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."It's user-friendly and provides data abstracting capabilities. We are also able to share reports with our colleagues very easily."
"The dashboard features are really valuable, you can connect to multiple data points."
"The drill-down capabilities and automatic charts are the best ones. The visualization is also very good. In terms of visualization, no competing product, such as IBM Cognos or any other product, has the same capabilities."
"Provides good data flow related to the container and control flow."
"What I like most is that I can do everything in Power BI that I can do in Excel."
"Provides a full platform (database, ETL, reporting, analysis, and so on)"
"The one feature most of our customers like is data visualization. When we were doing BI directly from SQL, most users found it challenging to create their own reports. Power BI has self-serve analytics that the end-users can do themselves. On most projects, people are primarily using data visualization and self-serve analytics."
"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."
"The in-memory feature gives us better insight. It's also easy to drill down into the information and select information."
"Once you open it up, you see everything that you can do."
"It has user-friendly data visualization features, supporting our decision-making process with its business intelligence capabilities"
"It enables us to configure various elements, such as dashboard settings, including factors like color schemes and other customization parameters."
"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."
"This solution has simplified getting to and understanding our data, no matter where it is housed."
"I had the option to prepare data myself instead of always having to depend on the data team."
"It would be nice to use other connectors to link with the data."
"The handling of the workspaces can be made more granular for user access rights. It can be managed a little bit better in terms of the connection to Active Directory so that we have more granular access rights. I am not sure if this is really possible or if we can solve it differently, but we need a lot of workspaces, and we are not sure how we can deal with it from the access rights perspective."
"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."
"I think that there should be visuals for financial reporting videos. It should just be a plug and play because there is a lot of coding that goes into it with different clients."
"Needs single sign-on."
"Sluggish performance when handling large amounts of data."
"The solution could be quicker at rendering data."
"Integration with artificial intelligence would help. Humans take time to review the data and eliminate errors. Artificial intelligence based on machine learning and understanding can bring the same functionality."
"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."
"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."
"The user interface is old."
"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."
"Needs improvement with UI transparency."
"They could improve the update time."
"Sometimes the filters are disappearing, and I'm not sure why this is happening."
"Though the initial setup phase is simple, when it comes to the integration with the custom systems, the configuration and the compatibility sometimes take some more time."
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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