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."We are able to collaborate on things and get insightful data visualizations."
"Good CS and administration."
"I've seen no issues with BI's stability."
"It is a pretty straightforward and flexible solution for data integration and modeling. It is a low-code solution. When you are doing data integration, you can use the GUI, which is very simple and straightforward. You can also do very intricate custom queries and model it at different levels. It is very easy to use and scalable."
"I like the flexibility it offers."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft BI is its visualization and its ease of use."
"Its connection to every database: Whatever and wherever it is."
"The stability is great and continues to get better and better."
"You can switch views easily."
"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."
"Scripting as per a customer's need, which is a pretty cool feature and not available in other tools."
"It's incredibly fast and can handle large volumes of data without slowing down our operations."
"It has user-friendly data visualization features, supporting our decision-making process with its business intelligence capabilities"
"It is useful to use a tool like this to have a view of data at a point in time. You can extract and create little data sets that you can store, and then over time, you can have a view for tracking changes. Especially when you work with a relational database or a database that's a production database, the data is dynamic, but if you use QlikView, you can take a snapshot of different datasets. In your own time, you can then get insights and report, build, analyze, and draw whatever you need from the data, which is quite useful."
"The search feature: ability to see the related data."
"Data transforming with scripting, and the associative model that lets users browse data in an easy way, are the most valuable features."
"Power BI doesn't support some open-source data sources that are new, such as SnowSQL, Iceberg, or ClickHouse."
"SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) is not user friendly."
"I feel the modeling page should be simplified."
"I would like to see more AI capabilities in future releases. There's a strong interest in AI, including technologies like GPT, which facilitate real-time interactions."
"The reporting could be a bit better."
"I would like to see better, undisturbed stability without any interruptions."
"We haven't used it that long and I haven't come across anything that's stood out as needing to be fixed."
"Power BI's drillthrough feature could be improved. I didn't like drillthrough and those options much, but I did like it in MicroStrategy."
"Although Qliktech's road map clearly states that QlikView has a long way to go, most of the R&D effort seems to be benefiting Qlik Sense."
"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."
"More/newer visualisation components need to be added."
"The pricing is high."
"It needs work with visualization."
"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."
"Improvements are required in the hide and unhide functionality that falls under the layout container feature that has been used in my company in recent times."
"Enhancing user-friendliness would be highly beneficial."
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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