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."There are some great automation elements in the product."
"I think the visualization part is valuable."
"I like data modeling. You can connect with your database, which is quite useful for me. It is a good tool if you have a large amount of data and you want to gather different data and interconnect it. The Power Query functionality is quite an interesting feature. If you have a query in Excel, you can also copy your query and run it in Power BI. Its dashboard is also very nice and not complicated. You don't need to be a developer to be able to use it. I am not an IT guy, and it is quite easy to use for somebody who is not an IT person."
"There is also a chart store where we can download charts, which is extremely useful."
"With the out-of-the-box Data Platform and Business Intelligence ecosystem, you get the entire platform with a single license."
"The most valuable feature is integration with Python."
"The drill-down capabilities and automatic charts are the best ones. The visualization is also very good. In terms of visualization, no competing product, such as IBM Cognos or any other product, has the same capabilities."
"In contrast to what we were using before I think that Power BI has given us more extensive results."
"Its ability to build, very quickly, very complicated models."
"QlikView is a scalable solution that multiple users can easily use."
"You can switch views easily."
"You can do a lot of things on the back end which are not possible in the other solutions on the market."
"It enables us to configure various elements, such as dashboard settings, including factors like color schemes and other customization parameters."
"We use QlikView for its cost-effectiveness and ease of integration with databases."
"It has user-friendly data visualization features, supporting our decision-making process with its business intelligence capabilities"
"The in-memory feature gives us better insight. It's also easy to drill down into the information and select information."
"Anything they can do to improve enterprise collaboration is going to help people get set up and utilize the solution."
"Its price could be better. Its licensing cost is very high."
"People without private emails cannot publish and, frankly, this doesn't allow for easy training."
"The performance of Microsoft BI could improve for large datasets and it would be beneficial to have more visualization features."
"This solution needs integration with SAS and more deep analysis functionality."
"I feel the modeling page should be simplified."
"We did have some issues building the Microsoft blog."
"The integration in Microsoft BI could improve for other solutions, such as Oracle DB and PostgresSQL. Additionally, the reporting from the databases to Microsoft BI should be in real-time and the overall performance could be better."
"Better source data connectors."
"There is no automation or drag and drop functionality."
"They could provide a user-friendly analysis process rather than specialized IT resource code."
"Syntax editor needs some work, it's frustrating to have valid syntax being flagged as incorrect."
"There could be a feature to analyze the sales and accounting data of the client."
"If a user wanted to see something not included in the application the new object had to be created by a power user or developer because Qlik view's scripting has somewhat of a learning curve."
"They should offer the capability to directly access data from SaaS environments, as it would simplify the migration process, and while it may seem like a minor enhancement, it would be beneficial to our clients."
"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."
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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