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."We have a lot of servers and applications from which we want reports, and it allows us to create reports from an SQL source or some other source."
"Because this solution is very easy, and very visual, you can have results in minutes."
"The way data is presented is very valuable. The amount of information that we can get at a glance is also valuable. You can then drill-down and see data from many different angles in the same chart by selecting certain things. Based on the selection, everything changes automatically. If we have four parameters in a particular item, when you select a parameter, the remaining charts on that page automatically change for that particular parameter."
"It's pretty easy to set up the product."
"Power BI stands out because it provides considerable flexibility in creating reports, dashboards, and various types of analytics to meet those dynamic requirements. It is lightweight and easy to use with good support."
"Considering that it's Microsoft, it can be integrated with the Power Platform, which is also Microsoft-based, like SharePoint, Power apps, Power Automate, and Power BI, which is the most user-friendly."
"Reporting is the best thing about Power BI. And it could help improve decision-making in many ways. Power BI is flexible and easier to use compared to tools."
"It is a little easier at buildings charts and graphs than Tableau."
"The search feature: ability to see the related data."
"Data transforming with scripting, and the associative model that lets users browse data in an easy way, are the most valuable features."
"It excels in supporting database connections and various database types."
"You can do a lot of things on the back end which are not possible in the other solutions on the market."
"We can scale it if we need to."
"On the positive side, QlikView's scripting is a great asset as it functions as an ETL."
"It's incredibly fast and can handle large volumes of data without slowing down our operations."
"The most valuable aspect is its extensive library on Microsoft, providing a robust framework for implementation."
"If you look at the new tool, even though they promised that you could do data modeling, that you could do everything from the Power BI side, if your data is really large in volume, sometimes it doesn't work on the Power BI. More feature testing from their side would certainly help users."
"I have been doing trial and error to figuring out how to do the data analyzing and modeling. There could be some improvement to simplify it."
"We haven't used it that long and I haven't come across anything that's stood out as needing to be fixed."
"There are some limitations in Power BI; you have to work in the Power BI base. However, if you want something not out-of-the-box and you want something custom, you have to do a lot of work."
"The upgrade process could be improved."
"The accounting data needs improvement."
"It could have more of a hold on big data. Manipulating big data on this solution complicates things. This needs to be improved."
"The DAX features need some improvement. It's not as easy as Excel. They need more DAX formulas."
"The tool is expensive in Turkey."
"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."
"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."
"It needs work with visualization."
"Error handling."
"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."
"Sometimes, dealing with complex reports requires more effort, which could be really improved."
"There is a lack of static PDF report generation and automatic resizing of the dashboard to fit the device."
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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