Qlik Sense vs. Tableau Desktop

Qlik Sense

1,000 Reviews and Ratings

Tableau Desktop

2,288 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Qlik Sense	Score7.4 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.	$200 per month
Tableau Desktop	Score8.1 out of 10	N/A	Tableau Desktop is a data visualization product from Tableau. It connects to a variety of data sources for combining disparate data sources without coding. It provides tools for discovering patterns and insights, data calculations, forecasts, and statistical summaries and visual storytelling.	$75 per month

Pricing

Qlik Sense

Tableau Desktop

Starter: $200
per month
Standard: $825
per month
Premium: $2,750
per month
Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows: Contact Sales
Enterprise: Custom Quote

Tableau: $75
per month per user
Tableau Enterprise: $115
per month per user

Pricing Offerings
Qlik Sense	Tableau Desktop
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	Yes

No setup fee

No setup fee

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All pricing plans are billed annually.

Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Qlik Sense	Tableau Desktop
Considered Both Products	Qlik Silvia Guardini Manager in Information Technology at SDG Group Italy (Information Technology & Services, 201-500 employees) Chose Qlik Sense Qlik Sense is one of the best reporting systems. It is stronger than PBI and Tableau when speaking about complex KPIs. It is really similar to MicroStrategy Analytics when you speak about obtained results, but it is easier to use, especially as it is more code-based. But is it … Incentivized Helpful? Sam Joseph Gomez Sr. Data Analyst in Information Technology at Cramstack Ltd (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Qlik Sense 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 Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Qlik Sense When it comes to working with large datasets out of the box, Qlik in my opinion is unrivaled amongst the competitor. However, the overall user experience and customization options available to developers require a lot of work. When compared to other options on the market, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Qlik Sense Qlik Sense better support for multiple data sources more customizable security Incentivized Helpful? Nuno Orestes Vaz da Silva IT Service Manager BI in Information Technology at COFCO International (Logistics & Supply Chain, 10,001+ employees) Chose Qlik Sense Qlik Sense, Tableau, Power BI and Looker are all great tools that will cover and add value to virtually every organization. They are a bit different and the decision of selecting one and not other can reside in the particular needs of each case. Qlik Sense integration with … Incentivized Helpful? Manjul Malhotra Product Consultant in Product Management at Flipkart (Consumer Goods, 10,001+ employees) Chose Qlik Sense Qlik Sense cost of licensing is cheaper compared with other tools which always gives an upper edge in analytics industry with good functionality. More enhanced level of security with better user community group available to discuss about new updates. Understanding of Qlik Sense … Incentivized Helpful? Fabricio Velasco Demand Generation Manager in Marketing at Ingersoll Rand (Machinery, 10,001+ employees) Chose Qlik Sense Sometimes as competing solutions, other times as completing one another. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Qlik Sense Both are good data visualisation platforms; with certain applications where one is better than the other Incentivized Helpful? Anjum Arora Group ICT Head - Technology & Applications in Information Technology at East-West Seed (Horticulture, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Qlik Sense Qlik Sense comes out as a superior product as well as more cost efficient than some of the other products we evaluated as a part of our Enterprise Business Intelligence stack. It offers unified view of our data and extensibility. Qlik Sense being the most interactive … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Qlik Sense Qlik Sense is relatively cheaper and more futuristic Incentivized Helpful? Richard Stables Information and Support Manager at Headway Ireland - Brain Injury Services and Support (Non-profit Organization Management, 51-200 employees) Chose Qlik Sense We originally went with Qlik Sense because the desktop version used to be free for single users and was a very good proposition for us (we are a non-profit with a limited budget). However, from what I see, the functionality is comparable, and Qlik Sense stacks up well. Incentivized Helpful? Angel Monjarás CIO (Chief Information Officer) in Information Technology at UVA Y MALTA (Food & Beverages, 1-10 employees) Chose Qlik Sense As soon as you want to pull data from two or more separate tables, Qlik Sense leaves the rest in the dust, since it does not require joins or complex transformations. Zoho CRM analytics are limited to the data located in the product itself. No external tables can be combined. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Qlik Sense Other tools were not able to handle complex business requirements and performance was not too good with very huge volume data. we were required to maintain history, time-based data backups, and snapshots. Also, some of the tools were too costly compare to Qlik [Sense] solutions. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Qlik Sense We thought we were getting a good (financial) deal. We had internal resources who were already familiar with Qlik. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Qlik Sense I prefer Qlik due to its ability to combine multiple data sources and flexibility offer by the data load editor, other tools lack this capability or they don't do as good of a job as Qlik Incentivized Helpful? Daniel Huddleston Senior Manager Business Intelligence in Professional Services at Thryv (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Qlik Sense The cost structure and ease of implementation were drivers in the decision. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Qlik Sense Qlik Sense offers the most flexible and deepest data modelling compared to many other competitors. The scripting language offers a ton of options which allow us to manipulate complex data scenarios. The scripting is robust and is something missing from many competitors. The … Incentivized Helpful? Sudeshna Sen Information Technology Analyst in Information Technology at Tata Consultancy Services (Health, Wellness and Fitness, 10,001+ employees) Chose Qlik Sense I have only used Qlik Sense and Nprinting feature as of now. