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 capability to add custom visuals and create Power BI apps. You can package datasets, synchronization details, and dashboards into a single app."
"They find Power BI's data pull mechanism to be sufficient and cost-effective, especially considering the stability it provides. In comparison with other solutions, Power BI stands out as a fantastic choice. Therefore, I would definitely recommend sticking with the Pro license."
"There is a lot of help and documentation on the Internet, so no special training is needed to use the source code."
"Microsoft B's beneficial features are that it is a Microsoft product and it is well known by the staff here in the company. It suited the available skills."
"Microsoft BI's most valuable feature is flexibility."
"Ability to extract data from a variety of sources and systems."
"My primary use is for view of the dashboard."
"The solution is easy to use and charts can be built quickly with the tools."
"Our Qlikview applications help us to get a good idea of our Client Base Performance and assist us in the decision making for Seasonal Specials. On the other hand QlikView helps us to get a grasp on our Suppliers and helps us to negotiate pricing with them."
"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."
"On the positive side, QlikView's scripting is a great asset as it functions as an ETL."
"The integration with Salesforce has helped us gain access to crucial sales data in real-time."
"Easy to analyze data by click-through."
"You can do a lot of things on the back end which are not possible in the other solutions on the market."
"The in-memory feature gives us better insight. It's also easy to drill down into the information and select information."
"If you correctly use the product for your use cases, it provides value for money."
"Microsoft BI lacks some of the scheme features. It would be beneficial if there were a way to show how we move values in a different way."
"We haven't used it that long and I haven't come across anything that's stood out as needing to be fixed."
"I have been doing trial and error to figuring out how to do the data analyzing and modeling. There could be some improvement to simplify it."
"The default parameters of the prompt could be improved by including a dynamic option."
"Its setup and support should be improved. We would like to see more material for developers that provides clear explanations about how we can do data mining by using Microsoft BI. It would also be good if we can connect a feature to other customized machine learning solutions."
"It has limited performance capabilities in terms of connecting to large transactional databases, but it is fine for simple and quick queries from Excel spreadsheets or one table. The premium level is going to be more applicable for the higher transaction-level databases."
"More connections with other systems should be added, which would allow for other integrations."
"The solution could improve the mobile application design. It is difficult to use compared to the desktop version."
"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."
"Sometimes, dealing with complex reports requires more effort, which could be really improved."
"QlikView's UI could be more user-friendly."
"They could improve the speed."
"Better source data connectors."
"I would want them to have more options as a user. It would be nice for them to create their own dashboards and add fields."
"More/newer visualisation components need to be added."
"I would like to see more advanced features from Qlik Sense integrated into QlikView to keep it competitive and up-to-date."
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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