QlikView and MicroStrategy compete in the business intelligence category. QlikView gains the upper hand due to its rapid analysis capabilities through its in-memory processing, while MicroStrategy stands out with its scalability and mobile BI functionalities.
Features: QlikView offers an in-memory associative model, flexible development, and quick deployment. Its AQL technology supports intuitive data discovery without OLAP cubes. MicroStrategy is praised for advanced analytics, a wide range of supported data sources, and robust mobile integration.
Room for Improvement: QlikView should enhance its data modeling and visualizations to meet current BI trends, address scalability issues due to RAM dependency, and reduce the training required. MicroStrategy needs to simplify its licensing model, improve the user interface, and offer more flexible analytics tools and better visualization customization.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Both products primarily offer on-premises deployments with cloud options. QlikView includes hybrid capabilities. QlikView support is community-driven through partners, while MicroStrategy's direct communication and responsiveness are acknowledged, with room for more user-friendly resources.
Pricing and ROI: QlikView is considered high-cost yet competitive, offering good ROI through ease of use and flexibility. MicroStrategy is perceived as expensive, especially for smaller businesses, but its comprehensive features provide long-term value where functionality and scalability are essential. Both require careful evaluation of user needs for optimal licensing and ROI measurement.
The biggest return on investment is the time saving for the customer.
I would rate the technical support from MicroStrategy as nine out of 10.
I would rate the customer support a solid 10.
I would rate the stability of MicroStrategy as nine out of 10.
Organizations that are well-established and have more money can afford MicroStrategy, but startups and mid-level organizations who do not have this much budget have to opt for other cheaper tools.
MicroStrategy could learn from Power BI's user-friendly interface.
In QlikView, I believe the improvement that should be made is to bring the costs down, as you'll have to be competitive with Power BI, aiming for at least a 30% reduction to stop the hemorrhaging to Power BI.
The license cost per user or per year for QlikView is about 500 Euros annually.
The MicroStrategy interface is not as good as Power BI, especially concerning the user-friendly aspects.
The most effective features of MicroStrategy for data analysis in my experience are the security, the metadata management, and the administration, along with the options of different workarounds available to accommodate different types of requirements.
The best features in QlikView are rapid development, the fact that I can do what I want in QlikView, and full control along with ease of use.
Company: Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR) is a leading worldwide provider of enterprise software platforms. With direct operations in 26 countries worldwide and approximately 2,000 employees, our mission is to provide enterprise analytics, mobility, and security platforms that are flexible, powerful, scalable and user-friendly. To learn more, visit MicroStrategy online, and follow us on Facebook and Twitter.
Product portfoilio:
MicroStrategy 10 Secure Enterprise™ empowers leading organizations to analyze vast amounts of data and distribute actionable business insight throughout an enterprise through two distinct offerings: MicroStrategy Analytics™ and MicroStrategy Desktop™. MicroStrategy Analytics delivers reports and dashboards, and enables users to conduct ad hoc analysis and share insights anywhere, anytime, via mobile devices or the Web. It also combines the agility and productivity of self-service visual data discovery with the security, scalability, and governance features of enterprise-grade business intelligence. MicroStrategy Desktop is a standalone, on-premise visual data discovery tool designed to enable business users to analyze and understand their data. MicroStrategy Mobile™ enables organizations to rapidly build custom business applications that deliver analytics combined with transactions, multimedia, and custom workflows to mobile devices. MicroStrategy Secure Cloud™ combines all of the enterprise analytics, mobile, and security features in MicroStrategy 10 Secure Enterprise with powerful and scalable data integration, validation, and warehousing services — all delivered in an environment where organizations can deploy transformational analytics applications in minutes.
Usher, MicroStrategy’s breakthrough security solution, is a powerful mobile security platform designed to dematerialize traditional forms of identity verification (such as passwords, tokens, and physical badges) and replace them with a single mobile identity badge that is cryptographically linked to its owner’s smartphone and dynamically linked to an enterprise’s existing identity repositories. Usher works on standard Android and iOS smartphones, and also boasts an Apple Watch™ integration.
QlikView is a Business Intelligence tool that allows you to keep tabs on all of your business-related information in a clean, clear, and easy to access database that is intuitive to build and simple to navigate. It is ideal for business owners who wish to improve overall output by creating the most productive system possible.
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