Amazon QuickSight vs Anaconda vs Tableau comparison

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Mohd Farhan

AWS Cloud Solution Developer | DevOps | SpringBoot | Android/iOS at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

Has seamless data filtering and visualization for client satisfaction

One area for improvement is the cost, as it's a bit expensive. The caching mechanism also charges too much if I need to cache any data. Sometimes it takes time to display data, suggesting a need for enhancement in data visualization speed. Additionally, the role-level security is challenging to implement, and it could be improved to allow access control per department more easily.

Provides all the frameworks and makes it easy to create environments for multiple projects

Rohan Sharma

AI/ML Co-Lead at Developer Student Clubs - GGV

The best thing is that it provides all the frameworks and makes it easy to create environments for multiple projects using Anaconda. It is easy for a beginner to learn to use Anaconda. Comparatively, it is easier than using virtual environments or other environments because of the Conda environment. However, there are many things in Anaconda that people need to be aware of, so it can be challenging.

Real-time data connection enhances workflow and decision-making process

Nattawat Choosuwan

Senior Data Consultant at a government with 11-50 employees

An area for improvement in Tableau is the Explorer license type. It is not as useful, and the product owner should enhance its benefits or clarify its role. Additionally, the frequent updates with many versions available for download can be confusing and could affect stability. They should avoid providing access to older versions on their website.

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Pros

"Easily able to connect with our other services and easy to manage."

"One of the most valuable features of Amazon QuickSight has been the speed at which visualizations can be created."

"The most valuable feature I have found is the low-level securities are very easy to use."

"From an analytics perspective, it's really good for self-service analytics."

"It is fine for basic reporting."

"It is notably fast in handling large data set refreshes, making it efficient for data analysis."

"It helped the managers to visualize the data activities."

"The most valuable feature of Amazon QuickSight is its connectivity with other Amazon services."

"It helped us find find the optimal area for where our warehouse should be located."

"The most advantageous feature is the logic building."

"The tool's most valuable feature is its cloud-based nature, allowing accessibility from anywhere. Additionally, using Jupyter Notebook makes it easy to handle bugs and errors."

"The notebook feature is an improvement over RStudio."

"The most valuable feature is the set of libraries that are used to support the functionality that we require."

"The best part of Anaconda is the media distribution that comes as part of it. It gets us started very quickly."

"I can use Anaconda for non-heavy tasks."

"The most valuable feature is the Jupyter notebook that allows us to write the Python code, compile it on the fly, and then look at the results."

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"The most valuable features are the visualizations, the way they show the combination charts."

"When compared with Power BI, Tableau is much easier."

"It's very easy to visualize data with this product. The visualization maps of and frames that we have been able to cross-reference has been excellent."

"While using this solution I have found the valuable features to be ease of use and the visualization. It is a complete solution."

"It is very easy to implement and to use."

"The solution offers very good reporting."

"The ability to deploy is the added ability to centralise the Tableau repository for all Tableau Developers."

"Tableau is easy to use. That's the first and most important thing. I not only provide consulting but I also train people to use it, so with its ease-of-use it's not as difficult for me to train executives and management staff, because they don't have the IT background, unlike when I'm using Python."

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Cons

"It's not ideal for reports that are more complex."

"It can be made more user-friendly as some users might find this solution hard to implement. Qlik Sense, for example, is very user-friendly."

"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."

"You can't tell a data story as well in QuickSight as you can on others, especially in TIBCO Spotfire."

"There should be better connectors for different data sets."

"I would like to see a feature that allows us to save a draft version before making it public and publishing it."

"The product has some storage and SPICE data issues."

"There could be an end-to-end pipeline for data cleaning as well as presenting it using different visualizations."

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"When you install Anaconda for the first time, it's really difficult to update it."

"The ability to schedule scripts for the building and monitoring of jobs would be an advantage for this platform."

"I think that the framework can be improved to make it easier for people to discover and use things on their own."

"The process could be streamlined as the number of actions needed to deploy is quite large compared to other tools."

"One feature that I would like to see is being able to use a different language in a different cell, which would allow me to mix R and Python together."

"Anaconda could benefit from improvement in its user interface to make it more attractive and user-friendly. Currently, it's boring."

"It also takes up a lot of space."

"Anaconda should be optimized for RAM consumption."

