We performed a comparison between Amazon QuickSight and MicroStrategy based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two BI (Business Intelligence) Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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 most valuable feature of this solution is the user interface."
"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."
"From an analytics perspective, it's really good for self-service analytics."
"It helped the managers to visualize the data activities."
"The query and dashboard capabilities are entirely good."
"A valuable feature of Amazon QuickSight is that it's a cloud-native service provided by AWS. As all platforms within my company run on AWS, that's the leverage of Amazon QuickSight. Amazon QuickSight is also easy to use, and I find the native connectors from AWS valuable as well."
"It is notably fast in handling large data set refreshes, making it efficient for data analysis."
"It is definitely customizable. We have been able to put in key metrics and performance indicators, thus it is customizable."
"Our primary use case is to deliver all data insights to our company."
"The dashboard features and functionalities that come through the MicroStrategy Suite are the most valuable. It can be used by end users with minimum knowledge of the product. They can run a report or create a dashboard on their phones, which is kind of cool."
"You can build once and deploy to multiple operating systems. Also, it resizes in the way you want it to."
"The technical support is quite good."
"I like the user interface and the experience has been great."
"I think we have a huge enterprise-wide push to Visual Insight. Our environment has transformed over the last year. We were a strong "grid to PDF," "document to PDF," that's all we did. And then they came in with these Visual Insights and everyone was like, "Wow, that's kind of cool." We created a static reporting portal behind it and now, it's just taken our reports to another level. The level of insight that you get in a 30-second glimpse, it just revolutionized it for us. It gives the user a larger subset of the data so that they can actually maneuver around, rather than being specifically pointed at whatever your document is designed for."
"It keeps BI in the hands of everyone, rather than a developer or an analyst."
"It's not ideal for reports that are more complex."
"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 number of features in the product is limited in comparison with the other tools in the market, like Power BI."
"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."
"I just want a few more features to be added."
"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."
"Lacked connectivity with other third-party tools and data sources."
"One area where Amazon QuickSight could improve is its formatting features for dashboards."
"MicroStrategy's mobile dashboard is still not a RESTful design."
"Consolidate the functional offering to be more concise in the front-end for web reports, dashboards, and self-service."
"You can now do data blending at the document level and data blending allows you to show results from different data sets in one grid, so to speak. I want to be able to create a data set that can receive data from multiple cubes, have it in one data set, and then bring it to the document, because then I can reuse it for other documents. Now, I have to do it in a document and then it's less reusable, because if I want to share that functionality, I have to copy the document, strip a lot of things, and then work on that basic element that I've built in that document."
"I want to be able to have one report that's delivered to 30 different people and all 30 different people see something different. Now, you can do that today with metrics. You cannot do that with attributes. There's a component of that which, if an attribute is on granularity-one and another is on granularity-two, and you remove granularity-one, you're now going to be summing to a level that you did not expect before."
"Training would be an area that they could improve upon."
"The online community page of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"It crashes multiple times for even small changes that I make on the fly in the dashboard. After doing all the necessary changes, the MicroStrategy desktop or even the web version kicks the users out, and all the changes are lost. This functionality is buggy in MicroStrategy. It is hard to keep track of all the changes that I have done before. I don't want to make copies of each change that I have made because I would end up creating a hundred dashboards. It is not feasible in a real environment. I haven't worked on integrating MicroStrategy with the cloud. I am not sure how it behaves in the cloud, but I have heard from a few of my friends that there are some hiccups when you kind of sync to the cloud through MicroStrategy."
"Needs more visual essence and connectors for the ecosystems, which would be easy to use."
Amazon QuickSight is ranked 4th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 24 reviews while MicroStrategy is ranked 8th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 155 reviews. Amazon QuickSight is rated 6.8, while MicroStrategy is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Amazon QuickSight writes "Useful for developing dashboards for various lines of business". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MicroStrategy writes "A robust solution for powerful data analytics". Amazon QuickSight is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Looker, Google Data Studio and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, whereas MicroStrategy is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Looker. See our Amazon QuickSight vs. MicroStrategy report.
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