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."Connectivity, installation, and configuration are pretty fast and seamless compared to Cognos."
"It is very well integrated with other Microsoft products, including PowerApps and Excel, as well as Access, so it fits well into our workflow."
"It's user-friendly and provides data abstracting capabilities. We are also able to share reports with our colleagues very easily."
"The DAX coding language is good for creating formulae."
"It provides easy integration with Office tools."
"Reporting is the best thing about Power BI. And it could help improve decision-making in many ways. Power BI is flexible and easier to use compared to tools."
"It's the analytic engine in terms of the interface on the Power BI environment, as opposed to pivot tables, and it's a mobile solution."
"There is a lot of variety in Power BI. In particular, the visuals are quite rich and the feature set has been growing rapidly in the last two years. Possibly the best part for me is that there are a lot of ways to connect with data sources."
"A well designed app brings freedom of inquiry to meetings, allowing me to answer questions in real time and this has transformed progress and outputs of our monthly group meeting."
"It is a stable product."
"You can do a lot of things on the back end which are not possible in the other solutions on the market."
"The scalability is there."
"It's incredibly fast and can handle large volumes of data without slowing down our operations."
"The search feature: ability to see the related data."
"Easy to analyze data by click-through."
"We use QlikView for its cost-effectiveness and ease of integration with databases."
"The licensing needs improvement. There needs to be a middle option between Pro and Premium versions."
"The setup took a lot of tinkering with InfoSec to allow us to do stuff."
"The solution could improve the extraction and transformation of data. For example, you transform the data and then send it to Microsoft BI without having to use your own API. We are only providing the API to Power BI, and then Power BI is doing the job."
"They can improve it in terms of rule-based security. Currently, it has very limited rules."
"The solution could improve by having more attractive graphical charts."
"We did have some issues building the Microsoft blog."
"Drill-down in dashboards needs to improved. The capability only works in Power BI Desktop today. We need to have an alternative approach today."
"The solution is somewhat costly in comparison with MSBI tools."
"The user interface is old."
"They could improve the speed."
"Sometimes, dealing with complex reports requires more effort, which could be really improved."
"More/newer visualisation components need to be added."
"This solution would be improved with the inclusion of a feature that would allow us to add a common library of (our) commands used in load scripts and expressions, so with a keyword, we would get a drop down to select the command we are looking for, as opposed to the generic help."
"Improvements are required in the hide and unhide functionality that falls under the layout container feature that has been used in my company in recent times."
"Needs improvement with UI transparency."
"I would like to see more advanced features from Qlik Sense integrated into QlikView to keep it competitive and up-to-date."
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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