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PROS

The connectivity with other Amazon services is highly valuable.
Amazon QuickSight offers advanced features like machine learning and insights not available in other tools.
It is cost-effective compared to competitors like Qlik Sense, Power BI, and Tableau.
The integration with different data sources is seamless, especially within the AWS ecosystem.
Amazon QuickSight is cloud-native, making it efficient for organizations already using AWS.

CONS

Amazon QuickSight's feature set is limited and lacks advanced functionalities found in other Business Intelligence tools.
Integrating data from different sources can be complicated, often requiring additional services.
Visualization options are minimal, and the tool could benefit from adding more graphics similar to those in Power BI.
There is a need for more dynamic refresh options to support real-time data in dashboards.
The cost of using Amazon QuickSight is considered high, especially for startups transitioning data from AWS.
 

Amazon QuickSight Pros review quotes

reviewer1438062 - PeerSpot reviewer
Quantitative Analyst at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 18, 2020
The most valuable feature of this solution is the user interface.
reviewer1548762 - PeerSpot reviewer
Quality Assurance Developer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Apr 7, 2021
Amazon QuickSight can provide insights from the available data. It supports various rule types. We get the options of machine learning and insights, which are not available in other intelligence tools. It is easier to use, more stable, and cheaper than other solutions.
JC
Director of Data Science at HealthWorks Analytics
Aug 11, 2021
From an analytics perspective, it's really good for self-service analytics.
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reviewer1048407 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior tech architect at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 23, 2021
The most valuable feature of Amazon QuickSight is its connectivity with other Amazon services.
ARIFULLA Ulla - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at Sonata\TUI
Dec 27, 2021
The query and dashboard capabilities are entirely good.
reviewer1740711 - PeerSpot reviewer
Seasonal Lecturer at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jan 4, 2022
The ease with which it integrates with different data sources is most valuable. Especially when everything is on AWS, it is easy to connect to the data source and organize different dashboards.
reviewer1268523 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jan 5, 2022
One of the most valuable features of Amazon QuickSight has been the speed at which visualizations can be created.
Ramesh Ch - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. BigData Architect at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Oct 6, 2022
A valuable feature of Amazon QuickSight is that it's a cloud-native service provided by AWS. As all platforms within my company run on AWS, that's the leverage of Amazon QuickSight. Amazon QuickSight is also easy to use, and I find the native connectors from AWS valuable as well.
Abhishek Malviya - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Software Engineer at Zenoti
Oct 31, 2022
The solution is simple to implement.
GP
Research Student at Technische Hochschule Deggendorf
Dec 1, 2022
I like that with Amazon QuickSight, you don't need to install an app to use its services. With other BI tools, you need to install the app, so Amazon QuickSight is better for me in this area.
 

Amazon QuickSight Cons review quotes

reviewer1438062 - PeerSpot reviewer
Quantitative Analyst at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 18, 2020
There could be an end-to-end pipeline for data cleaning as well as presenting it using different visualizations.
reviewer1548762 - PeerSpot reviewer
Quality Assurance Developer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Apr 7, 2021
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.
JC
Director of Data Science at HealthWorks Analytics
Aug 11, 2021
You can't tell a data story as well in QuickSight as you can on others, especially in TIBCO Spotfire.
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reviewer1048407 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior tech architect at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 23, 2021
Amazon QuickSight has minimal features. The feature set can be improved to allow you to create good production-ready dashboards. This does not happen with QuickSite, it needs to mature to be used in production.
ARIFULLA Ulla - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at Sonata\TUI
Dec 27, 2021
There should be better connectors for different data sets.
reviewer1740711 - PeerSpot reviewer
Seasonal Lecturer at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jan 4, 2022
It should support integration with Python or R.
reviewer1268523 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jan 5, 2022
There is room for improvement in terms of the number of visualizations and dashboards that are available.
Ramesh Ch - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. BigData Architect at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Oct 6, 2022
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.
Abhishek Malviya - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Software Engineer at Zenoti
Oct 31, 2022
I just want a few more features to be added.
GP
Research Student at Technische Hochschule Deggendorf
Dec 1, 2022
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.