Qlik Sense vs. Tableau Cloud

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Qlik Sense
Score 7.5 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 Cloud
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
Tableau Cloud (formerly Tableau Online) is a self-service analytics platform that is fully hosted in the cloud. Tableau Cloud enables users to publish dashboards and invite colleagues to explore hidden opportunities with interactive visualizations and accurate data, from any browser or mobile device.
$15
per month per user
Pricing
Qlik SenseTableau Cloud
Editions & Modules
Starter
$200
per month
Standard
$825
per month
Premium
$2,750
per month
Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows
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Enterprise
Custom Quote
Tableau Viewer
$15
per month billed annually per user
Enterprise Viewer
$35
per month billed annually per user
Tableau Explorer
$42
per month billed annually per user
Enterprise Explorer
$70
per month billed annually per user
Tableau Creator
$75
per month billed annually per user
Enterprise Creator
$115
per month billed annually per user
Tableau+
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Qlik SenseTableau Cloud
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Qlik SenseTableau Cloud
Considered Both Products
Qlik Sense
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.
Chose Qlik Sense
I used Tableau at a previous organization, Qlik was provided to me by IT at my current organization. I have also used PowerBI. All three products provide the functionality I need. However, it would be good if the end user could create the dashboards and visualizations without …
Chose Qlik Sense
Ability to manage multiple sources. Advance Qlik Sense data model.
Chose Qlik Sense
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.
Chose Qlik Sense
The in memory model is great. The build in multitude of charts helps a lot. The initial learning curve can be steep. It only accepts a nice model. The associative engine is powerfull. Power BI on the other hand has a low cost of purchase. People can experiment with it. Many …
Chose Qlik Sense
Tableau through Salesforce was used but it is much easier to create and display data in Qlik. Users can analyze data and create visualizations quickly in Qlik while Salesforce is more arduous and requires more steps. Building dashboards/ architectures and interactive charts …
Chose Qlik Sense
Qlik Sense is just easier to use. We can spin up dashboards in minutes rather than hours or days.
Chose Qlik Sense
Back then when we were evaluating different products, Tableau was very much limited in combining different data sources and was compelling us to have a cleaner reporting platform on hand to derive insights . Power BI also had issues in doing data transformation and was reliant …
Chose Qlik Sense
Qlik Sense has strong data modeling capabilities and it's patented associative engine gives a good advantage over the other market leaders. Qlik Sense can handle large amounts of data and can be easily adaptable compared to others. Self-service BI is another aspect which we …
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 …
Tableau Cloud
Chose Tableau Cloud
Tableau is among the top applications out there in the space and at this level. It really comes down to personal preference and data visualization goals. All of the top products I listed do their job very well and are packed with features. I prefer Tableau online for analyzing …
Features
Qlik SenseTableau Cloud
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Qlik Sense
8.5
312 Ratings
4% above category average
Tableau Cloud
7.0
69 Ratings
15% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports8.3213 Ratings7.051 Ratings
Customizable dashboards8.9310 Ratings8.069 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates8.2225 Ratings6.058 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Qlik Sense
8.6
323 Ratings
7% above category average
Tableau Cloud
6.9
69 Ratings
15% below category average
Drill-down analysis8.9319 Ratings8.069 Ratings
Formatting capabilities8.2312 Ratings6.066 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages8.4152 Ratings6.043 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration9.0296 Ratings7.567 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Qlik Sense
8.8
275 Ratings
6% above category average
Tableau Cloud
7.1
67 Ratings
16% below category average
Publish to Web8.8207 Ratings7.063 Ratings
Publish to PDF8.8254 Ratings7.562 Ratings
Report Versioning8.8174 Ratings7.050 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling8.8180 Ratings8.055 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers8.8106 Ratings6.034 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Qlik Sense
8.7
311 Ratings
9% above category average
Tableau Cloud
6.8
65 Ratings
16% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.5304 Ratings7.562 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization8.8281 Ratings6.561 Ratings
Predictive Analytics8.7193 Ratings6.553 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings6.52 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Qlik Sense
9.0
294 Ratings
6% above category average
Tableau Cloud
7.0
64 Ratings
19% below category average
Multi-User Support (named login)9.2273 Ratings7.058 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model9.0270 Ratings7.051 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.8272 Ratings7.054 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)8.9216 Ratings7.549 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings6.52 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Qlik Sense
7.4
220 Ratings
6% below category average
Tableau Cloud
6.4
54 Ratings
21% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access8.3214 Ratings5.552 Ratings
Mobile Application8.2132 Ratings6.039 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile8.2184 Ratings7.046 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Qlik Sense
8.6
143 Ratings
10% above category average
Tableau Cloud
6.4
36 Ratings
20% below category average
REST API8.8123 Ratings6.031 Ratings
Javascript API8.492 Ratings6.529 Ratings
iFrames8.592 Ratings6.529 Ratings
Java API8.669 Ratings6.026 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)8.695 Ratings6.530 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)8.482 Ratings7.029 Ratings
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User Ratings
Qlik SenseTableau Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(327 ratings)
8.0
(70 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.4
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(11 ratings)
8.0
(23 ratings)
Support Rating
7.3
(8 ratings)
8.7
(20 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.3
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Qlik SenseTableau Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
Qlik
Qlik Sense is a program whose purpose is to greatly improve all your operations and use of all data in an organic way. The mission will always be to increase the economic and commercial processes of the company in a short time. I recommended it for its high technology, which was Created for this area, the results are successful. We have noticed how it has increased relationships with our clients thanks to the credibility and security that we provide.
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Tableau
