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 initial setup is straightforward."
"It allows individuals to do the analysis themselves."
"Data integration enabled my organization to easily pool data from our varied system into one data warehouse."
"Helped identify bad data, enabling the corrections needed to the data for management."
"What I like most is that I can do everything in Power BI that I can do in Excel."
"I have found the best features to be the dashboard creation, graphs, charts, and presentation bar graphs."
"I've seen no issues with BI's stability."
"The reports are easy to create."
"It's incredibly fast and can handle large volumes of data without slowing down our operations."
"It is a stable product."
"This is a very cool application with endless options of creativity and visuals."
"You can switch views easily."
"It excels in supporting database connections and various database types."
"The in-memory feature gives us better insight. It's also easy to drill down into the information and select information."
"A well designed app brings freedom of inquiry to meetings, allowing me to answer questions in real time and this has transformed progress and outputs of our monthly group meeting."
"We use QlikView for its cost-effectiveness and ease of integration with databases."
"The initial installation is difficult."
"One thing I would like to have is the scripting language, as they already have within Excel. It's already within a Microsoft business product, because Excel is the number one business product out there. So it would be nice to have the scripting capability in order to automate certain processes."
"Power BI doesn't support some open-source data sources that are new, such as SnowSQL, Iceberg, or ClickHouse."
"The performance of Microsoft BI could improve for large datasets and it would be beneficial to have more visualization features."
"More connections with other systems should be added, which would allow for other integrations."
"The product’s on-premise reporting servers could support real-time data refreshing capabilities like its on-cloud version."
"Microsoft BI lacks integration capabilities, so it needs to consider increasing its integration capabilities."
"I cannot comment on the stability as we haven't yet used it for a big project."
"More/newer visualisation components need to be added."
"The pricing is high."
"QlikView's UI could be more user-friendly."
"Installation and deployment could be made easier and quicker."
"There could be a feature to analyze the sales and accounting data of the client."
"The user interface is old."
"Improvement in collaboration, between that and publishing of reports and publishing of models."
"Sometimes the filters are disappearing, and I'm not sure why this is happening."
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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