We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI, QlikView, and Tableau based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is an easy-to-use tool."
"I like that I can use Power BI to upload data. That is very important for me. The visualization is also convenient and easy to use."
"What Power BI is, is a whole collection of templates of small amounts of data that can be used to do something for a real world project, that can be easily set up and become the business intelligence environment or a data warehouse for a large amount of data, for a real world customer. That's what is remarkable."
"The dashboards of Microsoft BI are easy to use."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"As it was my first time using Power BI, I can say that it was fairly easy to learn, especially if you already know BI-type tools."
"The initial setup is not very complex."
"The search feature: ability to see the related data."
"The most valuable aspect is its extensive library on Microsoft, providing a robust framework for implementation."
"The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to view the entire data available for analysis."
"Our Qlikview applications help us to get a good idea of our Client Base Performance and assist us in the decision making for Seasonal Specials. On the other hand QlikView helps us to get a grasp on our Suppliers and helps us to negotiate pricing with them."
"The most useful feature of QlikView for me is the QVD concept."
"If you correctly use the product for your use cases, it provides value for money."
"The language support is very good."
"Gradual scalability from simple to complex situations"
"One of the most valuable features of Tableau is that it's a visual analytics solution, not just a dashboarding solution. Compared to Power BI, which is a dashboarding solution, there are no limitations with Tableau. For example, when you add a chart or a map to Power BI, it has a 3,000-point limitation. When you try to track your whole vehicle on the map, you only see the first 3,000 rows on the map, and Power BI doesn't tell you which part of the data is shown on the map. But Tableau doesn't have any limitations, which means that you can see five million data points on a map. It starts the project by creating the visuals that directly converts to SQLs. In that way, all the components have no limitations. When we compared Tableau to Power BI, we also found Tableau to be more fancy. Fancy means you can create more visual graphics and more visual dashboards. With Power BI, this isn't so—it's just some tables and some simple charts together. Tableau is more for business users who want to analyze data. Tableau can directly connect the analytics systems, like R or Titan, and get the results in screen, so it's a good solution for analytics scientists. It has some predefined capabilities to understand the data."
"It's very user-friendly. It's not like Power BI, Tableau is very user-friendly. Anybody can use Tableau. It's very easy to adopt things. I can visualize the stats."
"It's very easy to use and users don't need any IT support to access it as the information is right there."
"The solution is easy to use, flexible, our clients enjoy seeing the data on maps, and you do not need to be an expert in SQL to use it."
"Better interaction and less time spent with end users."
"From my perspective, it enables clients to better understand our data and make better decisions based on that information."
"Our customers love the visual capabilities on top of it and the ability to explain and get the required data. There is no other product like Tableau in the business intelligence and analytics space."
"There is room for improvement in terms of pricing for the solution."
"The product doesn't support unstructured data. It doesn't support video, streaming, and strings of files."
"The solution could use a faster speed on certain interactions and a refresh of the dashboards."
"The dashboard could be simplified."
"Power BI's administration could use some work, and the user experience needs to improve because it is a client-based tool. If you want to generate a model or report, you need to use client tools, but client tools are limited for end-users who don't have enough hardware. For example, maybe a client lacks enough memory or CPU power for report generators. If you use a model that requires a massive amount of data, your client will face several problems."
"Power BI could be improved by implementing more options for data integration. Nowadays, the cloud takes care of scalability and security. As we all know, data sources are increasing, so we get data from a variety of streams. But if we could get the downstream data into the database and update the reports more easily, Power BI would be better."
"I think that the product would benefit by increasing the range of visuals and graphics readily available, as opposed to using a third party included as part of the product."
"There are some limitations in Power BI; you have to work in the Power BI base. However, if you want something not out-of-the-box and you want something custom, you have to do a lot of work."
"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."
"There's room for improvement in the area of management's handling of concerns."
"Enhancing user-friendliness would be highly beneficial."
"There is a lack of static PDF report generation and automatic resizing of the dashboard to fit the device."
"It needs work with visualization."
"Installation and deployment could be made easier and quicker."
"I would like to see more advanced features from Qlik Sense integrated into QlikView to keep it competitive and up-to-date."
"I really wish the application was easier to use in the development phase."
"We did have issues with Tableau 10.1 server with the brokers failing on heavy load but since moving to 10.2, then to 10.3, this issue seems to have been resolved and the environment is now quite stable."
"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."
"When it comes to large datasets, the data should be extracted faster."
"Provide additional enhancements in any business process: Operations, Marketing and Sales, Finance, Human Resources, Logistics, etc."
"They need to improve the icons and the filters, because they look too old, resembling Excel from 1997."
"It's already using 32 gigabytes of memory, but the performance is not so good. It's very heavy."
"The solution needs to improve its integration capabilities."
"When it comes to visualizations, Tableau has a limitation as compared to Power BI. It has a limited set of visualizations. Power BI has the entire marketplace, so you can connect and import many visualizations and use them, whereas Tableau has only 10 or 15 visualizations. There should be more visualizations, and there should also be data integration with more cloud providers."
