We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI and Qlik Sense based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two BI (Business Intelligence) Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution is quite scalable."
"It's pretty easy to set up the product."
"Power BI has strong support from Microsoft. If you need help, they answer promptly. There are also several discussion groups where you can get information, like the product roadmap and any new things coming up."
"Power BI, once made available, can connect to various data sources, irrespective of the application, whether it be HR or business applications. The bank has many applications, but all eventually need to generate reports for tracking, distribution, or problem-finding based on analysis. Power BI was made available as part of the productivity suite to all businesses, which can connect to their applications and provide the reports and analysis they require."
"Other people can access data much more easily than before. Its usability is the main advantage, people in the company are using it."
"I like having the ability to connect Excel files as data inputs."
"The user interface is easy to work with."
"Key features are its dashboard functionality and ease of integration with various data sources."
"Set analysis is great for its power user capabilities such as performing an IF on an aggregated column. The ability to create custom coloring expressions based on values is also a good idea although not as easy as I wished it was."
"The solution is scalable."
"The most valuable features of Qlik Sense are its speed and seamless development of web technologies."
"Qlik has a powerful load script that uses an enhanced SQL language which is excellent for loading and transforming the data."
"It allows you to create a new column using split on a current column, which we find very useful."
"The changes in a dashboard are very easy."
"We can bring data from multiple sources and easily blend it in Qlik and create a data model (star schema)."
"The most valuable feature is flexibility."
"Microsoft BI typically connects to a database, often SQL Server, but it's also capable of connecting to multiple databases, pulling data from them, and allowing for data consolidation. You can then aggregate and generate dashboards and reports from this combined data. Personally, I wouldn't claim to have the expertise to suggest significant changes or additional features, as it functions quite well as is."
"One area for improvement in Microsoft Power BI is serviceability. Compared to one of its competitors: Tableau, there are a lot of things which you cannot do in this tool, that can be done in Tableau."
"Compared to other applications, like Tableau, Microsoft BI doesn't have as many functions that allow you to do more in-depth analysis and represent the findings."
"Automation could be improved and performance enhanced."
"I would like to see more visualization options."
"One thing I would like to have is the scripting language, as they already have within Excel. It's already within a Microsoft business product, because Excel is the number one business product out there. So it would be nice to have the scripting capability in order to automate certain processes."
"The product could have better analytics capabilities."
"The interface could be improved."
"The only thing I would say that comes up is that sometimes it can be a bit buggy."
"Needs more bookmarking and a data load screen."
"The product could be less expensive."
"It would be nice to have more native features from QlikView built into Qlik Sense."
"I am not really a fan of the set analysis. It's its own language that doesn't quite make a whole lot of sense to me at this point. I wish it were more intuitive."
"The augmented intelligence features don't work well for the analytical user."
"The current visualization features feel incomplete compared to what's available with scripting tools."
"Currently, we are not very happy with the iPad or iPhone app because it is not working as we want."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews while Qlik Sense is ranked 2nd in Data Visualization with 114 reviews. Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0, while Qlik Sense is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Microsoft Power BI writes "A complete ecosystem with an builtin ETL tool, good integrations with python and R, and support of DAX and Power Query (M languages)". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Qlik Sense writes "Customizable with good ROI and a quick learning curve". Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Salesforce Einstein Analytics, whereas Qlik Sense is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, Apache Superset, Alteryx and IBM Cognos. See our Microsoft Power BI vs. Qlik Sense report.
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