We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI, Pentaho Business Analytics, and QlikView based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"There was a lot of manual work involved with Excel, whereas once we moved on to Microsoft Power BI, it was a cleaner dashboard and it was faster too."
"I think the visualization part is valuable."
"The sharing features are vital, especially the ability to share and test different shared dashboards."
"Two valuable most features are the ability to create columns and create measures."
"It is easy to work with and very chic."
"We have found that the reporting and publishing are great."
"Data integration enabled my organization to easily pool data from our varied system into one data warehouse."
"Pentaho is an analytics platform that can be used when an organization has a lot of big data storage systems already installed and needs to manage and analyze that data. It has a specific use case for unstructured data, such as documents, and needs to be able to search and analyze it."
"Easy to use components to create the job."
"The most valuable feature of Pentaho is the Tableau report."
"I use the BI Server, CDE Dashboards, Saiku, and Kettle, because these tools are very good and highly experienced."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"We were able to install it without any assistance from tech support."
"Pentaho Business Analytics' best features include the ease of developing data flows and the wide range of options to connect to databases, including those on the cloud."
"The in-memory feature gives us better insight. It's also easy to drill down into the information and select information."
"It is a stable product."
"It is useful to use a tool like this to have a view of data at a point in time. You can extract and create little data sets that you can store, and then over time, you can have a view for tracking changes. Especially when you work with a relational database or a database that's a production database, the data is dynamic, but if you use QlikView, you can take a snapshot of different datasets. In your own time, you can then get insights and report, build, analyze, and draw whatever you need from the data, which is quite useful."
"If you correctly use the product for your use cases, it provides value for money."
"The scalability is there."
"Associative model - no more cubes."
"Once you open it up, you see everything that you can do."
"It has user-friendly data visualization features, supporting our decision-making process with its business intelligence capabilities"
"We need more integration capabilities."
"I would like to see the product offer more graphics to impact different audiences."
"Microsoft should offer additional features for visualization and have additional features for slicing and dicing that data."
"The performance of Microsoft BI could improve for large datasets and it would be beneficial to have more visualization features."
"The UI is the main improvement that could be made. Specifically, there is something called DAX, in Power BI, which is complicated compared to calculated fields used in Tableau."
"The dashboard could be simplified."
"Its price could be better. Its licensing cost is very high."
"I have found using Microsoft BI is not easy. For example, trying to use the auto-refresh feature is not simple."
"Version control would be a good addition."
"We did not achieve the ROI. The work delivered to users had lesser value than the subscription cost."
"Another concern is that Pentaho is not customizable or interactive."
"Logging capability is needed."
"Deployment is not simple. It is not simple because we are dealing with a lot of data; we are dealing with a lot of storage. So, it's not a simple process."
"Pentaho Business Analytics' user interface is outdated."
"Pentaho, at the general level, should greatly improve the easy construction of its dashboards and easy integration of information from different sources without technical user intervention."
"The repository should be improved."
"I really wish the application was easier to use in the development phase."
"If a user wanted to see something not included in the application the new object had to be created by a power user or developer because Qlik view's scripting has somewhat of a learning curve."
"Improvements are required in the hide and unhide functionality that falls under the layout container feature that has been used in my company in recent times."
"Improvement in collaboration, between that and publishing of reports and publishing of models."
"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."
"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."
"QlikView's UI could be more user-friendly."
"For me, it is important to have a mix, what is the "view" and what is the "sense", Qlik Sense. They have two tools, but for me it is important to have only one tool, which combines the functions that we have from one side and the other side."
