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.
"I have never had any problems with the stability."
"The scalability is great. It was one of the selling points for us on MicroStrategy."
"The technical support of MicroStrategy can be helpful through implementation."
"There's extensive logging capabilities, if something is wrong then we are able to find out why."
"This solution is the most scalable BI platform in the world."
"Workstation and Desktop on the client side will speed up some development activities."
"It is scalable and integration-friendly."
"I think what we're currently excited about is the ability to integrate R. Most of our data scientists use R for their modeling. I heard at one of the sessions, here at MicroStrategy World 2018, that you can put your R scripts directly into MicroStrategy, so any modeling effort that you've done in the past can be transferred into MicroStrategy."
"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 most useful feature of QlikView for me is the QVD concept."
"A well designed app brings freedom of inquiry to meetings, allowing me to answer questions in real time and this has transformed progress and outputs of our monthly group meeting."
"This solution has simplified getting to and understanding our data, no matter where it is housed."
"Our Qlikview applications help us to get a good idea of our Client Base Performance and assist us in the decision making for Seasonal Specials. On the other hand QlikView helps us to get a grasp on our Suppliers and helps us to negotiate pricing with them."
"You can do a lot of things on the back end which are not possible in the other solutions on the market."
"The initial setup is not very complex."
"They need to improve on distribution services. There are lack of features which were there earlier with Narrowcast, but they are not there in the distribution services."
"I think they're still lacking on customer service. I think historically, MicroStrategy's customer service was a lot better than it is today."
"It would be good if it had greater analytics so we could build these visualizations by ourselves with scripts."
"Enterprise Manager should be a little bit less quirky when you build out-of-the-box customization reports for it."
"Needs tighter mapping integration."
"The analytic speed would probably be what I would look for in terms of improvement because we have super huge data, and if I do not build views on top of data, then reports render really slowly."
"We did have issues with stability, and that was because we were co-located with another business unit, and we outgrew them on the unit. So we had to get to a separate physical instance."
"We had some problems with customer service and support."
"The tool is expensive in Turkey."
"It is really old. We are moving towards converting everything into a Power BI environment. We want to have a self-service type of BI environment where different levels of users in organizations can log onto a portal and retrieve the data they need or get the necessary insights for decision-making that's important for them or their business unit. They have built a new version of QlikView called QlikSense, which probably competes with newer BI tools, such as Power BI, but they are far behind. That's why we are moving towards a newer tool that's easier to use and has more visualizations to represent the data."
"It needs work with visualization."
"If a user wanted to see something not included in the application the new object had to be created by a power user or developer because Qlik view's scripting has somewhat of a learning curve."
"Improvements are required in the hide and unhide functionality that falls under the layout container feature that has been used in my company in recent times."
"QlikView certainly lacks in its ability to share visualizations or create visualizations easily."
"They could improve the speed."
"Error handling."
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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