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.
"It scales well. It used to have only a max of four I-servers, but I think recently, somewhere in version 10, they doubled that, so you can have eight I-servers now."
"MicroStrategy has what they call the Semantic Graph — an enterprise-grade semantic graph — and I think the technology is fantastic."
"The data governance leads people to trust the data that they have, and they know where to get it."
"I haven't come across any bugs."
"With the new version that's coming out, I think they have simplified a lot of things. Also, when it comes to the administration part, and sharing, and the collaboration features, they are really great. You can send out comments with a filter to someone in your organization, and if the person clicks on it, he actually sees what you are seeing. So that's really great."
"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 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."
"Scalability is fantastic. It can go from a small operation up to a gigantic operation. "
"Easy to analyze data by click-through."
"The user interface and dashboards are very good."
"Scripting as per a customer's need, which is a pretty cool feature and not available in other tools."
"It is useful to use a tool like this to have a view of data at a point in time. You can extract and create little data sets that you can store, and then over time, you can have a view for tracking changes. Especially when you work with a relational database or a database that's a production database, the data is dynamic, but if you use QlikView, you can take a snapshot of different datasets. In your own time, you can then get insights and report, build, analyze, and draw whatever you need from the data, which is quite useful."
"It is a stable product."
"The scalability is there."
"This is a very cool application with endless options of creativity and visuals."
"It enables us to configure various elements, such as dashboard settings, including factors like color schemes and other customization parameters."
"The problem is the way that their metrics are designed. It can be difficult to understand what you're actually looking at. Then when you're comparing a document against the VI, you can't actually do that properly. So there are components, and there is a huge learning curve in the Enterprise Manager space. I think it would benefit them greatly if they were to exercise a significant amount of research and development in that space."
"MicroStrategy is dragging behind other tools on the self-service visualizations, like Tableau. I would rate Tableau as a 10. For the same visualizations, I would say MicroStrategy is an eight, maybe nine. They're still behind on the self-service visualizations,"
"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."
"The product could be improved by adding additional visualization."
"The solution's licensing could be improved because its cost is heavy on the pockets."
"We had some problems with customer service and support."
"This solution is missing enhanced features in the dashboards."
"When we come to them with a problem, they might know more of a generalized solution, but not one targeted to our industry."
"There's room for improvement in the area of management's handling of concerns."
"Although Qliktech's road map clearly states that QlikView has a long way to go, most of the R&D effort seems to be benefiting Qlik Sense."
"For me, it is important to have a mix, what is the "view" and what is the "sense", Qlik Sense. They have two tools, but for me it is important to have only one tool, which combines the functions that we have from one side and the other side."
"There is a challenge on the frontend when it comes to browsing data through QlikView, as it isn't entirely compatible with other platforms we use."
"They could improve the speed."
"Error handling."
"QlikView certainly lacks in its ability to share visualizations or create visualizations easily."
"They could provide a user-friendly analysis process rather than specialized IT resource code."
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, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, IBM Cognos and SAP Crystal Reports, whereas QlikView is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, SQL Server and Oracle OBIEE. See our MicroStrategy vs. QlikView report.
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