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."Management reporting solution that's very stable and scalable."
"Microsoft BI is better than most solutions we have. It's pretty easy to conduct analysis with it."
"Microsoft BI is scalable."
"The interface is very easy to use."
"Considering that it's Microsoft, it can be integrated with the Power Platform, which is also Microsoft-based, like SharePoint, Power apps, Power Automate, and Power BI, which is the most user-friendly."
"I like that I can use Power BI to upload data. That is very important for me. The visualization is also convenient and easy to use."
"It is useful for bringing visualization to data. It calculates counts, ratios, etc."
"We are able to collaborate on things and get insightful data visualizations."
"E-T-L, The Extract, Transform, and Loading capabilities of QlikView make it a highly sophisticated self-service business intelligence tool for developers and analysts."
"You can do a lot of things on the back end which are not possible in the other solutions on the market."
"QlikView is a scalable solution that multiple users can easily use."
"It's pretty easy to deploy."
"The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to view the entire data available for analysis."
"It's incredibly fast and can handle large volumes of data without slowing down our operations."
"QlikView is one of the strongest tools, I would say. Also, it has a very vast capability to process the data"
"Scripting as per a customer's need, which is a pretty cool feature and not available in other tools."
"It's not really complicated, but I didn't find the things I was looking for. The ones I used to work with within Dash are more open, and there are more choices. But with Power BI, there are only limited types of plots that I can use. For example, when I wanted to put the plots in Power BI, there was no extendable space. You have a limited page where you can place a maximum of three plots in that, and you can't do more than that on a single page. You have to create a new page, a different page for that. That made it a bit annoying, and the filtering part is limited, with basic functions. If you want to make custom filtering or custom functions, you can't do that."
"Creating dashboards could be easier."
"You do need to do some hard coding for certain things in Microsoft BI."
"Lacks the ability to copy data from BI into PowerPoint."
"It should be more scalable for an enterprise-level implementation. When you deploy large data sets, the response has to be faster in Power BI. This is one thing that needs to be improved in it."
"Sometimes while developing, the front end is not easily customizable and it has limitations. We cannot go and do any UI we want. We have to stick to the limitations of the product."
"Power BI could be improved by implementing more options for data integration. Nowadays, the cloud takes care of scalability and security. As we all know, data sources are increasing, so we get data from a variety of streams. But if we could get the downstream data into the database and update the reports more easily, Power BI would be better."
"The DAX in Microsoft BI is quite difficult."
"They could improve the speed."
"They could provide a user-friendly analysis process rather than specialized IT resource code."
"Syntax editor needs some work, it's frustrating to have valid syntax being flagged as incorrect."
"They should offer the capability to directly access data from SaaS environments, as it would simplify the migration process, and while it may seem like a minor enhancement, it would be beneficial to our clients."
"Improvement in collaboration, between that and publishing of reports and publishing of models."
"If a user wanted to see something not included in the application the new object had to be created by a power user or developer because Qlik view's scripting has somewhat of a learning curve."
"It needs work with visualization."
"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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