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.
"Technical support is quite good."
"There was a lot of manual work involved with Excel, whereas once we moved on to Microsoft Power BI, it was a cleaner dashboard and it was faster too."
"Its data visualization provides the user the ability to quickly look at data and focus on relevant information, allowing them to make an immediate decision."
"PowerBI – Self-service BI."
"Because this solution is very easy, and very visual, you can have results in minutes."
"I like how the Query Editor lets me manipulate the data, and the available visuals are good. You can do everything using the UI."
"Helped identify bad data, enabling the corrections needed to the data for management."
"This product has a lot of features and most of them are user-friendly."
"It's pretty easy to deploy."
"The most valuable aspect is its extensive library on Microsoft, providing a robust framework for implementation."
"It excels in supporting database connections and various database types."
"It enables us to configure various elements, such as dashboard settings, including factors like color schemes and other customization parameters."
"I had the option to prepare data myself instead of always having to depend on the data team."
"The language support is very good."
"Its ability to build, very quickly, very complicated models."
"The most valuable feature of QlikView is the integration with other third-party tools."
"The solution could improve the mobile application design. It is difficult to use compared to the desktop version."
"The Power Query feature needs to be improved to handle large amounts of data. This feature is also slow for large data transfers making it better to use some kind of script."
"Microsoft needs to provide more drivers to connect other data sources in a native way."
"There are some problems with the functionality of this solution. The dashboard is not very user friendly and is quite complicated."
"I have to write scripts to query data for analyzing performance."
"Creating dashboards could be easier."
"We haven't used it that long and I haven't come across anything that's stood out as needing to be fixed."
"From an improvement perspective, I think if the Power BI developers of that platform would really focus on being more detailed and specific on the error messages, it would help a lot of developers troubleshoot and maintain the report ECT or the dashboard ECT."
"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."
"The pricing is high."
"The solution should be mobile-responsive. It should also include drag-and-drop and slice-and-dice features."
"Sometimes, dealing with complex reports requires more effort, which could be really improved."
"QlikView's UI could be more user-friendly."
"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."
"More/newer visualisation components need to be added."
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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