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's most valuable features are the user interface, which is easy to use and light."
"Microsoft BI is better than most solutions we have. It's pretty easy to conduct analysis with it."
"It is useful for bringing visualization to data. It calculates counts, ratios, etc."
"Its connectivity with other Office applications, mostly with Excel, and the ability to deploy it very easily are the most valuable features. It comes sort of bundled with the cloud, so you don't need to set up a server and a standalone infrastructure. So, getting into the system or building something that you can deploy is very easy and very cheap. With other systems, you need to have a server, and you need to have a license for the server. The initial setup is very costly."
"The most interesting feature of Microsoft Power BI is that it's very user-friendly."
"I like the flexibility it offers."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is an easy-to-use tool."
"There is continual improvement year-over-year."
"On the positive side, QlikView's scripting is a great asset as it functions as an ETL."
"Associative model - no more cubes."
"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 most valuable aspect is its extensive library on Microsoft, providing a robust framework for implementation."
"One of the good thing is that you can integrate different data source technologies. So you can model your environment without having any of our views running."
"Once you open it up, you see everything that you can do."
"This solution has simplified getting to and understanding our data, no matter where it is housed."
"You can switch views easily."
"When we have a big report with lots of data, the solution slows down quite a lot."
"It should be more scalable for an enterprise-level implementation. When you deploy large data sets, the response has to be faster in Power BI. This is one thing that needs to be improved in it."
"There are some other visuals that are available in the Microsoft marketplace, however, you need to use them via trial and error. There needs to be a write-up about how to use them with a quick guide describing the visual."
"If you need data in real-time, it's not an ideal solution."
"Areas of Power BI that could be improved are the learning curve for developers who come from non-technical backgrounds."
"Areas for improvement would be the construction of reports and the dashboard budget."
"There's always room for improvement for Microsoft Power BI, especially for the UX and the menus to make it more accessible to business users."
"For someone who is new, I think that Power BI can be a little complicated."
"Enhancing user-friendliness would be highly beneficial."
"Though the initial setup phase is simple, when it comes to the integration with the custom systems, the configuration and the compatibility sometimes take some more time."
"QlikView's UI could be more user-friendly."
"QlikView certainly lacks in its ability to share visualizations or create visualizations easily."
"There is a lack of static PDF report generation and automatic resizing of the dashboard to fit the device."
"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."
"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."
"It needs work with visualization."
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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