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."We encourage end users to use Power BI because it's quite easy for them to interact with the menus and the navigation bar. Even for ordinary users, they can create their own dashboard using Power BI."
"I have found the quick reporting and the conductivity with all the data sources valuable."
"It's a very easy-to-use solution."
"It's easy to create reports and it's easy to download the data from the corresponding report."
"We found the initial setup to be straightforward."
"This is a self-service BI tool, so it doesn't require a huge amount of technical training, knowledge, or a background in BI in order to induct new people into it."
"The initial setup is relatively simple."
"Provides data feeds for enterprise KPI reporting."
"Easy to analyze data by click-through."
"You can switch views easily."
"We can scale it if we need to."
"It excels in supporting database connections and various database types."
"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."
"We use QlikView for its cost-effectiveness and ease of integration with databases."
"Data transforming with scripting, and the associative model that lets users browse data in an easy way, are the most valuable features."
"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."
"The look is simple, and could be a little more professional."
"Its desktop tool is a little bit memory CPU intensive, and it can be improved, but the machines nowadays come with a lot of memory. For the desktop users who are using it on the desktop, we recommend that they do an upgrade. It is a minor issue. We can fix it on the desktop."
"Power BI doesn't support some open-source data sources that are new, such as SnowSQL, Iceberg, or ClickHouse."
"I think that they can add more types of charts because the selection on the desktop version is limited."
"The solution could benefit by allowing deeper data analytics."
"Technical support could be a bit better."
"Microsoft BI lacks integration capabilities, so it needs to consider increasing its integration capabilities."
"The product could have better analytics capabilities."
"Syntax editor needs some work, it's frustrating to have valid syntax being flagged as incorrect."
"Error handling."
"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."
"There is a challenge on the frontend when it comes to browsing data through QlikView, as it isn't entirely compatible with other platforms we use."
"I really wish the application was easier to use in the development phase."
"Improvements are required in the hide and unhide functionality that falls under the layout container feature that has been used in my company in recent times."
"I would want them to have more options as a user. It would be nice for them to create their own dashboards and add fields."
"There's room for improvement in the area of management's handling of concerns."
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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