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."You don't need much support with Microsoft Power BI because it has such a large base of users who can answer your questions on their forums. There are also many video tutorials and webinars available online that offer solutions to whatever problems you may have."
"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."
"It's user-friendly and provides data abstracting capabilities. We are also able to share reports with our colleagues very easily."
"Power BI allows you to create user defined charts which is really useful."
"I like that I can use Power BI to upload data. That is very important for me. The visualization is also convenient and easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Power BI is the drill-through feature that takes you to a details page the users want to see."
"There is a feature in Microsoft BI that allows JSON data to SQL on the dashboards effectively and quickly."
"The most valuable features are the easy creation of reports, dashboards, and the ability to perform analysis. It is important for us to create reports because we have some operations during certain hours and we can use this tool to track the information."
"QlikView is a scalable solution that multiple users can easily use."
"The language support is very good."
"Scripting as per a customer's need, which is a pretty cool feature and not available in other tools."
"It enables us to configure various elements, such as dashboard settings, including factors like color schemes and other customization parameters."
"Data transforming with scripting, and the associative model that lets users browse data in an easy way, are the most valuable features."
"The user interface and dashboards are very good."
"On the positive side, QlikView's scripting is a great asset as it functions as an ETL."
"It's pretty easy to deploy."
"I have to write scripts to query data for analyzing performance."
"The product could have better analytics capabilities."
"It seems that the solution could use more analytics to help users draw more contextual business insights. Right now, you need other solutions for that."
"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."
"One area for improvement in Microsoft Power BI is serviceability. Compared to one of its competitors: Tableau, there are a lot of things which you cannot do in this tool, that can be done in Tableau."
"I would like to be able to use more predicting data science features without having to use R."
"It needs more analytic tools."
"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 user interface is old."
"There is a challenge on the frontend when it comes to browsing data through QlikView, as it isn't entirely compatible with other platforms we use."
"The solution should be mobile-responsive. It should also include drag-and-drop and slice-and-dice features."
"Better source data connectors."
"There could be a feature to analyze the sales and accounting data of the client."
"Enhancing user-friendliness would be highly beneficial."
"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."
"Needs improvement with UI transparency."
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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