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."Ease of development and maintenance."
"The stability is good."
"The product can go easily go and extract data and it can put it into any format."
"The most valuable features are the flexibility, how many ways you can interrogate the data, and the the graphical visualization."
"The fact that you can visualize items is great."
"Microsoft BI's initial setup is very straightforward."
"It is good for us for onboarding the data. We can connect to multiple data sources, do transformations to make the data usable, and then model it within the transformation. Someone who has come from a Microsoft Excel environment will easily be able to use this solution. Power query and report modeling are easy to understand in this solution. Their technical support is very good. They are extremely responsive, helpful, and hands-on."
"PowerBi is used to import our production data and generate dashboards, then integrates other Excel sheets to provide managers dashboards. This helps them get insights to make better OEE improvement decisions, mainly where to focus resources. We became able to see indicators from any time frame (day, week, month, or year), then could make better decisions."
"It excels in supporting database connections and various database types."
"The integration with Salesforce has helped us gain access to crucial sales data in real-time."
"If you correctly use the product for your use cases, it provides value for money."
"The language support is very good."
"It has user-friendly data visualization features, supporting our decision-making process with its business intelligence capabilities"
"Easy to analyze data by click-through."
"This is a very cool application with endless options of creativity and visuals."
"The user interface and dashboards are very good."
"The admin view could be improved by making it more simplified to manage a users' activity and other things."
"It would be better if they had some video tutorials. Most people from an Excel background may struggle with measures in Microsoft BI."
"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."
"The accounting data needs improvement."
"When you go to the cloud, its licensing is not intuitive. It is a little bit complex. When you have to purchase a new license, it is difficult to understand on their website what exactly you need to pay and how you can group. It is something that is applicable to all Microsoft products. They're not always so simple and clear when it comes to licensing. Their support can also be better in terms of explaining how they resolved an issue and what steps they took to resolve it. They are able to resolve the issue, but they can be better at explaining the approach they took to resolve the issue. It could have something in the direction of machine learning. It can have some kind of integration with machine learning where you can ask for some reports with natural language."
"The solution could be more customizable and you do not have too much freedom on the code."
"Microsoft has got a very large repository of all change suggestions which have been raised by the BI community. They keep on adding features that are very widely sought after by the community. We don't focus on product features. We focus on business requirements. To use the solution, we find that existing features are good enough and offer us a very effective solution."
"The look and feel should be updated in terms of the types of dashboards and graphs that you can produce. They aren't as visual as some of its competitors."
"There could be a feature to analyze the sales and accounting data of the client."
"Syntax editor needs some work, it's frustrating to have valid syntax being flagged as incorrect."
"The solution is quite costly."
"The only thing I would improve about it is the fact that it refreshes all the time, and when it does that, it just deletes all the options you had, all the filters that you had selected, so you need to select them from the beginning."
"Improvement in collaboration, between that and publishing of reports and publishing of models."
"They could provide a user-friendly analysis process rather than specialized IT resource code."
"They should offer the capability to directly access data from SaaS environments, as it would simplify the migration process, and while it may seem like a minor enhancement, it would be beneficial to our clients."
"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 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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