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."Its connectivity with other Office applications, mostly with Excel, and the ability to deploy it very easily are the most valuable features. It comes sort of bundled with the cloud, so you don't need to set up a server and a standalone infrastructure. So, getting into the system or building something that you can deploy is very easy and very cheap. With other systems, you need to have a server, and you need to have a license for the server. The initial setup is very costly."
"The most valuable features are the flexibility, how many ways you can interrogate the data, and the the graphical visualization."
"We find the solution offers good stability."
"Management reporting solution that's very stable and scalable."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Power BI is the drill-through feature that takes you to a details page the users want to see."
"The DAX coding language is good for creating formulae."
"The most valuable feature is that it's easy to use. It's very useful for non-engineers and it is the ultimate solution for providing information and insights. Power BI is the best visualization tool I have ever worked with."
"It is quite easy to use and it helps me to achieve the projects that I've been assigned."
"Once you open it up, you see everything that you can do."
"It's incredibly fast and can handle large volumes of data without slowing down our operations."
"The user interface and dashboards are very good."
"The search feature: ability to see the related data."
"Our Qlikview applications help us to get a good idea of our Client Base Performance and assist us in the decision making for Seasonal Specials. On the other hand QlikView helps us to get a grasp on our Suppliers and helps us to negotiate pricing with them."
"The most valuable feature of QlikView is the integration with other third-party tools."
"The in-memory feature gives us better insight. It's also easy to drill down into the information and select information."
"QlikView is one of the strongest tools, I would say. Also, it has a very vast capability to process the data"
"I am taking a course to be able to use the solution better. Some aspects of the solution are not straightforward."
"In my opinion, the software is a little bit limited in terms of the flexibility it offers, with regard to the design of the visualization."
"It's not really complicated, but I didn't find the things I was looking for. The ones I used to work with within Dash are more open, and there are more choices. But with Power BI, there are only limited types of plots that I can use. For example, when I wanted to put the plots in Power BI, there was no extendable space. You have a limited page where you can place a maximum of three plots in that, and you can't do more than that on a single page. You have to create a new page, a different page for that. That made it a bit annoying, and the filtering part is limited, with basic functions. If you want to make custom filtering or custom functions, you can't do that."
"It needs an AI which can choose the appropriate connection strings and provide options for connections."
"If I have to update data automatically, where I have to pin the gateway, it doesn't update. There is a scheduled refresh functionality so that it refreshes automatically, but I find it very hard to make it work."
"Not having to login again after a mobile app upgrade. A simple login on mobile would be great."
"This solution needs integration with SAS and more deep analysis functionality."
"The admin view could be improved by making it more simplified to manage a users' activity and other things."
"Improvement in collaboration, between that and publishing of reports and publishing of models."
"I really wish the application was easier to use in the development phase."
"The solution is quite costly."
"Enhancing user-friendliness would be highly beneficial."
"There is a lack of static PDF report generation and automatic resizing of the dashboard to fit the device."
"Sometimes the filters are disappearing, and I'm not sure why this is happening."
"Although Qliktech's road map clearly states that QlikView has a long way to go, most of the R&D effort seems to be benefiting Qlik Sense."
"QlikView's UI could be more user-friendly."
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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