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."Microsoft BI is easy to use and to design. I found Microsoft BI a lot easier than Tableau."
"Users already using Excel can generate new reports and dashboards within minutes."
"The product can go easily go and extract data and it can put it into any format."
"Very intuitive and easy to use."
"We have found the solution to be stable."
"When we are introducing Microsoft BI to our clients, if they're familiar with Excel, the transition phase will be much easier for them. They can easily switch from Microsoft Excel to Microsoft BI. The core foundation or the base technology is the same in both tools. There are a few limitations in Microsoft Excel, and this is where Microsoft BI comes in."
"Its visualizations and dashboards are most valuable. Power BI is great in terms of visualizations and dashboards. The reports that we previously had were not very nice in terms of visualization. It also provides the ability to play with the data."
"Premium features that used to cost $5,000 per company per month recently became a lot more accessible. Microsoft recently implemented a per user feature in Power BI Premium; it's $20 per month."
"It enables us to configure various elements, such as dashboard settings, including factors like color schemes and other customization parameters."
"It's pretty easy to deploy."
"The solution is fast."
"We use QlikView for its cost-effectiveness and ease of integration with databases."
"Scripting as per a customer's need, which is a pretty cool feature and not available in other tools."
"It's incredibly fast and can handle large volumes of data without slowing down our operations."
"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 is a stable product."
"People without private emails cannot publish and, frankly, this doesn't allow for easy training."
"It would be nice to use other connectors to link with the data."
"There is room for improvement in terms of pricing for the solution."
"I would like for there to be some type of user manual that shows steps on how to navigate the solution."
"You do need to do some hard coding for certain things in Microsoft BI."
"Microsoft BI's visualization could be better. Though Power BI's visualization has steadily improved over the years, it's not on the level tools like Tableau and SAS or some of the more expensive products on the market."
"It needs a wizard that covers all its options."
"One of the more difficult things to do is to export some of the data from Power BI to Excel."
"Needs improvement with UI transparency."
"The solution should be mobile-responsive. It should also include drag-and-drop and slice-and-dice features."
"There is a lack of static PDF report generation and automatic resizing of the dashboard to fit the device."
"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."
"The user interface is old."
"There is no automation or drag and drop functionality."
"Better source data connectors."
"I would want them to have more options as a user. It would be nice for them to create their own dashboards and add fields."
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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