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When evaluating Qlik vs Tableau, consider both your immediate needs as well as the larger role that BI and analytics can play across departments, customers, and partners. This guide compares Qlik Sense vs Tableau on 14 key factors.
All top BI tools allow you to visualize data in charts, graphs and maps. Both Qlik and Tableau have a full range of visualizations. But visualizing data isn’t only about creating a work of art. It’s more about gaining insights. Key features help make this happen. Features large and small, like interactivity, responsive design to reformat and adjust detail level to accommodate screen and scale, or a scrollable bar chart which allows you to see the overall shape of the data and find outliers.
-Sravani Nyayapathy*
You and your stakeholders will want to explore all your data in any direction, directly from within the dashboard. This will let you uncover relationships you may not have considered when you or an analyst first set up a query. Plus, you should expect AI to help you highlight outliers, create charts, and suggest new visuals.
-Brad Ringen*
There's more to making a BI platform investment than the initial purchase. The Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) factors all the costs associated with using a BI solution. From implementation to usability and scalability over the years. Major cost considerations include infrastructure, systems setup, app development, cloud computing cost management, security, usability, systems admin, and support.
- Tomasz Wojcik, Thermoplast**
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are resetting the expectations of a modern BI tool. Augmented analytics suggests new insights and connections and this helps you quickly analyze your data, increases your productivity, and helps you make better data-driven decisions.
- Pavan Arora*
Machine learning is the process of creating models from historical data in order to make future predictions. Automated machine learning allows you to leverage the power of predictive analytics in more user cases not handled by data scientists.
- Ben Dean*
Your organization should be able to support all BI use cases using the same data and the same platform. This is because you may have many different types of users, such as analysts, engineers and business people performing many different use cases beyond just visualizing data–like embedding analytics, enterprise alerting, and collaborating on dashboards.
- Jason Ferriggi*
It’s not enough to create dashboards and visualizations. Your platform should have the ability to initiate action. This can take the form of prompting human action through sophisticated alerting or orchestrating events in downstream systems.
- Rob O'Neill*
You want everyone in your organization to trust their data, analytics and insights. You also want everyone to work quickly without having to wait for IT or analysts. This means your tool should allow you to control your data and content with a centralized management capability that uses rules-based governance without restricting what users can accomplish.
- Michael Taylor*
As workforces become more mobile, keep in mind that you and your teams need to be able to explore and analyze data and share insights wherever you happen to be.
-Ryan Hanson**
You need a complete, up-to-date view of all relevant data. Plus, you may need to support hundreds or thousands of users across your organization. This means you’ll need a tool that can handle data at any scale without compromising performance or driving up costs and can integrate and combine data from any source, as close to real-time as possible.
-Axel Goris*
Embedded analytics refers to incorporating full analytics capabilities within other processes, applications, and portals across an organization. It lets your employees, partners, suppliers, and customers make better, data-driven decisions from within the systems they already use.
- Aaron Growitz*
To get a holistic view of your business, your BI tool should be able to easily bring together data from hundreds of data sources such as apps, databases, and cloud services. Robust data prep and combination capabilities are essential for applications that go beyond just a single source. And, they must not be limited by the complexities of SQL.
-Sandra Norman Andersen*
You shouldn’t be limited in your cloud strategy or where your data resides. Your BI tool should have a platform-agnostic, multi-cloud architecture that lets you deploy in any environment, from on-premise to cloud to hybrid.
Most vendors will teach you how to use their tool. Today, you need more. You need people at all levels of your organization to be data literate. They should be able to ask the right questions of data and machines, make data-driven decisions, and communicate meaning to others.
-Vladimir Baklanov*
No. QlikView was Qlik’s first product introduced over 30 years ago, leading the data discovery revolution. Many customers still use and love QlikView and while Qlik continues to support them, Qlik Sense has been the lead product for almost a decade.
When Tableau compares itself to Qlik, they focus on QlikView. This is misleading, as they’re not comparing themselves to the modern platform, Qlik Sense.
This results in misinformation and confusion for the customer.
Compare Qlik Sense® to other data analysis tools and you’ll see why Qlik sets the benchmark for a new generation of data analytics. Our one-of-a-kind associative analytics engine and sophisticated augmented analytics let you freely explore all your data to make bigger discoveries and uncover insights you can’t find using other data analytics tools.
And with a true governed multi-cloud architecture, deploy any way you want, massively scaling users and data without compromising security or performance. Qlik helps you empower people throughout your organization to make better decisions, take smarter actions and drive stronger business performance, every day.
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**Qlik User Survey