Microsoft Power BI vs QlikView vs Targit Decision Suite comparison

Microsoft and Qlik are both solutions in the Reporting category. Microsoft is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.0, while Qlik is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.1. Microsoft holds a 23.8% mindshare in RT, compared to Qlik’s 4.7% mindshare. Additionally, 93% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of Qlik users who would recommend it.

Microsoft Power BI

Read 326 Microsoft Power BI reviews

22,361 Views
9,392 Comparison Views

93% willing to recommend

QlikView

Read 162 QlikView reviews

3,168 Views
1,806 Comparison Views

92% willing to recommend

Targit Decision Suite

Read 1 Targit Decision Suite review

339 Views
156 Comparison Views

100% willing to recommend

Microsoft Power BI

QlikView

Targit Decision Suite

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Download the report

Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI, QlikView, and Targit Decision Suite based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Salesforce, Qlik and others in Reporting.

To learn more, read our detailed Reporting Report (Updated: September 2025).

Buyer's Guide

Reporting

September 2025

Download the complete report

Helped 870,697 peers since 2012

Review summaries and opinions

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

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 QlikView is 4.7%, up from 3.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Targit Decision Suite is 0.5%, up from 0.2% 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%
Targit Decision Suite	0.5%
Other	71.0%

Reporting

Featured Reviews

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Facilitates seamless data aggregation with some outdated visual elements hindering user appeal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

Read full review

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.

Read full review

it_user289458

Data Science Intern at Red Hat

I can now create more meaningful charts--radar, donut, pareto, scatter, range, point, boxplot, etc., but it doesn't support Linux or commodity hardware.

* The tool is very easy to use, we got on-premise training from Panorama, within days we were proficient enough to play with the tool. * The customer service is very responsive, they answered our queries. * I saw lot of people complaining about the lack of community forum, but they do have a forum which is quite active. * The tool is extremely easy to use, with a click you can import data and create the visualizations. * The things I like most is it supports variety of charts, I was quite bored with my previous BI tool which mostly supported bar, line and pie charts. I can now create more meaningful charts radar, donut, pareto, scatter, range, point, boxplot, etc.

Read full review

See which vendors are best for you

Use our free recommendation engine to learn which Reporting solutions are best for your needs.

See recommendations

870,697 professionals have used our research since 2012.

Comparison Review

it_user79932

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…

Read full review

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

12%

Government

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

10%

Performing Arts

No data available

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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

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

No data available

Questions from the Community

Seeking lightweight open source BI software

There are many...It would rather depend what System BI architecture or Enterprise legacy you have at your end...I wou...

See all answers

Is Power BI a complete platform or only a visualization tool?

Power BI is an advanced visualization tool oriented to big data with a very complete set of widgets to visualize info...

See all answers

How does Oracle OBIEE compare with Microsoft BI?

Oracle OBIEE is great in allowing design and creativity per the individual needs of the organization. Dashboards are ...

See all answers

What do you like most about QlikView?

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

See all answers

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,...

See all answers

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...

See all answers

Ask a question

Earn 20 points

Comparisons

Tableau Enterprise vs Microsoft Power BI

Compared 14% of the time

Amazon QuickSight vs Microsoft Power BI

Compared 11% of the time

Databricks vs Microsoft Power BI

Compared 7% of the time

Domo vs Microsoft Power BI

Compared 7% of the time

More Microsoft Power BI Competitors

Tableau Enterprise vs QlikView

Compared 17% of the time

Amazon QuickSight vs QlikView

Compared 9% of the time

MicroStrategy vs QlikView

Compared 6% of the time

IBM Cognos vs QlikView

Compared 5% of the time

Domo vs QlikView

Compared 4% of the time

More QlikView Competitors

MicroStrategy vs Targit Decision Suite

Compared 22% of the time

Tableau Enterprise vs Targit Decision Suite

Compared 20% of the time

Oracle OBIEE vs Targit Decision Suite

Compared 16% of the time

Jedox vs Targit Decision Suite

Compared 14% of the time

More Targit Decision Suite Competitors

Product Reports

Buyer's Guide

Microsoft Power BI

October 2025

Download Microsoft Power BI product report

Buyer's Guide

QlikView

October 2025

Download QlikView product report

Buyer's Guide

Reporting

September 2025

Download Targit Decision Suite product report

Also Known As

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

No data available

Targit BI Suite

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

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

TARGIT is one of the largest Business Intelligence providers within Gartner's Magic Quadrant. With over 18 years of experience in the BI and Analytics segment and over 5000 customers globally, TARGIT has been consistently considered as a top player in the industry. TARGIT is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, recognized for strong applications development. We offer companies a user-friendly decision platform that combines intelligent dashboards, self-service analytics, and dynamic reporting.

Targit

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

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

Platon, bubobubo, JetReports, Radley

Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Salesforce, Qlik and others in Reporting. Updated: September 2025.

DOWNLOAD NOW

870,697 professionals have used our research since 2012.