Amazon QuickSight vs Looker comparison

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Amazon QuickSight

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68% willing to recommend

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80% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon QuickSight

Average Rating

7.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Looker

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

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Embedded BI (10th)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Business Intelligence solutions, they serve different purposes. Amazon QuickSight is designed for BI (Business Intelligence) Tools and holds a mindshare of 3.7%, down 7.1% compared to last year.
Looker, on the other hand, focuses on Embedded BI, holds 6.4% mindshare, down 9.0% since last year.

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Amazon QuickSight	3.7%
Microsoft Power BI	9.3%
Tableau Enterprise	6.7%
Other	80.3%

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Embedded BI Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Looker	6.4%
Tableau Enterprise	17.6%
Qlik Sense	8.6%
Other	67.4%

Embedded BI

Featured Reviews

Samuel Ndip Takou

IT Infrastructure Support Specialist at Olam Agri

Can always access reports through intuitive dashboards that support diverse data connections

I can't specifically say how Amazon QuickSight could be improved since I focus more on using it and leveraging its functionalities. However, I could invest additional time to explore possible feedback from customers regarding their challenges. As cloud engineers, our capacity to improve is limited since AWS manages the services, but I would be open to feedback. I'm aware there are minor details that AWS could enhance, such as optimizing costs for beginners or small startups, which can be steep when trying to take Amazon QuickSight into production. Many have noticed that AWS services greatly benefit well-established companies, while startups struggle with costs as they transition data out of AWS. Understanding how AWS charges for Amazon QuickSight usage is critical for all users wanting to visualize their data effectively.

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Kishore Jhunjhunwala

Sr Analytics Consultant at a outsourcing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

A cloud solution for operational reporting but is expensive

Some basic feature that is available in other reporting tools is missing. Looker has the ability to show more than 5,000 rows for operational reporting. Some reporting tools allow users to scroll down to see more than 5,000 rows, but in Looker, you have to download the entire dataset. Looker should consider adding a scroll-down option to allow users to view large datasets on screen without downloading them. Looker has some options for granting users access as viewers. However, viewers cannot download the entire dataset. Only superusers can download the whole dataset on the Explore screen. This is a big limitation, as you cannot give any user viewer access. You can give access to superuser access, which is a cost to the company.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

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

"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."

"Amazon QuickSight is a data visualization tool that is a major component in business intelligence to extract insights from the data warehouse, enabling senior managers to have a clear vision about the data, clients, and organization to make major business decisions or strategic decisions about improving the business."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is the user interface."

"Whatever I pay for Amazon QuickSight, I get back, so I am not worried about ROI."

"What I do like about QuickSight is that it gives a relative beginner the ability to really start seeing results quickly."

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

"The graph charts, pie charts, and box plots are valuable."

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"Looker offers incredible business visualization and analytical tools: graphs, charts, tables, and single numbers."

"We can centralize all our data models."

"In the past, adding a new dashboard to our product was a multi-week development effort, now our nontechnical product management and client success teams can create, launch, and maintain high quality dashboards with no interruption to the development team."

"Looker is an extremely valuable product that can really transform your company's ability to use data to answer challenging questions."

"It is a pretty stable solution because it is a cloud-based product."

"From a developer's perspective, the way the functionality's being handled is great."

"The product is easy to use."

"Technical support is the best ever."

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Cons

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

"There isn't much support available. We had an issue and when we tried to get support, they made it clear that they can't give any support, and what is lost is lost."

"I just want a few more features to be added."

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

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

"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."

"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 should support integration with Python or R."

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"The visualization capability of the product is limited."

"The product does not have documented material."

"Integrations with other BI tools could be better."

"Stability needs improvement."

"Their needs to be much more control of visualizations to become more on par with Tableau."

"They need to work more on interactivity in order to help users interact with the tool itself, and it needs to be more user-friendly."

"There have a been a few minor bugs, including a security bug that did not affect us."

"This product is useful for non-technical users, who are able to use the interface to easily slice data. But for the admin users who are responsible for maintaining the schemas and files behind the scenes, it can easily become a chore, as there is a lot of manual work involved in defining the schemas of the connected database(s), as well as any refactored tables; the restrictive syntax also makes maintenance difficult."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The standard edition is free to use for exploration purposes while the enterprise edition needs to be paid for. The pricing for this solution is very reasonable."

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

"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."

"The solution is not affordable."

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

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

"The product pricing is better than other vendors."

"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."

More Amazon QuickSight pricing and cost advice

"Looker is expensive and could be made better by reducing it."

"It is cheap."

"It's not cheap, but it's not expensive for big companies."

"I do not have to make any payments to use the solution."

"The price of Looker usually depends on the solution's provider, but it is usually cheaper than the other products in the market. Looker is offered at different prices for different companies."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

10%

University

Financial Services Firm

13%

Retailer

Computer Software Company

Media Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	10
Large Enterprise	16

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	8
Large Enterprise	6

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Amazon QuickSight?

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

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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 cost is offset by the advantages it provides.

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What needs improvement with Amazon QuickSight?

I don't want to hypothetically say about the effectiveness of Amazon QuickSight in terms of machine learning, so I need to pass on that. At the moment, on the cloud perspective, we have Amazon majo...

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Comparisons

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Compared 52% of the time

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Compared 7% of the time

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Compared 7% of the time

QlikView vs Amazon QuickSight

Compared 3% of the time

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Compared 13% of the time

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Compared 12% of the time

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Compared 8% of the time

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Compared 8% of the time

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Compared 4% 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.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Looker is a powerful data analytics platform that empowers businesses to explore and analyze their data in real time.

With its intuitive interface and robust features, Looker enables users to easily create and share interactive dashboards, reports, and visualizations.

The product's advanced data modeling capabilities and seamless integration with popular data sources make it a top choice for organizations looking to gain valuable insights from their data.

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