If you're using Tableau as the primary BI tool, then Tableau Cloud is well suited to publish and share the results with a wide(r) audience. It is well suited for various degrees of self-service proficiency, from pure consumers of analytical work to more advanced users who can use web editing for smaller or larger adjustments, and even for desktop power users who will publish their work to Tableau Cloud. It has many good ways to organize the content and make it easily accessible via search, favorites, folders, collections ("playlists for your data"), or history ("recents"). It might not be ideally suited if there are many on-prem sources to be used (even though there are options to connect them) or if you have very special requirements regarding custom server setup, which is limited in a shared cloud environment like Tableau Cloud.
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Pros
Qlik
  • Flexibility in data recording, from the app, as well as in handling them. Allowing you to view reports quickly and effectively.
  • Easy to generate dynamic graphics according to our needs.
  • It is very easy to use, intuitive, so it does not generate costs in the learning process compared to the tool with collaborators
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Tableau
  • Tableau Online is completely cloud based and that's why the reports and dashboards are accessible even on the go. One doesn't always need to access the office laptop to access the reports.
  • The visualizations are interactive and one can quickly change the level at which they want to view the information. For example, one person might be more interested in looking at the country level performances rather than client level. This is intuitive and one doesn't need to create multiple reports for the same.
  • The feature to ask questions in plain vanilla English language is great and helpful. For quick adhoc fact checks one can simply type what they are looking for and the Natural Language Programming algorithms under the hood parse the query, interpret it and then fetch the results accordingly in a visual form.
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Cons
Qlik
  • Scalability is RAM limited, all data is associative and in-memory so server's RAM is directly proportional to performance
  • Limitation on advanced analytics capabilities in the form of R integration to perform complex statistical and analytical calculations
  • Can have more intuitive interface
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Tableau
  • Can be a steep learning curve for new users
  • Modeling and building algorithms aren't always intuitive and take some testing/retesting to ensure it's working as it should
  • Inability to integrate easily with our HRIS platform. Reports are pulled from HRIS at various intervals and uploaded into Tableau
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Likelihood to Renew
Qlik
Qlik Sense is a constantly improving it's software and working with its' users to make it better. They are great at keeping their users informed of progress and care about delivering a quality product
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Tableau
The tool's capacity to handle complex data sources.
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Usability
Qlik
Qlik Sense has a better and easy to learn user interface compared with other analytics tool which always help us to create regular and adhoc reports within the stipulated time frame and can be easily refreshed at a scheduled time and sent to multiple stakeholders for timely update regarding the Key metrics indicator.
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Tableau
Based on comments from our clients, I awarded it this grade. Non-technical customers frequently compliment us on the ease with which they can utilize Tableau Online. Usability is rarely a source of contention amongst our customers. Few complaints have come from me as a user of our internal products.
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Support Rating
Qlik
Not only can you ask the support team for help, but you can also ask the community. Also with the community there is a vast amount of problems that have already been solved. The problem you are encountering has a likely chance of already being discussed and even solved in the community section saving you time from reaching out.
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Tableau
I have not had any issues that require customer support from Tableau at this time, which speaks well to Tableau. I have taken an online course with Tableau and it was very professional and well done, so based on that I would assume a similar level of quality for their customer service.
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In-Person Training
Qlik
The instructor was very knowledgeable.
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Tableau
No answers on this topic
Online Training
Qlik
The online instructor was very knowledgeable.
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Tableau
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Qlik
Hire Qlik consultants. It's better done by them or with their aid.
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Tableau
I wasn't part of the implementation team
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Alternatives Considered
Qlik
The customization of the platform opens up plenty of other options depending on the use cases. The API layer is incredibly rich and makes integration of Qlik based visualization into web pages a simple and effective pattern. It's been very easy to use with a great community made up of professionals. Qlik Sense has introduces artificial Intelligence into my data visualization and reporting activity.
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Tableau
In determining whether to go with Tableau Online versus Alteryx, two important factors stood out in determining our go-to solution. First, while Alteryx is an impressive tool for data cleansing, it did not stack up in terms of data visualization capabilities. Tableau, on the other hand, provided us everything we needed in terms of visualizing our data and analytics. The second factor is cost. Well neither solution would be considered cheap, Tableau was the more cost effective solution for our needs.
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Return on Investment
Qlik
  • Once an app is published and running good, we can quickly see the time we save to analyze data.
  • It's hard sometimes to realize the money we save by using this system.
  • People start understanding the power of data and asking more questions.
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Tableau
  • When we release new products, we are now able to quickly see data and toggle between current periods and previous to see performance
  • Generating new reports requires less IT time to build
  • Data can be shared across many different device types
  • We now have integration where our customers can extract data from our software more easily-this was a big ask from our customers
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ScreenShots

Qlik Sense Screenshots

Screenshot of Qlik Sense Cash Flow DashboardScreenshot of Qlik Sense Global Smart SearchScreenshot of Qlik Sense Smart Data Compression - Get immediate insight on large dataScreenshot of Extend, mix and mash-up with our APIsScreenshot of Add "External data" with Qlik DataMarket - Data as a ServiceScreenshot of Visualization Bundle