We performed a comparison between Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services and QlikView based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Reporting solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution's features are all just wrapped up in one nice easy package. I don't need a lot of toolsets to get everything I need done."
"I'm very satisfied with the customer service. And usually, whenever we have any issue or details, we get to the person for the support. I'm really satisfied with the service. Within a few minutes or within a few hours, the support person will be available."
"I like Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services' automated reporting feature."
"It is a stable solution."
"The SQL Server Reporting Services makes it very easy to get the data whenever we need it."
"The tool's valuable features are its drill-down feature, graphs, and charts."
"We were able to embed the report builder within our internal proprietary systems, improving our reporting capabilities."
"I mainly use the solution for the ease of reporting and for executive dashboards."
"If you correctly use the product for your use cases, it provides value for money."
"This solution has simplified getting to and understanding our data, no matter where it is housed."
"It is useful to use a tool like this to have a view of data at a point in time. You can extract and create little data sets that you can store, and then over time, you can have a view for tracking changes. Especially when you work with a relational database or a database that's a production database, the data is dynamic, but if you use QlikView, you can take a snapshot of different datasets. In your own time, you can then get insights and report, build, analyze, and draw whatever you need from the data, which is quite useful."
"The most valuable aspect is its extensive library on Microsoft, providing a robust framework for implementation."
"The scalability is there."
"You can do a lot of things on the back end which are not possible in the other solutions on the market."
"The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to view the entire data available for analysis."
"The solution is fast."
"Sometimes, we need to make sure that the configuration stays consistent across the reporting instances. They all connect to the same database. So, it shares that same backend, but the reporting services itself can also be configured. On the application level, for reporting level. And it is, based on my own experience, it is a manual effort to make sure that the reporting servers are configured the same across the environment."
"We encounter some barriers while trying to build a report."
"In this solution, the cost should be reduced for the enterprise edition."
"I would like the solution to add the scheduling feature for reports."
"It would be really nice to have better integration between the solution and Power BI."
"The setup is difficult because you have to install different servers."
"It is not easy to integrate the product with other tools in the market."
"The solution's interface is old."
"There is a lack of static PDF report generation and automatic resizing of the dashboard to fit the device."
"The only thing I would improve about it is the fact that it refreshes all the time, and when it does that, it just deletes all the options you had, all the filters that you had selected, so you need to select them from the beginning."
"The tool is expensive in Turkey."
"The solution is quite costly."
"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."
"I would like to see more advanced features from Qlik Sense integrated into QlikView to keep it competitive and up-to-date."
"Improvement in collaboration, between that and publishing of reports and publishing of models."
"There could be a feature to analyze the sales and accounting data of the client."
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Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services is ranked 8th in Reporting with 15 reviews while QlikView is ranked 5th in Reporting with 158 reviews. Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services is rated 7.6, while QlikView is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services writes "Offers useful templates but needs to improve the connectivity offered". On the other hand, the top reviewer of QlikView writes "Useful for data visualization and business intelligence". Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services is most compared with TIBCO Jaspersoft, Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, SAP Crystal Reports and Pentaho Business Analytics, whereas QlikView is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, SQL Server and Google Data Studio. See our Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services vs. QlikView report.
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