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 in the cloud, which makes it easy for mobile access of reports and data."
"The feature I find most valuable is the ability to publish Power Bi reports, using an embedded link, directly onto a website."
"It offers a lot of information and is very flexible and interactive."
"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."
"The solution's initial setup isn't too complicated."
"Considering that it's Microsoft, it can be integrated with the Power Platform, which is also Microsoft-based, like SharePoint, Power apps, Power Automate, and Power BI, which is the most user-friendly."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft BI are its intuitiveness and ease to use."
"It is useful for bringing visualization to data. It calculates counts, ratios, etc."
"The scalability is there."
"QlikView is one of the strongest tools, I would say. Also, it has a very vast capability to process the data"
"It is a stable product."
"This is a very cool application with endless options of creativity and visuals."
"It excels in supporting database connections and various database types."
"You can do a lot of things on the back end which are not possible in the other solutions on the market."
"It enables us to configure various elements, such as dashboard settings, including factors like color schemes and other customization parameters."
"Data transforming with scripting, and the associative model that lets users browse data in an easy way, are the most valuable features."
"It's not user-friendly; more tutorials, training, and better documentation would be helpful."
"Better mapping capabilities and easier administration access would be beneficial, especially for understanding who has viewed reports."
"If you have to pull multiple data sources performance is somewhat lacking."
"There is no specific area that I have a problem with. It's just that, with whatever feature you come across, every visual has its own formatting and behavior. What you get in one visual for a feature, you don't seem to get in another."
"Maybe they can enhance the UI a bit. Right now, it's very basic, I would say, compared to the MicroStrategy or Qlik."
"The smart phone application could be improved, along with better graphics and faster updating."
"Power BI's administration could use some work, and the user experience needs to improve because it is a client-based tool. If you want to generate a model or report, you need to use client tools, but client tools are limited for end-users who don't have enough hardware. For example, maybe a client lacks enough memory or CPU power for report generators. If you use a model that requires a massive amount of data, your client will face several problems."
"When you go to the cloud, its licensing is not intuitive. It is a little bit complex. When you have to purchase a new license, it is difficult to understand on their website what exactly you need to pay and how you can group. It is something that is applicable to all Microsoft products. They're not always so simple and clear when it comes to licensing. Their support can also be better in terms of explaining how they resolved an issue and what steps they took to resolve it. They are able to resolve the issue, but they can be better at explaining the approach they took to resolve the issue. It could have something in the direction of machine learning. It can have some kind of integration with machine learning where you can ask for some reports with natural language."
"The only thing I would improve about it is the fact that it refreshes all the time, and when it does that, it just deletes all the options you had, all the filters that you had selected, so you need to select them from the beginning."
"There is no automation or drag and drop functionality."
"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."
"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."
"Syntax editor needs some work, it's frustrating to have valid syntax being flagged as incorrect."
"They could improve the update time."
"Improvement in collaboration, between that and publishing of reports and publishing of models."
"They could provide a user-friendly analysis process rather than specialized IT resource code."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in Reporting with 22 reviews while QlikView is ranked 5th in Reporting with 21 reviews. Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0, while QlikView is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft Power BI writes "User friendly, easy to set up and great for analyzing data". On the other hand, the top reviewer of QlikView writes "Snapshots are helpful for having a view of the data at a point in time and comparing changes, but it is expensive and far behind other modern tools". 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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