We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI, Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service, and QlikView based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."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."
"The most valuable feature is integration with Python."
"It is stable enough. It has a lot of powerful functions. It can also be customized with the DAX language. It is also intuitive enough and incremental. You can start with something simple, and then step-by-step, you can increase the reports and dashboards according to your needs."
"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."
"Previously we used Excel, which took a long time - two or three weeks - to bring the data into a uniform format, whereas BI can do the same job in a day."
"SSRS and the Tabular server/Vertipaq engine/DAX are probably the two most valuable components."
"The scalability overall has been quite good."
"Other people can access data much more easily than before. Its usability is the main advantage, people in the company are using it."
"The solution effectively integrates with third-party products."
"The most valuable features are user-friendly and self-service tools. Users can define their reports based on available data sets, with multiple dimensions and slide and dice data capabilities."
"Its ease of use and the ability to drill down into detail are the most valuable. Executive dashboarding features are the most commonly used ones."
"Initial setup was straightforward."
"It has user-friendly data visualization features, supporting our decision-making process with its business intelligence capabilities"
"One of the good thing is that you can integrate different data source technologies. So you can model your environment without having any of our views running."
"A well designed app brings freedom of inquiry to meetings, allowing me to answer questions in real time and this has transformed progress and outputs of our monthly group meeting."
"E-T-L, The Extract, Transform, and Loading capabilities of QlikView make it a highly sophisticated self-service business intelligence tool for developers and analysts."
"If you correctly use the product for your use cases, it provides value for money."
"The in-memory feature gives us better insight. It's also easy to drill down into the information and select information."
"The user interface and dashboards are very good."
"I had the option to prepare data myself instead of always having to depend on the data team."
"I'm not overly technical, and so I can't really speak to any shortcomings from a technical standpoint."
"One thing I would like to have is the scripting language, as they already have within Excel. It's already within a Microsoft business product, because Excel is the number one business product out there. So it would be nice to have the scripting capability in order to automate certain processes."
"The DAX in Microsoft BI is quite difficult."
"This solution needs integration with SAS and more deep analysis functionality."
"The solution could improve the mobile application design. It is difficult to use compared to the desktop version."
"The cost of the solution can get high."
"I would like for there to be some type of user manual that shows steps on how to navigate the solution."
"It should be more user-friendly and simple."
"When looking at web-based BI or cloud-based BI vendors, there should be abilities for power users to build deep analysis. If they are not data science tools, they are not for power users."
"Quality of support varies."
"In terms of data modeling, it could be simplified. Sometimes, it seems complicated. Also, the response time for data set refreshes could be faster to enhance the user experience."
"The dashboard could be improved and include additional features."
"Though the initial setup phase is simple, when it comes to the integration with the custom systems, the configuration and the compatibility sometimes take some more time."
"Sometimes, dealing with complex reports requires more effort, which could be really improved."
"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."
"They could provide a user-friendly analysis process rather than specialized IT resource code."
"There's room for improvement in the area of management's handling of concerns."
"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."
"They could improve the update time."
"They could improve the speed."
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