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."We like the drag and drop interactability visualization. We really like that. It's user-friendly."
"I like that I can use Power BI to upload data. That is very important for me. The visualization is also convenient and easy to use."
"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."
"This is a self-service BI tool, so it doesn't require a huge amount of technical training, knowledge, or a background in BI in order to induct new people into it."
"What I like about Power BI is how fast you are able to create dashboards and how fast you are able to fetch the data. You can connect to the database or data source, and then you can design your dashboards very easily."
"I like the downloadable visualizations a lot. I think that they give the user a very nice starting point in creating awesome dashboards, with the right way to tell their data story."
"It's easy to create reports and it's easy to download the data from the corresponding report."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"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."
"The search feature: ability to see the related data."
"It enables us to configure various elements, such as dashboard settings, including factors like color schemes and other customization parameters."
"The most valuable aspect is its extensive library on Microsoft, providing a robust framework for implementation."
"The most useful feature of QlikView for me is the QVD concept."
"Associative model - no more cubes."
"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's incredibly fast and can handle large volumes of data without slowing down our operations."
"It should have more integrations."
"I have to write scripts to query data for analyzing performance."
"I would like to see the product offer more graphics to impact different audiences."
"Microsoft needs to do some more research and development to make it more stable."
"Microsoft should offer additional features for visualization and have additional features for slicing and dicing that data."
"There are some connector-related issues in their MSBA solution."
"It needs more graphics and overlays."
"The visual outlet or the visualization aspect can be improved because the settings piece is quite problematic. It requires a lot of time to set the visuals and check. It is quite fiddly to change all the settings and font sizes. It just needs better ability in terms of using templates or visualization templates to get the vision. Our users always benchmark based on the product, and they don't appreciate everything under the bonnet. The only rating is based on the actual reports in the settings for the dashboard. They should make it look a bit funky and a bit more aesthetically pleasing on the eye. It is quite a fiddly tool, but other than that, it is pretty slick. Because it is community-driven, the marketplace tends to be changing forever. You get the standard visualizations, and you've also got all other marketplace visualizations that require you to spend a bit more money and purchase things in the marketplace. With certain visualizations, there is no longevity. I had used certain visualizations, but they discontinued them, and I had to rebuild my reports, which is obviously very frustrating. There should be some sort of stabilization around how the marketplace visuals impact the users when they expire."
"There is no automation or drag and drop functionality."
"It needs work with visualization."
"There could be a feature to analyze the sales and accounting data of the client."
"They could provide a user-friendly analysis process rather than specialized IT resource code."
"More/newer visualisation components need to be added."
"It would be nice if QlikView could be plugged in into the company's website or an online portal such as QlikSense is capable of. There are ways around but it takes enormous time to develop."
"There is a lack of static PDF report generation and automatic resizing of the dashboard to fit the device."
"The pricing is high."
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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