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 product is easy to learn."
"It is fine for basic reporting."
"The solution is simple to implement."
"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 most valuable feature of this solution is the user interface."
"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."
"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."
"Initial setup was very straightforward. Users can get up and running reporting on databases within minutes."
"I have found the most valuable feature of this solution is the Natural Language tool."
"There was a lot of manual work involved with Excel, whereas once we moved on to Microsoft Power BI, it was a cleaner dashboard and it was faster too."
"It is very good, and it supports the Microsoft ecosystem, including Excel, etc."
"I like how the Query Editor lets me manipulate the data, and the available visuals are good. You can do everything using the UI."
"I also find connecting to different data sources is quite simple. Other solutions we were using before were complicated."
"It is low-cost and easy to deploy. It is fully-featured."
"This is a self-service BI tool, so it doesn't require a huge amount of technical training, knowledge, or a background in BI in order to induct new people into it."
"You can't tell a data story as well in QuickSight as you can on others, especially in TIBCO Spotfire."
"One area is that integrating data from different sources into QuickSight can be a bit tricky, especially with Amazon Connect. To get data flowing, you need to use two additional services and configure them correctly."
"I just want a few more features to be added."
"The product has some storage and SPICE data issues."
"It can be made more user-friendly as some users might find this solution hard to implement. Qlik Sense, for example, is very user-friendly."
"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."
"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."
"I believe the price should be degressive, and we should have a lower, or better unit price if we have more users."
"They can improve the user interface a little bit to make it more user-friendly. When creating a dashboard, it is not very user-friendly. You have to click on a certain style and use your keyboard keys to move it. You cannot drag and drop it."
"Compared to other applications, like Tableau, Microsoft BI doesn't have as many functions that allow you to do more in-depth analysis and represent the findings."
"The default parameters of the prompt could be improved by including a dynamic option."
"The Microsoft BI interface should be simpler and more user-friendly. I find it very difficult to move between their data sources and their analytics section."
"The only concern I have faced with Microsoft BI is the time it takes to find out an issue and rectify it."
"It should have more report outputs. They should expand the report outputs. Its documentation should also be better."
"We haven't used it that long and I haven't come across anything that's stood out as needing to be fixed."
Amazon QuickSight is ranked 4th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 24 reviews while Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews. Amazon QuickSight is rated 6.8, 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 Databricks. See our Amazon QuickSight vs. Microsoft Power BI report.
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