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 most valuable feature of Microsoft Power BI is the drill-through feature that takes you to a details page the users want to see."
"ou can pull reports, visualize them in real-time, and connect them to a variety of other data sources."
"I like the flexibility it offers."
"Microsoft BI is scalable."
"Ease of development and maintenance."
"I like the fact that Power BI lets me use Excel data. At least 90% of my state data is in Excel spreadsheets. Having the ability to just attach a spreadsheet as a data source is very, very important. It's also good for training and teaching. Sometimes you don't always have access to a live production database, so having a spreadsheet with sample data is always nice."
"The drill-down capabilities and automatic charts are the best ones. The visualization is also very good. In terms of visualization, no competing product, such as IBM Cognos or any other product, has the same capabilities."
"I have found the quick reporting and the conductivity with all the data sources valuable."
"The solution is fast."
"QlikView is one of the strongest tools, I would say. Also, it has a very vast capability to process the data"
"The search feature: ability to see the related data."
"The integration with Salesforce has helped us gain access to crucial sales data in real-time."
"QlikView is a scalable solution that multiple users can easily use."
"The scalability is there."
"We can scale it if we need to."
"We use QlikView for its cost-effectiveness and ease of integration with databases."
"I would like it to be a little bit more secure when I'm using the design feature on my desktop. For example, to have the ability to set up security passwords for opening the file. Currently, they don't have that. Tableau, for example, has a visual way of doing data processing steps, whereas the Power BI system still has some code, although it is very low code. It would be great to have the kind of view that Tableau has."
"I have been doing trial and error to figuring out how to do the data analyzing and modeling. There could be some improvement to simplify it."
"You do need to do some hard coding for certain things in Microsoft BI."
"I feel the modeling page should be simplified."
"The upgrade process could be improved."
"The solution's documentation needs improvement."
"Microsoft Power BI was born native on the cloud, however, it's quite difficult when it has to connect to on-premise data sources."
"I think that the solution is harder to use for people who are not experts in data."
"They could improve the update time."
"Needs improvement with UI transparency."
"The solution should be mobile-responsive. It should also include drag-and-drop and slice-and-dice features."
"They could improve the speed."
"It needs work with visualization."
"The pricing is high."
"QlikView certainly lacks in its ability to share visualizations or create visualizations easily."
"The solution is quite costly."
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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