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."Microsoft BI's most valuable feature is flexibility."
"The user interface is easy to work with."
"Microsoft BI's most valuable features are the user interface, which is easy to use and light."
"It is very well integrated with other Microsoft products, including PowerApps and Excel, as well as Access, so it fits well into our workflow."
"Provides data feeds for enterprise KPI reporting."
"Most of the clients I am interacting with are looking towards Power BI because of the cost and simplicities. It provides an entire feature set and a complete solution. It has tight integration with Office 365, Dynamics 365, Microsoft Technology Stack, and datatypes like R and Python."
"The amount of customization that you can do is good, and it's relatively straightforward to do."
"I liked that Microsoft Power BI handles a large amount of data. I can handle hundreds of rows from Postgres in a few minutes. I also like how it detects the relationship between the tables without explicitly saying that. It just detects the relationship automatically. That made it easier to work with the data."
"One of the good thing is that you can integrate different data source technologies. So you can model your environment without having any of our views running."
"E-T-L, The Extract, Transform, and Loading capabilities of QlikView make it a highly sophisticated self-service business intelligence tool for developers and analysts."
"The solution is fast."
"Our Qlikview applications help us to get a good idea of our Client Base Performance and assist us in the decision making for Seasonal Specials. On the other hand QlikView helps us to get a grasp on our Suppliers and helps us to negotiate pricing with them."
"It's pretty easy to deploy."
"The language support is very good."
"The most valuable feature of QlikView is the integration with other third-party tools."
"This solution has simplified getting to and understanding our data, no matter where it is housed."
"The dashboard could be simplified."
"Our expectation is putting BI to work in real-time data collection systems in the maritime environment."
"The solution could improve by having more attractive graphical charts."
"We would like to have better SQL support for queries."
"When it comes to improvement, I would say there could be more tutorials for students in universities who are just learning it. And it wouldn't have to be just for students in universities. It might also be for the people who use it in the real world."
"The product’s on-premise reporting servers could support real-time data refreshing capabilities like its on-cloud version."
"A lot of people work on Excel, so being able to export an Excel file as part of a subscription would be an improvement."
"Microsoft BI has its own challenges in terms of user interface and how quickly somebody can learn how to use it."
"Syntax editor needs some work, it's frustrating to have valid syntax being flagged as incorrect."
"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."
"I really wish the application was easier to use in the development phase."
"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."
"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."
"Sometimes, dealing with complex reports requires more effort, which could be really improved."
"The solution should be mobile-responsive. It should also include drag-and-drop and slice-and-dice features."
"The user interface and ease of use takes a bit of a learning curve to pick up."
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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