MicroStrategy and Sisense compete in the business intelligence software category. Sisense may have the upper hand due to its ease of use and fast deployment, which are highlighted as significant strengths.
Features: MicroStrategy provides a comprehensive set of features, including Visual Insights, robust security, and scalable solutions through a creative developer community. It excels in complex data modeling and generating optimized SQL code. Sisense stands out for its ease of use, seamless integration with various data sources, and real-time data analytics capabilities, suitable for quick setups.
Room for Improvement: MicroStrategy could improve by addressing its complex licensing model, slow feature updates, and performance issues with large projects. It requires optimal data schema configurations. Sisense needs to enhance flexible connections with statistical packages like R, improve the visual display of data cubes, and expand its data source connection range.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: MicroStrategy offers both on-premises and cloud deployment options, but implementation can require significant technical expertise. Customer service is satisfactory, but support responses can be slow. Sisense is praised for straightforward deployment across cloud types and has generally supportive customer service, although there is room for improvement.
Pricing and ROI: MicroStrategy is considered expensive in terms of initial setup costs, but the long-term value offers significant ROI through feature comprehensiveness. Sisense's pricing is competitive, with a subscription model that aligns well with small to medium businesses, though additional features may increase the total cost. Users find Sisense offers good value given its capabilities.
Due to the data presented to stakeholders, they are able to make informed decisions that impact the day-to-day operations of the client, giving them more insights into what's happening within their organization.
I have seen a return on investment in that we can manage the Sisense environment with a very small number of users.
I would rate the technical support from MicroStrategy as nine out of 10.
The support was very good.
We typically get responses within 24 hours.
MicroStrategy's scalability is good, as it has the possibility to read a lot of data and works fine with all the information that we have.
It is scalable to a very large extent and we can integrate any third-party tools.
Sisense works really well for simple to medium use cases and scales well.
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.
I would appreciate improvements in MicroStrategy related to integration or sharing features with Power BI.
MicroStrategy could learn from Power BI's user-friendly interface.
I would like to see an improvement in the live data connection, specifically making the process faster.
Sisense should provide more support for CI/CD, as we found the CI/CD approach quite limited.
I give Sisense a nine because the integration with some third-party tools is good.
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing shows that pricing is a little bit higher when compared to other applications, but that justifies the use case.
They were practically dead even from a pricing perspective.
It's important because with MicroStrategy we can manage all our cubes and show data to our clients.
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.
It offers two ways to access data: by cubing the data or hitting it live.
Sisense has positively impacted my organization by drastically reducing the time taken to build the data cube, and we can see real-time analytics.
Sisense positively impacts our organization by speeding up the process of getting and presenting the data to customers or stakeholders.
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| MicroStrategy | 2.0% |
| Sisense | 1.1% |
| Other | 96.9% |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 37 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 26 |
| Large Enterprise | 100 |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 28 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 7 |
| Large Enterprise | 11 |
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.
Sisense is an end-to-end business analytics software that enables users to easily prepare and analyze large, complex datasets. Sisense’s Single-Stack BI software includes data preparation, data management, analysis, visualization and reporting capabilities.
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