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.
"The best thing about this solution is that it is very user friendly. It is interactive in terms of visualizations. It is very eye-catching, and it attracts users. There are a lot of options to visualize the data in different drafts and views. I have used different visualization tools, and I found Power BI to be more efficient in terms of performance, user-friendliness, and ease of use."
"My favorite feature is the power query editor, where it can do the data transformations."
"The solution is stable."
"Allows business users with a mission to solve their own problems, without an IT person."
"Easy to use. End-users can make changes to the graphics."
"The product is easy to use and simple to navigate."
"What I have found valuable about Microsoft BI is its performance and ease of use. The interface is very simple and it is accessible to everyone. If someone is new to this type of solution it is straightforward to understand."
"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 had the option to prepare data myself instead of always having to depend on the data team."
"It has user-friendly data visualization features, supporting our decision-making process with its business intelligence capabilities"
"We can scale it if we need to."
"The most valuable aspect is its extensive library on Microsoft, providing a robust framework for implementation."
"Associative model - no more cubes."
"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."
"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."
"The solution could improve by having more attractive graphical charts."
"The licensing needs improvement. There needs to be a middle option between Pro and Premium versions."
"It should be more user-friendly and simple."
"There are certain features that are only available in the cloud version. It would be beneficial if they could be brought down to the on-premise version without the necessity of using the enterprise SQL database, as that can be very costly. We need more cost-effective features that are available in the cloud to be accessible on-premise."
"Our expectation is putting BI to work in real-time data collection systems in the maritime environment."
"It has limited performance capabilities in terms of connecting to large transactional databases, but it is fine for simple and quick queries from Excel spreadsheets or one table. The premium level is going to be more applicable for the higher transaction-level databases."
"This solution needs integration with SAS and more deep analysis functionality."
"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."
"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."
"They could improve the speed."
"They could improve the update time."
"Installation and deployment could be made easier and quicker."
"Sometimes the filters are disappearing, and I'm not sure why this is happening."
"Sometimes, dealing with complex reports requires more effort, which could be really improved."
"The solution should be mobile-responsive. It should also include drag-and-drop and slice-and-dice features."
"They could provide a user-friendly analysis process rather than specialized IT resource code."
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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