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 dashboards of Microsoft BI are easy to use."
"The visuals are great and make everything look very professional. We can change the look and feel or manipulate the data according to our requirements. It's extremely flexible."
"I like the flexibility it offers."
"It integrates with all of the Microsoft tools."
"The initial setup is relatively simple."
"I have found the quick reporting and the conductivity with all the data sources valuable."
"The most valuable features in Microsoft BI are the analysis using the feature drag and drop function. It's very easy to load and use different data sources."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"It has user-friendly data visualization features, supporting our decision-making process with its business intelligence capabilities"
"The user interface and dashboards are very good."
"It is useful to use a tool like this to have a view of data at a point in time. You can extract and create little data sets that you can store, and then over time, you can have a view for tracking changes. Especially when you work with a relational database or a database that's a production database, the data is dynamic, but if you use QlikView, you can take a snapshot of different datasets. In your own time, you can then get insights and report, build, analyze, and draw whatever you need from the data, which is quite useful."
"The most useful feature of QlikView for me is the QVD concept."
"This is a very cool application with endless options of creativity and visuals."
"Easy to analyze data by click-through."
"It excels in supporting database connections and various database types."
"On the positive side, QlikView's scripting is a great asset as it functions as an ETL."
"Things can slow down if you create too many pages."
"The biggest thing with Microsoft right now is better support. There should be more timely support. We can do 90% of it ourselves by the same token. When we're into the 10%, we do not get timely support via Microsoft's support team."
"Microsoft BI can improve some of the visual level filters or visual functionality, that are available in other BI tools, such as Tableau or Qlik Sense."
"Defining a relationship was very confusing. There were circular directions for which I had to do a lot of adjustments in the data. They can do something to make it easier."
"The challenge of this product is in truncating the table data."
"A lot of people work on Excel, so being able to export an Excel file as part of a subscription would be an improvement."
"Power BI's drillthrough feature could be improved. I didn't like drillthrough and those options much, but I did like it in MicroStrategy."
"Real-time updating needs improvement."
"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."
"The user interface and ease of use takes a bit of a learning curve to pick up."
"Syntax editor needs some work, it's frustrating to have valid syntax being flagged as incorrect."
"The tool is expensive in Turkey."
"I really wish the application was easier to use in the development phase."
"There's room for improvement in the area of management's handling of concerns."
"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."
"Enhancing user-friendliness would be highly beneficial."
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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