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 has provided customer purchase patterns and great visualization."
"The dashboards of Microsoft BI are easy to use."
"The solution is easy to use and flexible."
"We've used Microsoft BI for the general use cases around reporting and dashboarding."
"The solution integrates with other Microsoft solutions very well."
"The capability to add custom visuals and create Power BI apps. You can package datasets, synchronization details, and dashboards into a single app."
"I have found the best features to be the dashboard creation, graphs, charts, and presentation bar graphs."
"The visuals are great and make everything look very professional. We can change the look and feel or manipulate the data according to our requirements. It's extremely flexible."
"This solution has simplified getting to and understanding our data, no matter where it is housed."
"It enables us to configure various elements, such as dashboard settings, including factors like color schemes and other customization parameters."
"QlikView is one of the strongest tools, I would say. Also, it has a very vast capability to process the data"
"You can do a lot of things on the back end which are not possible in the other solutions on the market."
"Its ability to build, very quickly, very complicated models."
"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."
"The initial setup is not very complex."
"The most useful feature of QlikView for me is the QVD concept."
"Integration with products that are not Microsoft could be more improved."
"The initial installation is difficult."
"I believe the price should be degressive, and we should have a lower, or better unit price if we have more users."
"It is definitely a wonderful analytics tool. However, database ETL, data integration functionality would be absolutely perfect in many cases. Currently, it doesn't get the job done and we need to extract, transform, and load the data from faulty data sets into something more suitable for the deployment of the analytics tool."
"In an upcoming release, the solution could be simplified and have a more complete product package rather than a suite of products that we have to put together."
"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."
"Microsoft needs to do some more research and development to make it more stable."
"Actionable insights could be better."
"It needs work with visualization."
"Syntax editor needs some work, it's frustrating to have valid syntax being flagged as incorrect."
"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."
"There is no automation or drag and drop functionality."
"There could be a feature to analyze the sales and accounting data of the client."
"Needs improvement with UI transparency."
"The user interface and ease of use takes a bit of a learning curve to pick up."
"They could improve the speed."
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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