We performed a comparison between Amazon QuickSight and Qlik Sense based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Qlik Sense is robust, flexible, and has more capabilities than most solutions in the marketplace today. In contrast, many users feel Amazon QuickSight is a simple tool with limited features. Its visualization offering is very basic and it also has minimal functionality and lacks a solid security protocol.
"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."
"The solution is simple to implement."
"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."
"Easily able to connect with our other services and easy to manage."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its flexibility to visualize certain logs."
"The query and dashboard capabilities are entirely good."
"The solution is very quick to turn around and integrate."
"Qlik Sense has given us visibility into our data to make informed decisions."
"The drag and drop functionality provides an easy and fast development approach."
"The flexibility of a non-IT developed solution allows for fast to market solutions."
"The ETL component allows us to pull from many different sources, making pulling data in easy."
"Allowing the users to be able to take snapshots and create their own story without ever leaving the application is a very good feature."
"The most valuable feature is the interface for the end-user."
"The changes in a dashboard are very easy."
"The data is incredibly easy to share with colleagues."
"It should support integration with Python or R."
"Lacked connectivity with other third-party tools and data sources."
"There should be better connectors for different data sets."
"The product has some storage and SPICE data issues."
"The solution must be more user-friendly."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in terms of the number of visualizations and dashboards that are available."
"Ultra-customization: It needs no limits on which charts can have x amount of dimensions, y amount of measures, z amount of color expressions, etc."
"It needs continued improvement on its visualizations and content customization."
"Qlik Sense is working very well on going to low code and development. They are trying to make their environment more user-friendly. However, the training is not free. When you want to learn more about the tool, sometimes you need to pay for the training. This does not make sense to me because training should be free because the more you learn about the tool the more you use it and the more you are loyal to the company and want to continue usage."
"They need to keep it as simple as possible but include as much advanced functionality as possible by positioning all the objects on the page, changing colors for all the objects, improving sheets actions, etc."
"The reporting solution recently added to the latest Cloud version, since December or January, is not fully developed. The ability to use tabular reporting, like in dashboards, would be a great feature."
"The on-demand report generation button in Qlik Sense currently doesn't work if NPrinting requires Okta verification, which our company uses."
"We have faced some issues with NPrinting, so I feel there is some improvement needed such that it would allow the use of variables and calculative fields from Qlik."
"What needs improvement in Qlik Sense is the support. It could be faster. My organization had already talked to Qlik management and has escalated multiple times, so management is looking into the support."
Amazon QuickSight is ranked 4th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 24 reviews while Qlik Sense is ranked 2nd in Data Visualization with 112 reviews. Amazon QuickSight is rated 6.8, while Qlik Sense is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Amazon QuickSight writes "Useful for developing dashboards for various lines of business". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Qlik Sense writes "Customizable with good ROI and a quick learning curve". Amazon QuickSight is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Looker, Google Data Studio and IBM Cognos, whereas Qlik Sense is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Apache Superset, Alteryx and IBM Cognos.
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