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.
"I find MicroStrategy the most suited to the enterprise-wide BI platform, because of its scalability and stability."
"In terms of functionality, MicroStrategy is alright. It's a solid BI tool and can handle most tasks you'd expect."
"Our primary use case is to deliver all data insights to our company."
"We are using it for operations analysis and sales data analysis."
"I have never had any problems with the stability."
"The technical support of MicroStrategy can be helpful through implementation."
"There's extensive logging capabilities, if something is wrong then we are able to find out why."
"The solution's platform analytics gives us real-time analysis of how a particular user uses the report and how the systems behave."
"ElastiCube Manager is a very easy to use ETL tool, which includes the ability to easily transform raw data into reusable data."
"The dashboard design interface is very intuitive and allows you to quickly and easily produce professional, innovative dashboards."
"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."
"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."
"I have found the dashboard creating feature helpful."
"No issues with stability. It is a very stable solution."
"A very simple setup: Easy to download, install, and updates are pain free."
"The most valuable thing I have found is the ability for Sisense to connect data from totally different sources."
"Needs more visualizations out-of-the-box."
"I would like to see a feature where migrations are easier. When you migrate from certain environments, it could probably be a little cleaner. Sometimes it seems to be somewhat clunky when you migrate from one environment, say a development to a test or production environment."
"Needs more visual essence and connectors for the ecosystems, which would be easy to use."
"If you do not learn the ins or outs, it can be a difficult tool to use. You could do a PoC and get enough out of it to be able to use it. However, when it comes to administering it, you definitely need the training."
"From a stability standpoint, from MicroStrategy, I would say it's fairly consistent. I would give it a "B" because there are times where we have issues that are just inexplicable. They go away and then we have no resolution. To me, that's not acceptable. There are just times where our users can't access things and we're not sure why, and that's a problem to me."
"We've found the scalability to be very good. However, it depends on the environment. In general, it could be much better."
"The solution lacks good visualization. They should work on the user interface to make it more slick and modern."
"They need to improve on having more professional, well-equipped premium support."
"I would love to have more customization capabilities for building dashboards, especially in creating custom widget sizes."
"They should improve the filters to create downloaded data by moving them to the top of the dashboard."
"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."
"I would like to see more development and growth for the support of Knowledge Base and Community forums."
"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."
"Larger datasets will sometimes give a "Accumulated logs" error when trying to make minor changes. T"
"At present there are additional costs involved if we wish to share our data queues within this solution, which we would like to see removed."
"I would like Sisense to improve its performance, particularly when we are dealing with large-scale data."
MicroStrategy is ranked 9th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 156 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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