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 interface is very fluid."
"Technical support has been great."
"ou can pull reports, visualize them in real-time, and connect them to a variety of other data sources."
"Most of the clients I am interacting with are looking towards Power BI because of the cost and simplicities. It provides an entire feature set and a complete solution. It has tight integration with Office 365, Dynamics 365, Microsoft Technology Stack, and datatypes like R and Python."
"We found the initial setup to be straightforward."
"Microsoft BI is very easy to set up and use."
"I have found the quick reporting and the conductivity with all the data sources valuable."
"Helped identify bad data, enabling the corrections needed to the data for management."
"The search feature: ability to see the related data."
"The language support is very good."
"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."
"This is a very cool application with endless options of creativity and visuals."
"QlikView is a scalable solution that multiple users can easily use."
"Associative model - no more cubes."
"The user interface and dashboards are very good."
"The integration with Salesforce has helped us gain access to crucial sales data in real-time."
"We haven't used it that long and I haven't come across anything that's stood out as needing to be fixed."
"Its desktop tool is a little bit memory CPU intensive, and it can be improved, but the machines nowadays come with a lot of memory. For the desktop users who are using it on the desktop, we recommend that they do an upgrade. It is a minor issue. We can fix it on the desktop."
"When there are large amounts of data being processed there are additional tools needed to handle it."
"I would like to be able to use more predicting data science features without having to use R."
"I think that they can add more types of charts because the selection on the desktop version is limited."
"The product could have better analytics capabilities."
"I think that the solution is harder to use for people who are not experts in data."
"The integration with third-party products could be more stable."
"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."
"They could improve the update time."
"This solution would be improved with the inclusion of a feature that would allow us to add a common library of (our) commands used in load scripts and expressions, so with a keyword, we would get a drop down to select the command we are looking for, as opposed to the generic help."
"There could be a feature to analyze the sales and accounting data of the client."
"It is really old. We are moving towards converting everything into a Power BI environment. We want to have a self-service type of BI environment where different levels of users in organizations can log onto a portal and retrieve the data they need or get the necessary insights for decision-making that's important for them or their business unit. They have built a new version of QlikView called QlikSense, which probably competes with newer BI tools, such as Power BI, but they are far behind. That's why we are moving towards a newer tool that's easier to use and has more visualizations to represent the data."
"There is no automation or drag and drop functionality."
"The pricing is high."
"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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