Qlik provides the full range of interactive visualizations and makes them uniquely powerful by compressing large data sets. Qlik’s AI assistance also helps with chart creation, recommended associations, revealing the shape of your data and even data preparation.

Tableau offers a full range of visualizations as well. After all, this is what Tableau is best known for. But as with their dashboards, you’ll only be able to filter and explore the visualization based on whatever query paths the author selected.

Power BI also offers a full set of visualizations. These visualizations are interactive but you’ll be limited in filtering and exploration by whatever query paths were preselected by the author.

Qlik ingests large amounts of data quickly and gathers from multiple sources, giving you complete and immediate answers. You can also keep your data updated in smaller builds by editing, adding or removing records.

Large amounts of disconnected data are hard for Tableau to process, and complex analytics degrades performance even more. The software also doesn’t allow you to increment data to keep it updated in small builds.

Power BI data limits are extremely low, at 1GB per data set. To scale, you’ll have to pay more to upgrade to Premium or use live query, which is slow.

Qlik centralizes and unifies your data, creating governed data models with robust data security. All content creation on Qlik happens in the cloud, where it’s governed and controlled. Plus, governed libraries provide reuse and standardization for analytics.

Tableau allows for multiple copies of content with only minor iterations. You’ll have to invest time and money to manage these different copies.

With Power BI, data is decentralized, spreading it across both the cloud and user desktops. This makes data management and validation difficult.

With Qlik, you can use APIs to integrate technologies like edge devices, workflows, products and portals. This allows you to embed a fully functional dashboard into your mobile app, including individual values.

Tableau’s API offerings are quite limited. For instance, rather than embedding individual values, you can only embed a full dashboard.

While you can embed dashboards and objects in PowerBI, it doesn’t provide strong API functionality, and their SDKs provide limited capabilities.

Qlik’s self-service tool gives users the confidence they need to easily discover insights, including the ability to drag-and-drop to create their own reports. Qlik also provides data literacy as a service, which brings together training, technology and processes.

Tableau only supports data literacy for authors. That means if you’re any other type of user, you’ll be left behind.

Only authors can access Power BI’s self-service option, with limited options for other users to shape their data. If business users want something more, they’ll have to ask the author for help.

Qlik provides total transparency and lower TCO than Power BI or Tableau, with no additional compute or data costs.

With Tableau, you’ll need to create multiple reports to get the same results from one Qlik app. Not only is this wasteful, but you could end up paying more to refresh that content. Learn more.

Power BI requires that organizations pay upgrade and add-on fees if they want the features and capabilities of the enterprise level. Learn more.