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"I have used Power BI as well as Tableau. There are a couple of interesting features that I like in Power BI, but they are not present in Tableau. For example, in Power BI, if I am looking at country-wise population, I can type and ask for the country that has the maximum population, and it will automatically give an answer and address that query. This kind of feature is not there in Tableau. Similarly, in Power BI, for integrating with the latest ML algorithms, we have decision trees and primarily multiple machine learning algorithms. The decision tree essentially visualizes the patterns in the data. We don't have such a feature in Tableau. If Tableau can integrate with the machine learning algorithms and help us to do visualizations, it would be a wonderful combination. Most of the people are going for Tableau primarily for visualization purposes. However, in the data science industry, users want to do model building as well as tell a story. As of now, Tableau is fulfilling the requirements for visualization purposes. If they can bring it up to a level where I can use it for machine learning purposes as well as for visualization, it would be very helpful. Many people who want to do data science don't want to write a code. Tableau is anyway a drag and drop tool, and if they can provide those options as well, it will be a powerful combination."

"We did have issues with Tableau 10.1 server with the brokers failing on heavy load but since moving to 10.2, then to 10.3, this issue seems to have been resolved and the environment is now quite stable."

"When it comes to visualizations, Tableau has a limitation as compared to Power BI. It has a limited set of visualizations. Power BI has the entire marketplace, so you can connect and import many visualizations and use them, whereas Tableau has only 10 or 15 visualizations. There should be more visualizations, and there should also be data integration with more cloud providers."

"When I've done presentations in the past, I've had issues with uploading the cartography."

"Lacks machine learning algorithms that you can implement using R, SPSS Modeler, and Python."

"At the organizational level, increasing the servers' capabilities to support us as an enterprise tool."

"SAP BusinessObjects has some semantic layer designs that give the flexibility to do ad hoc reporting or dashboard designing. If that can be brought into Tableau, it would be great. We have the data in the database, but we should also be able to bring something between the database and the dashboard and do some semantic layer modeling for ad hoc reporting requirements."

"Areas for improvement would be visualization and augmented analytics. In the next release, I would like to see automated insights from the data added to the dashboard."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product pricing is better than other vendors."

"The solution's pricing is cheaper than the other products in the market."

"The pricing is cost-effective with a good plan."

"Amazon QuickSight you subscribe and you use the service."

"I'm using a paid version of Amazon QuickSight, paying about $22 monthly. As I have yet to learn about the pricing for other tools, such as Power BI, I won't be able to compare."

"I rate the price of Amazon QuickSight a four on a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price, and ten is a high price."

"The Amazon QuickSight licensing model my company's on is pay-as-you-go, but I wouldn't be able to give the figures because that's handled by the finance department."

"It is simpler and cheaper than other solutions."

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"Anaconda is free to use, but in terms of hardware costs, you might need heavy GPUs to run CUDA and other demanding tasks."

"The product is open-source and free to use."

"The tool is open-source."

"The licensing costs for Anaconda are reasonable."

"My company uses the free version of the tool. There is also a paid version of the tool available."

"ROI is very high, but it requires a data preparation/blending tool."

"One of the biggest drawbacks of Tableau is the price, it is expensive. The price should be reduced."

"The company chose to purchase a creator license for me, which was $70. With that license, you can also be an administrator. We also have 20-25 extra licenses and they cost around $20-$35 each. Those are for normal users who will be viewing the dashboards. Those are monthly charges."

"Its price is a concern. It is more expensive than Power BI. My guess would be that it is $1000 or less per year. We might go for Power BI in the future because of its umbrella with Microsoft licensing. It is much cheaper for us to use Power BI, and some folks will go in that direction because they don't want to pay the higher license."

"It is fairly expensive. I have no idea what they paid. We were on an enterprise license, so whatever it is they licensed at the enterprise level is what we paid."

"The product's price is relatively inexpensive and manageable for enterprise-level companies."

"Be careful with the Tableau Viewer's licenses, and stay with the right number of users."

"The professional version of Tableau is quite expensive."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

19%

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Manufacturing Company

Government

Educational Organization

29%

Financial Services Firm

12%

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Questions from the Community

The integration is very seamless. We stored our result CSV files in S3 and connected directly from there.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon QuickSight?

Amazon QuickSight charges $250 per user, which becomes expensive when managing multiple departments. However, this co...

What needs improvement with Amazon QuickSight?

One area for improvement is the cost, as it's a bit expensive. The caching mechanism also charges too much if I need ...

What do you like most about Anaconda?

