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."SSRS and the Tabular server/Vertipaq engine/DAX are probably the two most valuable components."
"The initial setup is easy."
"I find Power BI's reporting feature the most valuable. The solution has improved a lot. There are new features getting added day by day. In the past, they didn't even have the printing feature, but now they have it."
"I've seen no issues with BI's stability."
"They should add mobile access."
"The solution is easy to use and flexible."
"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."
"The virtualization of Microsoft BI is very good."
"Associative model - no more cubes."
"The language support is very good."
"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."
"If you correctly use the product for your use cases, it provides value for money."
"The search feature: ability to see the related data."
"It's pretty easy to deploy."
"The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to view the entire data available for analysis."
"The most valuable aspect is its extensive library on Microsoft, providing a robust framework for implementation."
"The solution could benefit by allowing deeper data analytics."
"The mobile app is very poor."
"For someone who is new, I think that Power BI can be a little complicated."
"It needs more graphics and overlays."
"It needs an AI which can choose the appropriate connection strings and provide options for connections."
"I would like to be able to use SQL properly within the reports and allow multiple people to work on the same report at the same time. If one person is working on it, then it causes issues for anyone else wanting to make reports."
"At times, I feel that the system needs improvement in single sign-on, especially for the on-premises side of the tool."
"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."
"There could be a feature to analyze the sales and accounting data of the client."
"This solution would be improved with the inclusion of a feature that would allow us to add a common library of (our) commands used in load scripts and expressions, so with a keyword, we would get a drop down to select the command we are looking for, as opposed to the generic help."
"They could provide a user-friendly analysis process rather than specialized IT resource code."
"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."
"QlikView's UI could be more user-friendly."
"I really wish the application was easier to use in the development phase."
"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."
"Better source data connectors."
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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