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."It is more user-friendly compared to SSRS."
"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."
"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."
"With the out-of-the-box Data Platform and Business Intelligence ecosystem, you get the entire platform with a single license."
"Power BI allows you to create user defined charts which is really useful."
"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."
"The product is user-friendly."
"Two valuable most features are the ability to create columns and create measures."
"Once you open it up, you see everything that you can do."
"Easy to analyze data by click-through."
"The integration with Salesforce has helped us gain access to crucial sales data in real-time."
"The language support is very good."
"Associative model - no more cubes."
"It has user-friendly data visualization features, supporting our decision-making process with its business intelligence capabilities"
"The solution is fast."
"This is a very cool application with endless options of creativity and visuals."
"It needs an AI which can choose the appropriate connection strings and provide options for connections."
"Its setup and support should be improved. We would like to see more material for developers that provides clear explanations about how we can do data mining by using Microsoft BI. It would also be good if we can connect a feature to other customized machine learning solutions."
"If you have to pull multiple data sources performance is somewhat lacking."
"It would be nice to use other connectors to link with the data."
"We need more integration capabilities."
"The challenge of this product is in truncating the table data."
"The product’s on-premise reporting servers could support real-time data refreshing capabilities like its on-cloud version."
"The integration with third-party products could be more stable."
"Installation and deployment could be made easier and quicker."
"Error handling."
"Sometimes, dealing with complex reports requires more effort, which could be really improved."
"The user interface and ease of use takes a bit of a learning curve to pick up."
"They should offer the capability to directly access data from SaaS environments, as it would simplify the migration process, and while it may seem like a minor enhancement, it would be beneficial to our clients."
"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."
"It needs work with visualization."
"There could be a feature to analyze the sales and accounting data of the client."
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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