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."Good CS and administration."
"I have found the quick reporting and the conductivity with all the data sources valuable."
"I find Power BI's reporting feature the most valuable. The solution has improved a lot. There are new features getting added day by day. In the past, they didn't even have the printing feature, but now they have it."
"Microsoft BI was very helpful for me because I had a huge variety of connections. It is very convenient to build reports, even if somebody has no experience using BI tools or data visualizations. Additionally, the performance is very good when generating reports."
"Power BI has strong support from Microsoft. If you need help, they answer promptly. There are also several discussion groups where you can get information, like the product roadmap and any new things coming up."
"It's a powerful platform."
"It is a good platform for data analysis, organization, and all of the other interim performances that are necessary."
"Management reporting solution that's very stable and scalable."
"We can scale it if we need to."
"QlikView is a scalable solution that multiple users can easily use."
"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."
"It enables us to configure various elements, such as dashboard settings, including factors like color schemes and other customization parameters."
"The initial setup is not very complex."
"Associative model - no more cubes."
"Easy to analyze data by click-through."
"The user interface and dashboards are very good."
"Microsoft Power BI can be confusing, because it has two languages that you need to learn if you want to use it, and this makes it more difficult for nontechnical users."
"The solution could improve by providing more free visuals. A lot of them are very nice but you have to purchase them."
"When it comes to improvement, I would say there could be more tutorials for students in universities who are just learning it. And it wouldn't have to be just for students in universities. It might also be for the people who use it in the real world."
"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."
"There are some connector-related issues in their MSBA solution."
"The formatting template could be improved."
"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."
"Trend data and dashboards need improvement."
"Needs improvement with UI transparency."
"Error handling."
"There is a lack of static PDF report generation and automatic resizing of the dashboard to fit the device."
"Enhancing user-friendliness would be highly beneficial."
"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."
"There could be a feature to analyze the sales and accounting data of the client."
"Sometimes, dealing with complex reports requires more effort, which could be really improved."
"Improvements are required in the hide and unhide functionality that falls under the layout container feature that has been used in my company in recent times."
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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