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.
"Reports are very easy to create. It takes a very short amount of time to build a report, which is very useful."
"We have ramped up user adoption."
"With all the APIs it's very scalable."
"Transaction Services, that was really the part of the tool that made it very compelling for us, because it gave the opportunity to drive action."
"The solution's platform analytics gives us real-time analysis of how a particular user uses the report and how the systems behave."
"The mobile for MicroStrategy is the best of all the BI platforms. As a separate product for the mobile device, MicroStrategy is the entire BI platform. It is an enterprise solution, a separate unit, etc."
"The usability for users to be able to drag and drop, then create their own reports."
"It drives us away from Excel. For what it is for, it is good. You can't run a business on Excel."
"We can bring data from multiple sources and easily blend it in Qlik and create a data model (star schema)."
"Data-driven decisions are now easier."
"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."
"The drag and drop UI has been the most useful to me."
"The product has many great features like easy and fast implementation, flexible data loading, and in-memory processing, but the Set Analysis is what I think is the most valuable. It makes the product very powerful."
"The changes in a dashboard are very easy."
"Business users have been able to use the BI self-serve model."
"The product is very stable."
"The online community page of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Lacks decent visualization and the process for creating new objects needs to be simplified."
"This solution is missing enhanced features in the dashboards."
"Consolidate the functional offering to be more concise in the front-end for web reports, dashboards, and self-service."
"MicroStrategy needs to do some more development to make the platform easier to use. It's a complicated platform that requires a lot of skill to effectively utilize. So they could work on reducing the complexity to make it more accessible for a broader community of people."
"When we come to them with a problem, they might know more of a generalized solution, but not one targeted to our industry."
"The solution lacks good visualization. They should work on the user interface to make it more slick and modern."
"Needs tighter mapping integration."
"In my opinion, collaborative development of the Qlik Apps is a bit tricky and difficult in the Qlik Sense Cloud."
"They need to make security rules to access applications and data security easier and customizable."
"Some of the charts are still a bit basic and screen rendering on different sized monitors can be an issue."
"We have faced some issues with NPrinting, so I feel there is some improvement needed such that it would allow the use of variables and calculative fields from Qlik."
"This solution would be improved by adding some Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Deep Learning (DL) components that are easier to interpret and design."
"Performing data transformations required a lot of programming, which is something that should be made easier."
"More pivot table options, like the ability to have the totals row at the bottom of the table, would be helpful."
"There is an inability to effectively manage (pre)caching (scheduling, assigning for respective user groups, etc), especially without community extensions or uour own development."
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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