We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI, QlikView, and Tableau based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"Two valuable most features are the ability to create columns and create measures."
"Its ease of use is most valuable."
"Microsoft BI was very helpful for me because I had a huge variety of connections. It is very convenient to build reports, even if somebody has no experience using BI tools or data visualizations. Additionally, the performance is very good when generating reports."
"It's similar to Excel, but it's much more powerful than Excel."
"The stability is great and continues to get better and better."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"Microsoft BI is easy to use and to design. I found Microsoft BI a lot easier than Tableau."
"It is stable enough. It has a lot of powerful functions. It can also be customized with the DAX language. It is also intuitive enough and incremental. You can start with something simple, and then step-by-step, you can increase the reports and dashboards according to your needs."
"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."
"If you correctly use the product for your use cases, it provides value for money."
"QlikView is a scalable solution that multiple users can easily use."
"It enables us to configure various elements, such as dashboard settings, including factors like color schemes and other customization parameters."
"On the positive side, QlikView's scripting is a great asset as it functions as an ETL."
"It excels in supporting database connections and various database types."
"Once you open it up, you see everything that you can do."
"The initial setup is not very complex."
"The ease of presenting findings is very helpful."
"While using this solution I have found the valuable features to be ease of use and the visualization. It is a complete solution."
"The Web Editing capabilities allow us to grant end users enough capabilities for them to do self-serve discovery without the added cost of needing to get everyone desktop licenses."
"The stability seems to be very reliable."
"The most valuable part of the solution is the general dashboard features."
"The solution is easy to use, flexible, our clients enjoy seeing the data on maps, and you do not need to be an expert in SQL to use it."
"The action feature which Tableau has is very useful for us. If we click on one visualization, it will pass the value to another visualization. That interactivity within different visualizations is the most valuable feature of Tableau."
"It's very user-friendly. It's not like Power BI, Tableau is very user-friendly. Anybody can use Tableau. It's very easy to adopt things. I can visualize the stats."
"They are improving it all the time. What would be nice is if they could respond to feature requests more quickly. They can provide faster support for new features."
"Microsoft BI’s integration and visualization could be improved."
"Real-time updating needs improvement."
"I would like them to provide a license that just allows us to see dashboards. What I don't like about this solution is that in order to just watch a dashboard, you need a license. Currently, you need to purchase a full license of Power BI Pro just to see something, which is not attractive. If you have a license, you can see a shared dashboard, but you can also build a dashboard or you can collaborate with other people. However, if you only want to see a dashboard, there is no license for that. I only want to see the dashboard, and I don't want to do anything more than watching the information on the dashboard. There is no license that allows you to see a shared dashboard. This is one of the areas of opportunity because I would like a lot of people to be able to see a shared dashboard, not to interact with it or to collaborate online with it. I would like to see more compatibility with non-Microsoft data sources. Given the fact that everything is related to Microsoft Azure and all services available on Microsoft Azure, I see that they're building more connections to Microsoft Azure services instead of other non-Microsoft services. I understand the strategy, but it would be good to have more compatibility with non-Microsoft data sources."
"There is room for improvement in terms of pricing for the solution."
"It needs a wizard that covers all its options."
"The solution could improve by simplifying the user interface and adding integration or compatibility with APA."
"Needs single sign-on."
"The solution is quite costly."
"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."
"They could improve the speed."
"I really wish the application was easier to use in the development phase."
"The tool is expensive in Turkey."
"I would want them to have more options as a user. It would be nice for them to create their own dashboards and add fields."
"Enhancing user-friendliness would be highly beneficial."
"There is a lack of static PDF report generation and automatic resizing of the dashboard to fit the device."
"The only issue with the solution is with its prices at a regional level."
"The product's features for cloud integration need improvement."
"They need to improve the icons and the filters, because they look too old, resembling Excel from 1997."
"They need a write-back; that is what is missing. If they get the write back to the database, they will be fully automated, but for the time being, they are not."
"Some of our clients are looking for better UI when using Tableau as they often work with this solution directly."
"The solution could use more features in data analytics."
"They need to improve the bar chart position and width."
"Requires a lot of user training."
