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.
"We've made it an open BI platform, so that all our business analysts can build their own dashboards and Dossiers."
"It was easy to install and implement a report with it."
"We are using it for operations analysis and sales data analysis."
"The whole repository side of things is beneficial because you develop it once, and you can use it anywhere, in the Enterprise grade."
"The platform can be easily monitored. You have quite a good overview of tasks which are being run."
"Visual Insights (VI)"
"The most valuable features are drill down, dashboards, documents, bringing everything under one roof, and visualizations."
"Speed for high level aggregation by using Intelligent Cubes."
"There are many built-in connectors, which allow us to easily add new sources of data, often in minutes."
"No issues with stability. It is a very stable solution."
"ElastiCube Manager is a very easy to use ETL tool, which includes the ability to easily transform raw data into reusable data."
"It has allowed me to move my data to the cloud."
"We like that this solution allows us to use data cubes to set up specific visualizations."
"A very simple setup: Easy to download, install, and updates are pain free."
"The solution's technical support team is good."
"Ability to work with very large data sources without the limitations of Excel."
"If there are some advanced visualization features - maybe I'm not aware of them - but if there were a Vitara which could work on top of MicroStrategy, it would make sense for MicroStrategy to have that within their own library. So they should add more visualizations to the library."
"Needs more visualizations out-of-the-box."
"We would really like to see MicroStrategy have some support teams based more in Europe, because for now it seems that there is one person for the whole CE region. That is not exactly what we would like to see. We do know that MicroStrategy supports most places, either in the US or India, but those are different time zones, people, and cultures."
"They need to improve on having more professional, well-equipped premium support."
"Currently, the client view looks completely different depending on what you are building."
"The online community page of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Its price should be lower. In terms of features, what we have is quite encompassing right now."
"Needs more visual essence and connectors for the ecosystems, which would be easy to use."
"The administrative side of Sisense is a little cumbersome and confusing."
"The initial version we purchased only ran on Windows servers, which was less than ideal for our DevOps team. I believe that has been remedied in the latest release."
"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."
"I would like to see more development and growth for the support of Knowledge Base and Community forums."
"The solution's setup process could be easier."
"I would like Sisense to improve its performance, particularly when we are dealing with large-scale data."
"Larger datasets will sometimes give a "Accumulated logs" error when trying to make minor changes. T"
MicroStrategy is ranked 8th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 156 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, Qlik Sense and Amazon QuickSight. See our MicroStrategy vs. Sisense report.
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