The tool's most valuable feature is its cloud-based nature, allowing accessibility from anywhere. Additionally, using...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Anaconda?

Anaconda is an open-source tool, so I do not pay anything for it. It is compatible with every tool, regardless of whe...

What needs improvement with Anaconda?

There is room for improvement, especially regarding deployment. The process could be streamlined as the number of act...

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Comparisons

Compared 26% of the time

Looker Studio vs Amazon QuickSight

Compared 16% of the time

Qlik Sense vs Amazon QuickSight

Compared 6% of the time

Databricks vs Amazon QuickSight

Compared 5% of the time

QlikView vs Amazon QuickSight

Compared 5% of the time

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Databricks vs Anaconda

Compared 36% of the time

Microsoft Power BI vs Anaconda

Compared 14% of the time

Amazon SageMaker vs Anaconda

Compared 13% of the time

Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio vs Anaconda

Compared 7% of the time

MathWorks Matlab vs Anaconda

Compared 5% of the time

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Compared 19% of the time

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Compared 12% of the time

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Compared 5% of the time

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Compared 4% of the time

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Compared 3% of the time

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Overview

Amazon QuickSight is a fast, cloud-powered business analytics service that makes it easy to build visualizations, perform ad-hoc analysis, and quickly get business insights from your data. Using our cloud-based service you can easily connect to your data, perform advanced analysis, and create stunning visualizations and rich dashboards that can be accessed from any browser or mobile device.

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Anaconda makes it easy for you to install and maintain Python environments. Our development team tests to ensure compatibility of Python packages in Anaconda. We support and provide open source assurance for packages in Anaconda to mitigate your risk in using open source and meet your regulatory compliance requirements.

Python is the fastest growing language for data science. Anaconda includes 720+ Python open source packages and now includes essential R packages. This powerful combination allows you to do everything you want from BI to advanced modeling on complex Big Data

Tableau is a tool for data visualization and business intelligence that allows businesses to report insights through easy-to-use, customizable visualizations and dashboards. Tableau makes it exceedingly simple for its customers to organize, manage, visualize, and comprehend data. It enables users to dig deep into the data so that they can see patterns and gain meaningful insights.

Make data-driven decisions with confidence thanks to Tableau’s assistance in providing faster answers to queries, solving harder problems more easily, and offering new insights more frequently. Tableau integrates directly to hundreds of data sources, both in the cloud and on premises, making it simpler to begin research. People of various skill levels can quickly find actionable information using Tableau’s natural language queries, interactive dashboards, and drag-and-drop capabilities. By quickly creating strong calculations, adding trend lines to examine statistical summaries, or clustering data to identify relationships, users can ask more in-depth inquiries.

Tableau has many valuable key features:

Tableau dashboards provide a complete view of your data through visualizations, visual objects, text, and more.
Tableau provides convenient, real-time options to collaborate with other users and instantly share data in the form of visualizations, sheets, and dashboards.
Tableau ensures connectivity to both live data sources and data extraction from external data sources as in-memory data. This gives users the flexibility to use data from more than one source without any restrictions.
Tableau gives many data source option, ranging from spreadsheets, big data, on-premise files, relational databases, non-relational databases, data warehouses, and big data, to on-cloud data.
Tableau has a lot of pre-installed information on maps, such as cities, postal codes, and administrative boundaries.
Tableau has a foolproof security system based on authentication and permission systems for data connections and user access. Tableau also gives you the freedom to integrate with other security protocols.

Tableau stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Some of these include its fast data access, easy creation of visualizations, and its stability. PeerSpot users take note of the advantages of these features in their reviews:

Romil S., Deputy General Manager of IT at Nayara Energy, notes, "Its visualizations are good, and its features make the development process a little less time-consuming. It has an in-memory extract feature that allows us to extract data and keep it on the server, and then our users can use it quickly.

Ariful M., Consulting Practice Partner of Data, Analytics & AI at FH, writes, “Tableau is very flexible and easy to learn. It has drag-and-drop function analytics, and its design is very good.”

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Accenture, Adobe, Amazon.com, Bank of America, Charles Schwab Corp, Citigroup, Coca-Cola Company, Cornell University, Dell, Deloitte, Duke University, eBay, Exxon Mobil, Fannie Mae, Ferrari, French Red Cross, Goldman Sachs, Google, Government of Canada, HP, Intel, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Macy's, Merck, The New York Times, PayPal, Pfizer, US Army, US Air Force, Skype, and Walmart.