Case Study: Plastic Jungle achieves rapid, scalable self-service analytics with Sisense

Uses Sisense to help cut through the wild world of data

Plastic Jungle helps consumers trade unwanted gift cards for ones they’ll actually use — the company has sold over $30M in gift cards, works with 400 merchants, and has verified and traded millions of cards. When a new CFO arrived in 2012 he needed a BI approach that matched Plastic Jungle’s culture of speed and agility: a solution that could scale from an initial 100GB with double‑digit monthly growth, refresh data near real‑time (at least daily, ideally every few hours), enable ad‑hoc reporting, provide an abstraction layer for metrics, and require minimal ongoing IT or capital investment.

After evaluating open source and commercial options, Plastic Jungle selected Sisense because it delivered immediate ROI and didn’t require a dedicated IT team to deploy or maintain. Sisense’s user‑friendly ETL and ElastiCube architecture let business users build and manage analytics in a few clicks, meeting the company’s refresh, scalability, and self‑service reporting needs while preserving the speed and operational efficiency critical to Plastic Jungle’s business.

Plastic Jungle

Ashmit Bhattacharya

CTO