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 solution is quite scalable."
"What I like about Power BI is how fast you are able to create dashboards and how fast you are able to fetch the data. You can connect to the database or data source, and then you can design your dashboards very easily."
"Provides a full platform (database, ETL, reporting, analysis, and so on)"
"Two valuable most features are the ability to create columns and create measures."
"The DAX coding language is good for creating formulae."
"The most valuable feature would be the abundance of connectors. It is also easy to use."
"Good CS and administration."
"Connectivity, installation, and configuration are pretty fast and seamless compared to Cognos."
"If you correctly use the product for your use cases, it provides value for money."
"It's incredibly fast and can handle large volumes of data without slowing down our operations."
"The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to view the entire data available for analysis."
"The initial setup is not very complex."
"Once you open it up, you see everything that you can do."
"QlikView is one of the strongest tools, I would say. Also, it has a very vast capability to process the data"
"It enables us to configure various elements, such as dashboard settings, including factors like color schemes and other customization parameters."
"The user interface and dashboards are very good."
"They are improving it all the time. What would be nice is if they could respond to feature requests more quickly. They can provide faster support for new features."
"I believe there is room for improvement in terms of authentication and certain functionalities in Power BI. For instance, adjusting the width of columns is not easily done, as there is only an option to enable or disable automatic adjustment. This can be a significant drawback for clients who desire more flexibility."
"Automation could be improved and performance enhanced."
"In Microsoft Excel, you are able to have tabs. However, in Microsoft BI you do not have this flexibility."
"Right now, their premium pricing is keeping us out of the premium market. The premium price per user just doesn't make sense for us, but we haven't reached the limit of 500 users to justify the premium."
"The performance of Microsoft BI could improve for large datasets and it would be beneficial to have more visualization features."
"The data source definition is all over the place."
"I would like Microsoft to include some inbuilt machine learning so that it becomes point-and-click, rather than us developing models out of API and BI connecting to that and getting the results. That process gets in the way of continuity."
"Enhancing user-friendliness would be highly beneficial."
"The solution should be mobile-responsive. It should also include drag-and-drop and slice-and-dice features."
"Improvement in collaboration, between that and publishing of reports and publishing of models."
"It is really old. We are moving towards converting everything into a Power BI environment. We want to have a self-service type of BI environment where different levels of users in organizations can log onto a portal and retrieve the data they need or get the necessary insights for decision-making that's important for them or their business unit. They have built a new version of QlikView called QlikSense, which probably competes with newer BI tools, such as Power BI, but they are far behind. That's why we are moving towards a newer tool that's easier to use and has more visualizations to represent the data."
"The tool is expensive in Turkey."
"Installation and deployment could be made easier and quicker."
"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."
"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."
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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