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 most valuable feature is definitely the visual aspect and the DAX capabilities to virtually do anything."
"They find Power BI's data pull mechanism to be sufficient and cost-effective, especially considering the stability it provides. In comparison with other solutions, Power BI stands out as a fantastic choice. Therefore, I would definitely recommend sticking with the Pro license."
"I have found the best features to be the dashboard creation, graphs, charts, and presentation bar graphs."
"PowerBI – Self-service BI."
"Power BI allows you to create user defined charts which is really useful."
"You don't need much support with Microsoft Power BI because it has such a large base of users who can answer your questions on their forums. There are also many video tutorials and webinars available online that offer solutions to whatever problems you may have."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is an easy-to-use tool."
"The most valuable feature is that it's easy to use. It's very useful for non-engineers and it is the ultimate solution for providing information and insights. Power BI is the best visualization tool I have ever worked with."
"The in-memory feature gives us better insight. It's also easy to drill down into the information and select information."
"The most useful feature of QlikView for me is the QVD concept."
"The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to view the entire data available for analysis."
"One of the good thing is that you can integrate different data source technologies. So you can model your environment without having any of our views running."
"It excels in supporting database connections and various database types."
"It has user-friendly data visualization features, supporting our decision-making process with its business intelligence capabilities"
"It's incredibly fast and can handle large volumes of data without slowing down our operations."
"The language support is very good."
"I would like for there to be some type of user manual that shows steps on how to navigate the solution."
"Most clients have MacBooks. Therefore, they use Tableau as Power BI Desktop is not available for the MacBook right now."
"It should be easier to use when there are multiple system sources."
"My data is restricted to my DB and I'm not sure how this would handle an extremely large dataset."
"I have a little problem with Synapse Analytics because it's very new. It's a product that has many capabilities, but it is not very well developed. I have to see the list of permissions from one object. I can't do this in Synapse. I have to search on the web for a solution because I don't have the tool for it."
"If I have to update data automatically, where I have to pin the gateway, it doesn't update. There is a scheduled refresh functionality so that it refreshes automatically, but I find it very hard to make it work."
"I would like to be able to use more predicting data science features without having to use R."
"The upgrade process could be improved."
"The user interface and ease of use takes a bit of a learning curve to pick up."
"Installation and deployment could be made easier and quicker."
"Error handling."
"QlikView certainly lacks in its ability to share visualizations or create visualizations easily."
"The solution is quite costly."
"More/newer visualisation components need to be added."
"The user interface is old."
"There is a lack of static PDF report generation and automatic resizing of the dashboard to fit the device."
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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