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Orad: Sisense has over 1,000 customers including NASA, eBay, and Target

Amir Orad · The Benefits of Fast Business Intelligence // Amir Orad, Sisense (Hosted by FirstMark Capital) · Jan 25, 2016 · at 14:21

Amir Orad, CEO of business analytics company Sisense, presents at Data Driven NYC about the adoption and customer scale of the Sisense platform.

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“A thousand customers from NASA to Lockheed Martin, to Sandisk, to Motorola, to eBay, to Target, you name it, really nice names.”

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The claim, plainly

Sisense has 1,000 customers, including NASA, Lockheed Martin, SanDisk, Motorola, eBay, and Target.

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Assessment

In its official January 7, 2016 Series D funding press release, Sisense confirmed that it served 'more than a thousand direct and indirect customers' and explicitly named Motorola, eBay, and Target as clients. NASA is also documented as a Sisense customer in corporate disclosures from around 2015–2017. However, while Lockheed Martin and SanDisk appeared in contemporaneous IT vendor/technographic databases alongside Sisense, they were not explicitly cited in official company press releases around January 2016.

Sisense official Series D press release (January 7, 2016) reported serving 'more than a thousand direct and indirect customers in over 50 countries'.
The January 7, 2016 press release explicitly named Motorola, eBay, and Target as customers.
Sisense corporate disclosures from 2015–2017 confirmed NASA as a customer, while Lockheed Martin and SanDisk appear in contemporaneous B2B technographic indexes rather than official PRs.

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