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 is a lot of variety in Power BI. In particular, the visuals are quite rich and the feature set has been growing rapidly in the last two years. Possibly the best part for me is that there are a lot of ways to connect with data sources."
"There are some great automation elements in the product."
"Microsoft BI's most valuable features are the user interface, which is easy to use and light."
"The good part of it is that you can do whatever you want with it when it comes to building BI. In terms of languages, it supports Python, and it also natively supports R."
"Microsoft BI is scalable."
"Like all Microsoft products, it is very easy to set up initially."
"Previously we used Excel, which took a long time - two or three weeks - to bring the data into a uniform format, whereas BI can do the same job in a day."
"The solution is not that difficult to install, although this will vary with the experience of the person responsible for its installation."
"We can scale it if we need to."
"The most useful feature of QlikView for me is the QVD concept."
"The scalability is there."
"On the positive side, QlikView's scripting is a great asset as it functions as an ETL."
"We use QlikView for its cost-effectiveness and ease of integration with databases."
"Associative model - no more cubes."
"The user interface and dashboards are very good."
"QlikView is a scalable solution that multiple users can easily use."
"There could be an integrated AI that can automatically analyze some of your data and highlight or provide suggestions. For example, when you are looking at a data set, it can suggest putting it into a certain type of chart so that you gain different insights or a trend line. You would almost have templates that it would recommend for you."
"I believe the price should be degressive, and we should have a lower, or better unit price if we have more users."
"The only challenge I have found is that they do not have a Mac version."
"I would like to be able to use more predicting data science features without having to use R."
"Better mapping capabilities and easier administration access would be beneficial, especially for understanding who has viewed reports."
"Microsoft Power BI can be confusing, because it has two languages that you need to learn if you want to use it, and this makes it more difficult for nontechnical users."
"BI is scalable, but there are some problems with limited online storage."
"The licensing needs improvement. There needs to be a middle option between Pro and Premium versions."
"There is a lack of static PDF report generation and automatic resizing of the dashboard to fit the device."
"They could improve the speed."
"The solution should be mobile-responsive. It should also include drag-and-drop and slice-and-dice features."
"The tool is expensive in Turkey."
"QlikView certainly lacks in its ability to share visualizations or create visualizations easily."
"They could provide a user-friendly analysis process rather than specialized IT resource code."
"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."
"Improvement in collaboration, between that and publishing of reports and publishing of models."
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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