We compared MicroStrategy and Sisense across several parameters based on our user's reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Based on the user reviews, Sisense is praised for its robust dashboard creation capabilities, ability to handle large amounts of data efficiently, and positive return on investment (ROI). User feedback on MicroStrategy's deployment, setup, and implementation processes reveals varying timeframes, with some users reporting a three-month deployment period followed by an additional week for setup, while others accomplished both deployment and setup within a single week. Users appreciate Sisense's intuitive interface and powerful data visualization features. While both products have favorable customer service, Sisense stands out for its promptness, effectiveness, and willingness to go the extra mile. Sisense could benefit from further enhancements in user interface intuitiveness, data visualization customization options, and overall customer support. Users of MicroStrategy have expressed the need for enhancements in scalability, performance, the user interface. collaboration functionalities, and the available options for data visualization.
Initial Setup: The user reviews for MicroStrategy indicate varying timeframes for deployment, setup, and implementation. Some users spent three months on deployment and an additional week on setup, while others needed a week for both. The reviews for Sisense also mention different timeframes, with one user taking three months for deployment and an extra week for setup, and another user taking a week for both.
Features: MicroStrategy's valuable features include an intuitive interface, powerful data visualization, and seamless integration. Sisense offers an intuitive interface, robust dashboard creation, efficient data handling, and effortless data analysis and customization.
Room For Improvement: MicroStrategy users have requested improvements in scalability, performance, user interface, collaboration features, and data visualization options. Sisense users have identified the need for enhancements in user interface intuitiveness, data visualization customization, and customer support.
Pricing and ROIt: According to user experiences, MicroStrategy offers reasonable setup costs and flexible licensing arrangements. On the other hand, the experiences with Sisense's pricing, setup costs, and licensing are varied. Some users found Sisense's pricing and setup costs affordable, while others considered them high compared to similar products. MicroStrategy users reported positive ROI with valuable insights and enhanced decision-making capabilities. Sisense users found favorable ROI with efficient data visualization and informed decision-making, resulting in increased revenue and cost savings.
Customer Service: MicroStrategy excels in providing efficient assistance, prompt response, and helpful guidance. Users find their customer service team reliable, knowledgeable, and attentive. On the other hand, Sisense is praised for their responsiveness, willingness to resolve issues, and friendly support team.
"We use MicroStrategy as an integrated solution with some of their other CRM type applications."
"I have never had any problems with the stability."
"Now we can collaborate, in real time. In the past we had to wait for our business partners say if a visualization looked good or sufficed for their requirements. There was no real-time decision making. Now, with Dossier, it will accelerate the velocity of decision making."
"The usability for users to be able to drag and drop, then create their own reports."
"I haven't come across any bugs."
"The solution's platform analytics gives us real-time analysis of how a particular user uses the report and how the systems behave."
"The stability of the product is good."
"The interactive features that appear in the report were good. The external rendering option they give with multi servers was also good."
"No issues with stability. It is a very stable solution."
"ElastiCube Manager is a very easy to use ETL tool, which includes the ability to easily transform raw data into reusable data."
"The most valuable thing I have found is the ability for Sisense to connect data from totally different sources."
"The best part about this solution is how easy it is to mash up the data from many sources. Sisense is fast compared to other solutions."
"Sisense has helped us gain knowledge about our customers, as well as highlighting data quality issues to correct."
"Support is very responsive and clearly one of the strengths of Sisense. I have always received a fast response and the staff is very helpful."
"Allows users to build their own solutions without as much reliance on technology staff."
"Ability to work with very large data sources without the limitations of Excel."
"With Cube partition (v10.1 and above) scalability has not been an issue, but the Cube publish time, and temporary space consumption while the Cube is being published, has almost doubled during implementation of Cube partition."
"We would like access to more storage and access to more metadata to build the right programs that can construct all the stuff for us instead of us having to type it in all the time."
"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."
"They need to improve on distribution services. There are lack of features which were there earlier with Narrowcast, but they are not there in the distribution services."
"MicroStrategy is dragging behind other tools on the self-service visualizations, like Tableau. I would rate Tableau as a 10. For the same visualizations, I would say MicroStrategy is an eight, maybe nine. They're still behind on the self-service visualizations,"
"It would be good if it had greater analytics so we could build these visualizations by ourselves with scripts."
"The In-Memory Capability (cubes) needs a lot of improvement."
"There needs to be better visualization."
"This solution does not have tabs. In order to have tabs, you have to download an add-on to mimic the tabs. They should be integrated to improve the solution."
"I would also like to be able to run a bursts of reports based on different field values with PDF output right in the tool, rather than filtering on each field value and generating each PDF manually."
"I would like Sisense to improve its performance, particularly when we are dealing with large-scale data."
"I would love to have more customization capabilities for building dashboards, especially in creating custom widget sizes."
"The initial version we purchased only ran on Windows servers, which was less than ideal for our DevOps team. I believe that has been remedied in the latest release."
"Larger datasets will sometimes give a "Accumulated logs" error when trying to make minor changes. T"
"I would like to see more development and growth for the support of Knowledge Base and Community forums."
"The administrative side of Sisense is a little cumbersome and confusing."
MicroStrategy is ranked 8th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 155 reviews while Sisense is ranked 17th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 39 reviews. MicroStrategy is rated 8.2, while Sisense is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of MicroStrategy writes "A robust solution for powerful data analytics". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sisense writes "Business intelligence solution that has improved automation and provided meaningful insights". MicroStrategy is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Qlik Sense, whereas Sisense is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Apache Superset, Qlik Sense and Amazon QuickSight. See our MicroStrategy vs. Sisense report.
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