Microsoft Power BI vs Plotly Dash Enterprise vs QlikView comparison

Microsoft and Plotly are both solutions in the Reporting category. Microsoft is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.0, while Plotly is ranked #19 with an average rating of 7.5. Microsoft holds a 23.8% mindshare in RT, compared to Plotly’s 1.5% mindshare. Additionally, 93% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Plotly users who would recommend it.

Microsoft Power BI

Read 326 Microsoft Power BI reviews

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93% willing to recommend

Plotly Dash Enterprise

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639 Views
556 Comparison Views

100% willing to recommend

QlikView

Read 162 QlikView reviews

3,168 Views
1,806 Comparison Views

92% willing to recommend

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We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI, Plotly Dash Enterprise, and QlikView based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Reporting category, the mindshare of Microsoft Power BI is 23.8%, down from 26.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Plotly Dash Enterprise is 1.5%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of QlikView is 4.7%, up from 3.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Reporting Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Microsoft Power BI	23.8%
QlikView	4.7%
Plotly Dash Enterprise	1.5%
Other	70.0%

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Shoury Priyanshu

Senior Manager, Strategy & Consulting at Viacom18 Media Pvt Ltd

Facilitates seamless data aggregation with some outdated visual elements hindering user appeal

Real-time data integration is an area for improvement. Although I've worked on several solutions involving real-time integration, it's not very user-friendly and often lags, especially with over a million data rows. This makes Power BI difficult to manage as loading times can reach one or two minutes, which is problematic today. There are challenges with scalability, requiring multiple pages in dashboards to manage these issues. Visualization could be improved as it appears outdated. Users, especially newcomers, find it unappealing and not user-friendly.

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VenkateshJuloori

Founder & CEO at Ira

A flexible tool that offers an open-source version

It is a scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine to ten out of ten. In my company, there are around five resources that use the product. My company's clients use the product a lot on a daily basis. I use the product twice a week in my company before I get any call from our clients.

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Arjun Meda

Assistant Vice President at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

Useful for data visualization and business intelligence

Many of the features in Qlik Sense need to be available and reintroduced in QlikView. I believe many of the features have been added to QlikView after the layout containers were introduced. QlikView used to be a way more customizable tool than Qlik Sense is in the present time. 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. Hiding off the apps in the app overview tab based on the access was a really good feature that needs to be introduced back in the product since I see that, at the moment, there are multiple groups on the tool, owing to which multiple changes on the QMC part is required to handle the solution. Only the person with access to the dashboard in QlikView could have a link to the dashboard through QlikView's hub or access points. With Qlik Sense, one can see whatever is available in the stream. If a user wants to control everything in the product, then there is no need to make multiple changes in the QMC at the individual app level. The aforementioned area can be considered to improve Qlik Sense.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"I like that I can use Power BI to upload data. That is very important for me. The visualization is also convenient and easy to use."

"The most valuable features of Microsoft BI are its intuitiveness and ease to use."

"The ease of integration and connectivity stands out as the most critical aspect, followed closely by the flexibility to customize reports and dashboards."

"It gives us, the ability to do a lot of analysis quickly, similar to ad hoc analysis."

"The solution is quite scalable."

"The most valuable features in Microsoft BI are the analysis using the feature drag and drop function. It's very easy to load and use different data sources."

"It is in the cloud, which makes it easy for mobile access of reports and data."

"Power BI is a complete ecosystem. It has an integrated ETL tool and good connectivity with applications such as Office 365 and SQL. There are also solutions for RPA, such as Microsoft Power Automate and Microsoft Power Apps. Power BI now has integration with Power Query, which has an AI feature for text analytics. Text analytics is a very good feature. This feature is also there in Tableau, but I like it in Power BI because you can write something like, "What is the total sale in the Eastern region?", and it will give you the answer. For example, when you have different types of user opinions, you just run one algorithm and you will have the output that provides the number of positive and negative responses. You can even have a dashboard with positive remarks. This feature has been introduced recently. Power BI supports the DAX and Power Query M languages. These languages are making Power BI very strong in data analytics, and you can do many types of analysis."

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"The level of interactivity that the product provides is valuable to me."

"It is a scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine to ten out of ten."

