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."We encourage end users to use Power BI because it's quite easy for them to interact with the menus and the navigation bar. Even for ordinary users, they can create their own dashboard using Power BI."
"It is a powerful tool that helps our data analysis processes."
"The DAX coding language is good for creating formulae."
"It is low-cost and easy to deploy. It is fully-featured."
"Provides good data flow related to the container and control flow."
"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."
"I've seen no issues with BI's stability."
"It provides easy integration with Office tools."
"It's pretty easy to deploy."
"I had the option to prepare data myself instead of always having to depend on the data team."
"It's incredibly fast and can handle large volumes of data without slowing down our operations."
"You can do a lot of things on the back end which are not possible in the other solutions on the market."
"We use QlikView for its cost-effectiveness and ease of integration with databases."
"You can switch views easily."
"It is a stable product."
"The user interface and dashboards are very good."
"I believe the price should be degressive, and we should have a lower, or better unit price if we have more users."
"I think that they can add more types of charts because the selection on the desktop version is limited."
"In my opinion, the software is a little bit limited in terms of the flexibility it offers, with regard to the design of the visualization."
"Capacity could be improved."
"The visual outlet or the visualization aspect can be improved because the settings piece is quite problematic. It requires a lot of time to set the visuals and check. It is quite fiddly to change all the settings and font sizes. It just needs better ability in terms of using templates or visualization templates to get the vision. Our users always benchmark based on the product, and they don't appreciate everything under the bonnet. The only rating is based on the actual reports in the settings for the dashboard. They should make it look a bit funky and a bit more aesthetically pleasing on the eye. It is quite a fiddly tool, but other than that, it is pretty slick. Because it is community-driven, the marketplace tends to be changing forever. You get the standard visualizations, and you've also got all other marketplace visualizations that require you to spend a bit more money and purchase things in the marketplace. With certain visualizations, there is no longevity. I had used certain visualizations, but they discontinued them, and I had to rebuild my reports, which is obviously very frustrating. There should be some sort of stabilization around how the marketplace visuals impact the users when they expire."
"There are some problems with the functionality of this solution. The dashboard is not very user friendly and is quite complicated."
"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 solution could be more customizable and you do not have too much freedom on the code."
"Sometimes, dealing with complex reports requires more effort, which could be really improved."
"I would like to see more advanced features from Qlik Sense integrated into QlikView to keep it competitive and up-to-date."
"The solution is quite costly."
"The solution should be mobile-responsive. It should also include drag-and-drop and slice-and-dice features."
"I really wish the application was easier to use in the development phase."
"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."
"The user interface is old."
"The pricing is high."
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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