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 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."
"It is a powerful tool that helps our data analysis processes."
"Allows business users with a mission to solve their own problems, without an IT person."
"Constant collaboration is the most valuable. I can build a dashboard, and several co-workers can access this dashboard. We can share information that is important for decision-making. It is a very easy-to-deploy solution. It is compatible with a lot of data sources. It is also very stable and scalable. There is also a very good forum and a lot of help and online training."
"I like how the Query Editor lets me manipulate the data, and the available visuals are good. You can do everything using the UI."
"When we are introducing Microsoft BI to our clients, if they're familiar with Excel, the transition phase will be much easier for them. They can easily switch from Microsoft Excel to Microsoft BI. The core foundation or the base technology is the same in both tools. There are a few limitations in Microsoft Excel, and this is where Microsoft BI comes in."
"Initial setup was very straightforward. Users can get up and running reporting on databases within minutes."
"I also find connecting to different data sources is quite simple. Other solutions we were using before were complicated."
"It is a stable product."
"It enables us to configure various elements, such as dashboard settings, including factors like color schemes and other customization parameters."
"This solution has simplified getting to and understanding our data, no matter where it is housed."
"The most useful feature of QlikView for me is the QVD concept."
"Scripting as per a customer's need, which is a pretty cool feature and not available in other tools."
"The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to view the entire data available for analysis."
"The initial setup is not very complex."
"It's pretty easy to deploy."
"The interface could be improved."
"Its desktop tool is a little bit memory CPU intensive, and it can be improved, but the machines nowadays come with a lot of memory. For the desktop users who are using it on the desktop, we recommend that they do an upgrade. It is a minor issue. We can fix it on the desktop."
"If I have to update data automatically, where I have to pin the gateway, it doesn't update. There is a scheduled refresh functionality so that it refreshes automatically, but I find it very hard to make it work."
"When I create measures, sometimes the error messages aren't clear. It makes me spend more time searching for solutions. I need the error messages to be more specific. So, I would like clearer error messages when creating measures."
"The integration with other solutions could be improved for reporting aspects."
"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."
"The solution could be more customizable and you do not have too much freedom on the code."
"The on-premises version lacks some technical features that are available with the Cloud version."
"The pricing is high."
"There is no automation or drag and drop functionality."
"Enhancing user-friendliness would be highly beneficial."
"There is a lack of static PDF report generation and automatic resizing of the dashboard to fit the device."
"Sometimes, dealing with complex reports requires more effort, which could be really improved."
"Improvement in collaboration, between that and publishing of reports and publishing of models."
"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."
"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."
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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