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"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."
"I like that they're trying to incorporate Developer into Workstation and Desktop into Workstation, so you get the all-in-one encompassing, highly technical Developer Workstation where you can do the VI, you can do the Dossier."
"The solution has excellent features available on mobile."
"We pretty much use the knowledge base. We feel that Microstrategy's community is a good forum to use."
"Stability is great, especially with package deployments. It is very consistent and stable."
"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 technical support is quite good."
"There's extensive logging capabilities, if something is wrong then we are able to find out why."
"Easy to create ad hoc reporting for different solutions."
"The primary reason for using OBIEE is connectivity with Oracle E-Business Suite. It makes it easy to connect with our Oracle E-Business Suite. There are the standard dashboards available, which we sometimes use, and now we are looking for customized dashboards."
"Provides good data visualization features, and provides a lot of visualization reports from various data sources."
"The technical support services are good."
"The performance can issue queries to work in the Oracle database in Oracle's native language. There are a lot of visualizations which suit our business."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...The solution's initial setup was straightforward."
"The centralized metadata model component is most valuable."
"They were reasonable in terms of price."
"The most valuable aspect is its extensive library on Microsoft, providing a robust framework for implementation."
"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."
"If you correctly use the product for your use cases, it provides value for money."
"The in-memory feature gives us better insight. It's also easy to drill down into the information and select information."
"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."
"We use QlikView for its cost-effectiveness and ease of integration with databases."
"You can do a lot of things on the back end which are not possible in the other solutions on the market."
"On the positive side, QlikView's scripting is a great asset as it functions as an ETL."
"This solution is missing enhanced features in the dashboards."
"I would like to see more integration."
"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."
"The implementation itself was pretty straightforward. The tricky part was understanding MicroStrategy's licensing model, which was a bit convoluted back then."
"You can now do data blending at the document level and data blending allows you to show results from different data sets in one grid, so to speak. I want to be able to create a data set that can receive data from multiple cubes, have it in one data set, and then bring it to the document, because then I can reuse it for other documents. Now, I have to do it in a document and then it's less reusable, because if I want to share that functionality, I have to copy the document, strip a lot of things, and then work on that basic element that I've built in that document."
"MicroStrategy lacks that community support. You're either stuck figuring things out yourself or paying expensive fees to MicroStrategy consultants for help."
"We have seen some stability issues with MicroStrategy on cloud. We have a few unhappy customers."
"Consolidate the functional offering to be more concise in the front-end for web reports, dashboards, and self-service."
"Customer service/technical support gets five out of 10. Sometimes good, sometimes bad."
"Implementation is cumbersome and requires expertise."
"The functionality to customize and modify reports has been removed, and it would be beneficial to reinstall it, as it allows greater customization and flexibility in creating reports."
"The documentation in Oracle OBIEE can be more user-friendly."
"Supply chain and finance."
"In terms of tech support, we have our own technicians. But, we did register for their help. When we register a call, it takes time for them to respond to us."
"We were not satisfied with the support, because we could not obtain answers or solutions."
"It would be better if it had a wide range of visualization options. For example, Microsoft Power BI has an extensive range of visualization options, but it's not available in OBIEE. There are also some conflicts because it's complicated, but the cloud application is easier. They added some features for ETL with the on-premises application, but we need a different or a separate application for ETL in the cloud. In the next release, I would like to have more AI features."
"The solution is quite costly."
"There's room for improvement in the area of management's handling of concerns."
"Sometimes the filters are disappearing, and I'm not sure why this is happening."
"The solution should be mobile-responsive. It should also include drag-and-drop and slice-and-dice features."
"The user interface is old."
"QlikView certainly lacks in its ability to share visualizations or create visualizations easily."
"QlikView's UI could be more user-friendly."
"The pricing is high."
