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 fact that you can visualize items is great."
"When we are introducing Microsoft BI to our clients, if they're familiar with Excel, the transition phase will be much easier for them. They can easily switch from Microsoft Excel to Microsoft BI. The core foundation or the base technology is the same in both tools. There are a few limitations in Microsoft Excel, and this is where Microsoft BI comes in."
"The DAX coding language is good for creating formulae."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"The best feature for me is Power Query. I know that probably sounds strange, but you can't do too much with visuals and reports if the backend stuff is horribly dirty and just bad. But for me, that is absolutely fantastic. I can load the data and do the transformation and be able to load it in a useful way. There are tons of connections, which is absolutely fantastic as well. It's been fairly easy, and it's intuitive."
"It works well with SSAS, which we use to generate all different kinds of trending and analytics reports. Sometimes we use Power Query and DAX to build some aggregations on the Power BI side as well."
"We have found the product very stable and reliable."
"Microsoft BI's dashboards are helpful."
"Data transforming with scripting, and the associative model that lets users browse data in an easy way, are the most valuable features."
"Once you open it up, you see everything that you can do."
"QlikView is one of the strongest tools, I would say. Also, it has a very vast capability to process the data"
"Associative model - no more cubes."
"E-T-L, The Extract, Transform, and Loading capabilities of QlikView make it a highly sophisticated self-service business intelligence tool for developers and analysts."
"We can scale it if we need to."
"Its ability to build, very quickly, very complicated models."
"It is a stable product."
"The integration with third-party products could be more stable."
"We would like to have better SQL support for queries."
"Defining a relationship was very confusing. There were circular directions for which I had to do a lot of adjustments in the data. They can do something to make it easier."
"Right now, their premium pricing is keeping us out of the premium market. The premium price per user just doesn't make sense for us, but we haven't reached the limit of 500 users to justify the premium."
"Maybe they can enhance the UI a bit. Right now, it's very basic, I would say, compared to the MicroStrategy or Qlik."
"The solution could use a faster speed on certain interactions and a refresh of the dashboards."
"Not having to login again after a mobile app upgrade. A simple login on mobile would be great."
"There needs to be improved guidance and documentation for the initial setup of Power BI as it currently remains complex."
"There is no automation or drag and drop functionality."
"I really wish the application was easier to use in the development phase."
"There is a lack of static PDF report generation and automatic resizing of the dashboard to fit the device."
"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."
"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."
"Enhancing user-friendliness would be highly beneficial."
"There could be a feature to analyze the sales and accounting data of the client."
"Scalability really depends on the size of your data and QlikView server architecture. For the biggest data sets, it could become an issue at some point."
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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