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 dashboards of Microsoft BI are easy to use."
"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."
"There are some great automation elements in the product."
"Power BI stands out because it provides considerable flexibility in creating reports, dashboards, and various types of analytics to meet those dynamic requirements. It is lightweight and easy to use with good support."
"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."
"The product is stable."
"The solution overall is very useful. The reports that are generated and the reporting functionality management are beneficial."
"SSRS and the Tabular server/Vertipaq engine/DAX are probably the two most valuable components."
"Its ability to build, very quickly, very complicated models."
"QlikView is one of the strongest tools, I would say. Also, it has a very vast capability to process the data"
"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."
"I had the option to prepare data myself instead of always having to depend on the data team."
"On the positive side, QlikView's scripting is a great asset as it functions as an ETL."
"The in-memory feature gives us better insight. It's also easy to drill down into the information and select information."
"Data transforming with scripting, and the associative model that lets users browse data in an easy way, are the most valuable features."
"You can do a lot of things on the back end which are not possible in the other solutions on the market."
"Areas of Power BI that could be improved are the learning curve for developers who come from non-technical backgrounds."
"The maps in Power BI could be improved. You deal with many maps over the years, like maps of America and Saudi Arabia. The maps aren't detailed enough, and there aren't enough visualization tools. Whenever I want to use a map, I struggle with choosing the right visualization."
"The licensing needs improvement. There needs to be a middle option between Pro and Premium versions."
"The biggest thing with Microsoft right now is better support. There should be more timely support. We can do 90% of it ourselves by the same token. When we're into the 10%, we do not get timely support via Microsoft's support team."
"I would like to see some AI incorporated into this solution in the future."
"SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) is not user friendly."
"Integration with artificial intelligence would help. Humans take time to review the data and eliminate errors. Artificial intelligence based on machine learning and understanding can bring the same functionality."
"The way you navigate the product, compared to other products in this industry, that could be improved a bit."
"I would like to see more advanced features from Qlik Sense integrated into QlikView to keep it competitive and up-to-date."
"Enhancing user-friendliness would be highly beneficial."
"The user interface and ease of use takes a bit of a learning curve to pick up."
"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."
"The user interface is old."
"They could improve the update time."
"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."
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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