We performed a comparison between Amazon QuickSight and Microsoft BI based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Microsoft BI is the clear winner in this comparison. It has excellent customer support, is scalable, reliable, and has a good user interface. In general, it is a more mature solution than Amazon QuickSight.
"The most valuable feature I have found is the low-level securities are very easy to use."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its flexibility to visualize certain logs."
"The solution is simple to implement."
"The ease with which it integrates with different data sources is most valuable. Especially when everything is on AWS, it is easy to connect to the data source and organize different dashboards."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon QuickSight is its connectivity with other Amazon services."
"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."
"It is fine for basic reporting."
"I like having the ability to connect Excel files as data inputs."
"The flexibility of the program is valuable. We are able to add other information to the reporting information and expand upon it."
"This product has a lot of features and most of them are user-friendly."
"There is a feature in Microsoft BI that allows JSON data to SQL on the dashboards effectively and quickly."
"The solution is not that difficult to install, although this will vary with the experience of the person responsible for its installation."
"The dashboards of Microsoft BI are easy to use."
"Implementation is very quick and the solution is very user-friendly."
"Power BI is more powerful than other tools because it is new for us. Each new version has more capabilities, and we're expecting AI and ML features in the next version."
"There should be better connectors for different data sets."
"There is room for improvement in terms of the number of visualizations and dashboards that are available."
"The product has some storage and SPICE data issues."
"Lacked connectivity with other third-party tools and data sources."
"It should support integration with Python or R."
"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."
"The number of features in the product is limited in comparison with the other tools in the market, like Power BI."
"The solution must be more user-friendly."
"One area for improvement in Microsoft Power BI is serviceability. Compared to one of its competitors: Tableau, there are a lot of things which you cannot do in this tool, that can be done in Tableau."
"I'm missing collaborations functionality to operate or to work connected with multiple people on a data source or on virtualization. There should be more collaborations functions, such as in Confluence. We haven't explored the solution sufficiently in this area, but at this time it doesn't look sufficient."
"BI is scalable, but there are some problems with limited online storage."
"There is room for improvement in terms of pricing for the solution."
"Technical support could be a bit better."
"The cost of the solution can get high."
"The handling of the workspaces can be made more granular for user access rights. It can be managed a little bit better in terms of the connection to Active Directory so that we have more granular access rights. I am not sure if this is really possible or if we can solve it differently, but we need a lot of workspaces, and we are not sure how we can deal with it from the access rights perspective."
"Microsoft should offer additional features for visualization and have additional features for slicing and dicing that data."
Amazon QuickSight is ranked 3rd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 16 reviews while Microsoft BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 83 reviews. Amazon QuickSight is rated 7.2, while Microsoft BI is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Amazon QuickSight writes "Good documentation, good support, and easy to learn". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft BI writes "User friendly, easy to set up and great for analyzing data". Amazon QuickSight is most compared with Tableau, Google Data Studio, Looker, Qlik Sense and IBM Cognos, whereas Microsoft BI is most compared with Tableau, KNIME, Domo, Oracle OBIEE and MicroStrategy. See our Amazon QuickSight vs. Microsoft BI report.
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