We performed a comparison between Amazon QuickSight and Qlik Sense based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Qlik Sense is robust, flexible, and has more capabilities than most solutions in the marketplace today. In contrast, many users feel Amazon QuickSight is a simple tool with limited features. Its visualization offering is very basic and it also has minimal functionality and lacks a solid security protocol.
"It helped the managers to visualize the data activities."
"From an analytics perspective, it's really good for self-service analytics."
"The solution is simple to implement."
"It is notably fast in handling large data set refreshes, making it efficient for data analysis."
"Amazon QuickSight has introduced a new functionality called Q bar, which allows the user to do natural language queries and get additional insights using some built-in generative capabilities."
"Compared to other reporting tools, it is very effective but does require an understanding of certain concepts in QuickSight. This understanding is crucial for creating dimensions, changing metrics, and visualizing reports."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the user interface."
"The graph charts, pie charts, and box plots are valuable."
"Unique data visualizations created based on - among others - customer reviews and hands-on experience. Qlik is an experienced company in the Business Intelligence / Data visualization area, that doesn't necessarily mean it is the best solution, however, based on my personal experience it is much more complex than Power BI and Tableau as I've had some things to do with these two concurrent softwares."
"Time-saving efficiencies have translated into genuine bottom-line improvements via the reduction in FTE."
"Qlik Sense brings in the concept of shared libraries where one user can create custom dimensions (even with drill-down functionality), measures, and even visualizations and save it to the "Master Items," from which the other users can simply drag and drop to use it for their analysis."
"Set analysis is great for its power user capabilities such as performing an IF on an aggregated column. The ability to create custom coloring expressions based on values is also a good idea although not as easy as I wished it was."
"It has high performance when interacting with dashboards and reports."
"It has improved our organization by providing data to decision-makers in a safe visual environment."
"The most valuable feature is flexibility."
"It connects very simply to data sources."
"Right now, you can't use Amazon QuickSight on other cloud providers, so I'd like it to have availability on other cloud providers. This is an area for improvement in the product. What I'd like to see in Amazon QuickSight in the future is a distributed centralized system where I can manage all reports in one place, and for Amazon QuickSight to become reporting as a service."
"One area is that integrating data from different sources into QuickSight can be a bit tricky, especially with Amazon Connect. To get data flowing, you need to use two additional services and configure them correctly."
"They could provide more options for graphics and other features."
"Compared to Power BI, I felt QuickSight lacks some features, like delayed drill-downs. Drill-downs were the main area where we found QuickSight lacking."
"It is a simple tool with limited features. Its visualization set is very limited, and it also has limited functionality. An intelligence tool should not be only for creating reports. Currently, we have to do all computational and mathematical operations outside. We should be able to do such operations in an intelligence tool like this. As an intelligence tool, it should support dynamic refresh. QuickSight currently supports the refresh at a minimum of one hour, and it is not suitable for dynamic dashboards that require frequent refreshes."
"One area where Amazon QuickSight could improve is its formatting features for dashboards."
"I just want a few more features to be added."
"An area for improvement in Amazon QuickSight is storage. Data cleanup also needs improvement because I'm experiencing errors when cleaning the data. Amazon QuickSight needs video tutorials showing its different functions and purposes."
"I would like to see more types of visual elements and better configuration options for additional flexibility when developing charts."
"Currently, we are not very happy with the iPad or iPhone app because it is not working as we want."
"Ad-hoc reporting capabilities would be ideal."
"The management console appearance needs improvement to its look."
"It would be nice to have more native features from QlikView built into Qlik Sense."
"They need to make security rules to access applications and data security easier and customizable."
"There is room for improvement in the storytelling mode and the report sharing. Qlik Sense also does not have a subscription base like Power BI. So a lot of the analysis is housed in community pages that are managed by either the author or a database administrator, or whoever the Qlik Sense manager is there."
"Multi-server deployment: not just cloud, but on premise too, and hybrid. Needs lighter protocols to communicate between the different services and with the clients."
Amazon QuickSight is ranked 4th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 24 reviews while Qlik Sense is ranked 2nd in Data Visualization with 114 reviews. Amazon QuickSight is rated 6.8, while Qlik Sense is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Amazon QuickSight writes "Useful for developing dashboards for various lines of business". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Qlik Sense writes "Customizable with good ROI and a quick learning curve". Amazon QuickSight is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Looker, Google Data Studio and IBM Cognos, whereas Qlik Sense is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Apache Superset, Alteryx and IBM Cognos.
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