Qlik Sense vs. Tableau Server

Qlik Sense

1,000 Reviews and Ratings

Tableau Server

878 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 Server	Score7.6 out of 10	N/A	Tableau Server allows Tableau Desktop users to publish dashboards to a central server to be shared across their organizations. The product is designed to facilitate collaboration across the organization. It can be deployed on a server in the data center, or it can be deployed on a public cloud.	$12 Per User Per Month

Pricing

Qlik Sense

Tableau Server

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

Viewer: $12.00
Per User Per Month
Explorer: $35.00
Per User Per Month
Creator: $70.00
Per User Per Month

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

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Qlik Sense	Tableau Server
Considered Both Products	Qlik 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 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? Verified User Chose Qlik Sense Qlik Sense is a better enterprise tool with better ability for sharing solutions among teams. Extensibility is better with ability to integrate third party tools like D3, etc. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Qlik Sense Choosing Qlik Sense was a no-brainer to our organisation as we had already invested years developing QVD's (Qlik's data sources/structures) with QlikView that could be re-used with Qlik Sense. However we have still watched and explored the other products and although they can … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Qlik Sense Qlik View Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Qlik Sense Qlik Sense was more fully-featured and scaled better on price. The ability to customize and extend functionality is helpful to tweak the product for our specific needs. It has truly helped scale our user community and their maturity/ability to do more with data without also … Incentivized Helpful? Rina Falkovich Data Architect in Information Technology at Western Canada Lottery Corporation (WCLC) (Gambling & Casinos, 201-500 employees) Chose Qlik Sense We found Qlik Sense provided better governance and the ability for IT to retain some control of how the data is collected and used. In-memory analytics model also stood out. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Qlik Sense We primarily chose Qlik Sense based on our positive experience with QlikView. Qlik Sense seemed like a promising new direction based on a proven analytics engine. Tableau was another option available to us but we didn't strongly consider it at the time since it didn't seem to … Incentivized Helpful? Harjan Boes Operational Excellence Manager in Manufacturing at PrintMasters Europe (Printing, 201-500 employees) Chose Qlik Sense Low threshold implementation traject. Low starting cost. Experience of the project team in former companies with Qlik also contributed to the decision. Incentivized Helpful? Wayne Antinore Manager Databases. Reporting and Business Intelligence in Information Technology at ACM Global Central Laboratory (Hospital & Health Care, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Qlik Sense At the time we did our evaluation, Qlik Sense beat out the other two products (Tableau and Power BI) for meeting the business requirements from our users. Qlik Sense's ease of use, extensive library of visualizations, strong community presence, and overall pricing made it our … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Qlik Sense --Advantages-- Qlik Sense offers much more powerful data preparation capabilities. Qlik Sense offers the licensing model to support external users. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Qlik Sense There are pros and cons to each platform. Incentivized Helpful? Timo Saloranta Head of Data Operations, Data Architect in Engineering at Kiosked (Internet, 11-50 employees) Chose Qlik Sense We chose Qlik Sense mostly because: it had an associative engine for analyzing data it was user-friendly Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Qlik Sense The sales team felt more like they wanted to partner with us, the other firms had very slimy/oily sales people that kept promising things we know were undeliverable. Qlik wanted to partner with us, which we respected, and were willing to pay a little more for a relationship and … Incentivized Helpful? Filippo Orlando Data Analyst \| Data Developer - Advanced Analytics in Information Technology at Unieuro S.p.A. (Retail, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Qlik Sense The experience with View has certainly been a strong lever to help us in the choice, but what was proposed by this new product was certainly in line with the tool we were looking for. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Qlik Sense Overall, a much better product and sales experience than any other vendor/tool. When you look at Total Cost of Ownership, Qlik beats out Power BI, simply because you need fewer FTE's to support the same level of output. Tableau, while very popular, has an awkward sales … Incentivized Helpful? Mohan Suswaram Enterprise Data Architect in Information Technology at CIBC Mellon (Utilities, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Qlik Sense While Tableau then was better at self service visualisation and analytics than self service, Qlik View was its direct competitor. With Qlik Sense coming into play, the equations changed and Qlik Sense had upper hand with its excellent self service data integration capabilities … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Qlik Sense Various other alternatives include Tableau, Microstratgey, Power BI. Qlik sense wins over all since it is very simple to use with great interactive visualizations and selections Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Qlik Sense Better visually and appealing graphics transitions Incentivized Helpful? Chee Kiam Lim Senior Solution Architect in Information Technology at National Library Board (Libraries, 501-1000 employees) Chose Qlik Sense Tableau is another compelling choice for a self-service BI tool. We ultimately went for Qlik Sense because we already had Qlik View in our enterprise and Qlik Sense could do much of what Tableau was offering then. Microsoft Power BI was also considered as most of our users were … Incentivized Helpful?	Tableau Verified User Chose Tableau Server The interface of Tableau Server is good. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tableau Server It is the most user-friendly and its features are all suitable for our company's needs. Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

