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."It is good for us for onboarding the data. We can connect to multiple data sources, do transformations to make the data usable, and then model it within the transformation. Someone who has come from a Microsoft Excel environment will easily be able to use this solution. Power query and report modeling are easy to understand in this solution. Their technical support is very good. They are extremely responsive, helpful, and hands-on."
"Easy to use. End-users can make changes to the graphics."
"PowerBi is used to import our production data and generate dashboards, then integrates other Excel sheets to provide managers dashboards. This helps them get insights to make better OEE improvement decisions, mainly where to focus resources. We became able to see indicators from any time frame (day, week, month, or year), then could make better decisions."
"The solution integrates with other Microsoft solutions very well."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the visual aspect and the DAX capabilities to virtually do anything."
"It's a pretty scalable product."
"Implementation is very quick and the solution is very user-friendly."
"We've used Microsoft BI for the general use cases around reporting and dashboarding."
"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 in-memory feature gives us better insight. It's also easy to drill down into the information and select information."
"The initial setup is not very complex."
"Our Qlikview applications help us to get a good idea of our Client Base Performance and assist us in the decision making for Seasonal Specials. On the other hand QlikView helps us to get a grasp on our Suppliers and helps us to negotiate pricing with them."
"Easy to analyze data by click-through."
"The most valuable feature of QlikView is the integration with other third-party tools."
"You can switch views easily."
"It's incredibly fast and can handle large volumes of data without slowing down our operations."
"Areas of Power BI that could be improved are the learning curve for developers who come from non-technical backgrounds."
"I feel the modeling page should 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."
"Power BI shows reports on actual data, not metadata."
"Microsoft BI’s integration and visualization could be improved."
"Anything they can do to improve enterprise collaboration is going to help people get set up and utilize the solution."
"Powerpoints are not available in the report server."
"If you have to pull multiple data sources performance is somewhat lacking."
"Improvement in collaboration, between that and publishing of reports and publishing of models."
"The solution should be mobile-responsive. It should also include drag-and-drop and slice-and-dice features."
"More/newer visualisation components need to be added."
"Syntax editor needs some work, it's frustrating to have valid syntax being flagged as incorrect."
"Error handling."
"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."
"I really wish the application was easier to use in the development phase."
"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."
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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