Qlik finally set to leapfrog Tableau?

Who's your rival? I carelessly asked a Qlik person at the company's annual analyst reception Monday night in Miami if she hadn't once worked for Tableau. Her revulsion was immediate. "No! Never!," she said.

We smiled. There was so much more to talk about. For one thing, how will private equity change things? Qlik wasn't doing so well at the public-equity…