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."Microsoft BI's most valuable feature is flexibility."
"Power BI is more powerful than other tools because it is new for us. Each new version has more capabilities, and we're expecting AI and ML features in the next version."
"We have found the product to be scalable."
"Its connection to every database: Whatever and wherever it is."
"The advantages of Microsoft Power BI stem from the fact that it is really easy to use. The drag and drop facilities provided by the product are good."
"It is easy to work with and very chic."
"Microsoft BI was very helpful for me because I had a huge variety of connections. It is very convenient to build reports, even if somebody has no experience using BI tools or data visualizations. Additionally, the performance is very good when generating reports."
"Many of my customers already use Microsoft products like Office 365, so I often propose Microsoft Power BI because it integrates well with all the standard Microsoft business tools. And it's the quickest tool to implement and start using daily."
"Easy to analyze data by click-through."
"On the positive side, QlikView's scripting is a great asset as it functions as an ETL."
"You can do a lot of things on the back end which are not possible in the other solutions on the market."
"The solution is fast."
"It is a stable product."
"If you correctly use the product for your use cases, it provides value for money."
"This solution has simplified getting to and understanding our data, no matter where it is housed."
"It has user-friendly data visualization features, supporting our decision-making process with its business intelligence capabilities"
"It is easy enough. I don't see any real substantial improvements that are needed. It is great as it is, but its interface could be a bit modern."
"The look is simple, and could be a little more professional."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly interface with Microsoft BI."
"It should have more integrations."
"When we have a big report with lots of data, the solution slows down quite a lot."
"The solution could improve the mobile application design. It is difficult to use compared to the desktop version."
"The accounting data needs improvement."
"It is kept very current, and there is an update literally every month. However, the interface changes quite randomly with no documentation, which is difficult at the domain and architectural level where you're planning things and engaging the business. Things change frequently, and you wonder where has the button for the new report gone. They should provide better documentation on interface changes. It should be better optimized. It is supposed to be a data integration tool, but it is doing relatively simple queries. It has its limitations. For example, you can only pull a number of columns. So, there is room for optimization on its ability to integrate multiple data sources. The desktop tool is very memory-intensive, and again, this is not documented clearly. It requires a heavy CPU and memory use, and it causes your operating systems to become unstable. I would like to see the ability to create datasets within Power BI. Microsoft is promoting Azure as a cloud solution, but it is dependent upon a desktop component, which seems a little bit deceptive. Data set is the basic element that you report from, but it has to be created on the desktop and then published to the cloud. So, you're in the cloud, and you create a data structure or the data flow, but you can't report from that. You have to leave the cloud, go to your desktop, create the data set on your desktop, and publish it to the cloud. You go back to the cloud and create your report by using that published data set, which is very non-intuitive. If you go to the Microsoft Power BI community, this is a common complaint across the entire community."
"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."
"The solution is quite costly."
"Installation and deployment could be made easier and quicker."
"Improvement in collaboration, between that and publishing of reports and publishing of models."
"Syntax editor needs some work, it's frustrating to have valid syntax being flagged as incorrect."
"There could be a feature to analyze the sales and accounting data of the client."
"I really wish the application was easier to use in the development phase."
"There is no automation or drag and drop functionality."
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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