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 have a lot of servers and applications from which we want reports, and it allows us to create reports from an SQL source or some other source."
"Good reporting and data analysis tool that's user-friendly, easy to deploy, stable, and scalable."
"It is a little easier at buildings charts and graphs than Tableau."
"The solution's initial setup isn't too complicated."
"I think the visualization part is valuable."
"The solution is stable with reasonable performance."
"I have found the quick reporting and the conductivity with all the data sources valuable."
"It integrates with all of the Microsoft tools."
"The most valuable feature of QlikView is the integration with other third-party tools."
"QlikView is one of the strongest tools, I would say. Also, it has a very vast capability to process the data"
"A well designed app brings freedom of inquiry to meetings, allowing me to answer questions in real time and this has transformed progress and outputs of our monthly group meeting."
"It is a stable product."
"Associative model - no more cubes."
"The most valuable aspect is its extensive library on Microsoft, providing a robust framework for implementation."
"On the positive side, QlikView's scripting is a great asset as it functions as an ETL."
"The scalability is there."
"It seems that the solution could use more analytics to help users draw more contextual business insights. Right now, you need other solutions for that."
"Integration with artificial intelligence would help. Humans take time to review the data and eliminate errors. Artificial intelligence based on machine learning and understanding can bring the same functionality."
"The visualization aspect, while being the most visible to business users, also happens the be the weakest point in the entire Microsoft BI stack."
"The solution could improve by having more attractive graphical charts."
"The one thing that I noticed specifically was the graphical features, and some of the analytical features. They were stronger on the Tableau side."
"The solution could improve the extraction and transformation of data. For example, you transform the data and then send it to Microsoft BI without having to use your own API. We are only providing the API to Power BI, and then Power BI is doing the job."
"Integrating it with the physics build model or the engineering model should be included."
"The report server feature is quite limited."
"More/newer visualisation components need to be added."
"Better source data connectors."
"They could improve the speed."
"The solution is quite costly."
"Though the initial setup phase is simple, when it comes to the integration with the custom systems, the configuration and the compatibility sometimes take some more time."
"I really wish the application was easier to use in the development phase."
"The only thing I would improve about it is the fact that it refreshes all the time, and when it does that, it just deletes all the options you had, all the filters that you had selected, so you need to select them from the beginning."
"Enhancing user-friendliness would be highly beneficial."
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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