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.
"Easily able to connect with our other services and easy to manage."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon QuickSight is its connectivity with other Amazon services."
"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."
"The product is easy to learn."
"The solution is very quick to turn around and integrate."
"The solution is simple to implement."
"The integration is very seamless. We stored our result CSV files in S3 and connected directly from there."
"The query and dashboard capabilities are entirely good."
"The best thing I like about Tableau is that you don't have to go for creating; it is calculated free."
"The solution has great features which nobody can beat, you can do a lot of customizations, such as use different dimensions and colorize them. Additionally, you can use the numeric values for the customization, which is an exceptional feature."
"The Web Editing capabilities allow us to grant end users enough capabilities for them to do self-serve discovery without the added cost of needing to get everyone desktop licenses."
"The best use case for us is the solution's integration with Salesforce because we are also partners of Salesforce."
"The initial setup is quick and easy and you don't need special outside assistance to set everything up."
"It's very easy to visualize data with this product. The visualization maps of and frames that we have been able to cross-reference has been excellent."
"This service is the combination of very pleasant, interactive graphical visualizations along with the application of advanced statistical models (in some cases)."
"I really like the interactivity of the dashboards."
"I would like to see a feature that allows us to save a draft version before making it public and publishing it."
"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."
"The solution must be more user-friendly."
"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."
"The product has some storage and SPICE data issues."
"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."
"Compared to Power BI, I felt QuickSight lacks some features, like delayed drill-downs. Drill-downs were the main area where we found QuickSight lacking."
"The product is quite expensive because the price is too close to QlikView's prices but it does not ring as well as QlikView."
"From the developer perspective, the data connection handling the target data set is what most needs to be improved."
"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."
"Some of our clients are looking for better UI when using Tableau as they often work with this solution directly."
"The development part should be better. We are putting a lot of effort in during development, so if we face any struggles, we have to find workaround solutions on the internet."
"The data entered into Tableau must be clean. Otherwise, it won't work properly."
"Could have more integrations with different platforms."
"Tableau is difficult to scale because of the cost, which makes it difficult to scale."
"The price could be better."
Amazon QuickSight is ranked 5th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 23 reviews while Tableau is ranked 2nd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 290 reviews. Amazon QuickSight is rated 7.0, 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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