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 of this solution is the user interface."
"One of the most valuable features of Amazon QuickSight has been the speed at which visualizations can be created."
"The query and dashboard capabilities are entirely good."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon QuickSight is its connectivity with other Amazon services."
"From an analytics perspective, it's really good for self-service analytics."
"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."
"It's a very easy-to-use solution."
"It is very good, and it supports the Microsoft ecosystem, including Excel, etc."
"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."
"We have found that the reporting and publishing are great."
"Technical support is quite good."
"It's a great tool for visualization data, and it's free for engineers."
"Microsoft BI's dashboards are helpful."
"What Power BI is, is a whole collection of templates of small amounts of data that can be used to do something for a real world project, that can be easily set up and become the business intelligence environment or a data warehouse for a large amount of data, for a real world customer. That's what is remarkable."
"There is room for improvement in terms of the number of visualizations and dashboards that are available."
"It should support integration with Python or R."
"Amazon QuickSight has minimal features. The feature set can be improved to allow you to create good production-ready dashboards. This does not happen with QuickSite, it needs to mature to be used in production."
"There could be an end-to-end pipeline for data cleaning as well as presenting it using different visualizations."
"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."
"You can't tell a data story as well in QuickSight as you can on others, especially in TIBCO Spotfire."
"Sluggish performance when handling large amounts of data."
"Most clients have MacBooks. Therefore, they use Tableau as Power BI Desktop is not available for the MacBook right now."
"When there are large amounts of data being processed there are additional tools needed to handle it."
"I would like for the next release to have better desktop performance, especially for big databases. Additionally, I would like to have more integrations with programs like Salesforce in order to get more live data coming in."
"I think that the product would benefit by increasing the range of visuals and graphics readily available, as opposed to using a third party included as part of the product."
"It's not user-friendly; more tutorials, training, and better documentation would be helpful."
"The UI is the main improvement that could be made. Specifically, there is something called DAX, in Power BI, which is complicated compared to calculated fields used in Tableau."
"Integration with artificial intelligence would help. Humans take time to review the data and eliminate errors. Artificial intelligence based on machine learning and understanding can bring the same functionality."
Amazon QuickSight is ranked 12th in Business Intelligence (BI) Tools with 8 reviews while Microsoft BI is ranked 1st in Business Intelligence (BI) Tools with 188 reviews. Amazon QuickSight is rated 6.4, while Microsoft BI is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Amazon QuickSight writes "We selected it for scalability reasons but we didn't get that far because of security concerns". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft BI writes "A complete ecosystem with an builtin ETL tool, good integrations with python and R, and support of DAX and Power Query (M languages)". Amazon QuickSight is most compared with Tableau, Google Data Studio, Qlik Sense, Databricks and SAP Analytics Cloud, whereas Microsoft BI is most compared with Tableau, MicroStrategy, Oracle OBIEE, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and IBM Cognos. See our Amazon QuickSight vs. Microsoft BI report.
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