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 very intuitive, you do not need to have too much programming knowledge to use it. Advanced Excel users can use it very easily."
"It is in the cloud, which makes it easy for mobile access of reports and data."
"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."
"We have a lot of servers and applications from which we want reports, and it allows us to create reports from an SQL source or some other source."
"The DAX coding language is good for creating formulae."
"It's a very easy-to-use solution."
"The ease of integration and connectivity stands out as the most critical aspect, followed closely by the flexibility to customize reports and dashboards."
"Microsoft BI is easy to use and to design. I found Microsoft BI a lot easier than Tableau."
"QlikView is one of the strongest tools, I would say. Also, it has a very vast capability to process the data"
"The in-memory feature gives us better insight. It's also easy to drill down into the information and select information."
"Our Qlikview applications help us to get a good idea of our Client Base Performance and assist us in the decision making for Seasonal Specials. On the other hand QlikView helps us to get a grasp on our Suppliers and helps us to negotiate pricing with them."
"The search feature: ability to see the related data."
"It's pretty easy to deploy."
"The most useful feature of QlikView for me is the QVD concept."
"The most valuable feature of QlikView is the integration with other third-party tools."
"If you correctly use the product for your use cases, it provides value for money."
"It should be more user-friendly and simple."
"Real-time updating needs improvement."
"If I compare it to Tableau, I'd say the visualizations can be better. We should have multiple options. By that I mean, while there are multiple options for the visualization, the look and feel of the dashboard when you compare to Tableau is on the lower side. Tableau has a much better visualization."
"Power BI could be improved by implementing more options for data integration. Nowadays, the cloud takes care of scalability and security. As we all know, data sources are increasing, so we get data from a variety of streams. But if we could get the downstream data into the database and update the reports more easily, Power BI would be better."
"I have been doing trial and error to figuring out how to do the data analyzing and modeling. There could be some improvement to simplify it."
"The one thing that I noticed specifically was the graphical features, and some of the analytical features. They were stronger on the Tableau side."
"Power BI could have better metadata management. It's easy to use for a single person. However, it lacks an enterprise-grade metadata management system, which can be a problem if you're doing an enterprise deployment with multiple users."
"Microsoft BI lacks some of the scheme features. It would be beneficial if there were a way to show how we move values in a different way."
"If a user wanted to see something not included in the application the new object had to be created by a power user or developer because Qlik view's scripting has somewhat of a learning curve."
"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."
"Sometimes the filters are disappearing, and I'm not sure why this is happening."
"There is a lack of static PDF report generation and automatic resizing of the dashboard to fit the device."
"They could provide a user-friendly analysis process rather than specialized IT resource code."
"Sometimes, dealing with complex reports requires more effort, which could be really improved."
"Better source data connectors."
"I would like to see more advanced features from Qlik Sense integrated into QlikView to keep it competitive and up-to-date."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in Reporting with 293 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, SQL Server, Amazon QuickSight, TIBCO Spotfire and IBM Cognos. See our Microsoft Power BI vs. QlikView report.
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