We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI, QlikView, and SAP Analytics Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."The initial setup is simple to do."
"The solution is very intuitive, you do not need to have too much programming knowledge to use it. Advanced Excel users can use it very easily."
"The visualization and reporting are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The solution overall is very useful. The reports that are generated and the reporting functionality management are beneficial."
"It is useful for bringing visualization to data. It calculates counts, ratios, etc."
"What I like most is that I can do everything in Power BI that I can do in Excel."
"They find Power BI's data pull mechanism to be sufficient and cost-effective, especially considering the stability it provides. In comparison with other solutions, Power BI stands out as a fantastic choice. Therefore, I would definitely recommend sticking with the Pro license."
"Its ease of use is most valuable."
"The search feature: ability to see the related data."
"The language support is very good."
"The most valuable aspect is its extensive library on Microsoft, providing a robust framework for implementation."
"It is useful to use a tool like this to have a view of data at a point in time. You can extract and create little data sets that you can store, and then over time, you can have a view for tracking changes. Especially when you work with a relational database or a database that's a production database, the data is dynamic, but if you use QlikView, you can take a snapshot of different datasets. In your own time, you can then get insights and report, build, analyze, and draw whatever you need from the data, which is quite useful."
"This solution has simplified getting to and understanding our data, no matter where it is housed."
"I had the option to prepare data myself instead of always having to depend on the data team."
"It's incredibly fast and can handle large volumes of data without slowing down our operations."
"Scripting as per a customer's need, which is a pretty cool feature and not available in other tools."
"We mainly use Analytics Cloud because it integrates with other SAP solutions. Our ERP is an SAP product, and our back-end is SAP Business Warehouse, so integration is an essential factor."
"The new Application Design option offers lots of customization options by being able to script in Typescript (similar to Javascript)."
"There is a seamless integration with SAP S4HANA which is really valuable to our organization and its functions. Since the data is stored in the same ecosystem, it creates a simple process of building dashboards, without making the process cumbersome The Analytics Cloud provides standardized templates and storage options, making it easy to plug into existing structures. We're utilizing custom stories that have already been developed, streamlining the development process. It serves as a convenient starting point and contributes to the overall ease of development. Another advantage is that it doesn't provide the same level of calculation power as Power BI and Tableau. SAP Analytics Cloud emphasizes pushing analytics back into the database, recommending data manipulation and preparation outside of the platform. This approach is seen as an advantage, as it allows for more robust data handling."
"The solution is quite effective for collaborative planning."
"Considering the reporting part, I rate the tool a nine out of ten."
"Real-time data makes for a single version of the truth."
"The tool's most valuable features are the BI and planning functionalities. I value being able to integrate smart planning with BI for analysis. The solution is user-friendly."
"One feature I've found most valuable is discovery."
"The handling of the workspaces can be made more granular for user access rights. It can be managed a little bit better in terms of the connection to Active Directory so that we have more granular access rights. I am not sure if this is really possible or if we can solve it differently, but we need a lot of workspaces, and we are not sure how we can deal with it from the access rights perspective."
"Automation could be improved and performance enhanced."
"The cost of the solution can get high."
"The UI looks awkward once the graphs have been generated in the console. This is what Microsoft can work on."
"The DAX features need some improvement. It's not as easy as Excel. They need more DAX formulas."
"It is not yet ready for enterprises. For a big enterprise data model, it is not so stable, and it also doesn't scale so well."
"We would like it if they added more Python libraries in the Power BI service. For Power BI service right now, you can use Python, but it is limited to a few libraries or a few packages from Python."
"There are some problems with the functionality of this solution. The dashboard is not very user friendly and is quite complicated."
"Sometimes, dealing with complex reports requires more effort, which could be really improved."
"The pricing is high."
"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."
"There is a lack of static PDF report generation and automatic resizing of the dashboard to fit the device."
"I would like to see more advanced features from Qlik Sense integrated into QlikView to keep it competitive and up-to-date."
"For me, it is important to have a mix, what is the "view" and what is the "sense", Qlik Sense. They have two tools, but for me it is important to have only one tool, which combines the functions that we have from one side and the other side."
"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."
"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."
"It seems like there's a problem with the tool's licenses. If there are a lot of users, like 200, who only use the solution once a year, paying for a full-year license for each user is expensive. There's no option for users who only use the solution occasionally."
"One potential improvement is how we can transpose data. With SAP, if you have data from one system with a declared data type and a different system with another data type, the transfer is tricky."
"Technical support could be more helpful and responsive."
"They need more support for more languages, Python for example."
"SAP Analytics Cloud requires a lot of coding and I would like the coding to be somewhat minimal."
"The general management of this solution could be improved. The graphics or icons could also be improved to allow them to integrate with other environments on the web."
"It should have the flexibility for scoping the story and models. When you use it in a three-layer architecture, you struggle with the fact that you usually have just one SAP Analytics Cloud tenant, and you have to switch the connections, which might be an issue for bigger developments. For the development role, there should be an option to switch between development and production scenarios."
"I expect more integration from SAP Analytics Cloud."
