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 was a lot of manual work involved with Excel, whereas once we moved on to Microsoft Power BI, it was a cleaner dashboard and it was faster too."
"When we are introducing Microsoft BI to our clients, if they're familiar with Excel, the transition phase will be much easier for them. They can easily switch from Microsoft Excel to Microsoft BI. The core foundation or the base technology is the same in both tools. There are a few limitations in Microsoft Excel, and this is where Microsoft BI comes in."
"The stability is great and continues to get better and better."
"The product is user-friendly."
"Provides a full platform (database, ETL, reporting, analysis, and so on)"
"Other people can access data much more easily than before. Its usability is the main advantage, people in the company are using it."
"The user interface is easy to work with."
"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."
"This solution has simplified getting to and understanding our data, no matter where it is housed."
"The language support is very good."
"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."
"Easy to analyze data by click-through."
"Scripting as per a customer's need, which is a pretty cool feature and not available in other tools."
"I had the option to prepare data myself instead of always having to depend on the data team."
"The most valuable feature of QlikView is the integration with other third-party tools."
"Its ability to build, very quickly, very complicated models."
"Lacks the ability to copy data from BI into PowerPoint."
"I would like to be able to use more predicting data science features without having to use R."
"There are some other visuals that are available in the Microsoft marketplace, however, you need to use them via trial and error. There needs to be a write-up about how to use them with a quick guide describing the visual."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly interface with Microsoft BI."
"The initial installation is difficult."
"We would like it if they added more Python libraries in the Power BI service. For Power BI service right now, you can use Python, but it is limited to a few libraries or a few packages from Python."
"The graphic interface could be better."
"Microsoft needs to provide more drivers to connect other data sources in a native way."
"They could improve the speed."
"There is a challenge on the frontend when it comes to browsing data through QlikView, as it isn't entirely compatible with other platforms we use."
"I really wish the application was easier to use in the development phase."
"There's room for improvement in the area of management's handling of concerns."
"The user interface is old."
"Enhancing user-friendliness would be highly beneficial."
"The user interface and ease of use takes a bit of a learning curve to pick up."
"They could improve the update time."
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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