Amazon QuickSight vs Looker vs Tableau Enterprise comparison

The compared Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google solutions aren't in the same category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #3 in BIT , with an average rating of 7.9, and holds a 3.7% mindshare in the category. Google is ranked #10 in EBT , and holds a 6.4% mindshare. Additionally, 68% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 80% of Google users who would recommend it.

Amazon QuickSight

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68% willing to recommend

Looker

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80% willing to recommend

Tableau Enterprise

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12,230 Comparison Views

90% willing to recommend

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Mindshare comparison

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%

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

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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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Hemanthreddy Vakiti

Product developer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Automated dashboards have transformed daily trend analysis and now drive faster business decisions

One of the best features that Looker offers is LookML, which allows us to develop dashboards directly rather than dragging and dropping. We can also customize some fields that are not available in the table by combining different tables using LookML. Compared to other reporting tools, Looker is somewhat more customizable and interactive. With the help of Views and Explore in Looker, we can combine different tables and create a unique column that is not available in the table, and then use that column in our reporting dashboard. Since we brought Looker into our project, it has improved data visibility and enabled faster interaction between us and our client. Rather than simply using free form or Essbase, seeing customizable and visualized data in Looker allows the business users to understand the trends in the data more easily rather than just seeing numbers. It has helped us save a lot of time. The automated dashboards that we develop allow us to run the dashboard for the coming years with only some modifications, which has reduced some manpower and working hours. When I joined this project, there were around eight to nine people for developing Looker dashboards. Once the development part is completed for almost all cases, the next part is just monitoring the dashboards and making some minor changes required to align with business goals. After development, the team was reduced to three or four people, so the manpower has significantly reduced, and time taken has decreased as well. For a business user to understand data from free form or Essbase, it usually takes thirty minutes to an hour to go through the previous day's trend. However, with the visualization tools in Looker, they can easily understand the data and compare it to the previous one or two years using a bar graph, pie chart, or other graphs. The return on investment has been very good. The number of employees has reduced to half, and time is saved by nearly two to three hours a day because of automated reports. We are just monitoring the reports to ensure they are released. This has saved nearly two hours per day, and the team has been reduced to half.

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Uzair Faruqi

Head Of Data Science at Mjunction Services

Ease of developing dashboards and receiving strong technical support have enabled efficient data visualization

Introducing custom features, such as NLP-based reports, is not very good in Tableau. My MD has been asking us for a way to write in natural language to request reports that the system should generate, but that isn't very effective with Tableau. As a developer, I can develop an on-demand report in Python quite easily, but exposing a REST API on the Tableau platform is not a very easy task. AI enablement is an area for improvement for Tableau, and that is something they might have to work upon. I have heard that ThoughtSpot is quite better in this regard, but the cost of ThoughtSpot is much higher. ThoughtSpot has lots of natural language-based report generation features that Tableau lacks.

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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 helped the managers to visualize the data activities."

"Interactive dashboards do help with 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."

"The query and dashboard capabilities are entirely good."

"The solution provides a good business intelligence service."

"QuickSight makes it easy to provision, create, and publish dashboards."

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

"The ROI for QuickSight we have experienced is high."

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"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."

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

"We can centralize all our data models."

"It's quite effortless to navigate through various applications and review their updated data in real-time."

"Looker allows you to generate the most optimal SQL queries in a DC through UI actions. We had signed a contract with Google Cloud to use BigQuery. That was the primary reason we adopted Looker. It works better with BigQuery than any other BI platform. We also like how this tool was developed. It was designed with an eye toward microservices architecture."

"Empowering every employee to make smarter decisions in less time easily pushes us into the black on ROI."

"I would rate the stability a ten out of ten. I didn't face any issues with stability."

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"Tableau is a wonderful tool, but you should know the proper methodology of using it and the specific situations for which it is helpful."

"The ability to make interactive graphs, tables, and maps that can be shared on social media, linked to, or embedded on a website are the most valuable features."

"The geospatial maps representation and the visualizations are nice."

"It changed the way in which the data was consumed internally by enabling the business leaders to reduce the time for data discovery."

"We have managed to automate reports that previously took up to 10 days to produce, and now we can deliver these reports in a day, including updating databases."

"Tableau is very good in the front-end visualization compared to Power BI."

"If you want the most beautiful dashboards, Tableau is the answer."

"The most valuable feature is the 3D charting."

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Cons

"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 solution must be more user-friendly."

"One area where Amazon QuickSight could improve is its formatting features for dashboards."

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

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

"Currently, auto-reporting is limited to some 30 times a day. As it is, if you want to set a data set to get it refreshed every half an hour, you cannot achieve it."

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

"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."

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"Features related to visualization should continue to be improved."

"Some of the visualizations are a bit limited on how much you can customize them."

