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 a powerful tool that helps our data analysis processes."
"The most valuable feature of Power BI is its ability to provide customized visualizations and insights tailored to specific business needs."
"I liked that Microsoft Power BI handles a large amount of data. I can handle hundreds of rows from Postgres in a few minutes. I also like how it detects the relationship between the tables without explicitly saying that. It just detects the relationship automatically. That made it easier to work with the data."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"The best feature for me is Power Query. I know that probably sounds strange, but you can't do too much with visuals and reports if the backend stuff is horribly dirty and just bad. But for me, that is absolutely fantastic. I can load the data and do the transformation and be able to load it in a useful way. There are tons of connections, which is absolutely fantastic as well. It's been fairly easy, and it's intuitive."
"Microsoft BI is very easy to set up and use."
"It is useful for bringing visualization to data. It calculates counts, ratios, etc."
"Microsoft BI's initial setup is very straightforward."
"It's pretty easy to deploy."
"Data transforming with scripting, and the associative model that lets users browse data in an easy way, are the most valuable features."
"It enables us to configure various elements, such as dashboard settings, including factors like color schemes and other customization parameters."
"The solution is fast."
"Its ability to build, very quickly, very complicated models."
"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."
"On the positive side, QlikView's scripting is a great asset as it functions as an ETL."
"We use QlikView for its cost-effectiveness and ease of integration with databases."
"Microsoft BI’s integration and visualization could be improved."
"If I compare it to Tableau, I'd say the visualizations can be better. We should have multiple options. By that I mean, while there are multiple options for the visualization, the look and feel of the dashboard when you compare to Tableau is on the lower side. Tableau has a much better visualization."
"There is no column-level security in Microsoft BI, and this is a feature that most of our customers are looking for. That is something that should be implemented."
"Our expectation is putting BI to work in real-time data collection systems in the maritime environment."
"If you look at the new tool, even though they promised that you could do data modeling, that you could do everything from the Power BI side, if your data is really large in volume, sometimes it doesn't work on the Power BI. More feature testing from their side would certainly help users."
"Microsoft BI lacks integration capabilities, so it needs to consider increasing its integration capabilities."
"The performance of Microsoft BI could improve for large datasets and it would be beneficial to have more visualization features."
"More connections with other systems should be added, which would allow for other integrations."
"Scalability really depends on the size of your data and QlikView server architecture. For the biggest data sets, it could become an issue at some point."
"They should offer the capability to directly access data from SaaS environments, as it would simplify the migration process, and while it may seem like a minor enhancement, it would be beneficial to our clients."
"There is a challenge on the frontend when it comes to browsing data through QlikView, as it isn't entirely compatible with other platforms we use."
"There is a lack of static PDF report generation and automatic resizing of the dashboard to fit the device."
"More/newer visualisation components need to be added."
"They could improve the update time."
"Although Qliktech's road map clearly states that QlikView has a long way to go, most of the R&D effort seems to be benefiting Qlik Sense."
"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."
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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