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.
"The solution is simple to implement."
"The integration is very seamless. We stored our result CSV files in S3 and connected directly from there."
"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."
"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."
"It is notably fast in handling large data set refreshes, making it efficient for data analysis."
"The product is easy to learn."
"Easily able to connect with our other services and easy to manage."
"The graph charts, pie charts, and box plots are valuable."
"The solution has a lot of customization when comparing to Microsoft BI."
"All features are valuable. It is very user-friendly, and it is mostly drag-and-drop. If we have the dataset available, then we can develop any dashboard very quickly."
"The ability to deploy is the added ability to centralise the Tableau repository for all Tableau Developers."
"I really like the interactivity of the dashboards."
"Good data flow and management."
"From my perspective, it enables clients to better understand our data and make better decisions based on that information."
"It is a complete solution allowing a lot of integrations, different graphics, multiple operations and analyzes our date and gives us meaning from it."
"I like Tableau's heat maps and the storyboard. You can create data stories and tons of visuals with it, and it goes together really well. Tableau lets you manipulate the data in various ways."
"The product has some storage and SPICE data issues."
"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."
"Amazon QuickSight's visualization could be improved."
"There could be an end-to-end pipeline for data cleaning as well as presenting it using different visualizations."
"There is room for improvement in terms of the number of visualizations and dashboards that are available."
"There should be better connectors for different data sets."
"The number of features in the product is limited in comparison with the other tools in the market, like Power BI."
"It should support integration with Python or R."
"When you're working on a dashboard, you can't select multiple components at a time and align them, so you have to go one by one. This is very cumbersome."
"In the cloud sometimes the performance is a little bit slow."
"The user experience for less savvy or non-technical people (from my experience)."
"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."
"Tableau's automatic insight could be improved. It has some predefined capabilities to understand the data, but I think they need more. Customers need more insight automatically from data—they don't want to discover them, they want to get the forecast automatically. The data preparation should also be improved because it's not easy. Tableau tries to focus on the business side, but the backend side has not improved much. They also have an ETS solution, but it's limited."
"The interface can be improved, in part because there is no indication that something is running or that it's processing."
"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."
"Bursting email is needed to deliver the reports to many people in their inboxes and this functionality is not provided by Tableau."
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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