We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI, MicroStrategy, 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."Being able to transfer data with the Power Query feature is great for teaching with about one to two hundred rows of data. I am also able to see the relationship between multiple tables and create various sheets and dashboards."
"The solution overall is very useful. The reports that are generated and the reporting functionality management are beneficial."
"The sharing features are vital, especially the ability to share and test different shared dashboards."
"It is in the cloud, which makes it easy for mobile access of reports and data."
"There is a feature in Microsoft BI that allows JSON data to SQL on the dashboards effectively and quickly."
"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."
"Data integration enabled my organization to easily pool data from our varied system into one data warehouse."
"I have found the best features to be the dashboard creation, graphs, charts, and presentation bar graphs."
"In terms of functionality, MicroStrategy is alright. It's a solid BI tool and can handle most tasks you'd expect."
"The interactive features that appear in the report were good. The external rendering option they give with multi servers was also good."
"The implementation was fairly straightforward."
"We leverage it, not only for reporting but for analytics and also for geospatial reporting."
"The most valuable features are drill down, dashboards, documents, bringing everything under one roof, and visualizations."
"The platform can be easily monitored. You have quite a good overview of tasks which are being run."
"I find MicroStrategy the most suited to the enterprise-wide BI platform, because of its scalability and stability."
"We pretty much use the knowledge base. We feel that Microstrategy's community is a good forum to use."
"The most useful feature of QlikView for me is the QVD concept."
"Easy to analyze data by click-through."
"The most valuable aspect is its extensive library on Microsoft, providing a robust framework for implementation."
"Scripting as per a customer's need, which is a pretty cool feature and not available in other tools."
"On the positive side, QlikView's scripting is a great asset as it functions as an ETL."
"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."
"You can switch views easily."
"Its ability to build, very quickly, very complicated models."
"One opportunity for improvement would be on the Power Query side. As a consultant, I know Power Query is not the main strength of Power BI. It is not where Power BI shines, but many customers use Power Query to do full ETL workloads for deliverable cookies."
"Technical support could be a bit better."
"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."
"People without private emails cannot publish and, frankly, this doesn't allow for easy training."
"It needs more graphics and overlays."
"If you look at the new tool, even though they promised that you could do data modeling, that you could do everything from the Power BI side, if your data is really large in volume, sometimes it doesn't work on the Power BI. More feature testing from their side would certainly help users."
"BI is scalable, but there are some problems with limited online storage."
"Microsoft Power BI was born native on the cloud, however, it's quite difficult when it has to connect to on-premise data sources."
"There are a lot of offerings, and we are not fully using everything to its advantage."
"It is performing well, but sometimes we have complex requirements and the performance decreases, and then we have to find another way to make it perform again. That is what you encounter when use the project, but that's inevitable because if we would have used another product, we would've had the same thing."
"Our data warehouse is sort of static; negative load and that is it. It is not as real-time as we would like. We are working on building that out first to create more real-time, at which point we will work on some potential integrations with other applications, but I don't think we are there yet."
"If you do not learn the ins or outs, it can be a difficult tool to use. You could do a PoC and get enough out of it to be able to use it. However, when it comes to administering it, you definitely need the training."
"We have the mobile server. We have not used it. That is because the people on our team have not been trained on it yet, but that is something that we want to do."
"Lacks decent visualization and the process for creating new objects needs to be simplified."
"They need to improve on having more professional, well-equipped premium support."
"They need to improve on distribution services. There are lack of features which were there earlier with Narrowcast, but they are not there in the distribution services."
"Error handling."
"There's room for improvement in the area of management's handling of concerns."
"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."
"This solution would be improved with the inclusion of a feature that would allow us to add a common library of (our) commands used in load scripts and expressions, so with a keyword, we would get a drop down to select the command we are looking for, as opposed to the generic help."
"It needs work with visualization."
"If a user wanted to see something not included in the application the new object had to be created by a power user or developer because Qlik view's scripting has somewhat of a learning curve."
"Installation and deployment could be made easier and quicker."
"The user interface and ease of use takes a bit of a learning curve to pick up."