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Qlik Sense QlikView has many more options for styling within charts and objects - this hurts our ability to style things to our needs within Qlik Sense. Qlik Sense looks more modern, responsive for browser size and visually more appealing. Incentivized Helpful? Anannya Ghosh IT Analyst in Information Technology at Tata Consultancy Services (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose Qlik Sense We have used different BI Reporting tools, but overall, Qlik Sense [has been used longer]. Customers are really happy with the dashboards we made through Qlik Sense. Incentivized Helpful? Prashant Goswami Account Manager in Information Technology at Channelplay Limited (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose Qlik Sense Qlik Sense has the ability to handle huge data and the data loading and performing analytics on huge data [is] a plus as compared to other tools in the market. Qlik Sense ability to integrate open-source tools is the best compared to other tools in market. Incentivized Helpful? Zach Frank Director of HR Analytics and Artificial Intelligence in Human Resources at Aramark (Food & Beverages, 10,001+ employees) Chose Qlik Sense Qlik was selected before I arrived and I would not select it again in comparison to any of the alternatives I've worked with, unless that was the enterprise mandate. Incentivized Helpful? Suryaprakash Mishra Senior Data Analyst, Research, Insights and Evaluation, Road Safety Division at Transport Accident Commission (TAC) (Insurance, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Qlik Sense Power BI for external publication. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Qlik Sense Qlik Sense has better GUI and capability to store the data in compressed format. Incentivized Helpful? Akin Tunc Senior Expert Analyst in Information Technology at Turkcell (Telecommunications, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Qlik Sense The user interface of the application is very useful and the visuals are important in our decision. Incentivized Helpful?	Tableau Verified User Chose Tableau Desktop Pentaho has fewer visualizations and they haven't been making a lot of improvements in their visualization space. You can't really add a lot of customized visualizations as well. If Tableau has 100 features then Pentaho Analyzer has 10 with no ray of hope for improvements. … Incentivized Helpful? Ben Lowe Senior Manager/Associate Director in Information Technology at Verizon Wireless (Telecommunications, 10,001+ employees) Chose Tableau Desktop Tableau is strong at visualization but less strong at data discovery where I find Qlik Sense, SAS, SPSS are stronger. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tableau Desktop It has a better user interface compared to Microsoft Power BI. The Tableau integration process is quite simple and clear with the third-party application whereas Power BI is not easily integrated with other tools and requires a complex process to follow for integration. DAX … Incentivized Helpful? Shubham Tiwari Data analyst in Information Technology at OnlineSales.ai (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Tableau Desktop Tableau can create visually attractive customizable dashboards than can quickly by drag-drop while in power bi we can create simple dashboard. Power bi support lesser data source while in Tableau there is a lot of options When we talk about data handling tableau is a clear … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tableau Desktop We have chosen Tableau [Desktop] for its ability to extract live information from any data source, for its simplicity and simplicity that it has a very short learning curve. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tableau Desktop Tableau is much easier and more sophisticated and well though-out. Incentivized Helpful? Rahul Malik Senior Team Lead in Information Technology at Wipro Limited (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose Tableau Desktop Tableau Desktop is the market leader when it comes to creating interactive and appealing graphs and charts. The beauty of the tool is that is can work with almost any kind of back-end source and in real-time take the data and present you with an amazing insight based on the … Incentivized Helpful? Jason Xiao Senior Analyst, Fraud Data Science & Analytics in Finance and Accounting at RBC (Banking, 10,001+ employees) Chose Tableau Desktop Excel has better-embedded coding functions, such as VBA developing environment, but cannot publish reports to an online portal and has limited visualization function. QlikView has fewer online resources and a small community to help you solve problems. Incentivized Helpful? Akshaya Bhardwaj Consultant in Information Technology at WNS Global Services (Outsourcing/Offshoring, 10,001+ employees) Chose Tableau Desktop It is very easy to use, we can create numbers of charts through it which I think other tools lack in. Lots of online communities are there which have provided solutions to the basic issues. Its ODS(output delivery system) is also very effective. We can use SQL in it for … Incentivized Helpful? Aryeh Brickner VP Marketing in Marketing at Aryeh Brickner, management consultant (Management Consulting, 1-10 employees) Chose Tableau Desktop Definitely a lower functioning program, especially in terms of the user experience and GUI. The speed of Tableau was also much greater. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tableau Desktop I moved to a Mac.. enough said! Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tableau Desktop Tableau Desktop is powerful in terms of data sources and dashboarding creation. You can customize and fine-tune your graphics (color, size, text, tooltips and so on). You can make calculations on measures and dimensions. It's also has a cool geocoding function and maps layers. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tableau Desktop Qlick is a good tool too but when handling more than 5G of data you better have a strong machine. Tibco is good too, but the business model doesn't suit us. Incentivized Helpful? Logan Chen Senior infrastructure engineer in Engineering at cibc (Banking, 10,001+ employees) Chose Tableau Desktop IBM Cognos Active report, Qlik Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

