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 Microsoft Power BI app is very good. It's also very flexible."
"The product can go easily go and extract data and it can put it into any format."
"The initial setup is simple to do."
"It provides easy integration with Office tools."
"This is a self-service BI tool, so it doesn't require a huge amount of technical training, knowledge, or a background in BI in order to induct new people into it."
"It has greatly improved our reporting capabilities."
"Connectivity, installation, and configuration are pretty fast and seamless compared to Cognos."
"Key features are its dashboard functionality and ease of integration with various data sources."
"Associative model - no more cubes."
"On the positive side, QlikView's scripting is a great asset as it functions as an ETL."
"The search feature: ability to see the related data."
"It enables us to configure various elements, such as dashboard settings, including factors like color schemes and other customization parameters."
"The language support is very good."
"It's pretty easy to deploy."
"We use QlikView for its cost-effectiveness and ease of integration with databases."
"The most useful feature of QlikView for me is the QVD concept."
"We found out that you can't share a report with others unless you have an additional package. That caught us off guard. It came as a program that somebody could go in, build a report, and show it, but you can't share it without having additional licenses."
"I think that the solution is harder to use for people who are not experts in data."
"If I compare it to Tableau, I'd say the visualizations can be better. We should have multiple options. By that I mean, while there are multiple options for the visualization, the look and feel of the dashboard when you compare to Tableau is on the lower side. Tableau has a much better visualization."
"Microsoft has got a very large repository of all change suggestions which have been raised by the BI community. They keep on adding features that are very widely sought after by the community. We don't focus on product features. We focus on business requirements. To use the solution, we find that existing features are good enough and offer us a very effective solution."
"It's quite difficult to learn how to use Power BI."
"They can improve it in terms of rule-based security. Currently, it has very limited rules."
"I'm looking for something that can make it much easier to incorporate Power BI visuals or dashboards into, let's say, Power Apps – custom Power Apps or anything like that. The most important thing would be to seamlessly embed reports in applications. For example, to have buttons that can be navigated through multiple solutions – from Power Apps to Power BI to SharePoint – via links or something like that."
"It has limited performance capabilities in terms of connecting to large transactional databases, but it is fine for simple and quick queries from Excel spreadsheets or one table. The premium level is going to be more applicable for the higher transaction-level databases."
"The pricing is high."
"The tool is expensive in Turkey."
"The user interface is old."
"The solution is quite costly."
"QlikView's UI could be more user-friendly."
"I really wish the application was easier to use in the development phase."
"The solution should be mobile-responsive. It should also include drag-and-drop and slice-and-dice features."
"For me, it is important to have a mix, what is the "view" and what is the "sense", Qlik Sense. They have two tools, but for me it is important to have only one tool, which combines the functions that we have from one side and the other side."
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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