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."It seems stable. I haven't heard of any difficulties from my clients that utilize Power BI."
"Microsoft BI's most valuable feature is flexibility."
"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."
"Reports, dashboards, and visualizations are most valuable."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft BI is its visualization and its ease of use."
"The solution is very intuitive, you do not need to have too much programming knowledge to use it. Advanced Excel users can use it very easily."
"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 initial setup is not very complex."
"Easy to analyze data by click-through."
"You can do a lot of things on the back end which are not possible in the other solutions on the market."
"The search feature: ability to see the related data."
"The user interface and dashboards are very good."
"Associative model - no more cubes."
"It's pretty easy to deploy."
"Data transforming with scripting, and the associative model that lets users browse data in an easy way, are the most valuable features."
"The look and feel should be updated in terms of the types of dashboards and graphs that you can produce. They aren't as visual as some of its competitors."
"From a scalability and performance perspective and based on my understanding and feedback from end users, there's room for improvement in data processing, scaling up, and leveraging the cloud. That could be an enhancement area for me to look into."
"My main complaint is that the error messages need to be made more clear. Currently, they are either too generic or outright misleading, and finding the real problem is like searching for a needle in a haystack."
"I have to write scripts to query data for analyzing performance."
"The smart phone application could be improved, along with better graphics and faster updating."
"For someone who is new, I think that Power BI can be a little complicated."
"Microsoft BI could improve by having better collaboration between developers working on the same dashboard. The developer platform is all done on a single laptop and it's difficult to have the same project files work. Two developers have to go back and forth. You have to have the project file on one developer's laptop making it difficult to co-develop."
"From any improvement perspective, I want the product to be made available to users free of cost...The stability and scalability of the product can be better."
"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."
"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."
"There is no automation or drag and drop functionality."
"Installation and deployment could be made easier and quicker."
"Sometimes the filters are disappearing, and I'm not sure why this is happening."
"Enhancing user-friendliness would be highly beneficial."
"The solution should be mobile-responsive. It should also include drag-and-drop and slice-and-dice features."
"QlikView certainly lacks in its ability to share visualizations or create visualizations easily."
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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