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.
"Transaction Services, that was really the part of the tool that made it very compelling for us, because it gave the opportunity to drive action."
"Dependency on development teams, as well as managing the platform, has reduced a lot with Visual Insight."
"On our mobile solution you can deploy up to 100,000 users. In our case, we're up to about 10,000 active users, and MicroStrategy's server technology behind the scenes, the Intelligence Server and the Mobile Servers, are very robust and they can handle the workload."
"Having the analytics capabilities on a single platform."
"In terms of functionality, MicroStrategy is alright. It's a solid BI tool and can handle most tasks you'd expect."
"Getting more data to people more quickly. Providing more flexibility for how they use the data."
"It is very stable."
"With the new version that's coming out, I think they have simplified a lot of things. Also, when it comes to the administration part, and sharing, and the collaboration features, they are really great. You can send out comments with a filter to someone in your organization, and if the person clicks on it, he actually sees what you are seeing. So that's really great."
"Qlik Sense is very stable. I would rate the stability a ten out of ten. Even for rare issues, we receive good support from Qlik. It's a very stable solution."
"The product responds fast for data analysis."
"It is extremely clean to view, easy to use, and intuitive to develop with. There are a host of online resources to provide assistance to new users."
"We have been using Qlik Sense to generate reports that have taken hours to prepare before that we are now able to update in a couple of minutes and are available to users on a centralized platform where they are able to get the required reports."
"Qlik Sense brings in the concept of shared libraries where one user can create custom dimensions (even with drill-down functionality), measures, and even visualizations and save it to the "Master Items," from which the other users can simply drag and drop to use it for their analysis."
"The most valuable features of Qlik Sense are the integration and panel for reports. The integration is very fast even though we process a lot of information."
"The drag-and-drop dashboard builder is an intuitive interface for building dashboards from source reports."
"Allowing the users to be able to take snapshots and create their own story without ever leaving the application is a very good feature."
"We have the mobile server. We have not used it. That is because the people on our team have not been trained on it yet, but that is something that we want to do."
"The implementation itself was pretty straightforward. The tricky part was understanding MicroStrategy's licensing model, which was a bit convoluted back then."
"We're starting to open it up to more and more people to give them the ability and start looking at these things themselves, but it's not the most intuitive system, Enterprise Manager that is, so it's tough. We're trying to bridge the gap between usability and who we let in the system, because you're not going to come in and just pick it up."
"It needs better visualizations."
"It crashes multiple times for even small changes that I make on the fly in the dashboard. After doing all the necessary changes, the MicroStrategy desktop or even the web version kicks the users out, and all the changes are lost. This functionality is buggy in MicroStrategy. It is hard to keep track of all the changes that I have done before. I don't want to make copies of each change that I have made because I would end up creating a hundred dashboards. It is not feasible in a real environment. I haven't worked on integrating MicroStrategy with the cloud. I am not sure how it behaves in the cloud, but I have heard from a few of my friends that there are some hiccups when you kind of sync to the cloud through MicroStrategy."
"I would like to see more integration."
"The problem is the way that their metrics are designed. It can be difficult to understand what you're actually looking at. Then when you're comparing a document against the VI, you can't actually do that properly. So there are components, and there is a huge learning curve in the Enterprise Manager space. I think it would benefit them greatly if they were to exercise a significant amount of research and development in that space."
"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."
"Ad-hoc reporting capabilities would be ideal."
"There are some tools like Alteryx, which are used for data preparation. These features can be built into Qlik to make the process smoother."
"I would like for it to be more of a plug and play with all of the tools and sources. It would make it much easier to use."
"The solution needs to make improvements to the licensing model. They need to make it more affordable at scale, and to make it more affordable for those companies at the low end of the market as well."
"We need more types of visualizations."
"They need to keep it as simple as possible but include as much advanced functionality as possible by positioning all the objects on the page, changing colors for all the objects, improving sheets actions, etc."
"Reload failure alerts on the application within the Qlik Management Console without any use of extensions. QlikView is able to handle these alerts directly through the QlikView Management Console. We would appreciate a similar solution that is easy to set up and use. Simple formatting options in the pivot and straight tables such as adjusting line thickness and font selection and size."
"The current visualization features feel incomplete compared to what's available with scripting tools."
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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