"When reviewing and interpreting data, I typically examine it in a tabular form to understand its structure. However, when explaining or presenting the findings to others, I often use visualization tools such as Plotly. These tools allow me to create visual representations of datasets."

"I had the option to prepare data myself instead of always having to depend on the data team."

"On the positive side, QlikView's scripting is a great asset as it functions as an ETL."

"We can scale it if we need to."

"The most valuable aspect is its extensive library on Microsoft, providing a robust framework for implementation."

"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."

"Its ability to build, very quickly, very complicated models."

"The search feature: ability to see the related data."

"This solution has simplified getting to and understanding our data, no matter where it is housed."

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Cons

"Not having to login again after a mobile app upgrade. A simple login on mobile would be great."

"Its performance and stability can be improved. It takes time to load, and sometimes, it also breaks down for the whole region. Its usability could also be better, and it could also have more connections with different data sources."

"Whenever you work on the same dashboard or on the same code, Microsoft Power BI doesn't have a good architecture that allows multiple people to work on the same project."

"I think because I'm moving more into RPA, I'd definitely like to see integration across the RPA, Power BI, or Tableau platforms, because that integration could then make automation and mundane reporting much faster."

"If you need data in real-time, it's not an ideal solution."

"The look is simple, and could be a little more professional."

"Creating dashboards could be easier."

"I would like to see integration with Excel."

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"The solution cannot be deployed on the website and shared with others through its own platform."

"The tool needs to improve its pie charts. Regarding Plotly, I find the online documentation somewhat challenging to navigate, especially when dealing with many parameters. Searching through thousands of parameters can be a tedious and less straightforward process. While the documentation is available online and serves its purpose, I often encounter difficulties in finding the information."

"I believe that the prices of the tool's paid services could be on the premium side, so the pricing model can be considered for improvement."

"The solution is quite costly."

"It is really old. We are moving towards converting everything into a Power BI environment. We want to have a self-service type of BI environment where different levels of users in organizations can log onto a portal and retrieve the data they need or get the necessary insights for decision-making that's important for them or their business unit. They have built a new version of QlikView called QlikSense, which probably competes with newer BI tools, such as Power BI, but they are far behind. That's why we are moving towards a newer tool that's easier to use and has more visualizations to represent the data."

"Sometimes the filters are disappearing, and I'm not sure why this is happening."

"Error handling."

"More/newer visualisation components need to be added."

"Reducing costs is the main improvement needed, as this is the biggest burden currently faced in the South African market, with Microsoft converting QlikView customers due to the perceived cost reduction."

"Needs improvement with UI transparency."

"Installation and deployment could be made easier and quicker."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing for the solution is relatively higher compared to other alternatives."

"I'm not very familiar with the licensing aspect, as it operates in the cloud as a SaaS (Software as a Service) model. Essentially, you pay based on cloud cost models, which might include hourly rates or similar billing structures introduced by Microsoft. Many organizations utilize it and pay for its services, somewhat like Office 365. It's a cloud-based platform that provides the necessary services, including support, for development, and you pay accordingly for the usage."

"I very much recommend the free trial mode."

"Setup is easy, and the cost is economical. You do sometimes need to pay additional costs for third party products which "plug-in" to Microsoft BI."

"They have a free Power BI Desktop version, but it has limitations."

"There is a license for this solution and we purchase them annually."

"Remove the cost of a licence to show a dashboard within SharePoint. Why should readers of a dashboard have to pay to view? "

"Microsoft BI for desktop is free to use, and you can download and use it."

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"It is an open-source tool. My company hasn't explored Plotly's premium services yet, but I believe the prices could be on the premium side."

"I only use the free tier of the product."

"Its licensing costs are moderate, but it can get expensive due to the numerous add-ons available like those for printing."

"The pricing is moderate, in the medium price range."

"It is expensive for small companies."

"Qlik is fairly high in terms of pricing."

"QlikView pricing and licensing is on the high side for a small sized company, but it's competitive among its peers."

"It's reasonably priced and falls on the more affordable side."

"It has an annual license. It is expensive as compared to other competitive tools that do more for less. In South African rands, we pay about 100,000 to 200,000 a year."

"It is not very expensive. I think it it is on par with other similar products on the market."

