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 stability is good."
"This solution has improved our ability in making decisions and explaining data."
"Connectivity, installation, and configuration are pretty fast and seamless compared to Cognos."
"You don't need much support with Microsoft Power BI because it has such a large base of users who can answer your questions on their forums. There are also many video tutorials and webinars available online that offer solutions to whatever problems you may have."
"The dashboards of Microsoft BI are easy to use."
"As it was my first time using Power BI, I can say that it was fairly easy to learn, especially if you already know BI-type tools."
"Good reporting and data analysis tool that's user-friendly, easy to deploy, stable, and scalable."
"The fact that you can visualize items is great."
"If you correctly use the product for your use cases, it provides value for money."
"Scripting as per a customer's need, which is a pretty cool feature and not available in other tools."
"QlikView is a scalable solution that multiple users can easily use."
"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."
"The most valuable aspect is its extensive library on Microsoft, providing a robust framework for implementation."
"It excels in supporting database connections and various database types."
"The initial setup is not very complex."
"The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to view the entire data available for analysis."
"People without private emails cannot publish and, frankly, this doesn't allow for easy training."
"If you look at the new tool, even though they promised that you could do data modeling, that you could do everything from the Power BI side, if your data is really large in volume, sometimes it doesn't work on the Power BI. More feature testing from their side would certainly help users."
"There are some problems with the functionality of this solution. The dashboard is not very user friendly and is quite complicated."
"When there are large amounts of data being processed there are additional tools needed to handle it."
"There's always room for improvement for Microsoft Power BI, especially for the UX and the menus to make it more accessible to business users."
"I would like for there to be some type of user manual that shows steps on how to navigate the solution."
"This solution's performance when handling big data could be improved. Right now, if you're handling big data, the application becomes slow and the performance is very low."
"Microsoft BI’s integration and visualization could be improved."
"Sometimes the filters are disappearing, and I'm not sure why this is happening."
"Scalability really depends on the size of your data and QlikView server architecture. For the biggest data sets, it could become an issue at some point."
"The solution should be mobile-responsive. It should also include drag-and-drop and slice-and-dice features."
"The pricing is high."
"I would like to see more advanced features from Qlik Sense integrated into QlikView to keep it competitive and up-to-date."
"There is no automation or drag and drop functionality."
"There is a challenge on the frontend when it comes to browsing data through QlikView, as it isn't entirely compatible with other platforms we use."
"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."
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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