We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI, QlikView, and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"If you are not very technical this tool could be very useful."
"The stability is great and continues to get better and better."
"The solution's initial setup isn't too complicated."
"The stability is good."
"The solution is easy to use."
"There is a lot of variety in Power BI. In particular, the visuals are quite rich and the feature set has been growing rapidly in the last two years. Possibly the best part for me is that there are a lot of ways to connect with data sources."
"Power BI, once made available, can connect to various data sources, irrespective of the application, whether it be HR or business applications. The bank has many applications, but all eventually need to generate reports for tracking, distribution, or problem-finding based on analysis. Power BI was made available as part of the productivity suite to all businesses, which can connect to their applications and provide the reports and analysis they require."
"The solution is easy to use and charts can be built quickly with the tools."
"Data transforming with scripting, and the associative model that lets users browse data in an easy way, are the most valuable features."
"The user interface and dashboards are very good."
"Easy to analyze data by click-through."
"The most useful feature of QlikView for me is the QVD concept."
"You can switch views easily."
"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."
"The in-memory feature gives us better insight. It's also easy to drill down into the information and select information."
"The integration with Salesforce has helped us gain access to crucial sales data in real-time."
"It has been extremely valuable, to combine data from various data sources."
"Provides autonomy for all the business users to develop their own reports."
"The planning and dashboarding features have been useful. Additionally, the fixed-format reports are good."
"This reporting and broadcasting solution has a lot of flexibilities and can connect to multiple source systems."
"It is a very good product, stable, and has good technical capabilities."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that we are able to build all dashboards with self-service BI and are able to provide our business users with self-service BI. We are building a repository on top of our data warehouse and building all the dashboards and KPIs."
"BusinessObjects can handle a lot of usage on the front end, and many users can view these reports. It's a relatively stable and secure tool."
"The platform uses a lot of Java technologies so the performance and system-level management are tricky because it needs a lot of resources."
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"I think that the product would benefit by increasing the range of visuals and graphics readily available, as opposed to using a third party included as part of the product."
"From any improvement perspective, I want the product to be made available to users free of cost...The stability and scalability of the product can be better."
"This solution's performance when handling big data could be improved. Right now, if you're handling big data, the application becomes slow and the performance is very low."
"The DAX in Microsoft BI is quite difficult."
"I would like to be able to use SQL properly within the reports and allow multiple people to work on the same report at the same time. If one person is working on it, then it causes issues for anyone else wanting to make reports."
"I find the solution to be 70 percent stable."
"I feel the modeling page should be simplified."
"Drill-down in dashboards needs to improved. The capability only works in Power BI Desktop today. We need to have an alternative approach today."
"Enhancing user-friendliness would be highly beneficial."
"Though the initial setup phase is simple, when it comes to the integration with the custom systems, the configuration and the compatibility sometimes take some more 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."
"The tool is expensive in Turkey."
"I would like to see more advanced features from Qlik Sense integrated into QlikView to keep it competitive and up-to-date."
"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."
"Sometimes, dealing with complex reports requires more effort, which could be really improved."
"There could be a feature to analyze the sales and accounting data of the client."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform should be made easier for the end-users and the performance could be improved."
"The solution is not good for self-services, they can improve in this area."
"Recently, it's become less stable if I am working on Citrix."
"The financial area in the solution has certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"Currently, we can use Explore to do data discovering, but cannot generate charts."
"The combination of Lumira along with Design Studio merger last year still needs development from a visualization standpoint."
"It needs to be more flexible for the end-user."
"Over the years, the product tends to rename and rebrand itself and change its direction. This is a deficit of the solution."
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