We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI, QlikView, and Tableau based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in Reporting.
"Technical support has been great."
"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."
"What I like about Power BI is how fast you are able to create dashboards and how fast you are able to fetch the data. You can connect to the database or data source, and then you can design your dashboards very easily."
"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."
"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."
"Implementation is very quick and the solution is very user-friendly."
"It's a powerful platform."
"We have found that the reporting and publishing are great."
"It has user-friendly data visualization features, supporting our decision-making process with its business intelligence capabilities"
"The in-memory feature gives us better insight. It's also easy to drill down into the information and select information."
"You can do a lot of things on the back end which are not possible in the other solutions on the market."
"You can switch views easily."
"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."
"It's pretty easy to deploy."
"The most useful feature of QlikView for me is the QVD concept."
"This solution has simplified getting to and understanding our data, no matter where it is housed."
"This service is the combination of very pleasant, interactive graphical visualizations along with the application of advanced statistical models (in some cases)."
"I consider Tableau to be the best analytical tool available. It's really handy to use and can be used by non-technical people."
"The ability to deploy is the added ability to centralise the Tableau repository for all Tableau Developers."
"While using this solution I have found the valuable features to be ease of use and the visualization. It is a complete solution."
"Good data flow and management."
"Analysis is now more visual than in the past."
"I have found the solution easy to use and the interface is very good."
"The solution offers very good reporting."
"Lacks the ability to copy data from BI into PowerPoint."
"In the future, Microsoft BI can be better by increasing user-friendliness"
"There are some connector-related issues in their MSBA solution."
"The DAX features need some improvement. It's not as easy as Excel. They need more DAX formulas."
"For someone who is new, I think that Power BI can be a little complicated."
"I feel the modeling page should be simplified."
"The Power Query feature needs to be improved to handle large amounts of data. This feature is also slow for large data transfers making it better to use some kind of script."
"I have a little problem with Synapse Analytics because it's very new. It's a product that has many capabilities, but it is not very well developed. I have to see the list of permissions from one object. I can't do this in Synapse. I have to search on the web for a solution because I don't have the tool for it."
"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."
"The solution should be mobile-responsive. It should also include drag-and-drop and slice-and-dice features."
"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."
"There is a lack of static PDF report generation and automatic resizing of the dashboard to fit the device."
"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."
"Better source data connectors."
"There is no automation or drag and drop functionality."
"They could improve the speed."
"The process of embedding the dashboards on external portals and websites could be improved."
"The solution could use more features in data analytics."
"Lacks machine learning algorithms that you can implement using R, SPSS Modeler, and Python."
"What is happening, with so many tools coming up in the market, is that people have to continuously get educated in order to use some of the more advanced features."
"I am a BI consultant. I have worked on different reporting tools, such as Power BI and MicroStrategy. As compared to other tools, Tableau lags behind in handling huge enterprise-level data in terms of robust security and the single integrated metadata concept. When we connect to large or very big databases, then performance-wise, I sometimes found Tableau a little bit slow. It can have the single metadata concept like other tools for the reusability of the objects in multiple reports."
"I would like to have the product be more flexible in terms of creating online shared dashboards."
"Most of the problems in Tableau Online that I have noticed have to do with performance or weird, inexplicable bugs that I can't pin down. For example, you might try unloading some data, and you'll be waiting for a long time without anything happening."
"More integration with Python or something related to machine learning would be a good improvement."
