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 my experience the scalability is good. You are able to increase users and add more data."
"The drag and drop facility to easily change the data correctly is the most valuable feature. I am happy to see visualizations. It's easier to talk about and make people understand what is going on."
"It's a pretty scalable product."
"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."
"Implementation is very quick and the solution is very user-friendly."
"It is quite easy to use and it helps me to achieve the projects that I've been assigned."
"Its ease of use is most valuable."
"We've used Microsoft BI for the general use cases around reporting and dashboarding."
"Data transforming with scripting, and the associative model that lets users browse data in an easy way, are the most valuable features."
"It enables us to configure various elements, such as dashboard settings, including factors like color schemes and other customization parameters."
"On the positive side, QlikView's scripting is a great asset as it functions as an ETL."
"We can scale it if we need to."
"QlikView is one of the strongest tools, I would say. Also, it has a very vast capability to process the data"
"You can switch views easily."
"The language support is very good."
"We use QlikView for its cost-effectiveness and ease of integration with databases."
"There is no column-level security in Microsoft BI, and this is a feature that most of our customers are looking for. That is something that should be implemented."
"When there are large amounts of data being processed there are additional tools needed to handle it."
"It should be more scalable for an enterprise-level implementation. When you deploy large data sets, the response has to be faster in Power BI. This is one thing that needs to be improved in it."
"I find the solution to be 70 percent stable."
"It's quite difficult to learn how to use Power BI."
"In Microsoft Excel, you are able to have tabs. However, in Microsoft BI you do not have this flexibility."
"Power BI doesn't support some open-source data sources that are new, such as SnowSQL, Iceberg, or ClickHouse."
"Microsoft BI's visualization could be better. Though Power BI's visualization has steadily improved over the years, it's not on the level tools like Tableau and SAS or some of the more expensive products on the market."
"Improvement in collaboration, between that and publishing of reports and publishing of models."
"There could be a feature to analyze the sales and accounting data of the client."
"More/newer visualisation components need to be added."
"I would like to see more advanced features from Qlik Sense integrated into QlikView to keep it competitive and up-to-date."
"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."
"Although Qliktech's road map clearly states that QlikView has a long way to go, most of the R&D effort seems to be benefiting Qlik Sense."
"Needs improvement with UI transparency."
"It is really old. We are moving towards converting everything into a Power BI environment. We want to have a self-service type of BI environment where different levels of users in organizations can log onto a portal and retrieve the data they need or get the necessary insights for decision-making that's important for them or their business unit. They have built a new version of QlikView called QlikSense, which probably competes with newer BI tools, such as Power BI, but they are far behind. That's why we are moving towards a newer tool that's easier to use and has more visualizations to represent the data."
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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