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.
"Provides seamless integration between browser-based BI and Mobile BI."
"The most valuable features are the Visual Insights and the visualizations."
"It helps all the store managers and supply chain people to obtain a view of the data and plan the next week, the next month, quarters, and so on."
"The subscription model is excellent. About half of our reporting comes out of the subscription, and from there, the ease of use in dragging and dropping reporting objects."
"I have had a lot of projects where we had a lot of users, like thousands of users, and the data was in one report which could bring in six million records. MicroStrategy is doing a good job on scalability."
"This solution has allowed us to become a top-class competitor among other consulting companies."
"It's an open platform. That's also important. You can create your own data connectors. There's everything you can do with APIs. It's not closed like, perhaps, an SAP system might be."
"I have shown our users how to stop using Excel. They would create these vast Excel files, and I showed them how to do the same thing with MicroStrategy, which saves a significant amount of time for them everyday."
"It has allowed me to move my data to the cloud."
"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."
"The solution's technical support team is good."
"The dashboard design interface is very intuitive and allows you to quickly and easily produce professional, innovative dashboards."
"A very simple setup: Easy to download, install, and updates are pain free."
"This solution is easy to learn how to use."
"The best part about this solution is how easy it is to mash up the data from many sources. Sisense is fast compared to other solutions."
"I have found the dashboard creating feature helpful."
"Consolidate the functional offering to be more concise in the front-end for web reports, dashboards, and self-service."
"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."
"There are some challenges in our organization on how we store the data."
"MicroStrategy is not cloud native today and some of their APIs are a little limiting."
"They need to improve on having more professional, well-equipped premium support."
"The learning curve is quite steep."
"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."
"Our data warehouse is sort of static; negative load and that is it. It is not as real-time as we would like. We are working on building that out first to create more real-time, at which point we will work on some potential integrations with other applications, but I don't think we are there yet."
"The solution's setup process could be easier."
"I would like to see more development and growth for the support of Knowledge Base and Community forums."
"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."
"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."
"They should improve the filters to create downloaded data by moving them to the top of the dashboard."
"I would love to have more customization capabilities for building dashboards, especially in creating custom widget sizes."
"The administrative side of Sisense is a little cumbersome and confusing."
"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 155 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 and Qlik Sense. See our MicroStrategy vs. Sisense report.
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