We performed a comparison between Amazon QuickSight and Tableau based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Tableau wins out in this comparison because users feel it is easy to use, provides intuitive reporting, and has outstanding features. Many users feel Amazon QuickSight is a very simple tool with limited features. They say its visualization offering is too basic. It also has minimal functionality and lacks a solid security protocol.
"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 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 query and dashboard capabilities are entirely good."
"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."
"It is notably fast in handling large data set refreshes, making it efficient for data analysis."
"It helped the managers to visualize the data activities."
"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 solution is very quick to turn around and integrate."
"The dashboards are amazing, with different report types and stunning visuals. Most importantly, Tableau's AI with machine learning automatically predicts features and reports based on historical data. These are the three most valuable features for me."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the permission management and the user management."
"The solution allows for the possibility for end-users to do their own reporting."
"The initial setup is simple."
"The best use case for us is the solution's integration with Salesforce because we are also partners of Salesforce."
"Any feature I am looking for usually is part of the next upgrade within a few months. They have a very good dynamic evolution."
"I like the visualization component."
"It has made the reporting stage simple and enabled us to focus mainly on the ETL part"
"Lacked connectivity with other third-party tools and data sources."
"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."
"There should be better connectors for different data sets."
"It should support integration with Python or R."
"They could provide more options for graphics and other features."
"The number of features in the product is limited in comparison with the other tools in the market, like Power BI."
"The product is quite expensive because the price is too close to QlikView's prices but it does not ring as well as QlikView."
"The product has some storage and SPICE data issues."
"What is happening, with so many tools coming up in the market, is that people have to continuously get educated in order to use some of the more advanced features."
"I think Tableau could be improved with cheaper or more flexible licensing, though this is a generic improvement and applies for any product. It would be better if they had more flexible payment and licensing plans so that they could suit small- and mid-sized organizations."
"It needs more ETL capabilities, to be able to address the end-to-end BI need."
"In the cloud sometimes the performance is a little bit slow."
"Maybe the price could be a bit cheaper, especially if you're a personal developer that uses Tableau just to explore smaller data sets and you're not a company or something like that."
"The user story model is the most deceptive part of Tableau. It is a big marketing option, however, the reality is that it is not enough."
"The integration with other program languages, like Python, needs to be better."
"It needs a little bit more advanced modeling. I would like to see functionality like Cognos has in the Framework Manager."
Amazon QuickSight is ranked 4th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 24 reviews while Tableau is ranked 2nd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 293 reviews. Amazon QuickSight is rated 6.8, while Tableau is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Amazon QuickSight writes "Useful for developing dashboards for various lines of business". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tableau writes "Provides fast data access with in-memory extracts, makes it easy to create visualizations, and saves time". Amazon QuickSight is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Looker, Google Data Studio, Qlik Sense and IBM Cognos, whereas Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Domo, SAS Visual Analytics, Databricks and SAP Analytics Cloud. See our Amazon QuickSight vs. Tableau report.
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