Qlik Sense

Tableau Server

Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Qlik Sense and Tableau Server
Feature	Qlik Sense 8.5 312 Ratings	Tableau Server 9.5 94 Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports	8.3213 Ratings	9.129 Ratings
Customizable dashboards	8.9310 Ratings	9.793 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates	8.2225 Ratings	9.780 Ratings

Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Qlik Sense and Tableau Server
Feature	Qlik Sense 8.6 323 Ratings	Tableau Server 9.1 94 Ratings
Drill-down analysis	8.9319 Ratings	8.994 Ratings
Formatting capabilities	8.2312 Ratings	8.892 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages	8.4152 Ratings	9.058 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration	9.0296 Ratings	9.888 Ratings

Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Qlik Sense and Tableau Server
Feature	Qlik Sense 8.8 275 Ratings	Tableau Server 8.4 90 Ratings
Publish to Web	8.8207 Ratings	9.884 Ratings
Publish to PDF	8.8254 Ratings	9.783 Ratings
Report Versioning	8.8174 Ratings	9.169 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling	8.8180 Ratings	8.376 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers	8.8106 Ratings	5.19 Ratings

Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Qlik Sense and Tableau Server
Feature	Qlik Sense 8.7 311 Ratings	Tableau Server 8.7 89 Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)	8.5304 Ratings	8.985 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization	8.8281 Ratings	8.984 Ratings
Predictive Analytics	8.7193 Ratings	8.563 Ratings

Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Qlik Sense and Tableau Server
Feature	Qlik Sense 9.0 294 Ratings	Tableau Server 8.3 94 Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)	9.2273 Ratings	8.392 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model	9.0270 Ratings	8.389 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)	8.8272 Ratings	8.391 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)	8.9216 Ratings	8.361 Ratings

Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Qlik Sense and Tableau Server
Feature	Qlik Sense 7.4 220 Ratings	Tableau Server 8.4 78 Ratings
Responsive Design for Web Access	8.3214 Ratings	8.276 Ratings
Mobile Application	8.2132 Ratings	8.160 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile	8.2184 Ratings	9.067 Ratings

Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Qlik Sense and Tableau Server
Feature	Qlik Sense 8.6 143 Ratings	Tableau Server 7.2 45 Ratings
REST API	8.8123 Ratings	9.039 Ratings
Javascript API	8.492 Ratings	9.036 Ratings
iFrames	8.592 Ratings	9.039 Ratings
Java API	8.669 Ratings	5.57 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)	8.695 Ratings	6.19 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)	8.482 Ratings	4.67 Ratings

User Ratings
	Qlik Sense	Tableau Server
Likelihood to Recommend	8.5 (327 ratings)	8.1 (110 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.4 (7 ratings)	10.0 (20 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (11 ratings)	5.2 (16 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (9 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	8.1 (8 ratings)
Support Rating	7.3 (8 ratings)	3.0 (18 ratings)
In-Person Training	9.1 (1 ratings)	8.0 (4 ratings)
Online Training	9.1 (1 ratings)	9.0 (9 ratings)
Implementation Rating	7.3 (5 ratings)	9.1 (13 ratings)
Configurability	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)
Data Sharing and Collaboration	3.4 (36 ratings)	5.1 (79 ratings)
Data Sources	7.5 (37 ratings)	6.6 (82 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	9.1 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	9.1 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)