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."Microsoft BI's dashboards are helpful."
"Data integration enabled my organization to easily pool data from our varied system into one data warehouse."
"Key features are its dashboard functionality and ease of integration with various data sources."
"Very intuitive and easy to use."
"Users already using Excel can generate new reports and dashboards within minutes."
"My primary use is for view of the dashboard."
"Good reporting and data analysis tool that's user-friendly, easy to deploy, stable, and scalable."
"Its connectivity with other Office applications, mostly with Excel, and the ability to deploy it very easily are the most valuable features. It comes sort of bundled with the cloud, so you don't need to set up a server and a standalone infrastructure. So, getting into the system or building something that you can deploy is very easy and very cheap. With other systems, you need to have a server, and you need to have a license for the server. The initial setup is very costly."
"The initial setup is not very complex."
"It has user-friendly data visualization features, supporting our decision-making process with its business intelligence capabilities"
"The most valuable aspect is its extensive library on Microsoft, providing a robust framework for implementation."
"Its ability to build, very quickly, very complicated models."
"The search feature: ability to see the related data."
"QlikView is a scalable solution that multiple users can easily use."
"I had the option to prepare data myself instead of always having to depend on the data team."
"Data transforming with scripting, and the associative model that lets users browse data in an easy way, are the most valuable features."
"Things can slow down if you create too many pages."
"I think that there should be visuals for financial reporting videos. It should just be a plug and play because there is a lot of coding that goes into it with different clients."
"Defining a relationship was very confusing. There were circular directions for which I had to do a lot of adjustments in the data. They can do something to make it easier."
"The solution could improve the mobile application design. It is difficult to use compared to the desktop version."
"Microsoft BI can improve some of the visual level filters or visual functionality, that are available in other BI tools, such as Tableau or Qlik Sense."
"Most clients have MacBooks. Therefore, they use Tableau as Power BI Desktop is not available for the MacBook right now."
"There is no column-level security in Microsoft BI, and this is a feature that most of our customers are looking for. That is something that should be implemented."
"The solution could benefit by allowing deeper data analytics."
"They could improve the update time."
"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."
"Though the initial setup phase is simple, when it comes to the integration with the custom systems, the configuration and the compatibility sometimes take some more time."
"They could provide a user-friendly analysis process rather than specialized IT resource code."
"Sometimes the filters are disappearing, and I'm not sure why this is happening."
"QlikView's UI could be more user-friendly."
"The user interface is old."
"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."
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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