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."With the out-of-the-box Data Platform and Business Intelligence ecosystem, you get the entire platform with a single license."
"Power BI is more powerful than other tools because it is new for us. Each new version has more capabilities, and we're expecting AI and ML features in the next version."
"We find the solution offers good stability."
"It is more user-friendly compared to SSRS."
"What I like most is that I can do everything in Power BI that I can do in Excel."
"Provides a full platform (database, ETL, reporting, analysis, and so on)"
"Our setup is very straight forward and can be done in a matter of hours."
"The sharing features are vital, especially the ability to share and test different shared dashboards."
"The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to view the entire data available for analysis."
"Once you open it up, you see everything that you can do."
"The solution is fast."
"Scripting as per a customer's need, which is a pretty cool feature and not available in other tools."
"It's incredibly fast and can handle large volumes of data without slowing down our operations."
"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."
"The search feature: ability to see the related data."
"The integration with Salesforce has helped us gain access to crucial sales data in real-time."
"The formatting template could be improved."
"I believe there is room for improvement in terms of authentication and certain functionalities in Power BI. For instance, adjusting the width of columns is not easily done, as there is only an option to enable or disable automatic adjustment. This can be a significant drawback for clients who desire more flexibility."
"I would like to see integration with Excel."
"The challenge of this product is in truncating the table data."
"Microsoft BI has its own challenges in terms of user interface and how quickly somebody can learn how to use it."
"Microsoft BI comes under pressure when there is a lot of data to be crunched. It gets slower and slower, and the functionality becomes a bit of a problem. The performance goes down with data being fed into the system. The infrastructure requirement also increases if you have to increase the performance. This is the area that can be improved in my opinion. Initially, the product is good, but over the years, when data gets accumulated, it becomes a problem unless the old data is kind of archived and is no longer shown on the visualization. It has a feature by using which a user can query for a report through simple questions to a bot. So, if I want to look for the customer share of revenue by geography, I just simply state that in the chatbot. If I wanted it in a pie chart, then you say, "Please show it to me in a pie chart." It comes out well for basic charts. This feature should be improvised more so that people can very quickly get customized reports on the go."
"The initial setup is a little bit technical."
"The on-premises version lacks some technical features that are available with the Cloud version."
"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 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."
"It needs work with visualization."
"Sometimes the filters are disappearing, and I'm not sure why this is happening."
"The solution should be mobile-responsive. It should also include drag-and-drop and slice-and-dice features."
"There is no automation or drag and drop functionality."
"I would want them to have more options as a user. It would be nice for them to create their own dashboards and add fields."
"Error handling."
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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