QlikView and MicroStrategy compete in the business intelligence category. QlikView holds an advantage in data handling flexibility and agile development, while MicroStrategy leads with enterprise scalability and mobile integration.
Features: QlikView uses AQL™ technology for flexible data manipulation, includes an ETL engine for streamlined data integration, and has a powerful in-memory model for rapid analysis. MicroStrategy provides extensive scalability, robust mobile integration, and powerful analytical capabilities for diverse user needs.
Room for Improvement: QlikView can be complex for beginners due to its ETL scripting and requires substantial IT involvement, with scalability limited by RAM. MicroStrategy could improve its visualization and user interface, ease-of-use for self-service, and enhance migration and cost structures.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: QlikView is primarily used on-premises, supported by a strong partner network and community, though technical help may vary by partner. MicroStrategy offers flexible deployment, strong vendor follow-ups, and reputable technical support, though its setup is complex and consultant-heavy.
Pricing and ROI: QlikView's high prices stem from complex licensing and added feature costs, yet it can offer significant ROI through rapid implementation. MicroStrategy's costs are often considered a barrier, but long-term TCO is competitive, providing enterprise solutions that offer challenging yet valuable ROI assessments.
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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