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.
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to build reports, then customize for different groups instead of having to build multiple reports. Therefore, the ability to build customization in the reports for different groups."
"The most valuable features are drill down, dashboards, documents, bringing everything under one roof, and visualizations."
"The convenience of it. Having it on the mobile, so someone has it right there in their pocket most of the time."
"The most important feature is the way it handles ad hoc queries and provides formatted reports."
"Having the analytics capabilities on a single platform."
"We've made it an open BI platform, so that all our business analysts can build their own dashboards and Dossiers."
"The ability to integrate with PPT is another plus. The platform's ability to write back data directly to the database is also good."
"The most valuable feature is the user experience."
"The overall ability to build quick wins with simple data to drive insights."
"Self-service use of the desktop version with the ability to port applications into the server environment."
"The flexibility of Qlik Sense and the addition of 3rd party extensions allow us to extend the use of Qlik Sense beyond analytics and bring the platform to the core of our digital workplace, augmenting analytics with workflow, and team collaboration."
"Business users have been able to use the BI self-serve model."
"Qlik Sense has given us visibility into our data to make informed decisions."
"Quick reporting."
"The time it takes to deliver a dashboard is real quick."
"We haven't invested in the mobile platform. We want to invest, but the problem is the security. We are in the health domain, so we have PHI data."
"I would like to see more Writeback capabilities that would allow our IT department not to be worried about the wild, Wild West of Writeback."
"There might be opportunities for reporting or data analysis, perhaps even in the realm of simulation."
"There is room for improvement on the graphs."
"The In-Memory Capability (cubes) needs a lot of improvement."
"The solution's licensing could be improved because its cost is heavy on the pockets."
"It would be good if it had greater analytics so we could build these visualizations by ourselves with scripts."
"There needs to be better visualization."
"The only thing I would like to see is the ability to create a master app that opens when a user creates a new app that has all the master items, colors, logos, etc., that my organization uses. This would help with keeping master items the same across the apps and would make development a little quicker."
"Possibly offering some more basic, simpler templates."
"It would be nice to have more native features from QlikView built into Qlik Sense."
"The next version should include more standard integrations."
"Better searching capabilities would be a nice addition."
"Ultra-customization: It needs no limits on which charts can have x amount of dimensions, y amount of measures, z amount of color expressions, etc."
"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."
"Report generation without the need for NPrinting, which has limited capabilities anyway, would be an improvement."
MicroStrategy is ranked 4th in Embedded BI with 155 reviews while Qlik Sense is ranked 2nd in Embedded BI with 112 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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