PHILADELPHIA, PA — Qlik® announced the results of the inaugural BARC Benchmark, an independent study evaluating business intelligence performance under typical cloud conditions. The report found that Qlik Cloud Analytics® outperformed Microsoft Power BI in both user productivity and scalability—two of the most critical measures governing daily business value.
In the benchmark, Qlik delivered around three times faster response times than Power BI, translating into approximately three times higher user productivity. Users completed tasks with fewer clicks and quicker interactions, enabling teams to complete more work in the same time.
With a 10 million-row dataset and up to 50 simultaneous users on standard service tiers, Qlik also completed roughly twice as many sessions per hour while keeping response times stable. Power BI exhibited greater variability as concurrency increased.
BARC reported a normalized index for each platform, with Qlik setting the top mark of 100 for both productivity and scalability. Power BI measured 40 overall, including 31 for productivity and 48 for scalability.
“People stick with analytics that feels fast and stays fast as load grows,” said Brendan Grady, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Qlik’s Analytics Business Unit, “and these independent results show teams get to answers faster with Qlik Cloud Analytics and keep that speed as usage rises, which is exactly what enterprises need as AI increases concurrency and data complexity.”
“Our benchmark focuses on measurable outcomes in typical cloud environments rather than feature checklists,” said Thomas Zeutschler, BARC Fellow, “and in this first publication we observed a clear separation on interaction speed and consistency under concurrent load; we will expand scale and scope so buyers can compare platforms with confidence.”
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