We compared MicroStrategy and Sisense across several parameters based on our user's reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Based on the user reviews, Sisense is praised for its robust dashboard creation capabilities, ability to handle large amounts of data efficiently, and positive return on investment (ROI). User feedback on MicroStrategy's deployment, setup, and implementation processes reveals varying timeframes, with some users reporting a three-month deployment period followed by an additional week for setup, while others accomplished both deployment and setup within a single week. Users appreciate Sisense's intuitive interface and powerful data visualization features. While both products have favorable customer service, Sisense stands out for its promptness, effectiveness, and willingness to go the extra mile. Sisense could benefit from further enhancements in user interface intuitiveness, data visualization customization options, and overall customer support. Users of MicroStrategy have expressed the need for enhancements in scalability, performance, the user interface. collaboration functionalities, and the available options for data visualization.
Initial Setup: The user reviews for MicroStrategy indicate varying timeframes for deployment, setup, and implementation. Some users spent three months on deployment and an additional week on setup, while others needed a week for both. The reviews for Sisense also mention different timeframes, with one user taking three months for deployment and an extra week for setup, and another user taking a week for both.
Features: MicroStrategy's valuable features include an intuitive interface, powerful data visualization, and seamless integration. Sisense offers an intuitive interface, robust dashboard creation, efficient data handling, and effortless data analysis and customization.
Room For Improvement: MicroStrategy users have requested improvements in scalability, performance, user interface, collaboration features, and data visualization options. Sisense users have identified the need for enhancements in user interface intuitiveness, data visualization customization, and customer support.
Pricing and ROIt: According to user experiences, MicroStrategy offers reasonable setup costs and flexible licensing arrangements. On the other hand, the experiences with Sisense's pricing, setup costs, and licensing are varied. Some users found Sisense's pricing and setup costs affordable, while others considered them high compared to similar products. MicroStrategy users reported positive ROI with valuable insights and enhanced decision-making capabilities. Sisense users found favorable ROI with efficient data visualization and informed decision-making, resulting in increased revenue and cost savings.
Customer Service: MicroStrategy excels in providing efficient assistance, prompt response, and helpful guidance. Users find their customer service team reliable, knowledgeable, and attentive. On the other hand, Sisense is praised for their responsiveness, willingness to resolve issues, and friendly support team.
"Visual Insights (VI)"
"The solution is a very good enterprise tool with excellent enterprise functionality for security and user access. It also works perfectly in distribution, with everyone getting their own reports. It is very complex, so you can do whatever you want. If you want to make some data limitations, you can do it. I also like the internal in-memory engine with the Symantec layer. This makes the solution pretty powerful."
"The solution has excellent features available on mobile."
"It is easy to use and visually very appealing. One thing that sets it apart is that it has got a great ETL tool. As compared to some of the other solutions, it is much easier to process data from other applications in MicroStrategy. That's why we prefer using it."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to build reports, then customize for different groups instead of having to build multiple reports. Therefore, the ability to build customization in the reports for different groups."
"Speed for high level aggregation by using Intelligent Cubes."
"It has the potential to become a great evangelist for AI and other embedded analytics."
"The solution's technical support team is good."
"There are many built-in connectors, which allow us to easily add new sources of data, often in minutes."
"Allows users to build their own solutions without as much reliance on technology staff."
"The most valuable thing I have found is the ability for Sisense to connect data from totally different sources."
"Visually displaying data."
"Whenever we have an issue or are unsure how to proceed, they manage to simplify the issue and help us execute it in a graceful and scalable way."
"This solution is easy to learn how to use."
"No issues with stability. It is a very stable solution."
"I would like to see more integration."
"We did have issues with stability, and that was because we were co-located with another business unit, and we outgrew them on the unit. So we had to get to a separate physical instance."
"The online community page of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"We've found the scalability to be very good. However, it depends on the environment. In general, it could be much better."
"The implementation itself was pretty straightforward. The tricky part was understanding MicroStrategy's licensing model, which was a bit convoluted back then."
"Lacks decent visualization and the process for creating new objects needs to be simplified."
"Consolidate the functional offering to be more concise in the front-end for web reports, dashboards, and self-service."
"Getting our data to work with the tool is where we are having issues."
"The initial version we purchased only ran on Windows servers, which was less than ideal for our DevOps team. I believe that has been remedied in the latest release."
"I would like to see more development and growth for the support of Knowledge Base and Community forums."
"At present there are additional costs involved if we wish to share our data queues within this solution, which we would like to see removed."
"The administrative side of Sisense is a little cumbersome and confusing."
"Larger datasets will sometimes give a "Accumulated logs" error when trying to make minor changes. T"
"I would also like to be able to run a bursts of reports based on different field values with PDF output right in the tool, rather than filtering on each field value and generating each PDF manually."
"This solution does not have tabs. In order to have tabs, you have to download an add-on to mimic the tabs. They should be integrated to improve the solution."
"I would like Sisense to improve its performance, particularly when we are dealing with large-scale data."
MicroStrategy is ranked 9th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 156 reviews while Sisense is ranked 17th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 39 reviews. MicroStrategy is rated 8.2, while Sisense is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of MicroStrategy writes "A robust solution for powerful data analytics". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sisense writes "Business intelligence solution that has improved automation and provided meaningful insights". MicroStrategy is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Qlik Sense, whereas Sisense is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Apache Superset, Qlik Sense and Amazon QuickSight. See our MicroStrategy vs. Sisense report.
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