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."It is useful for bringing visualization to data. It calculates counts, ratios, etc."
"Tech support is very helpful."
"The user experience is easy. Users get familiar with it quickly."
"We have found that the reporting and publishing are great."
"It is quite easy to use and it helps me to achieve the projects that I've been assigned."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft BI is its visualization and its ease of use."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"The most useful features are the ability to connect different databases to Microsoft BI and explore them. Once the database information has been extracted, you have the ability to construct indicators and dashboards from the information."
"I had the option to prepare data myself instead of always having to depend on the data team."
"The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to view the entire data available for analysis."
"Once you open it up, you see everything that you can do."
"Easy to analyze data by click-through."
"One of the good thing is that you can integrate different data source technologies. So you can model your environment without having any of our views running."
"We can scale it if we need to."
"The solution is fast."
"It excels in supporting database connections and various database types."
"My main complaint is that the error messages need to be made more clear. Currently, they are either too generic or outright misleading, and finding the real problem is like searching for a needle in a haystack."
"Its price could be better. Its licensing cost is very high."
"The smart phone application could be improved, along with better graphics and faster updating."
"The way you navigate the product, compared to other products in this industry, that could be improved a bit."
"These licenses are in US dollars. With a long-term license, the client is unaffected when the exchange rate goes up. However, if the exchange rate goes down, you don't get refunded from the excess money you've paid. I guess that is a risk you take in business."
"I'm missing collaborations functionality to operate or to work connected with multiple people on a data source or on virtualization. There should be more collaborations functions, such as in Confluence. We haven't explored the solution sufficiently in this area, but at this time it doesn't look sufficient."
"Microsoft BI can improve some of the visual level filters or visual functionality, that are available in other BI tools, such as Tableau or Qlik Sense."
"At times, I feel that the system needs improvement in single sign-on, especially for the on-premises side of the tool."
"They could provide a user-friendly analysis process rather than specialized IT resource code."
"Scalability really depends on the size of your data and QlikView server architecture. For the biggest data sets, it could become an issue at some point."
"Enhancing user-friendliness would be highly beneficial."
"Error handling."
"Needs improvement with UI transparency."
"I would like to see more advanced features from Qlik Sense integrated into QlikView to keep it competitive and up-to-date."
"The solution should be mobile-responsive. It should also include drag-and-drop and slice-and-dice features."
"There could be a feature to analyze the sales and accounting data of the client."
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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