We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI, QlikView, and SAS Visual Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, SAP and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."Reporting is the best thing about Power BI. And it could help improve decision-making in many ways. Power BI is flexible and easier to use compared to tools."
"It gives you an edge if you are on the Microsoft platform. If you have been using Microsoft products for a long time or if you have the Microsoft infrastructure, this is the right tool for you. It has seamless integration with Microsoft SQL Server and other sources, and you get the best of the three things (SSIS, SSAS, and SSRS) in one suite."
"The drill-down capabilities and automatic charts are the best ones. The visualization is also very good. In terms of visualization, no competing product, such as IBM Cognos or any other product, has the same capabilities."
"It works well with SSAS, which we use to generate all different kinds of trending and analytics reports. Sometimes we use Power Query and DAX to build some aggregations on the Power BI side as well."
"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."
"The scalability overall has been quite good."
"Its visualizations and dashboards are most valuable. Power BI is great in terms of visualizations and dashboards. The reports that we previously had were not very nice in terms of visualization. It also provides the ability to play with the data."
"Everything that's in M Query and DAX is the heart of Power BI because with these tools you can make up for a lot of other missing features."
"The search feature: ability to see the related data."
"Associative model - no more cubes."
"We use QlikView for its cost-effectiveness and ease of integration with databases."
"Data transforming with scripting, and the associative model that lets users browse data in an easy way, are the most valuable features."
"It's pretty easy to deploy."
"You can do a lot of things on the back end which are not possible in the other solutions on the market."
"It's incredibly fast and can handle large volumes of data without slowing down our operations."
"Once you open it up, you see everything that you can do."
"The product is stable, reliable, and scalable."
"It's quite easy to learn and to progress with SAS from an end-user perspective."
"Quick deployment to dashboards and analytics features (using SAS Visual Statistics and Enterprise Guide). Easy to create a simple forecast and discover business insights using segmentation tools."
"Visual Analytics is very easy to use. I use Visual Analytics for all the typical use cases except text mining. I used it to analyze data and monitor statistics, not text mining. I also use it for data visualization as well as creating interactive dashboards and infographics."
"The flexibility of the configuration is valuable to me."
"The speed to display charts and react to users' choices is great."
"It's a stable, reliable product."
"The alert generation feature also helps in sending out ad hoc messages to the business users if business thresholds have been crossed."
"The one thing that I noticed specifically was the graphical features, and some of the analytical features. They were stronger on the Tableau side."
"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."
"I'm not overly technical, and so I can't really speak to any shortcomings from a technical standpoint."
"Our expectation is putting BI to work in real-time data collection systems in the maritime environment."
"The integration with other solutions could be improved for reporting aspects."
"Maybe they can enhance the UI a bit. Right now, it's very basic, I would say, compared to the MicroStrategy or Qlik."
"Integrating it with the physics build model or the engineering model should be included."
"It's not user-friendly; more tutorials, training, and better documentation would be helpful."
"QlikView's UI could be more user-friendly."
"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."
"Sometimes, dealing with complex reports requires more effort, which could be really improved."
"Syntax editor needs some work, it's frustrating to have valid syntax being flagged as incorrect."
"There's room for improvement in the area of management's handling of concerns."
"More/newer visualisation components need to be added."
"The solution is quite costly."
"The only thing I would improve about it is the fact that it refreshes all the time, and when it does that, it just deletes all the options you had, all the filters that you had selected, so you need to select them from the beginning."
"The installation process can be a bit complex."
"I haven't come across any missing features."
"There is a need for coding when it comes to digital reporting which can be intimidating."
"It is not as mature as competitors such as Tableau and QlikView."
"The solution is a little weak at the front end."
"Colours used on report objects"
"The product is expensive and needs the integration of more languages."
"There are scalability issues. It depends on the data volume and number of end-users. VA requires a lot of hardware resources to move volumes of data."