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's a great tool for visualization data, and it's free for engineers."
"The solution is very intuitive, you do not need to have too much programming knowledge to use it. Advanced Excel users can use it very easily."
"Very intuitive and easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is integration with Python."
"The solution integrates with other Microsoft solutions very well."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Power BI is the drill-through feature that takes you to a details page the users want to see."
"Users already using Excel can generate new reports and dashboards within minutes."
"The virtualization of Microsoft BI is very good."
"One of the good thing is that you can integrate different data source technologies. So you can model your environment without having any of our views running."
"You can switch views easily."
"Once you open it up, you see everything that you can do."
"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."
"QlikView is one of the strongest tools, I would say. Also, it has a very vast capability to process the data"
"E-T-L, The Extract, Transform, and Loading capabilities of QlikView make it a highly sophisticated self-service business intelligence tool for developers and analysts."
"You can do a lot of things on the back end which are not possible in the other solutions on the market."
"It excels in supporting database connections and various database types."
"Microsoft needs to provide more drivers to connect other data sources in a native way."
"It should have more report outputs. They should expand the report outputs. Its documentation should also be better."
"If you look at the new tool, even though they promised that you could do data modeling, that you could do everything from the Power BI side, if your data is really large in volume, sometimes it doesn't work on the Power BI. More feature testing from their side would certainly help users."
"There is room for improvement in terms of pricing for the solution."
"here are still better UI designs they can go through. I'm assuming they are focusing more on capabilities rather than look-and-feel designs."
"Microsoft should offer additional features for visualization and have additional features for slicing and dicing that data."
"Its price could be better. Its licensing cost is very high."
"Their technical support can be better. They normally take too long to escalate and resolve a case."
"Sometimes the filters are disappearing, and I'm not sure why this is happening."
"The user interface is old."
"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."
"I would like to see more advanced features from Qlik Sense integrated into QlikView to keep it competitive and up-to-date."
"There's room for improvement in the area of management's handling of concerns."
"The pricing is high."
"Improvement in collaboration, between that and publishing of reports and publishing of models."
"The solution should be mobile-responsive. It should also include drag-and-drop and slice-and-dice features."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in Reporting with 293 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, SQL Server, Amazon QuickSight, TIBCO Spotfire and IBM Cognos. See our Microsoft Power BI vs. QlikView report.
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