We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI and QlikView based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Reporting solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It allows individuals to do the analysis themselves."
"Its connectivity with other Office applications, mostly with Excel, and the ability to deploy it very easily are the most valuable features. It comes sort of bundled with the cloud, so you don't need to set up a server and a standalone infrastructure. So, getting into the system or building something that you can deploy is very easy and very cheap. With other systems, you need to have a server, and you need to have a license for the server. The initial setup is very costly."
"It has greatly improved our reporting capabilities."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"PowerBI – Self-service BI."
"The product is user-friendly."
"There is a lot of help and documentation on the Internet, so no special training is needed to use the source code."
"I find Power BI's reporting feature the most valuable. The solution has improved a lot. There are new features getting added day by day. In the past, they didn't even have the printing feature, but now they have it."
"The language support is very good."
"Associative model - no more cubes."
"Once you open it up, you see everything that you can do."
"The scalability is there."
"You can switch views easily."
"I had the option to prepare data myself instead of always having to depend on the data team."
"Its ability to build, very quickly, very complicated models."
"It excels in supporting database connections and various database types."
"I would like to see better, undisturbed stability without any interruptions."
"I feel the modeling page should be simplified."
"The look is simple, and could be a little more professional."
"We would like it if they added more Python libraries in the Power BI service. For Power BI service right now, you can use Python, but it is limited to a few libraries or a few packages from Python."
"There is no specific area that I have a problem with. It's just that, with whatever feature you come across, every visual has its own formatting and behavior. What you get in one visual for a feature, you don't seem to get in another."
"The data source definition is all over the place."
"Sometimes while developing, the front end is not easily customizable and it has limitations. We cannot go and do any UI we want. We have to stick to the limitations of the product."
"I'm missing collaborations functionality to operate or to work connected with multiple people on a data source or on virtualization. There should be more collaborations functions, such as in Confluence. We haven't explored the solution sufficiently in this area, but at this time it doesn't look sufficient."
"They could provide a user-friendly analysis process rather than specialized IT resource code."
"They could improve the speed."
"More/newer visualisation components need to be added."
"Improvement in collaboration, between that and publishing of reports and publishing of models."
"Sometimes, dealing with complex reports requires more effort, which could be really improved."
"There is a lack of static PDF report generation and automatic resizing of the dashboard to fit the device."
"Improvements are required in the hide and unhide functionality that falls under the layout container feature that has been used in my company in recent times."
"Although Qliktech's road map clearly states that QlikView has a long way to go, most of the R&D effort seems to be benefiting Qlik Sense."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in Reporting with 297 reviews while QlikView is ranked 5th in Reporting with 158 reviews. Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0, while QlikView is rated 8.2. 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 QlikView writes "Useful for data visualization and business intelligence". Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE, whereas QlikView is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, SQL Server, TIBCO Spotfire and IBM Cognos. See our Microsoft Power BI vs. QlikView report.
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