Qlik Sense

Tableau Desktop

Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Qlik Sense and Tableau Desktop
Feature	Qlik Sense 8.5 312 Ratings	Tableau Desktop 8.3 167 Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports	8.3213 Ratings	8.8139 Ratings
Customizable dashboards	8.9310 Ratings	8.4166 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates	8.2225 Ratings	7.8145 Ratings

Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Qlik Sense and Tableau Desktop
Feature	Qlik Sense 8.6 323 Ratings	Tableau Desktop 8.7 164 Ratings
Drill-down analysis	8.9319 Ratings	8.6159 Ratings
Formatting capabilities	8.2312 Ratings	9.2162 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages	8.4152 Ratings	7.7122 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration	9.0296 Ratings	9.2157 Ratings

Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Qlik Sense and Tableau Desktop
Feature	Qlik Sense 8.8 275 Ratings	Tableau Desktop 8.1 158 Ratings
Publish to Web	8.8207 Ratings	7.3149 Ratings
Publish to PDF	8.8254 Ratings	7.9149 Ratings
Report Versioning	8.8174 Ratings	8.2116 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling	8.8180 Ratings	9.2123 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers	8.8106 Ratings	8.073 Ratings

Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Qlik Sense and Tableau Desktop
Feature	Qlik Sense 8.7 311 Ratings	Tableau Desktop 8.4 156 Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)	8.5304 Ratings	9.0154 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization	8.8281 Ratings	8.2149 Ratings
Predictive Analytics	8.7193 Ratings	8.6126 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining	00 Ratings	8.02 Ratings

Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Qlik Sense and Tableau Desktop
Feature	Qlik Sense 9.0 294 Ratings	Tableau Desktop 8.7 142 Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)	9.2273 Ratings	9.0139 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model	9.0270 Ratings	8.0119 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)	8.8272 Ratings	8.8129 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)	8.9216 Ratings	8.877 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control	00 Ratings	9.03 Ratings

Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Qlik Sense and Tableau Desktop
Feature	Qlik Sense 7.4 220 Ratings	Tableau Desktop 8.0 135 Ratings
Responsive Design for Web Access	8.3214 Ratings	8.2124 Ratings
Mobile Application	8.2132 Ratings	7.097 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile	8.2184 Ratings	8.8117 Ratings

Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Qlik Sense and Tableau Desktop
Feature	Qlik Sense 8.6 143 Ratings	Tableau Desktop 9.0 64 Ratings
REST API	8.8123 Ratings	9.256 Ratings
Javascript API	8.492 Ratings	9.051 Ratings
iFrames	8.592 Ratings	9.249 Ratings
Java API	8.669 Ratings	10.046 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)	8.695 Ratings	8.453 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)	8.482 Ratings	8.446 Ratings

User Ratings
	Qlik Sense	Tableau Desktop
Likelihood to Recommend	8.5 (327 ratings)	8.7 (194 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.4 (7 ratings)	8.9 (39 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (11 ratings)	8.6 (63 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (10 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	6.1 (9 ratings)
Support Rating	7.3 (8 ratings)	7.0 (56 ratings)
In-Person Training	9.1 (1 ratings)	9.4 (4 ratings)
Online Training	9.1 (1 ratings)	8.0 (4 ratings)
Implementation Rating	7.3 (5 ratings)	8.0 (34 ratings)
Configurability	- (0 ratings)	8.1 (2 ratings)
Data Sharing and Collaboration	3.4 (36 ratings)	8.4 (115 ratings)
Data Sources	7.5 (37 ratings)	7.9 (115 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	7.0 (3 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	9.1 (1 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	9.1 (1 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)