We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI, QlikView, and XLCubed based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in Reporting."The best feature of this solution is the way you can plan, communicate, and visualize all the knowledge you extract from the data for the customers. I like the way you can show or visualize the information a client needs to answer a business question."
"The interface is very fluid."
"In my experience the scalability is good. You are able to increase users and add more data."
"The good part of it is that you can do whatever you want with it when it comes to building BI. In terms of languages, it supports Python, and it also natively supports R."
"Power BI has strong support from Microsoft. If you need help, they answer promptly. There are also several discussion groups where you can get information, like the product roadmap and any new things coming up."
"Constant collaboration is the most valuable. I can build a dashboard, and several co-workers can access this dashboard. We can share information that is important for decision-making. It is a very easy-to-deploy solution. It is compatible with a lot of data sources. It is also very stable and scalable. There is also a very good forum and a lot of help and online training."
"The initial setup is easy."
"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."
"You can do a lot of things on the back end which are not possible in the other solutions on the market."
"We use QlikView for its cost-effectiveness and ease of integration with databases."
"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."
"The search feature: ability to see the related data."
"Its ability to build, very quickly, very complicated models."
"Data transforming with scripting, and the associative model that lets users browse data in an easy way, are the most valuable features."
"You can switch views easily."
"The most valuable aspect is its extensive library on Microsoft, providing a robust framework for implementation."
"Great capability, performance, flexibility, visuals, and the solution is also very cost effective."
"I am looking forward to testing their full graphics that are available, as they looked very interesting in the demo."
"You do need to do some hard coding for certain things in Microsoft BI."
"Things can slow down if you create too many pages."
"I would like to see better, undisturbed stability without any interruptions."
"There is no specific area that I have a problem with. It's just that, with whatever feature you come across, every visual has its own formatting and behavior. What you get in one visual for a feature, you don't seem to get in another."
"The licensing needs improvement. There needs to be a middle option between Pro and Premium versions."
"Microsoft BI lacks integration capabilities, so it needs to consider increasing its integration capabilities."
"My main complaint is that the error messages need to be made more clear. Currently, they are either too generic or outright misleading, and finding the real problem is like searching for a needle in a haystack."
"Some kind of expression wizard, where the user can build a complex expression without any knowledge of DAX, can be a good addition to the product."
"Scalability really depends on the size of your data and QlikView server architecture. For the biggest data sets, it could become an issue at some point."
"It needs work with visualization."
"The solution should be mobile-responsive. It should also include drag-and-drop and slice-and-dice features."
"The user interface is old."
"They should offer the capability to directly access data from SaaS environments, as it would simplify the migration process, and while it may seem like a minor enhancement, it would be beneficial to our clients."
"The solution is quite costly."
"The user interface and ease of use takes a bit of a learning curve to pick up."
"Installation and deployment could be made easier and quicker."
"Would like the ability to be able to benchmark."
"There should be a better or an easier way to establish that connection to external sources."
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