We compared QlikView and MicroStrategy across several parameters based on our user's reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
MicroStrategy offers seamless integration with other systems, easier navigation, visually appealing data visualization, and efficient customer service. QlikView is praised for its intuitive interface and user-friendly nature, as well as its affordable pricing options and positive ROI. Both products have areas for improvement, such as enhancements in user interface and data loading capabilities for QlikView, and improved scalability and collaboration features for MicroStrategy.
Initial Setup: The user reviews for QlikView highlight varying durations for deployment, setup, and implementation phases. The feedback for MicroStrategy also mentions different timeframes, but suggests that deployment and setup may refer to the same period.
Features: QlikView offers an intuitive and user-friendly interface, efficient data analysis and reporting functionalities, and easy collaboration and sharing of insights. MicroStrategy emphasizes powerful data visualization capabilities and easy navigation for quick data interpretation and analysis.
Room For Improvement: QlikView may require improvements in user interface, data loading and performance capabilities. Users desire more customizable visualization options. MicroStrategy needs enhancements in scalability, user interface, collaboration features, and expanded functionality for data visualization and reporting.
Pricing and ROI: The setup cost for QlikView is described as lacking significant costs, and the licensing process is straightforward and user-friendly. MicroStrategy offers reasonable setup costs and flexible licensing arrangements. The ROI from QlikView is praised for its ability to provide business insights, improve decision-making processes, and enhance overall efficiency. Users have reported increased productivity and time savings. MicroStrategy offers valuable insights, improved data analysis, and enhanced decision-making capabilities. Users also mentioned positive impacts on business operations and profitability.
Customer Service: QlikView's customer service is praised for its exceptional assistance and support, with prompt and helpful responses. Users appreciate the reliability, efficiency, and knowledge of the support team. MicroStrategy's customer service is also highly regarded, with efficient assistance, prompt response, and helpful guidance. The support staff is considered polite, professional, and proactive in resolving issues.
"It drives us away from Excel. For what it is for, it is good. You can't run a business on Excel."
"The single stack solution will always be more profitable, scalable, and elastic for organizational needs."
"The most valuable features of MicroStrategy are user-friendliness and integration with the different data warehouse systems."
"It's useful if you need to create dashboards that you check every day. Also, we can create a queue, but it will be updated every day with scheduled updates."
"The most valuable features are the Visual Insights and the visualizations."
"The convenience of it. Having it on the mobile, so someone has it right there in their pocket most of the time."
"Reports are very easy to create. It takes a very short amount of time to build a report, which is very useful."
"I think we have a huge enterprise-wide push to Visual Insight. Our environment has transformed over the last year. We were a strong "grid to PDF," "document to PDF," that's all we did. And then they came in with these Visual Insights and everyone was like, "Wow, that's kind of cool." We created a static reporting portal behind it and now, it's just taken our reports to another level. The level of insight that you get in a 30-second glimpse, it just revolutionized it for us. It gives the user a larger subset of the data so that they can actually maneuver around, rather than being specifically pointed at whatever your document is designed for."
"I had the option to prepare data myself instead of always having to depend on the data team."
"QlikView is a scalable solution that multiple users can easily use."
"It's pretty easy to deploy."
"It excels in supporting database connections and various database types."
"The in-memory feature gives us better insight. It's also easy to drill down into the information and select information."
"The most valuable feature of QlikView is the integration with other third-party tools."
"The most useful feature of QlikView for me is the QVD concept."
"Data transforming with scripting, and the associative model that lets users browse data in an easy way, are the most valuable features."
"Sometimes, it has become too complex to upgrade and adjust to the ecosystem."
"We have the mobile server. We have not used it. That is because the people on our team have not been trained on it yet, but that is something that we want to do."
"I would like to see more Writeback capabilities that would allow our IT department not to be worried about the wild, Wild West of Writeback."
"Training would be an area that they could improve upon."
"It crashes multiple times for even small changes that I make on the fly in the dashboard. After doing all the necessary changes, the MicroStrategy desktop or even the web version kicks the users out, and all the changes are lost. This functionality is buggy in MicroStrategy. It is hard to keep track of all the changes that I have done before. I don't want to make copies of each change that I have made because I would end up creating a hundred dashboards. It is not feasible in a real environment. I haven't worked on integrating MicroStrategy with the cloud. I am not sure how it behaves in the cloud, but I have heard from a few of my friends that there are some hiccups when you kind of sync to the cloud through MicroStrategy."
"I would try to make it a little more basic, user-friendly. In terms of the UX, it's a bit sluggish there."
"There might be opportunities for reporting or data analysis, perhaps even in the realm of simulation."
"Consolidate the functional offering to be more concise in the front-end for web reports, dashboards, and self-service."
"They should offer the capability to directly access data from SaaS environments, as it would simplify the migration process, and while it may seem like a minor enhancement, it would be beneficial to our clients."
"Better source data connectors."
"QlikView certainly lacks in its ability to share visualizations or create visualizations easily."
"If a user wanted to see something not included in the application the new object had to be created by a power user or developer because Qlik view's scripting has somewhat of a learning curve."
"The pricing is high."
"The only thing I would improve about it is the fact that it refreshes all the time, and when it does that, it just deletes all the options you had, all the filters that you had selected, so you need to select them from the beginning."
"For me, it is important to have a mix, what is the "view" and what is the "sense", Qlik Sense. They have two tools, but for me it is important to have only one tool, which combines the functions that we have from one side and the other side."
"Improvements are required in the hide and unhide functionality that falls under the layout container feature that has been used in my company in recent times."
MicroStrategy is ranked 4th in Embedded BI with 156 reviews while QlikView is ranked 3rd in Embedded BI with 158 reviews. MicroStrategy is rated 8.2, while QlikView is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of MicroStrategy writes "A robust solution for powerful data analytics". On the other hand, the top reviewer of QlikView writes "Useful for data visualization and business intelligence". MicroStrategy is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and SAP Crystal Reports, whereas QlikView is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, SQL Server and Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services. See our MicroStrategy vs. QlikView report.
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