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 best feature of this solution is the way you can plan, communicate, and visualize all the knowledge you extract from the data for the customers. I like the way you can show or visualize the information a client needs to answer a business question."
"The amount of customization that you can do is good, and it's relatively straightforward to do."
"The most valuable feature of Power BI is its ability to provide customized visualizations and insights tailored to specific business needs."
"The fact that you can visualize items is great."
"My understanding is that the initial setup is pretty easy."
"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."
"The sharing features are vital, especially the ability to share and test different shared dashboards."
"They should add mobile access."
"Its ability to build, very quickly, very complicated models."
"We can scale it if we need to."
"Scripting as per a customer's need, which is a pretty cool feature and not available in other tools."
"The language support is very good."
"Associative model - no more cubes."
"It excels in supporting database connections and various database types."
"QlikView is one of the strongest tools, I would say. Also, it has a very vast capability to process the data"
"The solution is fast."
"I think that the solution is harder to use for people who are not experts in data."
"It needs an AI which can choose the appropriate connection strings and provide options for connections."
"The UI is the main improvement that could be made. Specifically, there is something called DAX, in Power BI, which is complicated compared to calculated fields used in Tableau."
"From an improvement perspective, I think if the Power BI developers of that platform would really focus on being more detailed and specific on the error messages, it would help a lot of developers troubleshoot and maintain the report ECT or the dashboard ECT."
"We haven't used it that long and I haven't come across anything that's stood out as needing to be fixed."
"The only challenge I have found is that they do not have a Mac version."
"One opportunity for improvement would be on the Power Query side. As a consultant, I know Power Query is not the main strength of Power BI. It is not where Power BI shines, but many customers use Power Query to do full ETL workloads for deliverable cookies."
"I would like to see the product offer more graphics to impact different audiences."
"The solution should be mobile-responsive. It should also include drag-and-drop and slice-and-dice features."
"They could improve the speed."
"If a user wanted to see something not included in the application the new object had to be created by a power user or developer because Qlik view's scripting has somewhat of a learning curve."
"There is no automation or drag and drop functionality."
"The tool is expensive in Turkey."
"There's room for improvement in the area of management's handling of concerns."
"Improvement in collaboration, between that and publishing of reports and publishing of models."
"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."
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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