We compared MicroStrategy and Qlik Sense across several parameters based on our user's reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Initial Setup: It appears that MicroStrategy and Qlik Sense have varying timeframes for deployment. Some users of MicroStrategy spent three months on deployment and an additional week on setup, while others required a week for both deployment and setup. Similarly, with Qlik Sense, some users mentioned the same timeframes.
Valuable Features: MicroStrategy is praised for its intuitive interface, powerful data visualization capabilities, and seamless integration. Qlik Sense is commended for its user-friendly interface, intuitive drag-and-drop functionality, and extensive range of data connectors.
Room For Improvement: MicroStrategy could benefit from improvements in scalability, performance, user interface, collaboration features, and data visualization and reporting options. Users say Qlik Sense could offer more collaboration features and be more scalable.
Pricing: The pricing of MicroStrategy and Qlik Sense are generally regarded as reasonable. Both products offer favorable pricing options and flexible licensing arrangements. Users have expressed satisfaction with the affordability and ease of understanding and managing licensing in Qlik Sense.
ROI: The ROI of MicroStrategy is highlighted through its valuable insights, improved data analysis, and enhanced decision-making capabilities. On the other hand, Qlik Sense offers increased efficiency and productivity, along with a user-friendly interface and real-time insights integration.
Customer Service: Customers have expressed satisfaction with the customer service and support provided by MicroStrategy and Qlik Sense. Both companies have been commended for their efficient assistance, prompt response, and helpful guidance. Users have found the customer service teams to be reliable, knowledgeable, and attentive to their needs.
MicroStrategy is preferred over Qlik Sense based on user reviews. Users appreciate MicroStrategy's seamless integration with other systems, robust data visualization capabilities, and intuitive interface. MicroStrategy receives high praise for its customer service and support, favorable pricing options, and positive return on investment. Qlik Sense lacks scalability and performance when dealing with larger datasets and could benefit from improvements in the user interface, collaboration features, and data visualization and reporting options.
"Visual Insight gives you the capability of doing self-service analytics. This has been the most powerful and valuable feature."
"This solution has allowed us to become a top-class competitor among other consulting companies."
"It is always nice to have one solution in a single platform. You can do pretty much everything, instead of having to get a little bit here or a little bit there."
"The architecture is very solid."
"The option to use various administrative tools, like Integrity Manager, is a valuable feature."
"The usability for users to be able to drag and drop, then create their own reports."
"The convenience of it. Having it on the mobile, so someone has it right there in their pocket most of the time."
"Technical support has sent us to rapid response before, when we really needed them."
"Quick reporting."
"It automates recurring processes to save time and money."
"Qlik Sense has a modern look and feel and a very intuitive UI, so non-technical users find it very user friendly."
"Qlik Sense provides features to manage and govern data, ensuring data security, accuracy, and regulation compliance."
"From siloed reports, we went to a centralized knowledge hub, combining cross-functional data, and helping decision-makers see the data as a whole, therefore making more informed decisions."
"Some of the valuable areas of this solution include producing individual reports and closing the gap."
"Data-driven decisions are now easier."
"Qlik Sense has given us visibility into our data to make informed decisions."
"The solution's reports are not very flexible."
"MicroStrategy should become more user friendly. It should behave more like Tableau."
"There are some challenges in our organization on how we store the data."
"The UI seems klutzy with its manual entry."
"It would be good if it had greater analytics so we could build these visualizations by ourselves with scripts."
"Consolidate the functional offering to be more concise in the front-end for web reports, dashboards, and self-service."
"One of the things that I want to see MicroStrategy do is become more cloud native. Right now, the deployment on cloud is very easy to ruin, it is very much like spinning up separate VMs."
"The areas that have room for improvement in MicroStrategy are mainly related to building additional tools. Specifically, the embedding process has been a bit of a struggle."
"Currently, we are not very happy with the iPad or iPhone app because it is not working as we want."
"There is an inability to effectively manage (pre)caching (scheduling, assigning for respective user groups, etc), especially without community extensions or uour own development."
"The scripts available in the solution are not great."
"They need to make security rules to access applications and data security easier and customizable."
"The use of APIs is not as friendly as it should be in the first place, especially when considering Python scripts and all other scripts, making it an area where improvements are required."
"I would like to see more types of visual elements and better configuration options for additional flexibility when developing charts."
"Even though a huge set of learning material is available, anyone starting his/her journey on learning the software doesn't even know where to start it. The so-called Continous Classroom service is not cheap, but there are many free tutorials, they are not sorted or enlisted adequately though."
"Moving forward I would like to see more features that are currently available in QlikView, such as being able to better customize coloring within charts. I would also like to see the ability to add calculated dimensions to the selections tool in the page."
MicroStrategy is ranked 4th in Embedded BI with 155 reviews while Qlik Sense is ranked 2nd in Embedded BI with 114 reviews. MicroStrategy is rated 8.2, while Qlik Sense is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of MicroStrategy writes "A robust solution for powerful data analytics". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Qlik Sense writes "Customizable with good ROI and a quick learning curve". MicroStrategy is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Oracle OBIEE, whereas Qlik Sense is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, Microsoft Power BI, Apache Superset and Oracle OBIEE. See our MicroStrategy vs. Qlik Sense report.
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