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 in Microsoft BI are the analysis using the feature drag and drop function. It's very easy to load and use different data sources."
"I like having the ability to connect Excel files as data inputs."
"It provides easy integration with Office tools."
"We have found that the reporting and publishing are great."
"It is very good, and it supports the Microsoft ecosystem, including Excel, etc."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The most interesting feature of Microsoft Power BI is that it's very user-friendly."
"Easy to use. End-users can make changes to the graphics."
"Associative model - no more cubes."
"Data transforming with scripting, and the associative model that lets users browse data in an easy way, are the most valuable features."
"The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to view the entire data available for analysis."
"Its ability to build, very quickly, very complicated models."
"Easy to analyze data by click-through."
"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."
"You can do a lot of things on the back end which are not possible in the other solutions on the market."
"Once you open it up, you see everything that you can do."
"The solution could be more customizable and you do not have too much freedom on the code."
"I would prefer that the solution not be shared. I'm concerned that if we make a mistake we could reveal information to people who shouldn't see it. I would like to have my own on-prem server, to buy my own server and have my own infrastructure for Microsoft BI, with only with my data."
"The integration with other solutions could be improved for reporting aspects."
"I think that the product would benefit by increasing the range of visuals and graphics readily available, as opposed to using a third party included as part of the product."
"Its setup and support should be improved. We would like to see more material for developers that provides clear explanations about how we can do data mining by using Microsoft BI. It would also be good if we can connect a feature to other customized machine learning solutions."
"Integration with artificial intelligence would help. Humans take time to review the data and eliminate errors. Artificial intelligence based on machine learning and understanding can bring the same functionality."
"It would be better if they had some video tutorials. Most people from an Excel background may struggle with measures in Microsoft BI."
"The initial installation is difficult."
"Error handling."
"The user interface and ease of use takes a bit of a learning curve to pick up."
"They could provide a user-friendly analysis process rather than specialized IT resource code."
"Better source data connectors."
"Needs improvement with UI transparency."
"QlikView's UI could be more user-friendly."
"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."
"Improvement in collaboration, between that and publishing of reports and publishing of models."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in Reporting with 293 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, SQL Server, Amazon QuickSight, TIBCO Spotfire and IBM Cognos. See our Microsoft Power BI vs. QlikView report.
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