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."Power BI stands out because it provides considerable flexibility in creating reports, dashboards, and various types of analytics to meet those dynamic requirements. It is lightweight and easy to use with good support."
"It's user-friendly and provides data abstracting capabilities. We are also able to share reports with our colleagues very easily."
"Microsoft BI's dashboards are helpful."
"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."
"In contrast to what we were using before I think that Power BI has given us more extensive results."
"The solution is stable."
"I like the flexibility it offers."
"It is very good, and it supports the Microsoft ecosystem, including Excel, etc."
"This solution has simplified getting to and understanding our data, no matter where it is housed."
"On the positive side, QlikView's scripting is a great asset as it functions as an ETL."
"We use QlikView for its cost-effectiveness and ease of integration with databases."
"Once you open it up, you see everything that you can do."
"It's incredibly fast and can handle large volumes of data without slowing down our operations."
"The most valuable feature of QlikView is the integration with other third-party tools."
"A well designed app brings freedom of inquiry to meetings, allowing me to answer questions in real time and this has transformed progress and outputs of our monthly group meeting."
"The most valuable aspect is its extensive library on Microsoft, providing a robust framework for implementation."
"I think that the product would benefit by increasing the range of visuals and graphics readily available, as opposed to using a third party included as part of the product."
"I think that they can add more types of charts because the selection on the desktop version is limited."
"The solution could improve by providing more free visuals. A lot of them are very nice but you have to purchase them."
"Most of the dashboarding tools have prebuilt graphs. So, you have to stick with them, unless you are going to use a third-party tool to create them, and then you are going to upload them to the BI tool. In Power BI, they started supporting this functionality and created a tool for that, but it isn't yet complete and mature. It is still exceeding the expectations and is better than most of the BI tools when it comes to creating custom graphs, but it needs more enhancement and simplification. It would be good to have a design tool provided by Power BI to design the graphs that we want and set the figures that we want on them."
"There needs to be improved guidance and documentation for the initial setup of Power BI as it currently remains complex."
"here are some limitations with the data models needed to build the report."
"I feel the modeling page should be simplified."
"A few features available in Tableau are not available in Power BI. For example. Tableau has the ability to make up the physical layer and all other stuff at runtime. In Power BI, we have to develop a proper physical layer to connect it. The limitation that we normally face is related to the direct query mode. When it comes to the direct query mode, most of the functionality is not working, which is an issue for us. We have to use the direct query mode frequently because the client needs real-time data. They should work on this limitation. There are a lot of other technical things that need to be improved. I am also following the Power BI platform and Microsoft Support Center platform on the web where users have put their requirements. Microsoft is also working on improving this solution. In every update, they add new features to this solution."
"Sometimes, dealing with complex reports requires more effort, which could be really improved."
"They could improve the speed."
"For me, it is important to have a mix, what is the "view" and what is the "sense", Qlik Sense. They have two tools, but for me it is important to have only one tool, which combines the functions that we have from one side and the other side."
"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."
"Better source data connectors."
"There is a lack of static PDF report generation and automatic resizing of the dashboard to fit the device."
"Installation and deployment could be made easier and quicker."
"There is a challenge on the frontend when it comes to browsing data through QlikView, as it isn't entirely compatible with other platforms we use."
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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