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 solution is easy to set up and implement."
"The most useful features are the ability to connect different databases to Microsoft BI and explore them. Once the database information has been extracted, you have the ability to construct indicators and dashboards from the information."
"The initial setup is easy."
"ou can pull reports, visualize them in real-time, and connect them to a variety of other data sources."
"In the process of using data there is the Extract, Transform and Load (ETL). For extracting we are using another software, for transforming we are using our own coding in C#, and then we use Microsoft BI for loading the information. Microsoft BI displays information very well."
"I think the visualization part is valuable."
"It ingegrates nicely with Office 365."
"The amount of customization that you can do is good, and it's relatively straightforward to do."
"It has user-friendly data visualization features, supporting our decision-making process with its business intelligence capabilities"
"The search feature: ability to see the related data."
"The scalability is there."
"The most valuable aspect is its extensive library on Microsoft, providing a robust framework for implementation."
"Scripting as per a customer's need, which is a pretty cool feature and not available in other tools."
"This is a very cool application with endless options of creativity and visuals."
"I had the option to prepare data myself instead of always having to depend on the data team."
"The integration with Salesforce has helped us gain access to crucial sales data in real-time."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly interface with Microsoft BI."
"I would like to see some AI incorporated into this solution in the future."
"I would like for there to be some type of user manual that shows steps on how to navigate the solution."
"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."
"It has limited performance capabilities in terms of connecting to large transactional databases, but it is fine for simple and quick queries from Excel spreadsheets or one table. The premium level is going to be more applicable for the higher transaction-level databases."
"We would like improvements made to the paginated reports so that it produces quality similarly to SSRS."
"The reporting needs to be improved."
"The look is simple, and could be a little more professional."
"Sometimes, dealing with complex reports requires more effort, which could be really improved."
"There could be a feature to analyze the sales and accounting data of the client."
"It is really old. We are moving towards converting everything into a Power BI environment. We want to have a self-service type of BI environment where different levels of users in organizations can log onto a portal and retrieve the data they need or get the necessary insights for decision-making that's important for them or their business unit. They have built a new version of QlikView called QlikSense, which probably competes with newer BI tools, such as Power BI, but they are far behind. That's why we are moving towards a newer tool that's easier to use and has more visualizations to represent the data."
"I really wish the application was easier to use in the development phase."
"This solution would be improved with the inclusion of a feature that would allow us to add a common library of (our) commands used in load scripts and expressions, so with a keyword, we would get a drop down to select the command we are looking for, as opposed to the generic help."
"The user interface is old."
"Installation and deployment could be made easier and quicker."
"Error handling."
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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