Microsoft BI is a business intelligence product used for data analysis and generating reports on server-based data. It features unlimited data analysis capacity with its reporting engine, SQL Server Reporting Services alongside ETL, master data management, and data cleansing.
$9.99
per user/per month
Qlik Sense
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Qlik Sense® is a self-service BI platform for data discovery and visualization. It supports a full range of analytics use cases—data governance, pixel-perfect reporting, and collaboration. Its Associative Engine indexes and connects relationships between data points for creating actionable insights.
$20
per month per user (10 user minimum)
Pricing
Microsoft BI (MSBI)
Qlik Sense
Editions & Modules
Power BI Pro
$9.99
per user/per month
Power BI Premium
4,995
per month
Standard
$20
per month per user (10 user minimum)
Premium
$2700
per month unlimited basic users & purchased full users
Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows
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Microsoft BI (MSBI)
Qlik Sense
Free Trial
No
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
Yes
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
No setup fee
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Microsoft BI is ideal for proficient Excel users, and it is the best choice in terms of visualizations. We decided to use Microsoft BI for these reasons.
Tableau is too expensive. Microsoft BI is what we might switch to in terms of our department's skill set, available (free) training resources through forums and youtube, and pricepoint for a nonprofit.
Qlik Sense can easily integrate multiple data models to
visualize customer data. Tableau is easy to use—perhaps more manageable than Qlik—but
expensive. Microsoft BI was chosen because it was similar to previously used
Qlik was a way to combine data retrieval and presentation in one place. The majority of other solutions we evaluated required one part to retrieve data, or multiple parts to retrieve the data from various sources, then something else to prepare visualisations or reports. Qlik …
Low threshold implementation traject. Low starting cost. Experience of the project team in former companies with Qlik also contributed to the decision.
Cognos felt too complex for the user. Tableau was slow and did not have a CSR programme. Hyperion is great but more for finance. Microsoft not as developed and rich in features. Qlikview as much as Qlik Sense felt well developed, rich in features and relatively easy to use for …
Other BI tools used previously was nowhere as dynamic and easy to use as Qlik Sense. Whilst they also present data in a graphical manner, it requires a lot more effort and time to achieve the same and also the user typically requires a lot more training to utilise.