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 most valuable feature is definitely the visual aspect and the DAX capabilities to virtually do anything."
"Microsoft BI is easy to use and to design. I found Microsoft BI a lot easier than Tableau."
"It is a good platform for data analysis, organization, and all of the other interim performances that are necessary."
"Everything that's in M Query and DAX is the heart of Power BI because with these tools you can make up for a lot of other missing features."
"You can learn a lot of things quickly using resources like ChatGPT or Microsoft's own solutions, which are very helpful within the Microsoft ecosystem."
"Constant collaboration is the most valuable. I can build a dashboard, and several co-workers can access this dashboard. We can share information that is important for decision-making. It is a very easy-to-deploy solution. It is compatible with a lot of data sources. It is also very stable and scalable. There is also a very good forum and a lot of help and online training."
"Allows business users with a mission to solve their own problems, without an IT person."
"The most valuable feature of Power BI is its ability to provide customized visualizations and insights tailored to specific business needs."
"Its ability to build, very quickly, very complicated models."
"You can do a lot of things on the back end which are not possible in the other solutions on the market."
"On the positive side, QlikView's scripting is a great asset as it functions as an ETL."
"It is useful to use a tool like this to have a view of data at a point in time. You can extract and create little data sets that you can store, and then over time, you can have a view for tracking changes. Especially when you work with a relational database or a database that's a production database, the data is dynamic, but if you use QlikView, you can take a snapshot of different datasets. In your own time, you can then get insights and report, build, analyze, and draw whatever you need from the data, which is quite useful."
"It enables us to configure various elements, such as dashboard settings, including factors like color schemes and other customization parameters."
"If you correctly use the product for your use cases, it provides value for money."
"The most useful feature of QlikView for me is the QVD concept."
"E-T-L, The Extract, Transform, and Loading capabilities of QlikView make it a highly sophisticated self-service business intelligence tool for developers and analysts."
"In an upcoming release, the solution could be simplified and have a more complete product package rather than a suite of products that we have to put together."
"Microsoft BI's visualization could be better. Though Power BI's visualization has steadily improved over the years, it's not on the level tools like Tableau and SAS or some of the more expensive products on the market."
"They can provide a user-friendly and easy way to use this tool for people who don't know about programming or technical things. It will be quite good if they can improve the look and feel and make it simpler to operate. They can make it easier to create some of the reports. They can also include predefined templates that you can directly use."
"There are some connector-related issues in their MSBA solution."
"When we have a big report with lots of data, the solution slows down quite a lot."
"Technical support could be a bit better."
"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."
"Needs improvement with UI transparency."
"Syntax editor needs some work, it's frustrating to have valid syntax being flagged as incorrect."
"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."
"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."
"I would like to see more advanced features from Qlik Sense integrated into QlikView to keep it competitive and up-to-date."
"There could be a feature to analyze the sales and accounting data of the client."
"QlikView certainly lacks in its ability to share visualizations or create visualizations easily."
"Improvement in collaboration, between that and publishing of reports and publishing of models."
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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