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.
"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 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 drill-down functionality is also very good."
"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."
"It's a stand-alone mobile development app that you don't even have to do business intelligence on. You can just use it to build apps."
"The most valuable features are ad hoc reporting and the ability to create dashboards."
"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."
"There are people who are using MicroStrategy as transaction services."
"We can generate various graphs, various reports and we can mainly use it for dashboard related things. We can create a dashboard with live data and we can make decisions based on this information,"
"Leveraging and reusability of already existing QlikView assets and knowledge."
"We have been using Qlik Sense to generate reports that have taken hours to prepare before that we are now able to update in a couple of minutes and are available to users on a centralized platform where they are able to get the required reports."
"Qlik Sense has given us visibility into our data to make informed decisions."
"Faster time to delivery utilizing useful charts and graphs, which allows for on-demand generation of analytical data in tables, graphs, and charts."
"What I found most valuable in Qlik Sense is its flexibility. It's a very flexible tool, and it has a lot of capabilities compared to Tableau and Power BI. In Qlik Sense, you can take data from any of the systems, and you can do data transformation, prepare the data, then present your KPIs. Data transformation isn't present in Tableau, Power BI, and other tools. In Qlik Sense, you're able to get the data and directly present that data. The presentation layer is also very good in Qlik Sense. My company is very happy with this tool."
"Showing a miniature version of the chart if the case chart is bigger than the screen resolution allows us to have full context at all times."
"Set analysis is great for its power user capabilities such as performing an IF on an aggregated column. The ability to create custom coloring expressions based on values is also a good idea although not as easy as I wished it was."
"The solution's licensing could be improved because its cost is heavy on the pockets."
"MicroStrategy is not cloud native today and some of their APIs are a little limiting."
"Getting our data to work with the tool is where we are having issues."
"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."
"The solution lacks good visualization. They should work on the user interface to make it more slick and modern."
"We have not invested nor are we planning to invest in MicroStrategy's mobile platform."
"There is room for improvement on the graphs."
"Data writeback, and on-the-fly predictive analysis results from R and Python could be improved."
"They need to make security rules to access applications and data security easier and customizable."
"Qlik dashboards are not friendly with end-users, but they have been enhancing this shorted in some recent releases and next releases hopefully."
"Qlik Sense could include additional features for data preparation and integration, making it easier for users to clean, transform, and integrate data from various sources."
"The product could be improved by implementing a user-feedback ranking system."
"I would like to more easily themed environments."
"I would like to see more native features from QlikView integrated into Qlik Sense."
"What needs improvement in Qlik Sense is the support. It could be faster. My organization had already talked to Qlik management and has escalated multiple times, so management is looking into the support."
"My advice to others is to make sure they have a good technical team. We have found that a lot of the consultants go in and out of the business and sometimes you are left alone without assistance."
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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