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 scalability is good. We have 20 people in my organization using this solution and plan to increase usage."
"One of the most valuable aspects of this tool is its ease of use and the ability to easily share information with others."
"The fact that you can visualize items is great."
"SSRS and the Tabular server/Vertipaq engine/DAX are probably the two most valuable components."
"They find Power BI's data pull mechanism to be sufficient and cost-effective, especially considering the stability it provides. In comparison with other solutions, Power BI stands out as a fantastic choice. Therefore, I would definitely recommend sticking with the Pro license."
"This solution has improved our ability in making decisions and explaining data."
"The visualization and reporting are the most valuable features of this solution."
"Key features are its dashboard functionality and ease of integration with various data sources."
"It has user-friendly data visualization features, supporting our decision-making process with its business intelligence capabilities"
"I had the option to prepare data myself instead of always having to depend on the data team."
"The most useful feature of QlikView for me is the QVD concept."
"The user interface and dashboards are very good."
"The scalability is there."
"This solution has simplified getting to and understanding our data, no matter where it is housed."
"Associative model - no more cubes."
"The initial setup is not very complex."
"The Microsoft BI interface should be simpler and more user-friendly. I find it very difficult to move between their data sources and their analytics section."
"It is kept very current, and there is an update literally every month. However, the interface changes quite randomly with no documentation, which is difficult at the domain and architectural level where you're planning things and engaging the business. Things change frequently, and you wonder where has the button for the new report gone. They should provide better documentation on interface changes. It should be better optimized. It is supposed to be a data integration tool, but it is doing relatively simple queries. It has its limitations. For example, you can only pull a number of columns. So, there is room for optimization on its ability to integrate multiple data sources. The desktop tool is very memory-intensive, and again, this is not documented clearly. It requires a heavy CPU and memory use, and it causes your operating systems to become unstable. I would like to see the ability to create datasets within Power BI. Microsoft is promoting Azure as a cloud solution, but it is dependent upon a desktop component, which seems a little bit deceptive. Data set is the basic element that you report from, but it has to be created on the desktop and then published to the cloud. So, you're in the cloud, and you create a data structure or the data flow, but you can't report from that. You have to leave the cloud, go to your desktop, create the data set on your desktop, and publish it to the cloud. You go back to the cloud and create your report by using that published data set, which is very non-intuitive. If you go to the Microsoft Power BI community, this is a common complaint across the entire community."
"The way you navigate the product, compared to other products in this industry, that could be improved a bit."
"Integrating it with the physics build model or the engineering model should be included."
"Real-time updating needs improvement."
"Microsoft needs to provide more drivers to connect other data sources in a native way."
"It should have more integrations."
"I think because I'm moving more into RPA, I'd definitely like to see integration across the RPA, Power BI, or Tableau platforms, because that integration could then make automation and mundane reporting much faster."
"They could provide a user-friendly analysis process rather than specialized IT resource code."
"Better source data connectors."
"Syntax editor needs some work, it's frustrating to have valid syntax being flagged as incorrect."
"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."
"Needs improvement with UI transparency."
"Although Qliktech's road map clearly states that QlikView has a long way to go, most of the R&D effort seems to be benefiting Qlik Sense."
"Sometimes, dealing with complex reports requires more effort, which could be really improved."
"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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