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."Microsoft BI is better than most solutions we have. It's pretty easy to conduct analysis with it."
"It's the analytic engine in terms of the interface on the Power BI environment, as opposed to pivot tables, and it's a mobile solution."
"The sharing features are vital, especially the ability to share and test different shared dashboards."
"My understanding is that the initial setup is pretty easy."
"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."
"Technical support is quite responsive."
"The virtualization of Microsoft BI is very good."
"We like the drag and drop interactability visualization. We really like that. It's user-friendly."
"The initial setup is not very complex."
"It's pretty easy to deploy."
"QlikView is one of the strongest tools, I would say. Also, it has a very vast capability to process the data"
"It has user-friendly data visualization features, supporting our decision-making process with its business intelligence capabilities"
"On the positive side, QlikView's scripting is a great asset as it functions as an ETL."
"The in-memory feature gives us better insight. It's also easy to drill down into the information and select information."
"The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to view the entire data available for analysis."
"The scalability is there."
"I would like to see the product offer more graphics to impact different audiences."
"There is room for improvement in terms of pricing for the solution."
"We haven't used it that long and I haven't come across anything that's stood out as needing to be fixed."
"It is getting better but still, there are opportunity areas in some aspects, especially the Windows OS dependency."
"The integration with third-party products could be more stable."
"here are still better UI designs they can go through. I'm assuming they are focusing more on capabilities rather than look-and-feel designs."
"I find the solution to be 70 percent stable."
"Most clients have MacBooks. Therefore, they use Tableau as Power BI Desktop is not available for the MacBook right now."
"They could improve the update time."
"Needs improvement with UI transparency."
"They could improve the speed."
"The pricing is high."
"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."
"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."
"Installation and deployment could be made easier and quicker."
"Sometimes, dealing with complex reports requires more effort, which could be really improved."
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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