We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI, Pentaho Business Analytics, and QlikView based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The user interface is easy to work with."
"What I have found valuable about Microsoft BI is its performance and ease of use. The interface is very simple and it is accessible to everyone. If someone is new to this type of solution it is straightforward to understand."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft BI are its intuitiveness and ease to use."
"It's similar to Excel, but it's much more powerful than Excel."
"I think the visualization part is valuable."
"It is useful for bringing visualization to data. It calculates counts, ratios, etc."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"Easy to use components to create the job."
"We were able to install it without any assistance from tech support."
"Pentaho is an analytics platform that can be used when an organization has a lot of big data storage systems already installed and needs to manage and analyze that data. It has a specific use case for unstructured data, such as documents, and needs to be able to search and analyze it."
"I use the BI Server, CDE Dashboards, Saiku, and Kettle, because these tools are very good and highly experienced."
"The most valuable feature of Pentaho is the Tableau report."
"Pentaho Business Analytics' best features include the ease of developing data flows and the wide range of options to connect to databases, including those on the cloud."
"It's pretty easy to deploy."
"The most valuable feature of QlikView is the integration with other third-party tools."
"Scripting as per a customer's need, which is a pretty cool feature and not available in other tools."
"Easy to analyze data by click-through."
"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."
"It enables us to configure various elements, such as dashboard settings, including factors like color schemes and other customization parameters."
"Data transforming with scripting, and the associative model that lets users browse data in an easy way, are the most valuable features."
"On the positive side, QlikView's scripting is a great asset as it functions as an ETL."
"Drill-down in dashboards needs to improved. The capability only works in Power BI Desktop today. We need to have an alternative approach today."
"One area for improvement in Microsoft Power BI is serviceability. Compared to one of its competitors: Tableau, there are a lot of things which you cannot do in this tool, that can be done in Tableau."
"The way you navigate the product, compared to other products in this industry, that could be improved a bit."
"Trend data and dashboards need improvement."
"I would like to see some AI incorporated into this solution in the future."
"We would like improvements made to the paginated reports so that it produces quality similarly to SSRS."
"The integration in Microsoft BI could improve for other solutions, such as Oracle DB and PostgresSQL. Additionally, the reporting from the databases to Microsoft BI should be in real-time and the overall performance could be better."
"The data source definition is all over the place."
"Deployment is not simple. It is not simple because we are dealing with a lot of data; we are dealing with a lot of storage. So, it's not a simple process."
"Logging capability is needed."
"Another concern is that Pentaho is not customizable or interactive."
"Pentaho Business Analytics' user interface is outdated."
"Pentaho, at the general level, should greatly improve the easy construction of its dashboards and easy integration of information from different sources without technical user intervention."
"Version control would be a good addition."
"We did not achieve the ROI. The work delivered to users had lesser value than the subscription cost."
"The repository should be improved."
"Although Qliktech's road map clearly states that QlikView has a long way to go, most of the R&D effort seems to be benefiting Qlik Sense."
"I really wish the application was easier to use in the development phase."
"There is a lack of static PDF report generation and automatic resizing of the dashboard to fit the device."
"The tool is expensive in Turkey."
"The user interface and ease of use takes a bit of a learning curve to pick up."
"Sometimes, dealing with complex reports requires more effort, which could be really improved."
"Better source data connectors."
"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."
