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."I think the visualization part is valuable."
"Its visualizations and dashboards are most valuable. Power BI is great in terms of visualizations and dashboards. The reports that we previously had were not very nice in terms of visualization. It also provides the ability to play with the data."
"There is a feature in Microsoft BI that allows JSON data to SQL on the dashboards effectively and quickly."
"The fact that you can visualize items is great."
"It's a straightforward setup."
"It is more user-friendly compared to SSRS."
"In the process of using data there is the Extract, Transform and Load (ETL). For extracting we are using another software, for transforming we are using our own coding in C#, and then we use Microsoft BI for loading the information. Microsoft BI displays information very well."
"Microsoft BI's most valuable features are the user interface, which is easy to use and light."
"The search feature: ability to see the related data."
"You can do a lot of things on the back end which are not possible in the other solutions on the market."
"We can scale it if we need to."
"The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to view the entire data available for analysis."
"The initial setup is not very complex."
"This is a very cool application with endless options of creativity and visuals."
"Its ability to build, very quickly, very complicated models."
"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."
"The solution is somewhat costly in comparison with MSBI tools."
"Real-time refreshing for SAP BW would be nice. We know its on the radar for the development team at MS. "
"I would like for there to be some type of user manual that shows steps on how to navigate the solution."
"The cost of the solution can get high."
"The visualization aspect, while being the most visible to business users, also happens the be the weakest point in the entire Microsoft BI stack."
"Microsoft is behind IBM when it comes to security features."
"This solution's performance when handling big data could be improved. Right now, if you're handling big data, the application becomes slow and the performance is very low."
"The mobile app is very poor."
"The solution is quite costly."
"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 solution should be mobile-responsive. It should also include drag-and-drop and slice-and-dice features."
"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."
"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."
"Syntax editor needs some work, it's frustrating to have valid syntax being flagged as incorrect."
"They could improve the update time."
"There is no automation or drag and drop functionality."
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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