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."There was a lot of manual work involved with Excel, whereas once we moved on to Microsoft Power BI, it was a cleaner dashboard and it was faster too."
"The drill-down capabilities and automatic charts are the best ones. The visualization is also very good. In terms of visualization, no competing product, such as IBM Cognos or any other product, has the same capabilities."
"Our setup is very straight forward and can be done in a matter of hours."
"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."
"We found the initial setup to be straightforward."
"What I like most is that I can do everything in Power BI that I can do in Excel."
"We can see that it's really improved the way end users can do their own graphs and pick their own fields of information and present that in a nice way."
"The feature I find most valuable is the ability to publish Power Bi reports, using an embedded link, directly onto a website."
"Its ability to build, very quickly, very complicated models."
"It's pretty easy to deploy."
"This is a very cool application with endless options of creativity and visuals."
"If you correctly use the product for your use cases, it provides value for money."
"The scalability is there."
"The in-memory feature gives us better insight. It's also easy to drill down into the information and select information."
"On the positive side, QlikView's scripting is a great asset as it functions as an ETL."
"Easy to analyze data by click-through."
"It needs more analytic tools."
"Some kind of expression wizard, where the user can build a complex expression without any knowledge of DAX, can be a good addition to the product."
"Technical support could be a bit better."
"The dashboard could be simplified."
"From any improvement perspective, I want the product to be made available to users free of cost...The stability and scalability of the product can be better."
"In an upcoming release, the solution could be simplified and have a more complete product package rather than a suite of products that we have to put together."
"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."
"I have to write scripts to query data for analyzing performance."
"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."
"The only thing I would improve about it is the fact that it refreshes all the time, and when it does that, it just deletes all the options you had, all the filters that you had selected, so you need to select them from the beginning."
"The user interface is old."
"There is a challenge on the frontend when it comes to browsing data through QlikView, as it isn't entirely compatible with other platforms we use."
"Scalability really depends on the size of your data and QlikView server architecture. For the biggest data sets, it could become an issue at some point."
"Error handling."
"Installation and deployment could be made easier and quicker."
"Syntax editor needs some work, it's frustrating to have valid syntax being flagged as incorrect."
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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