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.
"I like the flexibility it offers."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"What I like about Power BI is how fast you are able to create dashboards and how fast you are able to fetch the data. You can connect to the database or data source, and then you can design your dashboards very easily."
"It is easy to work with and very chic."
"It is very good, and it supports the Microsoft ecosystem, including Excel, etc."
"We like the drag and drop interactability visualization. We really like that. It's user-friendly."
"Power BI allows you to create user defined charts which is really useful."
"It is really flexible. The charts and reports are really nice. You have the flexibility of self-service."
"Data transforming with scripting, and the associative model that lets users browse data in an easy way, are the most valuable features."
"The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to view the entire data available for analysis."
"If you correctly use the product for your use cases, it provides value for money."
"I had the option to prepare data myself instead of always having to depend on the data team."
"The language support is very good."
"It excels in supporting database connections and various database types."
"You can switch views easily."
"The initial setup is not very complex."
"The report server feature is quite limited."
"The solution could improve by providing more free visuals. A lot of them are very nice but you have to purchase them."
"In Microsoft Excel, you are able to have tabs. However, in Microsoft BI you do not have this flexibility."
"I'm looking for something that can make it much easier to incorporate Power BI visuals or dashboards into, let's say, Power Apps – custom Power Apps or anything like that. The most important thing would be to seamlessly embed reports in applications. For example, to have buttons that can be navigated through multiple solutions – from Power Apps to Power BI to SharePoint – via links or something like that."
"The on-premises version lacks some technical features that are available with the Cloud version."
"Microsoft is behind IBM when it comes to security features."
"It should have more integrations."
"I would like to see integration with Excel."
"There is a lack of static PDF report generation and automatic resizing of the dashboard to fit the device."
"The user interface and ease of use takes a bit of a learning curve to pick up."
"It needs work with visualization."
"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."
"QlikView certainly lacks in its ability to share visualizations or create visualizations easily."
"There is no automation or drag and drop functionality."
"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."
"Though the initial setup phase is simple, when it comes to the integration with the custom systems, the configuration and the compatibility sometimes take some more 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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