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 Microsoft Power BI app is very good. It's also very flexible."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"Key features are its dashboard functionality and ease of integration with various data sources."
"Allows business users with a mission to solve their own problems, without an IT person."
"Microsoft BI's dashboards are helpful."
"We find the solution offers good stability."
"Constant collaboration is the most valuable. I can build a dashboard, and several co-workers can access this dashboard. We can share information that is important for decision-making. It is a very easy-to-deploy solution. It is compatible with a lot of data sources. It is also very stable and scalable. There is also a very good forum and a lot of help and online training."
"Connectivity, installation, and configuration are pretty fast and seamless compared to Cognos."
"The most valuable feature of QlikView is the integration with other third-party tools."
"A well designed app brings freedom of inquiry to meetings, allowing me to answer questions in real time and this has transformed progress and outputs of our monthly group meeting."
"QlikView is a scalable solution that multiple users can easily use."
"You can do a lot of things on the back end which are not possible in the other solutions on the market."
"The initial setup is not very complex."
"E-T-L, The Extract, Transform, and Loading capabilities of QlikView make it a highly sophisticated self-service business intelligence tool for developers and analysts."
"It is a stable product."
"I had the option to prepare data myself instead of always having to depend on the data team."
"If you have to pull multiple data sources performance is somewhat lacking."
"I feel the modeling page should be simplified."
"I have found using Microsoft BI is not easy. For example, trying to use the auto-refresh feature is not simple."
"Areas of Power BI that could be improved are the learning curve for developers who come from non-technical backgrounds."
"My main complaint is that the error messages need to be made more clear. Currently, they are either too generic or outright misleading, and finding the real problem is like searching for a needle in a haystack."
"We haven't used it that long and I haven't come across anything that's stood out as needing to be fixed."
"I would like to see a change in the premium capacity."
"The cost of the solution can get high."
"Improvement in collaboration, between that and publishing of reports and publishing of models."
"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."
"They could improve the update time."
"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."
"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."
"Installation and deployment could be made easier and quicker."
"Syntax editor needs some work, it's frustrating to have valid syntax being flagged as incorrect."
"It would be nice if QlikView could be plugged in into the company's website or an online portal such as QlikSense is capable of. There are ways around but it takes enormous time to develop."
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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