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."The scalability overall has been quite good."
"The amount of customization that you can do is good, and it's relatively straightforward to do."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"It is stable enough. It has a lot of powerful functions. It can also be customized with the DAX language. It is also intuitive enough and incremental. You can start with something simple, and then step-by-step, you can increase the reports and dashboards according to your needs."
"The advantages of Microsoft Power BI stem from the fact that it is really easy to use. The drag and drop facilities provided by the product are good."
"Good reporting and data analysis tool that's user-friendly, easy to deploy, stable, and scalable."
"Provides data feeds for enterprise KPI reporting."
"Microsoft BI's most valuable feature is flexibility."
"QlikView is a scalable solution that multiple users can easily use."
"We use QlikView for its cost-effectiveness and ease of integration with databases."
"If you correctly use the product for your use cases, it provides value for money."
"On the positive side, QlikView's scripting is a great asset as it functions as an ETL."
"We can scale it if we need to."
"The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to view the entire data available for analysis."
"Scripting as per a customer's need, which is a pretty cool feature and not available in other tools."
"It is useful to use a tool like this to have a view of data at a point in time. You can extract and create little data sets that you can store, and then over time, you can have a view for tracking changes. Especially when you work with a relational database or a database that's a production database, the data is dynamic, but if you use QlikView, you can take a snapshot of different datasets. In your own time, you can then get insights and report, build, analyze, and draw whatever you need from the data, which is quite useful."
"Better mapping capabilities and easier administration access would be beneficial, especially for understanding who has viewed reports."
"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."
"These licenses are in US dollars. With a long-term license, the client is unaffected when the exchange rate goes up. However, if the exchange rate goes down, you don't get refunded from the excess money you've paid. I guess that is a risk you take in business."
"Not having to login again after a mobile app upgrade. A simple login on mobile would be great."
"The graphic interface could be better."
"I think that the solution is harder to use for people who are not experts in data."
"My data is restricted to my DB and I'm not sure how this would handle an extremely large dataset."
"The reporting part of Microsoft BI is rather limited compared to other reporting tools."
"The pricing is high."
"If a user wanted to see something not included in the application the new object had to be created by a power user or developer because Qlik view's scripting has somewhat of a learning curve."
"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."
"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."
"There could be a feature to analyze the sales and accounting data of the client."
"The user interface and ease of use takes a bit of a learning curve to pick up."
"QlikView certainly lacks in its ability to share visualizations or create visualizations easily."
"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."
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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