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."This solution has improved our ability in making decisions and explaining data."
"Ease of development and maintenance."
"There is also a chart store where we can download charts, which is extremely useful."
"The good part of it is that you can do whatever you want with it when it comes to building BI. In terms of languages, it supports Python, and it also natively supports R."
"Technical support is quite good."
"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 solution overall is very useful. The reports that are generated and the reporting functionality management are beneficial."
"Its connectivity with other Office applications, mostly with Excel, and the ability to deploy it very easily are the most valuable features. It comes sort of bundled with the cloud, so you don't need to set up a server and a standalone infrastructure. So, getting into the system or building something that you can deploy is very easy and very cheap. With other systems, you need to have a server, and you need to have a license for the server. The initial setup is very costly."
"The search feature: ability to see the related data."
"You can switch views easily."
"The initial setup is not very complex."
"This solution has simplified getting to and understanding our data, no matter where it is housed."
"If you correctly use the product for your use cases, it provides value for money."
"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."
"It's incredibly fast and can handle large volumes of data without slowing down our operations."
"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."
"I would like to see Machine Learning for Power Bi Pro users or an intermediate license to enable Machine Learning if you don't have access to a Premium account."
"Power BI's drillthrough feature could be improved. I didn't like drillthrough and those options much, but I did like it in MicroStrategy."
"I would like to see more AI capabilities in future releases. There's a strong interest in AI, including technologies like GPT, which facilitate real-time interactions."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly interface with Microsoft BI."
"If you have to pull multiple data sources performance is somewhat lacking."
"I have a little problem with Synapse Analytics because it's very new. It's a product that has many capabilities, but it is not very well developed. I have to see the list of permissions from one object. I can't do this in Synapse. I have to search on the web for a solution because I don't have the tool for it."
"The solution could improve by providing more free visuals. A lot of them are very nice but you have to purchase them."
"The solution could use a faster speed on certain interactions and a refresh of the dashboards."
"I would want them to have more options as a user. It would be nice for them to create their own dashboards and add fields."
"QlikView certainly lacks in its ability to share visualizations or create visualizations easily."
"Installation and deployment could be made easier and quicker."
"Sometimes, dealing with complex reports requires more effort, which could be really improved."
"The solution should be mobile-responsive. It should also include drag-and-drop and slice-and-dice features."
"It is really old. We are moving towards converting everything into a Power BI environment. We want to have a self-service type of BI environment where different levels of users in organizations can log onto a portal and retrieve the data they need or get the necessary insights for decision-making that's important for them or their business unit. They have built a new version of QlikView called QlikSense, which probably competes with newer BI tools, such as Power BI, but they are far behind. That's why we are moving towards a newer tool that's easier to use and has more visualizations to represent the data."
"Sometimes the filters are disappearing, and I'm not sure why this is happening."
"Needs improvement with UI transparency."
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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