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."The way data is presented is very valuable. The amount of information that we can get at a glance is also valuable. You can then drill-down and see data from many different angles in the same chart by selecting certain things. Based on the selection, everything changes automatically. If we have four parameters in a particular item, when you select a parameter, the remaining charts on that page automatically change for that particular parameter."
"It integrates with all of the Microsoft 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."
"Users already using Excel can generate new reports and dashboards within minutes."
"It is really flexible. The charts and reports are really nice. You have the flexibility of self-service."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is an easy-to-use tool."
"As it was my first time using Power BI, I can say that it was fairly easy to learn, especially if you already know BI-type tools."
"We can see that it's really improved the way end users can do their own graphs and pick their own fields of information and present that in a nice way."
"Scripting as per a customer's need, which is a pretty cool feature and not available in other 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."
"QlikView is one of the strongest tools, I would say. Also, it has a very vast capability to process the data"
"The most useful feature of QlikView for me is the QVD concept."
"On the positive side, QlikView's scripting is a great asset as it functions as an ETL."
"The in-memory feature gives us better insight. It's also easy to drill down into the information and select information."
"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."
"Its ability to build, very quickly, very complicated models."
"You do need to do some hard coding for certain things in Microsoft BI."
"It is easy enough. I don't see any real substantial improvements that are needed. It is great as it is, but its interface could be a bit modern."
"My main complaint is that the error messages need to be made more clear. Currently, they are either too generic or outright misleading, and finding the real problem is like searching for a needle in a haystack."
"We haven't used it that long and I haven't come across anything that's stood out as needing to be fixed."
"The challenge of this product is in truncating the table data."
"When I create measures, sometimes the error messages aren't clear. It makes me spend more time searching for solutions. I need the error messages to be more specific. So, I would like clearer error messages when creating measures."
"Anything they can do to improve enterprise collaboration is going to help people get set up and utilize the solution."
"People without private emails cannot publish and, frankly, this doesn't allow for easy training."
"The user interface and ease of use takes a bit of a learning curve to pick up."
"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."
"Error handling."
"The pricing is high."
"Enhancing user-friendliness would be highly beneficial."
"QlikView certainly lacks in its ability to share visualizations or create visualizations easily."
"QlikView's UI could be more user-friendly."
"If a user wanted to see something not included in the application the new object had to be created by a power user or developer because Qlik view's scripting has somewhat of a learning curve."
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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