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.
"Visual Insights (VI)"
"The stability of the product is good."
"This solution has allowed us to become a top-class competitor among other consulting companies."
"Reports are very easy to create. It takes a very short amount of time to build a report, which is very useful."
"Comprehensive security control and more."
"I haven't come across any bugs."
"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 drill-down functionality is also very good."
"The integration with Salesforce has helped us gain access to crucial sales data in real-time."
"Once you open it up, you see everything that you can do."
"The most useful feature of QlikView for me is the QVD concept."
"We can scale it if we need to."
"The language support is very good."
"The most valuable aspect is its extensive library on Microsoft, providing a robust framework for implementation."
"I had the option to prepare data myself instead of always having to depend on the data team."
"Associative model - no more cubes."
"The analytic speed would probably be what I would look for in terms of improvement because we have super huge data, and if I do not build views on top of data, then reports render really slowly."
"The web developer tool for documents creation does not have all the features of the client version"
"It needs row-level security, column-level security, on attributes. I want to be able to handle full-scale security model from the semantic layer, flat out."
"The product is designed for enterprise. A lightweight version would be easier for a smaller workgroup."
"I think they're still lacking on customer service. I think historically, MicroStrategy's customer service was a lot better than it is today."
"With Cube partition (v10.1 and above) scalability has not been an issue, but the Cube publish time, and temporary space consumption while the Cube is being published, has almost doubled during implementation of Cube partition."
"They need to improve the web."
"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."
"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."
"It is really old. We are moving towards converting everything into a Power BI environment. We want to have a self-service type of BI environment where different levels of users in organizations can log onto a portal and retrieve the data they need or get the necessary insights for decision-making that's important for them or their business unit. They have built a new version of QlikView called QlikSense, which probably competes with newer BI tools, such as Power BI, but they are far behind. That's why we are moving towards a newer tool that's easier to use and has more visualizations to represent the data."
"There is a lack of static PDF report generation and automatic resizing of the dashboard to fit the device."
"QlikView certainly lacks in its ability to share visualizations or create visualizations easily."
"Needs improvement with UI transparency."
"Installation and deployment could be made easier and quicker."
"There could be a feature to analyze the sales and accounting data of the client."
"The solution should be mobile-responsive. It should also include drag-and-drop and slice-and-dice features."
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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