We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI, QlikView, and SAS Visual Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."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 allows you to create user defined charts which is really useful."
"It's pretty easy to set up the product."
"The ease of integration and connectivity stands out as the most critical aspect, followed closely by the flexibility to customize reports and dashboards."
"It is a good platform for data analysis, organization, and all of the other interim performances that are necessary."
"Previously we used Excel, which took a long time - two or three weeks - to bring the data into a uniform format, whereas BI can do the same job in a day."
"The virtualization of Microsoft BI is very good."
"Microsoft BI's initial setup is very straightforward."
"The most valuable aspect is its extensive library on Microsoft, providing a robust framework for implementation."
"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."
"The language support is very good."
"Our Qlikview applications help us to get a good idea of our Client Base Performance and assist us in the decision making for Seasonal Specials. On the other hand QlikView helps us to get a grasp on our Suppliers and helps us to negotiate pricing with them."
"It's pretty easy to deploy."
"I had the option to prepare data myself instead of always having to depend on the data team."
"QlikView is a scalable solution that multiple users can easily use."
"The speed to display charts and react to users' choices is great."
"We've found the product to be stable and reliable."
"It's a stable, reliable product."
"The technical support services are good."
"The flexibility of the configuration is valuable to me."
"It provided the capability to visualize a bunch of data in an organized way."
"Visual Analytics is very easy to use. I use Visual Analytics for all the typical use cases except text mining. I used it to analyze data and monitor statistics, not text mining. I also use it for data visualization as well as creating interactive dashboards and infographics."
"It's quite easy to learn and to progress with SAS from an end-user perspective."
"You do need to do some hard coding for certain things in Microsoft BI."
"The one thing that I noticed specifically was the graphical features, and some of the analytical features. They were stronger on the Tableau side."
"Trend data and dashboards need improvement."
"Power BI's drillthrough feature could be improved. I didn't like drillthrough and those options much, but I did like it in MicroStrategy."
"Defining a relationship was very confusing. There were circular directions for which I had to do a lot of adjustments in the data. They can do something to make it easier."
"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."
"Microsoft BI's visualization could be better. Though Power BI's visualization has steadily improved over the years, it's not on the level tools like Tableau and SAS or some of the more expensive products on the market."
"It has come a long way in terms of how it was working two years ago, but there are some things that you still can't do with it. For example, permission management and user access management are still a bit limited. It is basically based on the idea that everybody from the organization can see everything or limit the type of data they can see. If I want you to see only one report and the other guy to see another report, I can't do it. There should be a better way to manage permissions and users. It should also support external users much better."
"Improvement in collaboration, between that and publishing of reports and publishing of models."
"The user interface and ease of use takes a bit of a learning curve to pick up."
"I would like to see more advanced features from Qlik Sense integrated into QlikView to keep it competitive and up-to-date."
"Enhancing user-friendliness would be highly beneficial."
"I really wish the application was easier to use in the development phase."
"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."
"There is no automation or drag and drop functionality."
"Error handling."
"There are scalability issues. It depends on the data volume and number of end-users. VA requires a lot of hardware resources to move volumes of data."
"The solution is a little weak at the front end."
"There is room for improvement in anti-money laundering prevention and operation monitoring, as well as operation monitoring surveillance."
"The product is expensive and needs the integration of more languages."
"There are a few little things that are predefined and can be done out of the box immediately. There is no business intelligence application that is predefined, which is something some customers or prospects would love to have. Small and mid-sized companies would struggle with it because they prefer something standard that has been predefined by somebody else."
"The deployment isn't smooth. Deploying Visual Analytics on the cloud takes a lot of work, or you can use some providers that give you SAS as a service. For example, there is a provider called SaasNow. They host SAS Visual Analytics and the license. You can buy the license and deploy it there without the hassle of installation because deploying the software isn't easy."
"I haven't come across any missing features."
"The reason we haven't rolled it out across the board is due to the fact that the licensing is so expensive."
