We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI and Qlik Sense based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two BI (Business Intelligence) Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The Microsoft Power BI app is very good. It's also very flexible."
"If you are not very technical this tool could be very useful."
"This solution has improved our ability in making decisions and explaining data."
"Provides good data flow related to the container and control flow."
"I've seen no issues with BI's stability."
"The solution integrates with other Microsoft solutions very well."
"The reports are easy to create."
"Other people can access data much more easily than before. Its usability is the main advantage, people in the company are using it."
"It allows you to create a new column using split on a current column, which we find very useful."
"My organization now has data from disparate systems at their fingertips in a way that lets them get the answers they need when they want it."
"Qlik has a powerful load script that uses an enhanced SQL language which is excellent for loading and transforming the data."
"We began to see how our processes and other team's processes were negatively affecting the bottom line. We were able to provide tips to other teams to help improve their processes."
"The most valuable feature of QlikSense is that you can capture the data without modifying it and then perform the ETL (extract, transform, and load) process."
"The changes in a dashboard are very easy."
"The most valuable feature is the user experience."
"Business users have been able to use the BI self-serve model."
"The reporting part of Microsoft BI is rather limited compared to other reporting tools."
"There are some problems with the functionality of this solution. The dashboard is not very user friendly and is quite complicated."
"here are some limitations with the data models needed to build the report."
"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."
"It has come a long way in terms of how it was working two years ago, but there are some things that you still can't do with it. For example, permission management and user access management are still a bit limited. It is basically based on the idea that everybody from the organization can see everything or limit the type of data they can see. If I want you to see only one report and the other guy to see another report, I can't do it. There should be a better way to manage permissions and users. It should also support external users much better."
"It's not really complicated, but I didn't find the things I was looking for. The ones I used to work with within Dash are more open, and there are more choices. But with Power BI, there are only limited types of plots that I can use. For example, when I wanted to put the plots in Power BI, there was no extendable space. You have a limited page where you can place a maximum of three plots in that, and you can't do more than that on a single page. You have to create a new page, a different page for that. That made it a bit annoying, and the filtering part is limited, with basic functions. If you want to make custom filtering or custom functions, you can't do that."
"It is kept very current, and there is an update literally every month. However, the interface changes quite randomly with no documentation, which is difficult at the domain and architectural level where you're planning things and engaging the business. Things change frequently, and you wonder where has the button for the new report gone. They should provide better documentation on interface changes. It should be better optimized. It is supposed to be a data integration tool, but it is doing relatively simple queries. It has its limitations. For example, you can only pull a number of columns. So, there is room for optimization on its ability to integrate multiple data sources. The desktop tool is very memory-intensive, and again, this is not documented clearly. It requires a heavy CPU and memory use, and it causes your operating systems to become unstable. I would like to see the ability to create datasets within Power BI. Microsoft is promoting Azure as a cloud solution, but it is dependent upon a desktop component, which seems a little bit deceptive. Data set is the basic element that you report from, but it has to be created on the desktop and then published to the cloud. So, you're in the cloud, and you create a data structure or the data flow, but you can't report from that. You have to leave the cloud, go to your desktop, create the data set on your desktop, and publish it to the cloud. You go back to the cloud and create your report by using that published data set, which is very non-intuitive. If you go to the Microsoft Power BI community, this is a common complaint across the entire community."
"The only challenge I have found is that they do not have a Mac version."
"Performing data transformations required a lot of programming, which is something that should be made easier."
"The one thing I would probably try to add is some kind of tutorial since the tool has a lot of options to work with, and for someone who is just starting and does not have any prior experience, it can be a little overwhelming."
"From the initial setup of the product we had some struggles getting connections to some of our databases to function, this indicated that some of the data extract drivers can be improved and addition of some of the older database engines need to be added in Qlik Sense."
"This solution would be improved by adding some Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Deep Learning (DL) components that are easier to interpret and design."
"Moving forward I would like to see more features that are currently available in QlikView, such as being able to better customize coloring within charts. I would also like to see the ability to add calculated dimensions to the selections tool in the page."
"The management console appearance needs improvement to its look."
"The on-demand report generation button in Qlik Sense currently doesn't work if NPrinting requires Okta verification, which our company uses."
"It would be nice to have more native features from QlikView built into Qlik Sense."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews while Qlik Sense is ranked 2nd in Data Visualization with 112 reviews. Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0, while Qlik Sense is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Microsoft Power BI writes "A complete ecosystem with an builtin ETL tool, good integrations with python and R, and support of DAX and Power Query (M languages)". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Qlik Sense writes "Customizable with good ROI and a quick learning curve". Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Salesforce Einstein Analytics, whereas Qlik Sense is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, Apache Superset, Alteryx and IBM Cognos. See our Microsoft Power BI vs. Qlik Sense report.
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