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."There is a lot of help and documentation on the Internet, so no special training is needed to use the source code."
"There is also a chart store where we can download charts, which is extremely useful."
"Provides data feeds for enterprise KPI reporting."
"We have found the product very stable and reliable."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"It's pretty easy to set up the product."
"It is really flexible. The charts and reports are really nice. You have the flexibility of self-service."
"It's easy to create reports and it's easy to download the data from the corresponding report."
"It is a stable product."
"Easy to analyze data by click-through."
"One of the good thing is that you can integrate different data source technologies. So you can model your environment without having any of our views running."
"We can scale it if we need to."
"QlikView is a scalable solution that multiple users can easily use."
"It's incredibly fast and can handle large volumes of data without slowing down our operations."
"On the positive side, QlikView's scripting is a great asset as it functions as an ETL."
"The initial setup is not very complex."
"The DAX in Microsoft BI is quite difficult."
"The only concern I have faced with Microsoft BI is the time it takes to find out an issue and rectify it."
"The visualization aspect, while being the most visible to business users, also happens the be the weakest point in the entire Microsoft BI stack."
"The integration with other solutions could be improved for reporting aspects."
"We would like it if they added more Python libraries in the Power BI service. For Power BI service right now, you can use Python, but it is limited to a few libraries or a few packages from Python."
"The graphic interface could be better."
"It's not user-friendly; more tutorials, training, and better documentation would be helpful."
"Microsoft BI comes under pressure when there is a lot of data to be crunched. It gets slower and slower, and the functionality becomes a bit of a problem. The performance goes down with data being fed into the system. The infrastructure requirement also increases if you have to increase the performance. This is the area that can be improved in my opinion. Initially, the product is good, but over the years, when data gets accumulated, it becomes a problem unless the old data is kind of archived and is no longer shown on the visualization. It has a feature by using which a user can query for a report through simple questions to a bot. So, if I want to look for the customer share of revenue by geography, I just simply state that in the chatbot. If I wanted it in a pie chart, then you say, "Please show it to me in a pie chart." It comes out well for basic charts. This feature should be improvised more so that people can very quickly get customized reports on the go."
"There is a lack of static PDF report generation and automatic resizing of the dashboard to fit the device."
"Syntax editor needs some work, it's frustrating to have valid syntax being flagged as incorrect."
"QlikView's UI could be more user-friendly."
"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."
"They could improve the update time."
"Though the initial setup phase is simple, when it comes to the integration with the custom systems, the configuration and the compatibility sometimes take some more time."
"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."
"QlikView certainly lacks in its ability to share visualizations or create visualizations easily."
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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