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Vitality's Transformation into an Enterprise-Level Product with Sisense's Embedded Analytics

Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Edge Analytics
Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms

Applicable Industries

Buildings
Cement

Applicable Functions

Procurement
Quality Assurance

Use Cases

Building Automation & Control
Intelligent Urban Water Supply Management

The Customer

Vitality

About The Customer

Vitality is a company founded by energy experts with the aim of making any building a smart building. The team at Vitality does this by aggregating and analyzing a property’s internet of things data to identify energy demand and savings, risk mitigation opportunities, and overall building health. By centralizing data from devices on meters, sprinklers, building automation systems, and more, Vitality’s building intelligence solution unifies all endpoint data in a single place. Its platform takes the guesswork out of building operations to help property managers reduce operating expenses, avoid costly damage, and optimize ROI while lowering overall energy consumption.

The Challenge

Vitality, a company focused on making buildings smart by analyzing IoT data for energy savings and risk mitigation, faced a significant challenge as it grew. The company's original plan involved building basic analytics into its platform. However, as the company expanded, customer demands for analytics quickly outpaced what Vitality could build in-house. The company realized it needed to purchase analytics capabilities to stay relevant to its customers. These capabilities needed to be seamlessly integrated into its proprietary platform, matching the look and feel of its software, and delivering an industry-leading user experience. Additionally, Vitality saw a huge potential for future growth by augmenting its powerful algorithms with industry-leading embedded analytics.

The Solution

To meet its growing needs, Vitality turned to Sisense for embedded analytics. Sisense provided a more efficient and cost-effective alternative to building analytics capabilities from scratch. It could be easily embedded into Vitality's core product and customized to match the look and feel of the existing software. This allowed Vitality to get to market much faster than if it had tried to build the capabilities itself. Sisense also enabled the Vitality team to quickly add value with pre-built features and open-source APIs that integrated seamlessly with the existing products. This allowed the Vitality team to remain focused on its own expertise: algorithms, measurement, and verification. Sisense's embedded analytics were integral to making Vitality’s platform enterprise-grade, empowering it to start winning big in new markets.

Operational Impact

The use of Sisense's embedded analytics transformed Vitality's platform, making it enterprise-grade and enabling it to win big in new markets. It allowed Vitality to unlock next-level intelligence from disparate sources, perfectly match the look and feel of its software, and deliver enterprise-grade analytics securely. The white-labeling capabilities of Sisense gave Vitality the flexibility to create custom analytics that perform at scale and match the brand’s look and feel, providing a consistent user experience. Moreover, Sisense's deployment allowed Vitality to maintain full control of its intellectual property, mitigating security and privacy compliance concerns. The solution also gave Vitality’s R&D team the unexpected benefit of being able to test new features before rolling them out to customers.

Quantitative Benefit

Vitality's client was losing between $30 and $70 million a year in inventory due to water leaks. With Vitality's system, they were able to identify water leaks in three stores, preventing further damage and financial loss.
Buying Sisense analytics rather than building its own solution saved the Vitality team millions of dollars.
The use of Sisense allowed Vitality to get to market much faster than if it had tried to build the capabilities itself.