This assignment compares the three popular data analysis software - Microsoft Excel, Tableau, and Qlikview. It discusses the use of R as a complex coding language that can be made easy with packages like 'tidyverse', 'ggplot2', 'dplyr', or 'Lattice'. The comparison highlights the qualitative visualizations of Tableau, R, and Qlikview compared to Microsoft Excel. However, data manipulation, iteration, modeling, and communication are easier in R. For business analysis purposes, R is more required than Tableau or MS Excel. For basic business objectives, MS Excel performs many tasks easily such as data entry and storage, accounting and budgeting, data analysis, or forecasting.