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's easy to create reports and it's easy to download the data from the corresponding report."
"I have found the best features to be the dashboard creation, graphs, charts, and presentation bar graphs."
"Good CS and administration."
"The Microsoft Power BI app is very good. It's also very flexible."
"I like that I can use Power BI to upload data. That is very important for me. The visualization is also convenient and easy to use."
"It's pretty easy to set up the product."
"The standard BI visualization capabilities are great."
"When we are introducing Microsoft BI to our clients, if they're familiar with Excel, the transition phase will be much easier for them. They can easily switch from Microsoft Excel to Microsoft BI. The core foundation or the base technology is the same in both tools. There are a few limitations in Microsoft Excel, and this is where Microsoft BI comes in."
"It is a stable product."
"Scripting as per a customer's need, which is a pretty cool feature and not available in other tools."
"It has user-friendly data visualization features, supporting our decision-making process with its business intelligence capabilities"
"It's pretty easy to deploy."
"You can switch views easily."
"The most useful feature of QlikView for me is the QVD concept."
"The in-memory feature gives us better insight. It's also easy to drill down into the information and select information."
"It is useful to use a tool like this to have a view of data at a point in time. You can extract and create little data sets that you can store, and then over time, you can have a view for tracking changes. Especially when you work with a relational database or a database that's a production database, the data is dynamic, but if you use QlikView, you can take a snapshot of different datasets. In your own time, you can then get insights and report, build, analyze, and draw whatever you need from the data, which is quite useful."
"Areas of Power BI that could be improved are the learning curve for developers who come from non-technical backgrounds."
"If you are having millions of rows of data or you have a large database, Microsoft BI's performance depends upon how powerful your hardware is. When I am handling large amounts of data I do not use Microsoft BI or Tableau because of this, I use D3."
"The mobile app is very poor."
"I am a SAP user and I would like this tool to have more connectors - and to more easily connect to - the ERP or SAP environment."
"There are some problems with the functionality of this solution. The dashboard is not very user friendly and is quite complicated."
"From an improvement perspective, I think if the Power BI developers of that platform would really focus on being more detailed and specific on the error messages, it would help a lot of developers troubleshoot and maintain the report ECT or the dashboard ECT."
"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."
"If you need data in real-time, it's not an ideal solution."
"QlikView's UI could be more user-friendly."
"Error handling."
"It needs work with visualization."
"Sometimes the filters are disappearing, and I'm not sure why this is happening."
"The solution is quite costly."
"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."
"More/newer visualisation components need to be added."
"They could improve the update time."
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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