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 most valuable features are the easy creation of reports, dashboards, and the ability to perform analysis. It is important for us to create reports because we have some operations during certain hours and we can use this tool to track the information."
"The visualization part and its inclusion in a cloud-based application are valuable features."
"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."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Power BI is its ability to provide customized visualizations and insights tailored to specific business needs."
"Power BI has strong support from Microsoft. If you need help, they answer promptly. There are also several discussion groups where you can get information, like the product roadmap and any new things coming up."
"The data can be accessed from anywhere."
"It is really flexible. The charts and reports are really nice. You have the flexibility of self-service."
"You can switch views easily."
"It's pretty easy to deploy."
"Easy to analyze data by click-through."
"The language support is very good."
"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."
"QlikView is one of the strongest tools, I would say. Also, it has a very vast capability to process the data"
"The most useful feature of QlikView for me is the QVD concept."
"The integration with Salesforce has helped us gain access to crucial sales data in real-time."
"The DAX in Microsoft BI is quite difficult."
"Microsoft BI lacks some of the scheme features. It would be beneficial if there were a way to show how we move values in a different way."
"The challenge of this product is in truncating the table data."
"We haven't used it that long and I haven't come across anything that's stood out as needing to be fixed."
"One area for improvement in Microsoft Power BI is serviceability. Compared to one of its competitors: Tableau, there are a lot of things which you cannot do in this tool, that can be done in Tableau."
"I would like to see the product offer more graphics to impact different audiences."
"They can improve it in terms of rule-based security. Currently, it has very limited rules."
"Its performance and stability can be improved. It takes time to load, and sometimes, it also breaks down for the whole region. Its usability could also be better, and it could also have more connections with different data sources."
"They could improve the update time."
"The user interface and ease of use takes a bit of a learning curve to pick up."
"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."
"It needs work with visualization."
"They could provide a user-friendly analysis process rather than specialized IT resource code."
"There is a lack of static PDF report generation and automatic resizing of the dashboard to fit the device."
"There is no automation or drag and drop functionality."
"Needs improvement with UI transparency."
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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