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."In contrast to what we were using before I think that Power BI has given us more extensive results."
"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."
"The sharing features are vital, especially the ability to share and test different shared dashboards."
"It's a pretty scalable product."
"The solution is quite scalable."
"The good part of it is that you can do whatever you want with it when it comes to building BI. In terms of languages, it supports Python, and it also natively supports R."
"The stability is good."
"Reports, dashboards, and visualizations are most valuable."
"The most valuable aspect is its extensive library on Microsoft, providing a robust framework for implementation."
"The in-memory feature gives us better insight. It's also easy to drill down into the information and select information."
"The most useful feature of QlikView for me is the QVD concept."
"The integration with Salesforce has helped us gain access to crucial sales data in real-time."
"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 most valuable feature of QlikView is the integration with other third-party tools."
"This solution has simplified getting to and understanding our data, no matter where it is housed."
"The way you navigate the product, compared to other products in this industry, that could be improved a bit."
"I would like to be able to use more predicting data science features without having to use R."
"It needs more graphics and overlays."
"The look is simple, and could be a little more professional."
"The smart phone application could be improved, along with better graphics and faster updating."
"Powerpoints are not available in the report server."
"Microsoft needs to do some more research and development to make it more stable."
"It should be more user-friendly. There are very small or tiny icons that you need to move very carefully. If you go a little bit up and down, some of the values change. Its user interface should be improved. It should be like Tableau. Its performance is also slow and should be improved. I definitely feel some sort of speed issues with Power BI. The integration of Excel with Power BI would also be good."
"The user interface and ease of use takes a bit of a learning curve to pick up."
"The pricing is high."
"It would be nice if QlikView could be plugged in into the company's website or an online portal such as QlikSense is capable of. There are ways around but it takes enormous time to develop."
"Error handling."
"The tool is expensive in Turkey."
"The solution should be mobile-responsive. It should also include drag-and-drop and slice-and-dice features."
"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."
"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."
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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