Lack of function support
Data Studio is still nowhere close to the number of built-in data processing functions supported by standard BI tools. It even misses some basic functions required frequently for aggregating data.
No Realtime updates in Dashboards
Dashboard data is not automatically refreshed. You have to rely on third party browser plugins.
Slow Speed when using Live Connection
Loading the dashboard becomes exponentially slow with the increase in complexity of the view. This is a side effect of the live connection mechanism.
Limited self-service data exploration capabilities.
Difficult for non-technical users to explore and drill-down data.
If you face the problems above, then Sprinkle might be a suitable alternative for your organisation.
Sprinkle requires you to have your own data warehouse, however, it provides you with a more flexible and scalable BI platform by
centralising the entire data management and
de-centralising the data access.
The core technology of Sprinkle is a
semantic layer that includes Ingestion, transformation, and data modelling, that runs on top of your own warehouse. This allows data teams to collaborate and work across the
entire lifecycle of data, without writing any code. The data modelling layer allows you to create rich
OLAP on your data warehouse, enabling non-technical users to do drag-and-drop analysis on their own.