Amazon QuickSight vs Meraki Location Analytics comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Cisco are both solutions in the BI (Business Intelligence) Tools category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #3 with an average rating of 7.5, while Cisco is ranked #22 with an average rating of 9.0. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 4.9% mindshare in BIT, compared to Cisco’s 0.6% mindshare. Additionally, 67% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Cisco users who would recommend it.

Amazon QuickSight

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67% willing to recommend

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 1, 2025

Amazon QuickSight and Meraki Location Analytics compete in data analytics and location monitoring categories, respectively. QuickSight seems to have the upper hand in data integration and analysis efficiency, while Meraki excels in real-time location-based insights.

Features: Amazon QuickSight offers interactive dashboards, intelligent forecasting, and ad-hoc analysis. It integrates seamlessly with AWS products. Meraki Location Analytics provides real-time visitor engagement metrics, location heatmaps, and simplifies network configurations for businesses with physical locations.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Amazon QuickSight offers cloud-based deployment simplifying setup for AWS users with robust customer support. Meraki Location Analytics provides straightforward deployment via the Meraki dashboard, focusing on simplifying network configurations specific to location tracking.

Pricing and ROI: Amazon QuickSight is cost-effective, enhancing its integration with other AWS services for a higher ROI in AWS environments. Meraki Location Analytics has higher setup costs due to hardware but offers substantial ROI for businesses leveraging physical location metrics through specialized analytics.

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon QuickSight

Ranking in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools

3rd

Average Rating

7.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Meraki Location Analytics

Ranking in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools

22nd

Average Rating

9.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the BI (Business Intelligence) Tools category, the mindshare of Amazon QuickSight is 4.9%, down from 8.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Meraki Location Analytics is 0.6%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Amazon QuickSight	4.9%
Meraki Location Analytics	0.6%
Other	94.5%

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Featured Reviews

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.

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Mike Scofield

Director of Technology at a educational organization with 51-200 employees

Location analytics helps in finding rogue hotspots and locating missing devices

I use Location Analytics occasionally to identify a rogue hotspot or to find the last location of a missing device. In some cases, if there is an interference issue, I might be able to determine the location. However, such instances are unusual I use Location Analytics to identify rogue hotspots…

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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

"The solution's most valuable feature is its flexibility to visualize certain logs."

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

"Compared to other reporting tools, it is very effective but does require an understanding of certain concepts in QuickSight. This understanding is crucial for creating dimensions, changing metrics, and visualizing reports."

"The product is easy to learn."

"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."

"It has a lot of valuable features, but the most important aspect is the affordable cost. This solution costs much less in comparison to the competitors like Qlik Sense, Power BI, and Tableau."

"The solution is very quick to turn around and integrate."

"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."

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"Technical support has always been very good."

"The initial setup process is easy."

"In general, it is helpful because it allows administrators to see where the Wi-Fi and network services are being most used."

"The stability of the solution is excellent, and I would rate it a ten out of ten."

"The pricing and licensing for Meraki are good, and I would rate it as a nine out of ten."

"I use Location Analytics to identify rogue hotspots and find the last location of missing devices."

"I like Location Analytics' geofencing features for devices. You can manage thousands of devices with just a push of a button and deploy applications in seconds. For example, in schools, you can deploy an app update for thousands of iPads in just two clicks."

Cons

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

"Amazon QuickSight's visualization could be improved."

"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."

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

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"My biggest complaint with Meraki Location Analytics is the lack of visibility into the back end. Everything we do is through a customer GUI, and there's limited access to CLI functions."

"The biggest issue is negotiating the price with a client. That's the most complicated part, but the product is worth it."

"There are no specific areas for improvement as everything is working very well."

"I would like to see all of the features included in a single package."

"The technical support before implementation could be better for premium partners."

"The pricing is a pain point for us. It's a bit expensive."

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"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."

"The solution is not affordable."

"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."

"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."

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

"The product pricing is better than other vendors."

More Amazon QuickSight pricing and cost advice

"The product is less expensive compared to other vendors for gold partners."

"They have different tiers of pricing including one-year, three-year, five-year, seven-year, and ten-year."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

16%

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

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Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	10
Large Enterprise	14

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	2

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?

Because I didn't use Amazon QuickSight extensively, I don't think I would be in the best position to recommend improvements. I was searching and wasn't getting the help I wanted with what I wanted ...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Meraki Location Analytics?

The pricing for Meraki Location Analytics is comparable to other solutions in the market. When we moved to Meraki Location Analytics, we benefited from not needing to buy outdoor-rated AP enclosure...

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What needs improvement with Meraki Location Analytics?

My biggest complaint with Meraki Location Analytics ( /categories/location-intelligence-platforms ) is the lack of visibility into the back end. Everything we do is through a customer GUI, and ther...

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What is your primary use case for Meraki Location Analytics?

We mainly use Meraki Location Analytics ( /products/meraki-location-analytics-reviews ) to locate equipment within our manufacturing facilities. We're not a public-facing organization, so our use c...

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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)

Cisco Meraki's location analytics and engagement solution displays real-time location statistics to improve customer engagement and loyalty across sites. Data collected by intelligent Meraki APs is synced with the Meraki cloud, automatically reported in the dashboard, and exported to third-party applications via the Cisco Meraki Location Analytics API.

Cisco

Sample Customers

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

Ladbrokes, Neinver, Westwind School Division, The Salvation Army, Queensland Airports Limited

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