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."My favorite feature is the power query editor, where it can do the data transformations."
"This product has a lot of features and most of them are user-friendly."
"The most interesting feature of Microsoft Power BI is that it's very user-friendly."
"The solution has a good toggling feature."
"The best feature of this solution is the way you can plan, communicate, and visualize all the knowledge you extract from the data for the customers. I like the way you can show or visualize the information a client needs to answer a business question."
"The Microsoft Power BI app is very good. It's also very flexible."
"The drag and drop facility to easily change the data correctly is the most valuable feature. I am happy to see visualizations. It's easier to talk about and make people understand what is going on."
"Previously we used Excel, which took a long time - two or three weeks - to bring the data into a uniform format, whereas BI can do the same job in a day."
"Once you open it up, you see everything that you can do."
"You can switch views easily."
"The search feature: ability to see the related data."
"The initial setup is not very complex."
"We can scale it if we need to."
"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."
"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."
"Associative model - no more cubes."
"Trend data and dashboards need improvement."
"The integration with other solutions could be improved for reporting aspects."
"The solution could improve the mobile application design. It is difficult to use compared to the desktop version."
"The look is simple, and could be a little more professional."
"We would like improvements made to the paginated reports so that it produces quality similarly to SSRS."
"The biggest thing with Microsoft right now is better support. There should be more timely support. We can do 90% of it ourselves by the same token. When we're into the 10%, we do not get timely support via Microsoft's support team."
"Microsoft BI could improve by allowing large-size data sources. We have large data sources, and we have problems loading them in Microsoft BI."
"The solution could improve the extraction and transformation of data. For example, you transform the data and then send it to Microsoft BI without having to use your own API. We are only providing the API to Power BI, and then Power BI is doing the job."
"Error handling."
"There is a lack of static PDF report generation and automatic resizing of the dashboard to fit the device."
"The user interface and ease of use takes a bit of a learning curve to pick up."
"Sometimes the filters are disappearing, and I'm not sure why this is happening."
"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."
"Improvement in collaboration, between that and publishing of reports and publishing of models."
"QlikView certainly lacks in its ability to share visualizations or create visualizations easily."
"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."
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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