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.
"There are some great automation elements in the product."
"Key features are its dashboard functionality and ease of integration with various data sources."
"What Power BI is, is a whole collection of templates of small amounts of data that can be used to do something for a real world project, that can be easily set up and become the business intelligence environment or a data warehouse for a large amount of data, for a real world customer. That's what is remarkable."
"I like the downloadable visualizations a lot. I think that they give the user a very nice starting point in creating awesome dashboards, with the right way to tell their data story."
"Most of the clients I am interacting with are looking towards Power BI because of the cost and simplicities. It provides an entire feature set and a complete solution. It has tight integration with Office 365, Dynamics 365, Microsoft Technology Stack, and datatypes like R and Python."
"We've used Microsoft BI for the general use cases around reporting and dashboarding."
"It's similar to Excel, but it's much more powerful than Excel."
"It is stable enough. It has a lot of powerful functions. It can also be customized with the DAX language. It is also intuitive enough and incremental. You can start with something simple, and then step-by-step, you can increase the reports and dashboards according to your needs."
"Scripting as per a customer's need, which is a pretty cool feature and not available in other tools."
"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."
"QlikView is a scalable solution that multiple users can easily use."
"The most valuable feature of QlikView is the integration with other third-party 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."
"The scalability is there."
"The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to view the entire data available for analysis."
"The language support is very good."
"Better mapping capabilities and easier administration access would be beneficial, especially for understanding who has viewed reports."
"From any improvement perspective, I want the product to be made available to users free of cost...The stability and scalability of the product can be better."
"I would like Microsoft to include some inbuilt machine learning so that it becomes point-and-click, rather than us developing models out of API and BI connecting to that and getting the results. That process gets in the way of continuity."
"There's always room for improvement for Microsoft Power BI, especially for the UX and the menus to make it more accessible to business users."
"Power BI's administration could use some work, and the user experience needs to improve because it is a client-based tool. If you want to generate a model or report, you need to use client tools, but client tools are limited for end-users who don't have enough hardware. For example, maybe a client lacks enough memory or CPU power for report generators. If you use a model that requires a massive amount of data, your client will face several problems."
"Integration with products that are not Microsoft could be more improved."
"They can improve it in terms of rule-based security. Currently, it has very limited rules."
"This solution is resource-heavy."
"Sometimes, dealing with complex reports requires more effort, which could be really improved."
"They could improve the update time."
"The tool is expensive in Turkey."
"The user interface and ease of use takes a bit of a learning curve to pick up."
"It would be nice if QlikView could be plugged in into the company's website or an online portal such as QlikSense is capable of. There are ways around but it takes enormous time to develop."
"Scalability really depends on the size of your data and QlikView server architecture. For the biggest data sets, it could become an issue at some point."
"Better source data connectors."
"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 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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