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's a great tool for visualization data, and it's free for engineers."
"The solution is easy to use and flexible."
"It provides easy integration with Office tools."
"The solution is stable."
"It is a powerful tool that helps our data analysis processes."
"It offers a lot of information and is very flexible and interactive."
"With Power BI, you're able to store your data within spreadsheets and SharePoints, and then have Power BI pull the data out and report on it. So we actually saved a ton of money not needing to load the data into databases, which is a big prerequisite for many other reporting tools."
"Power BI has strong support from Microsoft. If you need help, they answer promptly. There are also several discussion groups where you can get information, like the product roadmap and any new things coming up."
"You can switch views easily."
"If you correctly use the product for your use cases, it provides value for money."
"The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to view the entire data available for analysis."
"I had the option to prepare data myself instead of always having to depend on the data team."
"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."
"Data transforming with scripting, and the associative model that lets users browse data in an easy way, are the most valuable features."
"QlikView is one of the strongest tools, I would say. Also, it has a very vast capability to process the data"
"It's incredibly fast and can handle large volumes of data without slowing down our operations."
"The mobile app is very poor."
"There are some limitations in Power BI; you have to work in the Power BI base. However, if you want something not out-of-the-box and you want something custom, you have to do a lot of work."
"The solution could improve the mobile application design. It is difficult to use compared to the desktop version."
"Needs single sign-on."
"The solution could benefit by allowing deeper data analytics."
"It's quite difficult to learn how to use Power BI."
"Areas for improvement would be the construction of reports and the dashboard budget."
"The initial setup is a little bit technical."
"The tool is expensive in Turkey."
"There is a lack of static PDF report generation and automatic resizing of the dashboard to fit the device."
"The pricing is high."
"Enhancing user-friendliness would be highly beneficial."
"Error handling."
"They could improve the update time."
"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."
"They could provide a user-friendly analysis process rather than specialized IT resource code."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in Reporting with 293 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, SQL Server, Amazon QuickSight, TIBCO Spotfire and IBM Cognos. See our Microsoft Power BI vs. QlikView report.
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