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 most valuable features are the flexibility, how many ways you can interrogate the data, and the the graphical visualization."
"The most valuable feature is that it's easy to use. It's very useful for non-engineers and it is the ultimate solution for providing information and insights. Power BI is the best visualization tool I have ever worked with."
"Allows business users with a mission to solve their own problems, without an IT person."
"Helped identify bad data, enabling the corrections needed to the data for management."
"It allows individuals to do the analysis themselves."
"The scalability is good. We have 20 people in my organization using this solution and plan to increase usage."
"What I like most is that I can do everything in Power BI that I can do in Excel."
"The sharing features are vital, especially the ability to share and test different shared dashboards."
"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."
"Data transforming with scripting, and the associative model that lets users browse data in an easy way, are the most valuable features."
"This is a very cool application with endless options of creativity and visuals."
"You can do a lot of things on the back end which are not possible in the other solutions on the market."
"It is a stable product."
"It's pretty easy to deploy."
"The most valuable aspect is its extensive library on Microsoft, providing a robust framework for implementation."
"The only challenge I have found is that they do not have a Mac version."
"We need more integration capabilities."
"I feel the modeling page should be simplified."
"The solution could improve the mobile application design. It is difficult to use compared to the desktop version."
"In my opinion, the software is a little bit limited in terms of the flexibility it offers, with regard to the design of the visualization."
"The solution could be quicker at rendering data."
"At times, I feel that the system needs improvement in single sign-on, especially for the on-premises side of the tool."
"The upgrade process could be improved."
"Enhancing user-friendliness would be highly beneficial."
"QlikView certainly lacks in its ability to share visualizations or create visualizations easily."
"The user interface and ease of use takes a bit of a learning curve to pick up."
"More/newer visualisation components need to be added."
"Improvement in collaboration, between that and publishing of reports and publishing of models."
"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."
"The user interface is old."
"QlikView's UI could be more user-friendly."
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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