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."Its connection to every database: Whatever and wherever it is."
"It allows individuals to do the analysis themselves."
"It's quite flexible, and it's easy to create reports using this system. It is very graphic and very user friendly."
"I like all the tools in Microsoft BI because they all have different purposes. There are a lot of people using Microsoft BI, and everybody is using it. The users have adapted well to the technology."
"The most valuable feature is shareability, where we can publish work to the cloud and share it with team members."
"The best thing about this solution is that it is very user friendly. It is interactive in terms of visualizations. It is very eye-catching, and it attracts users. There are a lot of options to visualize the data in different drafts and views. I have used different visualization tools, and I found Power BI to be more efficient in terms of performance, user-friendliness, and ease of use."
"There is continual improvement year-over-year."
"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."
"It excels in supporting database connections and various database types."
"The most valuable feature of QlikView is the integration with other third-party tools."
"You can do a lot of things on the back end which are not possible in the other solutions on the market."
"This is a very cool application with endless options of creativity and visuals."
"It's incredibly fast and can handle large volumes of data without slowing down our operations."
"You can switch views easily."
"Once you open it up, you see everything that you can do."
"The user interface and dashboards are very good."
"This solution is resource-heavy."
"The one thing that I noticed specifically was the graphical features, and some of the analytical features. They were stronger on the Tableau side."
"They can provide a user-friendly and easy way to use this tool for people who don't know about programming or technical things. It will be quite good if they can improve the look and feel and make it simpler to operate. They can make it easier to create some of the reports. They can also include predefined templates that you can directly use."
"The accounting data needs improvement."
"It needs more analytic tools."
"My main complaint is that the error messages need to be made more clear. Currently, they are either too generic or outright misleading, and finding the real problem is like searching for a needle in a haystack."
"I would like to see a feature that connects with a Machine Learning platform like a RapidMiner or Azure Machine Learning Studio. It would be great to have a Machine Learning application link to connect."
"We would like improvements made to the paginated reports so that it produces quality similarly to SSRS."
"The user interface and ease of use takes a bit of a learning curve to pick up."
"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."
"The solution should be mobile-responsive. It should also include drag-and-drop and slice-and-dice features."
"Enhancing user-friendliness would be highly beneficial."
"The user interface is old."
"QlikView certainly lacks in its ability to share visualizations or create visualizations easily."
"Scalability really depends on the size of your data and QlikView server architecture. For the biggest data sets, it could become an issue at some point."
"It would be nice if QlikView could be plugged in into the company's website or an online portal such as QlikSense is capable of. There are ways around but it takes enormous time to develop."
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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