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."PowerBi is used to import our production data and generate dashboards, then integrates other Excel sheets to provide managers dashboards. This helps them get insights to make better OEE improvement decisions, mainly where to focus resources. We became able to see indicators from any time frame (day, week, month, or year), then could make better decisions."
"Because this solution is very easy, and very visual, you can have results in minutes."
"We have found the product to be scalable."
"Easy to use. End-users can make changes to the graphics."
"This solution has improved our ability in making decisions and explaining data."
"It's a very easy-to-use solution."
"Good reporting and data analysis tool that's user-friendly, easy to deploy, stable, and scalable."
"The best feature of this solution is the way you can plan, communicate, and visualize all the knowledge you extract from the data for the customers. I like the way you can show or visualize the information a client needs to answer a business question."
"It enables us to configure various elements, such as dashboard settings, including factors like color schemes and other customization parameters."
"This solution has simplified getting to and understanding our data, no matter where it is housed."
"QlikView is one of the strongest tools, I would say. Also, it has a very vast capability to process the data"
"It excels in supporting database connections and various database types."
"The most valuable feature of QlikView is the integration with other third-party tools."
"It has user-friendly data visualization features, supporting our decision-making process with its business intelligence capabilities"
"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."
"If you correctly use the product for your use cases, it provides value for money."
"You need to purchase upgraded support separately."
"The look and feel should be updated in terms of the types of dashboards and graphs that you can produce. They aren't as visual as some of its competitors."
"The licensing needs improvement. There needs to be a middle option between Pro and Premium versions."
"I would like to see a feature that connects with a Machine Learning platform like a RapidMiner or Azure Machine Learning Studio. It would be great to have a Machine Learning application link to connect."
"The DAX in Microsoft BI is quite difficult."
"In Microsoft Excel, you are able to have tabs. However, in Microsoft BI you do not have this flexibility."
"Microsoft BI’s integration and visualization could be improved."
"The integration with third-party products could be more stable."
"The pricing is high."
"Sometimes the filters are disappearing, and I'm not sure why this is happening."
"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."
"The solution should be mobile-responsive. It should also include drag-and-drop and slice-and-dice features."
"Needs improvement with UI transparency."
"This solution would be improved with the inclusion of a feature that would allow us to add a common library of (our) commands used in load scripts and expressions, so with a keyword, we would get a drop down to select the command we are looking for, as opposed to the generic help."
"The user interface is old."
"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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