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."One of the most valuable aspects of this tool is its ease of use and the ability to easily share information with others."
"It has greatly improved our reporting capabilities."
"Its ease of use is most valuable."
"Allows business users with a mission to solve their own problems, without an IT person."
"It is a good platform for data analysis, organization, and all of the other interim performances that are necessary."
"The visualization part and its inclusion in a cloud-based application are valuable features."
"The solution integrates with other Microsoft solutions very well."
"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."
"The search feature: ability to see the related data."
"It enables us to configure various elements, such as dashboard settings, including factors like color schemes and other customization parameters."
"It's pretty easy to deploy."
"You can do a lot of things on the back end which are not possible in the other solutions on the market."
"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."
"We can scale it if we need to."
"The solution is fast."
"The most useful feature of QlikView for me is the QVD concept."
"The admin view could be improved by making it more simplified to manage a users' activity and other things."
"Most of the dashboarding tools have prebuilt graphs. So, you have to stick with them, unless you are going to use a third-party tool to create them, and then you are going to upload them to the BI tool. In Power BI, they started supporting this functionality and created a tool for that, but it isn't yet complete and mature. It is still exceeding the expectations and is better than most of the BI tools when it comes to creating custom graphs, but it needs more enhancement and simplification. It would be good to have a design tool provided by Power BI to design the graphs that we want and set the figures that we want on them."
"If you need data in real-time, it's not an ideal solution."
"It is not yet ready for enterprises. For a big enterprise data model, it is not so stable, and it also doesn't scale so well."
"Microsoft needs to provide more drivers to connect other data sources in a native way."
"Sometimes while developing, the front end is not easily customizable and it has limitations. We cannot go and do any UI we want. We have to stick to the limitations of the product."
"Power BI doesn't support some open-source data sources that are new, such as SnowSQL, Iceberg, or ClickHouse."
"I would like to see integration with Excel."
"For me, it is important to have a mix, what is the "view" and what is the "sense", Qlik Sense. They have two tools, but for me it is important to have only one tool, which combines the functions that we have from one side and the other side."
"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."
"There is no automation or drag and drop functionality."
"Syntax editor needs some work, it's frustrating to have valid syntax being flagged as incorrect."
"QlikView certainly lacks in its ability to share visualizations or create visualizations easily."
"The solution should be mobile-responsive. It should also include drag-and-drop and slice-and-dice features."
"Sometimes the filters are disappearing, and I'm not sure why this is happening."
"There could be a feature to analyze the sales and accounting data of the client."
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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