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."In my experience the scalability is good. You are able to increase users and add more data."
"The interface is very easy to use."
"I've seen no issues with BI's stability."
"I have found the most valuable feature of this solution is the Natural Language tool."
"One of the most valuable features of Power BI is the ease of use. It is comfortable and there is not a steep learning curve for this solution. If you have some idea of the data and basic visualization ideas, you can use this solution comfortably."
"Provides good data flow related to the container and control flow."
"The most valuable feature is integration with Python."
"The reports are easy to create."
"It's pretty easy to deploy."
"The search feature: ability to see the related data."
"Associative model - no more cubes."
"It excels in supporting database connections and various database types."
"QlikView is one of the strongest tools, I would say. Also, it has a very vast capability to process the data"
"You can do a lot of things on the back end which are not possible in the other solutions on the market."
"It has user-friendly data visualization features, supporting our decision-making process with its business intelligence capabilities"
"Scripting as per a customer's need, which is a pretty cool feature and not available in other tools."
"The solution could improve the extraction and transformation of data. For example, you transform the data and then send it to Microsoft BI without having to use your own API. We are only providing the API to Power BI, and then Power BI is doing the job."
"When you go to the cloud, its licensing is not intuitive. It is a little bit complex. When you have to purchase a new license, it is difficult to understand on their website what exactly you need to pay and how you can group. It is something that is applicable to all Microsoft products. They're not always so simple and clear when it comes to licensing. Their support can also be better in terms of explaining how they resolved an issue and what steps they took to resolve it. They are able to resolve the issue, but they can be better at explaining the approach they took to resolve the issue. It could have something in the direction of machine learning. It can have some kind of integration with machine learning where you can ask for some reports with natural language."
"You need to purchase upgraded support separately."
"Microsoft BI’s integration and visualization could be improved."
"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."
"If I compare it to Tableau, I'd say the visualizations can be better. We should have multiple options. By that I mean, while there are multiple options for the visualization, the look and feel of the dashboard when you compare to Tableau is on the lower side. Tableau has a much better visualization."
"I have found using Microsoft BI is not easy. For example, trying to use the auto-refresh feature is not simple."
"There are some limitations in Power BI; you have to work in the Power BI base. However, if you want something not out-of-the-box and you want something custom, you have to do a lot of work."
"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 pricing is high."
"It needs work with visualization."
"QlikView's UI could be more user-friendly."
"Sometimes, dealing with complex reports requires more effort, which could be really improved."
"More/newer visualisation components need to be added."
"The solution is quite costly."
"There is a lack of static PDF report generation and automatic resizing of the dashboard to fit the device."
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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