Amazon QuickSight vs Knowage vs Microsoft Power BI comparison

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We performed a comparison between Amazon QuickSight, Knowage, and Microsoft Power BI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the BI (Business Intelligence) Tools category, the mindshare of Amazon QuickSight is 6.7%, down from 10.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Knowage is 0.4%, down from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Power BI is 21.4%, down from 22.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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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.

Easy to customize, cross-platform capable, and very stable

AbdulshukoorMohammed

General Manager Information Technology & Enterprise Applications Manager at OXFORD HOLDING

The only challenge here is that it's a Java-based platform. It requires very high technical skills. When we come to the integration with the single sign-on facilities, that part is very challenging. In Power BI and other tools, it's very easy to integrate with active directory and single sign-on, and identity management is very easy in other business intelligence tools. However, when it comes to Knowage, it's a bit heavy, it's time-consuming sometimes, it's not very fast, and definitely not as fast as other business intelligence tools in terms of getting graphical reports. The solution could be cheaper.

Robust system consistently elevates data visualization and seamlessly updates with user-driven advancements

James Balbach

Executive Director, Decision Support at Community Health Network

Power BI is a general-use visualization system. I can express the performance of our network through high-level key performance indicators. It allows me to show detailed improvements in quality and safety and patient experience. I create improvement dashboards for task forces and work teams. I have built analytic dashboards that guide analytics, enabling research and dataset manipulation.

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"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."

"The best part about Amazon QuickSight is the filtration capability."

"The product is easy to learn."

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

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

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

"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."

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

"The embedding feature is great."

"The concept of engines is quite powerful allowing the user to work with report authoring/provisioning tools of their choice."

"I can't name the features the way the Knowage community calls them because I still don't know the lingo. However, I can describe them. I like the ability to join more than one report, set all fields on one end, and replicate that on the other reports. I like that a lot. I think it's one of the features that got me using Knowage. They have tables, and I like that too. They took SQL scripts and many other scripts and enabled them to even correlate with Python. That's also one of the best things about Knowage. You could also decide to get information per user role, and this is also a feature that I like in Knowage."

"We can easily do our own customizations."

"Microsoft BI's most valuable feature is flexibility."

"It offers a lot of information and is very flexible and interactive."

"Tech support is very helpful."

"I liked that Microsoft Power BI handles a large amount of data. I can handle hundreds of rows from Postgres in a few minutes. I also like how it detects the relationship between the tables without explicitly saying that. It just detects the relationship automatically. That made it easier to work with the data."

"As it was my first time using Power BI, I can say that it was fairly easy to learn, especially if you already know BI-type tools."

"Its data visualization provides the user the ability to quickly look at data and focus on relevant information, allowing them to make an immediate decision."

"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Power BI is the drill-through feature that takes you to a details page the users want to see."

"In contrast to what we were using before I think that Power BI has given us more extensive results."

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Cons

"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."

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

"They could provide more options for graphics and other features."

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

"The cost of queries is very high."

"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."

"The setup process falls somewhere in the middle. It is not straightforward, nor is it complex, but there is a significant amount of work needed on the back end to make it function."

"There is room for improvement in terms of the number of visualizations and dashboards that are available."

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"Development of SpagoBI has now been moved to Knowage. Users interested in further developments of the platform will have to look there."

"The only challenge here is that it's a Java-based platform. It requires very high technical skills."

"The dashboard components could be better."

"It would be better if more resources were available to help us learn how to use it. I wanted to use Knowage for a more extended period, but learning materials around the product were not really available and were not really straightforward. I've also seen inconsistencies between versions. For example, under the tools, especially in the cockpit, the way you create reports is now different. You will also find some configurations within a particular state, like a line chart, which differs from version to version. I think consistency is an essential feature in a product, especially for business intelligence products."

"It needs an AI which can choose the appropriate connection strings and provide options for connections."

"We did have some issues building the Microsoft blog."

"Its performance and stability can be improved. It takes time to load, and sometimes, it also breaks down for the whole region. Its usability could also be better, and it could also have more connections with different data sources."

"Sometimes in Power BI, the logic can be challenging to follow."

"You do need to do some hard coding for certain things in Microsoft BI."

"It has limited performance capabilities in terms of connecting to large transactional databases, but it is fine for simple and quick queries from Excel spreadsheets or one table. The premium level is going to be more applicable for the higher transaction-level databases."

"The orchestration module for refreshing data flows is something that is missing and we have to do it manually."

"The data source definition is all over the place."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"It is simpler and cheaper than other solutions."

"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 solution is not affordable."

"A highly affordable cost structure with fixed membership and timeframe basis options."

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

"I wouldn't say that it is an expensive product, but to stay competitive they would need to bring down the prices."

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"Knowage is open-source, and an enterprise edition is also available."

"It allows the implementation of an effective reporting system using internal skills at a limited upfront cost."

"The price of Microsoft BI is expensive. We found the price of Tableau to be less expensive."

"Regarding cost, the initial investment wasn't too high, but ongoing licensing could add up."

"I believe that the price is reasonable, at least for an enterprise solution."

"All of the licenses are on an annual basis, but Microsoft will amortize it to an extent. If it's five years, they'll include the possible interest they might have the following year. Ideally, their licensing scheme is an annual license, but they make it easier for some of our clients to take a five-year license but package everything inside for them to buy the license for five years."

"This solution came free, it was offered by Microsoft with our E3 license."

"Price is the best feature of Power BI! You get a lot of value for the price. If you know how to use it, it's a great BI solution for your money."

"If it has to be applied on the cloud, then it costs around $10 per month per user. For a pro license and for a premium license it's around $20 per month per user. If it has to be applied on-premises then, depending on the course of your server, you have to buy a software assurance version of the database."

"Make it low in cost. It is a no-brainer!"

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Computer Software Company

17%

Government

14%

Hospitality Company

Real Estate/Law Firm

Educational Organization

40%

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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?

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What needs improvement with Amazon QuickSight?

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Also Known As

QuickSight

SpagoBI

SSRS, SSAS, MSBI, MS Reporting Services, Microsoft BI Tools, Microsoft Big Data, Power BI Pro, MS BI

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.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Knowage (formerly SpagoBI) has a 14-years history. The actual release is the 6.3.

Knowage offers FULL ANALYTICAL CAPABILITIES, with a special focus on big data analytics and comprehensive support to rich and multi-source data analysis. Knowage provides different modules, each one focused on a specific domain but mutually combinable (Big Data, Smart Intelligence, Enterprise Reporting, Location Intelligence, Performance Management, Predictive Analysis). Moreover, Knowage is an OPEN SOURCE solution: the source code is freely accessible, everyone is allowed to join the community and build the own business solution to ensure strategic decision-making and improved productivity.

Knowage suite is supported by Engineering Group, the leading Italian software and services company, with about 10,000 people and more than 50 offices worldwide. Maintenance and support services (such as trainings, migration support, proof-of-concepts, etc) are provided by Engineering Group (KNOWAGE Labs) under subscription.

Microsoft Power BI is a powerful tool for data analysis and visualization. This tool stands out for its ability to merge and analyze data from various sources. Widely adopted across different industries and departments, Power BI is instrumental in creating visually appealing dashboards and generating insightful business intelligence reports. Its intuitive interface, robust visualization capabilities, and seamless integration with other Microsoft applications empower users to easily create interactive reports and gain valuable insights.

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Sample Customers

MLB Advanced Media, Infor, HotelBeds, Gemini, Jivochat, Edmunds.com

FIAT Group, Italian air navigation service provider, Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Telecom Italia, ASL Genovese, San Giovanni Battista University Hospital

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