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."It is easy to use. It has got a desktop where people can develop their own dashboards. Basically, we have figured out how to connect finance contracts and all programs for the government agency. So, they can see everything in a dashboard. So, it is very easy to use from a technical standpoint of view."
"The most valuable feature is shareability, where we can publish work to the cloud and share it with team members."
"My primary use is for view of the dashboard."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is real-time report tracking."
"The most useful features are the ability to connect different databases to Microsoft BI and explore them. Once the database information has been extracted, you have the ability to construct indicators and dashboards from the information."
"Easy to use and the visualization is valuable."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"The visuals are great and make everything look very professional. We can change the look and feel or manipulate the data according to our requirements. It's extremely flexible."
"The language support is very good."
"You can switch views easily."
"We can scale it if we need to."
"The most valuable aspect is its extensive library on Microsoft, providing a robust framework for implementation."
"The integration with Salesforce has helped us gain access to crucial sales data in real-time."
"It's incredibly fast and can handle large volumes of data without slowing down our operations."
"It is a stable product."
"On the positive side, QlikView's scripting is a great asset as it functions as an ETL."
"The product’s on-premise reporting servers could support real-time data refreshing capabilities like its on-cloud version."
"I would like Microsoft to include some inbuilt machine learning so that it becomes point-and-click, rather than us developing models out of API and BI connecting to that and getting the results. That process gets in the way of continuity."
"Some kind of expression wizard, where the user can build a complex expression without any knowledge of DAX, can be a good addition to the product."
"One area for improvement in Microsoft Power BI is serviceability. Compared to one of its competitors: Tableau, there are a lot of things which you cannot do in this tool, that can be done in Tableau."
"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."
"It is not the right tool to do deeper analysis or predictions. When you have some data and you want to do some deep analysis, there is no feature to help you with this."
"I would like to be able to use more predicting data science features without having to use R."
"There are certain features that are only available in the cloud version. It would be beneficial if they could be brought down to the on-premise version without the necessity of using the enterprise SQL database, as that can be very costly. We need more cost-effective features that are available in the cloud to be accessible on-premise."
"QlikView certainly lacks in its ability to share visualizations or create visualizations easily."
"Sometimes the filters are disappearing, and I'm not sure why this is happening."
"The user interface and ease of use takes a bit of a learning curve to pick up."
"Improvement in collaboration, between that and publishing of reports and publishing of models."
"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."
"Syntax editor needs some work, it's frustrating to have valid syntax being flagged as incorrect."
"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."
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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