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 plays a vital role in establishing a connection with predictive continuous improvement."
"It's useful if you need to create dashboards that you check every day. Also, we can create a queue, but it will be updated every day with scheduled updates."
"It has landing pages, and that makes life easy for exhibiting things."
"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 product is very mature. It's quite robust and an excellent enterprise-level solution."
"The usability for users to be able to drag and drop, then create their own reports."
"It is a good tool to help our customers visually see loads of data."
"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."
"It enables us to configure various elements, such as dashboard settings, including factors like color schemes and other customization parameters."
"The user interface and dashboards are very good."
"E-T-L, The Extract, Transform, and Loading capabilities of QlikView make it a highly sophisticated self-service business intelligence tool for developers and analysts."
"It excels in supporting database connections and various database types."
"Its ability to build, very quickly, very complicated models."
"QlikView is one of the strongest tools, I would say. Also, it has a very vast capability to process the data"
"I had the option to prepare data myself instead of always having to depend on the data team."
"The language support is very good."
"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."
"MicroStrategy should improve migration automation. Additionally, I would like there to be better partnership support."
"They need to supply the support system that's just not there right now. They don't have Enterprise Manager classes. You need in-depth classes to understand what those metrics are doing, to understand the table associations from one to the other. You can't just go and pick it up and understand that DT_DAY connects to all of these tables, without going into Architect, looking at the source tables. I, as a analyst, a slightly technical user, I don't have the expertise to do that. Business users definitely don't have the expertise to do that."
"Lacks decent visualization and the process for creating new objects needs to be simplified."
"The web developer tool for documents creation does not have all the features of the client version"
"We have not invested nor are we planning to invest in MicroStrategy's mobile platform."
"Enterprise Manager should be a little bit less quirky when you build out-of-the-box customization reports for it."
"It is actually pretty complicated to use. It is complicated enough that user adaptation is sometimes difficult. We developed more experts rather than people using it."
"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."
"The user interface is old."
"Error handling."
"I would like to see more advanced features from Qlik Sense integrated into QlikView to keep it competitive and up-to-date."
"Improvement in collaboration, between that and publishing of reports and publishing of models."
"There could be a feature to analyze the sales and accounting data of the client."
"I would want them to have more options as a user. It would be nice for them to create their own dashboards and add fields."
"The user interface and ease of use takes a bit of a learning curve to pick up."
MicroStrategy is ranked 4th in Embedded BI with 155 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, IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and SAP Crystal Reports, whereas QlikView is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, SQL Server and Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services. See our MicroStrategy vs. QlikView report.
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