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."I think the visualization part is valuable."
"The tool is very flexible so it allows creativity."
"The best thing about this solution is that it is very user friendly. It is interactive in terms of visualizations. It is very eye-catching, and it attracts users. There are a lot of options to visualize the data in different drafts and views. I have used different visualization tools, and I found Power BI to be more efficient in terms of performance, user-friendliness, and ease of use."
"Its seamless integration with Microsoft products, such as Microsoft SQL Server or Microsoft Excel, is the most valuable."
"Power BI is more powerful than other tools because it is new for us. Each new version has more capabilities, and we're expecting AI and ML features in the next version."
"It is low-cost and easy to deploy. It is fully-featured."
"The solution integrates with other Microsoft solutions very well."
"It offers a lot of information and is very flexible and interactive."
"The most valuable feature of QlikView is the integration with other third-party tools."
"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 most valuable aspect is its extensive library on Microsoft, providing a robust framework for implementation."
"I had the option to prepare data myself instead of always having to depend on the data team."
"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."
"It is a stable product."
"The user interface and dashboards are very good."
"Its ability to build, very quickly, very complicated models."
"The formatting template could be improved."
"My data is restricted to my DB and I'm not sure how this would handle an extremely large dataset."
"The initial installation is difficult."
"There are some problems with the functionality of this solution. The dashboard is not very user friendly and is quite complicated."
"The solution could use a faster speed on certain interactions and a refresh of the dashboards."
"When we have a big report with lots of data, the solution slows down quite a lot."
"I would like to see more AI capabilities in future releases. There's a strong interest in AI, including technologies like GPT, which facilitate real-time interactions."
"I have to write scripts to query data for analyzing performance."
"The user interface and ease of use takes a bit of a learning curve to pick up."
"The pricing is high."
"The user interface is old."
"They could improve the update time."
"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."
"More/newer visualisation components need to be added."
"Installation and deployment could be made easier and quicker."
"There could be a feature to analyze the sales and accounting data of the client."
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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