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Updated on May 17, 2022

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.

  • Ease of Deployment: Users report that the initial setup and deployment of both solutions is straightforward and fast.
  • Features: Reviewers of both products are happy with their stability. Amazon QuickSight users say it provides good analytics and query capabilities but has limited features and visualizations. Microsoft BI users say it is scalable, user-friendly, and has good integration options and reporting tools, but that its performance sometimes lags when handling large amounts of data.
  • Pricing: Each of these products received mixed reviews in the pricing category. Some users of each solution feel that the price is too high.
  • ROI: Reviewers of both products report seeing an ROI.
  • Service and Support: Amazon QuickSight users give mixed reviews for the product’s support. Some users report being satisfied, while others feel the support could improve. Microsoft BI reviewers are very satisfied with the level of support they receive.

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.

To learn more, read our detailed Amazon QuickSight vs. Microsoft Power BI Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"The solution is simple to implement.""The query and dashboard capabilities are entirely good.""From an analytics perspective, it's really good for self-service analytics.""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.""The solution's most valuable feature is its flexibility to visualize certain logs.""The product is easy to learn.""The solution is very quick to turn around and integrate.""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."

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"The best thing about this solution is that it is very user friendly. It is interactive in terms of visualizations. It is very eye-catching, and it attracts users. There are a lot of options to visualize the data in different drafts and views. I have used different visualization tools, and I found Power BI to be more efficient in terms of performance, user-friendliness, and ease of use.""The product is stable.""The Microsoft Power BI app is very good. It's also very flexible.""There are some great automation elements in the product.""The visualization and reporting are the most valuable features of this solution.""The advantages of Microsoft Power BI stem from the fact that it is really easy to use. The drag and drop facilities provided by the product are good.""We have found the product very stable and reliable.""The most valuable feature would be the abundance of connectors. It is also easy to use."

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Cons
"I would like to see a feature that allows us to save a draft version before making it public and publishing it.""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.""The product has some storage and SPICE data issues.""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.""It's not ideal for reports that are more complex.""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.""There could be an end-to-end pipeline for data cleaning as well as presenting it using different visualizations."

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"Maybe they can enhance the UI a bit. Right now, it's very basic, I would say, compared to the MicroStrategy or Qlik.""The smart phone application could be improved, along with better graphics and faster updating.""There are some problems with the functionality of this solution. The dashboard is not very user friendly and is quite complicated.""Most clients have MacBooks. Therefore, they use Tableau as Power BI Desktop is not available for the MacBook right now.""My data is restricted to my DB and I'm not sure how this would handle an extremely large dataset.""The licensing needs improvement. There needs to be a middle option between Pro and Premium versions.""Things can slow down if you create too many pages.""The solution could improve by providing more free visuals. A lot of them are very nice but you have to purchase them."

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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."
  • "It is simpler and cheaper than other solutions."
  • "Amazon QuickSight you subscribe and you use the service."
  • "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 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."
  • "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 pricing is cost-effective with a good plan."
  • "A highly affordable cost structure with fixed membership and timeframe basis options."
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  • "There is room for at least 45% discount as compared to the initial price."
  • "MS BI comes with all the tools and it is, to the best of my knowledge, the most affordable solution."
  • "All in all, for the price, this is an excellent tool for helping your organization turn mounds of data into useful insights."
  • "I would advise that Microsoft BI products are rightly priced and the licensing is easy to follow and to fulfill."
  • "Remove the cost of a licence to show a dashboard within SharePoint. Why should readers of a dashboard have to pay to view? ​"
  • "Make it low in cost. It is a no-brainer!"
  • "Globally, we evaluated a number of products, including Salesforce's product, Microsoft won on the ground of simple functionally and cost."
  • "Paid for itself in the first month."
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    SSRS, SSAS, MSBI, MS Reporting Services, Microsoft BI Tools, Microsoft Big Data, Power BI Pro, MS BI
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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.

    Microsoft Power BI is a powerful tool for data analysis and visualization. This tool stands out for its ability to merge and analyze data from various sources. Widely adopted across different industries and departments, Power BI is instrumental in creating visually appealing dashboards and generating insightful business intelligence reports. Its intuitive interface, robust visualization capabilities, and seamless integration with other Microsoft applications empower users to easily create interactive reports and gain valuable insights.

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    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company43%
    Financial Services Firm21%
    University7%
    Educational Organization7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company15%
    Financial Services Firm14%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Government6%
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Manufacturing Company13%
    Computer Software Company11%
    Energy/Utilities Company9%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Educational Organization35%
    Financial Services Firm8%
    Computer Software Company8%
    Government5%
    Company Size
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    Small Business14%
    Midsize Enterprise29%
    Large Enterprise57%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise65%
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    Small Business39%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise45%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business14%
    Midsize Enterprise41%
    Large Enterprise45%
    Buyer's Guide
    Amazon QuickSight vs. Microsoft Power BI
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon QuickSight vs. Microsoft Power BI and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    Amazon QuickSight is ranked 5th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 22 reviews while Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 293 reviews. Amazon QuickSight is rated 7.0, while Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Amazon QuickSight writes "Useful for developing dashboards for various lines of business". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Power 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, Looker, Google Data Studio, Qlik Sense and IBM Cognos, whereas Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, KNIME, Domo, Oracle OBIEE and MicroStrategy. See our Amazon QuickSight vs. Microsoft Power BI report.

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