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 scalability is good. We have 20 people in my organization using this solution and plan to increase usage."
"Data integration is very useful in Power BI. It lets me collect data from many sources. For example, I can get data from Oracle databases and SQL Server databases at the same time."
"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."
"Allows business users with a mission to solve their own problems, without an IT person."
"Management reporting solution that's very stable and scalable."
"It's user-friendly and provides data abstracting capabilities. We are also able to share reports with our colleagues very easily."
"The most valuable feature would be the abundance of connectors. It is also easy to use."
"It's a pretty scalable product."
"Scripting as per a customer's need, which is a pretty cool feature and not available in other tools."
"The language support is very good."
"QlikView is a scalable solution that multiple users can easily use."
"E-T-L, The Extract, Transform, and Loading capabilities of QlikView make it a highly sophisticated self-service business intelligence tool for developers and analysts."
"It's incredibly fast and can handle large volumes of data without slowing down our operations."
"It excels in supporting database connections and various database types."
"You can do a lot of things on the back end which are not possible in the other solutions on the market."
"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 initial setup is a little bit technical."
"It should be easier to use when there are multiple system sources."
"The UI looks awkward once the graphs have been generated in the console. This is what Microsoft can work on."
"The product’s on-premise reporting servers could support real-time data refreshing capabilities like its on-cloud version."
"Areas of Power BI that could be improved are the learning curve for developers who come from non-technical backgrounds."
"here are still better UI designs they can go through. I'm assuming they are focusing more on capabilities rather than look-and-feel designs."
"Power BI's administration could use some work, and the user experience needs to improve because it is a client-based tool. If you want to generate a model or report, you need to use client tools, but client tools are limited for end-users who don't have enough hardware. For example, maybe a client lacks enough memory or CPU power for report generators. If you use a model that requires a massive amount of data, your client will face several problems."
"It needs more graphics and overlays."
"This solution would be improved with the inclusion of a feature that would allow us to add a common library of (our) commands used in load scripts and expressions, so with a keyword, we would get a drop down to select the command we are looking for, as opposed to the generic help."
"Sometimes, dealing with complex reports requires more effort, which could be really improved."
"More/newer visualisation components need to be added."
"They could provide a user-friendly analysis process rather than specialized IT resource code."
"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."
"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 is no automation or drag and drop functionality."
"Error handling."
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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