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."The interface is very easy to use."
"The Microsoft Power BI app is very good. It's also very flexible."
"It ingegrates nicely with Office 365."
"Constant collaboration is the most valuable. I can build a dashboard, and several co-workers can access this dashboard. We can share information that is important for decision-making. It is a very easy-to-deploy solution. It is compatible with a lot of data sources. It is also very stable and scalable. There is also a very good forum and a lot of help and online training."
"The feature I find most valuable is the ability to publish Power Bi reports, using an embedded link, directly onto a website."
"The best feature for me is Power Query. I know that probably sounds strange, but you can't do too much with visuals and reports if the backend stuff is horribly dirty and just bad. But for me, that is absolutely fantastic. I can load the data and do the transformation and be able to load it in a useful way. There are tons of connections, which is absolutely fantastic as well. It's been fairly easy, and it's intuitive."
"The solution's initial setup isn't too complicated."
"We've used Microsoft BI for the general use cases around reporting and dashboarding."
"The search feature: ability to see the related data."
"It is a stable product."
"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."
"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."
"We can scale it if we need to."
"Scripting as per a customer's need, which is a pretty cool feature and not available in other tools."
"I had the option to prepare data myself instead of always having to depend on the data team."
"They can improve the user interface a little bit to make it more user-friendly. When creating a dashboard, it is not very user-friendly. You have to click on a certain style and use your keyboard keys to move it. You cannot drag and drop it."
"You need to purchase upgraded support separately."
"Power BI shows reports on actual data, not metadata."
"The challenge of this product is in truncating the table data."
"I would like to see a change in the premium capacity."
"The solution could improve by simplifying the user interface and adding integration or compatibility with APA."
"Real-time refreshing for SAP BW would be nice. We know its on the radar for the development team at MS. "
"The UI looks awkward once the graphs have been generated in the console. This is what Microsoft can work on."
"Sometimes the filters are disappearing, and I'm not sure why this is happening."
"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."
"They could improve the speed."
"They could improve the update time."
"They could provide a user-friendly analysis process rather than specialized IT resource code."
"There could be a feature to analyze the sales and accounting data of the client."
"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."
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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