed dashboards / reports that are difficult and expensive to maintain and consume. Enter INSIA with NLP-like search, no SQL pre-requisite, easy data ingestion, dynamic visualizations and you finally have a product that is likely to bridge the “chasm” between early adopters and early majority at large companies.

Granted this isn’t a data science workbench like Dataiku, but my data scientist friends have also found it immensely useful to do quick feasibility checks and exploratory data analyses that succeed data wrangling on complex use cases such as price elasticity studies.

Long story short, the proof of the pudding is in the eating so, like me, play with INSIA, and stress test the heck out of this beast. If you haven’t given it a shot yet, you are in a for treat.

[Views are personal and not endorsed by the company I work for.]

As someone who does a lot of data visualization work, I found this product really intuitive to use. Any questions that do arise are quickly resolved by utilizing the in-app support system.

The search bar makes looking up KPIs and metrics I'm interested in efficient. I also liked the ease in which I could integrate multiple data sources to make dashboards that refreshed whenever new data flowed in.