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Comparison Review

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Senior Manager - BI Head at NVidia

Feb 4, 2015

Comparison of SAP BO, Tableau, QlikView, Cognos, Microsoft, OBIEE and Pentaho

1. SAP BO/BI Enterprise scalability Security Ease of use Semantic layer 2. Tableau Visualization Data discovery Turnaround time 3. IBM Cognos Enterprise scalability Security In-memory feature 4. MS BI - Flexibility 5. Pentaho - Open source but still enterprise grade 6. QlikView Data…

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

Government

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

14%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	134
Midsize Enterprise	57
Large Enterprise	165

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By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	73
Midsize Enterprise	36
Large Enterprise	75

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What do you like most about Plotly?

It is a scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine to ten out of ten.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Plotly?

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What needs improvement with Plotly?

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What do you like most about QlikView?

If you correctly use the product for your use cases, it provides value for money.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for QlikView?

The license cost per user or per year for QlikView is about 500 Euros annually, and since we are South African-based,...

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What needs improvement with QlikView?

In QlikView, I believe the improvement that should be made is to bring the costs down, as you'll have to be competiti...

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Also Known As

SSRS, SSAS, MSBI, MS Reporting Services, Microsoft BI Tools, Microsoft Big Data, Power BI Pro, MS BI

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Overview

Microsoft Power BI is a powerful tool for data analysis and visualization. This tool stands out for its ability to merge and analyze data from various sources. Widely adopted across different industries and departments, Power BI is instrumental in creating visually appealing dashboards and generating insightful business intelligence reports. Its intuitive interface, robust visualization capabilities, and seamless integration with other Microsoft applications empower users to easily create interactive reports and gain valuable insights.

Microsoft

Plotly Dash Enterprise is a commercial platform designed for creating and deploying data visualization applications. It provides advanced tools and infrastructure to simplify the process of building interactive dashboards and analytics applications.

Plotly Dash Enterprise enables professionals to harness the power of Dash framework for enterprise-level scalability and deployment. By integrating seamlessly with existing workflows, it supports easy collaboration while ensuring robust data security. Users appreciate its ability to streamline the development of sophisticated visualizations that can be customized to meet specific analytical needs.

What are the standout features?

Customization Options: Offers extensive customization for tailored data visualizations.
Seamless Deployment: Facilitates rapid deployment of dashboards to servers or cloud environments.
Performance Optimization: Provides tools to optimize performance for handling large datasets.
Collaboration Tools: Enhances team collaboration with integrated sharing features.

What ROI factors should be considered?

Increased Productivity: Reduces development time with reusable components and templates.
Scalability: Supports scaling applications as data needs grow.
Cost Efficiency: Minimizes infrastructure costs through efficient resource management.

Plotly Dash Enterprise is employed in finance for real-time analytics dashboards, in healthcare for patient data visualization, and in marketing for customer insights. Its adaptability and ease of integration make it suitable across diverse industry applications where visual data analysis is critical.

Plotly

QlikView is a Business Intelligence tool that allows you to keep tabs on all of your business-related information in a clean, clear, and easy to access database that is intuitive to build and simple to navigate. It is ideal for business owners who wish to improve overall output by creating the most productive system possible.

Qlik

Sample Customers

Accenture Adidas Aetna AIG Airbus Alibaba Allstate Amazon American Express Aon AT&T Audi Bank of America BASF Bayer Berkshire Hathaway Boeing Coca-Cola Comcast Cisco Coca-Cola Dell Disney Emirates Equinix FedEx Ford GE Google H&M Home Depot Honda IBM Intel JPMorgan Chase Kellogg's Kroger L'Oréal McDonald's Merck MetLife Microsoft Nike Oracle P&G PepsiCo Procter & Gamble Prudential Financial SAP Siemens Snapchat Spotify Starbucks Target Toyota T-Mobile Unilever Visa Walmart WeWork World Bank Xerox

Google, Goji, VIT, Smpl Bio, U.S. Air Force, C12 Energy, New York University

Canon, Gatorade, Amcor, Panasonic, Fila, Cambridge University Hospitals, Global Retail Bank, North Yorkshire Police department, Lanoo Group Publishers, and AonGroep Nederland.

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