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."It's the analytic engine in terms of the interface on the Power BI environment, as opposed to pivot tables, and it's a mobile solution."
"It is low-cost and easy to deploy. It is fully-featured."
"When we are introducing Microsoft BI to our clients, if they're familiar with Excel, the transition phase will be much easier for them. They can easily switch from Microsoft Excel to Microsoft BI. The core foundation or the base technology is the same in both tools. There are a few limitations in Microsoft Excel, and this is where Microsoft BI comes in."
"The solution is stable."
"Reports, dashboards, and visualizations are most valuable."
"Two valuable most features are the ability to create columns and create measures."
"Power BI allows you to create user defined charts which is really useful."
"Provides data feeds for enterprise KPI reporting."
"The integration with Salesforce has helped us gain access to crucial sales data in real-time."
"It excels in supporting database connections and various database types."
"The solution is fast."
"If you correctly use the product for your use cases, it provides value for money."
"The user interface and dashboards are very good."
"You can switch views easily."
"The most useful feature of QlikView for me is the QVD concept."
"Once you open it up, you see everything that you can do."
"There are some problems with the functionality of this solution. The dashboard is not very user friendly and is quite complicated."
"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."
"Sluggish performance when handling large amounts of data."
"In the future, Microsoft BI can be better by increasing user-friendliness"
"I would like to see a more user-friendly interface with Microsoft BI."
"Power BI could be improved by implementing more options for data integration. Nowadays, the cloud takes care of scalability and security. As we all know, data sources are increasing, so we get data from a variety of streams. But if we could get the downstream data into the database and update the reports more easily, Power BI would be better."
"It could have more of a hold on big data. Manipulating big data on this solution complicates things. This needs to be improved."
"The orchestration module for refreshing data flows is something that is missing and we have to do it manually."
"Error handling."
"Enhancing user-friendliness would be highly beneficial."
"Although Qliktech's road map clearly states that QlikView has a long way to go, most of the R&D effort seems to be benefiting Qlik Sense."
"QlikView's UI could be more user-friendly."
"Though the initial setup phase is simple, when it comes to the integration with the custom systems, the configuration and the compatibility sometimes take some more time."
"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."
"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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