Qlik

About Qlik

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by Qlik

All products by Qlik reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

QlikAI Analytics

Data analytics and business intelligence for every organization

Pricing on request6.6/10

How Our Review Panel Scores Qlik

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed Qlik's product on their own terms. They disagreed by 2.2 points — The Finance Lead was the hardest to convince, The Domain Strategist the most positive.

Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.

Competitive Landscape

Who Qlik competes with, and how they differ.

Tableau (Salesforce)7.7/10

Tableau leads on drag-and-drop visual-analytics adoption among business users, while Qlik differentiates on its associative in-memory engine and deeper data-integration stack via Talend.

2 products reviewed on TopReviewed

Microsoft Power BI7.8/10

Power BI wins on default bundling with Microsoft 365/Azure and aggressive per-user pricing, competing for the same enterprise BI budget as Qlik.

9 products reviewed on TopReviewed

Databricks8.4/10

Databricks competes from the data/AI infrastructure layer downward into analytics, versus Qliks approach of packaging integration plus analytics for business users.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

ThoughtSpot7.8/10

ThoughtSpot differentiates on natural-language, search-driven analytics, a different interaction model than Qliks associative point-and-click exploration.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Domo7.3/10

Domo targets cloud-native, mobile-first executive dashboards sold directly to business buyers, contrasting with Qliks IT-led, on-prem-capable enterprise deployments.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

SAP

SAPs Analytics Cloud and BusinessObjects bundle BI with its own ERP data, an entrenched-incumbent play against Qliks platform-agnostic data connectivity.

Company Timeline

Key milestones in Qlik's history, with sources.

1. Jan 14, 2025Acquisition

   Acquires Upsolver

   Qlik acquired Upsolver, a real-time data-streaming and Apache Iceberg optimization company, to strengthen low-latency data-lakehouse ingestion.

   hpcwire.com
2. Nov 11, 2024Funding

   ADIA and Thoma Bravo sign significant minority investment

   Thoma Bravo signed an agreement for a subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) to take a significant minority stake in Qlik, with Thoma Bravo remaining majority owner and making a new equity investment alongside ADIA.

   globenewswire.com
3. May 16, 2023Acquisition

   Acquires Talend

   Qlik closed its acquisition of data-integration and data-quality vendor Talend -- also a Thoma Bravo portfolio company -- combining the two into one data-integration-plus-analytics platform.

   theregister.com
4. Mar 10, 2021Acquisition

   Thoma Bravo agrees to acquire Talend

   Qlik owner Thoma Bravo agreed to acquire data-integration company Talend for approximately $2.4 billion, setting up Talends later 2023 combination with Qlik.

   thomabravo.com
5. May 6, 2019Acquisition

   Completes acquisition of Attunity

   Qlik completed its acquisition of data-integration vendor Attunity, expanding into enterprise data management and real-time analytics.

   prnewswire.com
6. Feb 21, 2019Acquisition

   Agrees to acquire Attunity for ~$560M

   Qlik and Attunity signed a definitive agreement under which Qlik would acquire all outstanding Attunity shares for approximately $560 million, a move aimed at competing more directly with Tableau.

   prnewswire.com
7. Aug 29, 2016Acquisition

   Thoma Bravo completes acquisition; taken private

   Thoma Bravo completed its acquisition of Qlik; shares were delisted from Nasdaq and the company became privately held.

   thomabravo.com
8. Jun 2, 2016Acquisition

   Thoma Bravo agrees to acquire Qlik for ~$3.0B

   Qlik agreed to be acquired by Thoma Bravo in an all-cash deal at $30.50/share, roughly $3.0 billion, a 40% premium, following activist pressure from Elliott Management.

   thomabravo.com
9. Jul 16, 2010Milestone

   IPO on Nasdaq

   Qlik Technologies (QlikTech) began trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the ticker QLIK, one of the notable US tech IPOs of 2010.

   ir.nasdaq.com
10. 2004Funding

    Raises $12.5M venture funding

    Qlik secured $12.5 million in venture funding from Accel Partners and JVP (Jerusalem Venture Partners), fueling international expansion of its QlikView product.

    oresundstartups.com
11. 1993Founded

    Founded in Lund, Sweden as QlikTech

    Björn Berg and Staffan Gestrelius founded the company in Lund, Sweden; its first product, QuikView (later QlikView), shipped in 1994.

    en.wikipedia.org