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 solution is easy to set up and implement."
"The scalability overall has been quite good."
"Reporting is the best thing about Power BI. And it could help improve decision-making in many ways. Power BI is flexible and easier to use compared to tools."
"It has greatly improved our reporting capabilities."
"The Microsoft Power BI app is very good. It's also very flexible."
"In contrast to what we were using before I think that Power BI has given us more extensive results."
"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."
"The solution is easy to use and charts can be built quickly with the tools."
"It enables us to configure various elements, such as dashboard settings, including factors like color schemes and other customization parameters."
"QlikView is one of the strongest tools, I would say. Also, it has a very vast capability to process the data"
"It is a stable product."
"It excels in supporting database connections and various database types."
"This solution has simplified getting to and understanding our data, no matter where it is housed."
"The user interface and dashboards are very good."
"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 feature of QlikView is the integration with other third-party tools."
"We would like to have better SQL support for queries."
"The solution could improve the mobile application design. It is difficult to use compared to the desktop version."
"Microsoft BI comes under pressure when there is a lot of data to be crunched. It gets slower and slower, and the functionality becomes a bit of a problem. The performance goes down with data being fed into the system. The infrastructure requirement also increases if you have to increase the performance. This is the area that can be improved in my opinion. Initially, the product is good, but over the years, when data gets accumulated, it becomes a problem unless the old data is kind of archived and is no longer shown on the visualization. It has a feature by using which a user can query for a report through simple questions to a bot. So, if I want to look for the customer share of revenue by geography, I just simply state that in the chatbot. If I wanted it in a pie chart, then you say, "Please show it to me in a pie chart." It comes out well for basic charts. This feature should be improvised more so that people can very quickly get customized reports on the go."
"More connections with other systems should be added, which would allow for other integrations."
"You do need to do some hard coding for certain things in Microsoft BI."
"Capacity could be improved."
"They can improve the user interface a little bit to make it more user-friendly. When creating a dashboard, it is not very user-friendly. You have to click on a certain style and use your keyboard keys to move it. You cannot drag and drop it."
"Microsoft BI could improve by allowing large-size data sources. We have large data sources, and we have problems loading them in Microsoft BI."
"I would want them to have more options as a user. It would be nice for them to create their own dashboards and add fields."
"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."
"There is a lack of static PDF report generation and automatic resizing of the dashboard to fit the device."
"I really wish the application was easier to use in the development phase."
"Sometimes the filters are disappearing, and I'm not sure why this is happening."
"The solution is quite costly."
"Sometimes, dealing with complex reports requires more effort, which could be really improved."
"Installation and deployment could be made easier and quicker."
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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