"Integrations with other BI tools could be better."

"It needs to be more user-friendly."

"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."

"The visualization capability of the product is limited."

"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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"The pricing is high. I'm using a student license, however, I know that even this license is very expensive. I've tried to have this product in our organization, however, it's quite expensive. We don't have the internal budget."

"I find data prepping in Tableau challenging to understand, perhaps because I am new to it. It sometimes requires extensive investigation to determine why the data does not appear correctly."

"It is expensive but worth it. I would prefer a lower license cost or an increase in the allowed # of users per license."

"Tableau could be more intuitive. It has all the features, but it is difficult to find them."

"Some of our clients are looking for better UI when using Tableau as they often work with this solution directly."

"We moved to Tibco Spotfire because of performance issues in Tableau."

"The solution does have scalability issues. When the data size increases, the product slows down and doesn't work right."

"The solution’s pricing could be improved."

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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."

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

"The solution is not affordable."

More Amazon QuickSight pricing and cost advice

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

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

"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."

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

"It is cheap."

"The license is very expensive."

"Tableau's licensing is pretty straightforward and simple."

"The price could be higher for the quality of software, so they revised the pricing in this version, and I agree with the price for top version. The top version costs about $70 per month, and the price is cheap for the quality."

"Buy 50 at a time. Project your use base every three months, and project your requirements forward."

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

"Tableau is free."

"We always consider pricing when considering a new solution. We are a non-profit and price is a huge concern."

"I'm using Tableau Public, which is free."

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Feb 4, 2015

Comparison of SAP BO, Tableau, QlikView, Cognos, Microsoft, OBIEE and Pentaho

1. SAP BO/BI Enterprise scalability Security Ease of use Semantic layer 2. Tableau Visualization Data discovery Turnaround time 3. IBM Cognos Enterprise scalability Security In-memory feature 4. MS BI - Flexibility 5. Pentaho - Open source but still enterprise grade 6. QlikView Data…

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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

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

University

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	7

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	117
Midsize Enterprise	67
Large Enterprise	184

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Comparisons

Microsoft Power BI vs Amazon QuickSight

Compared 54% of the time

Looker Studio vs Amazon QuickSight

Compared 6% of the time

QlikView vs Amazon QuickSight

Compared 3% of the time

Qlik Sense vs Amazon QuickSight

Compared 2% of the time

Sigma vs Amazon QuickSight

Compared 1% of the time

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Microsoft Power BI vs Looker

Compared 13% of the time

MicroStrategy vs Looker

Compared 8% of the time

Databricks vs Looker

Compared 7% of the time

ThoughtSpot vs Looker

Compared 7% of the time

Oracle OBIEE vs Looker

Compared 4% of the time

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Microsoft Power BI vs Tableau Enterprise

Compared 16% of the time

Domo vs Tableau Enterprise

Compared 9% of the time

QlikView vs Tableau Enterprise

Compared 2% of the time

Julius AI vs Tableau Enterprise

Compared 2% of the time

Qlik Sense vs Tableau Enterprise

Compared 2% 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.

Google

Tableau Enterprise offers powerful features for creating interactive visualizations, dashboards, and maps, including drag-and-drop functionality and easy integration with multiple data sources, promoting real-time collaboration and self-service analysis.

Tableau Enterprise stands out with its ability to create user-friendly, interactive visualizations, making it pivotal for business intelligence applications. Users benefit from its seamless connectivity and advanced analytical functions, facilitating data blending and storytelling. Despite a complex learning curve and high licensing costs, its features like geospatial analysis and efficient content distribution drive its indispensable value for data-driven insights. Enhancements in predictive analytics and support integration with machine learning tools further its capabilities across industries.

What are the most valuable features?

Interactive Visualizations: Enables users to create engaging reports.
Drag-and-Drop Functionality: Simplifies data analysis processes.
Data Integration: Offers seamless connectivity with multiple sources.
Real-Time Collaboration: Supports synchronous data sharing.
Advanced Analytics: Provides predictive analytics and geospatial analysis.

What benefits and ROI should users look for?

Informed Decision-Making: Facilitates data-driven insights.
Efficiency in Reporting: Streamlines dashboard and reporting tasks.
Cost-Effectiveness: Despite high licensing, value in robust analytics tools.
Customizable Options: Tailors analytics to specific needs.

Tableau Enterprise is widely used for business intelligence, supporting industries like healthcare, telecommunications, and finance. Organizations utilize it to analyze performance indicators, operational insights, and financial analytics, enhancing decision-making through interactive reports and real-time data integration.

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Sample Customers

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

Yahoo!, Etsy, Kohler, Hipcamp, Hubspot, Kickstarter, Venmo, Dollar Shave Club, 600+ customer

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.

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