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.
"From an analytics perspective, it's really good for self-service analytics."
"The most valuable feature I have found is the low-level securities are very easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the user interface."
"One of the most valuable features of Amazon QuickSight has been the speed at which visualizations can be created."
"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."
"It is fine for basic reporting."
"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."
"Easily able to connect with our other services and easy to manage."
"I work for clients. That is my business model. Business people really like to see Tableau. They love Tableau because it is very user-friendly. The platform provides an easy to use interface, which is what most people like about it."
"Tableau Prep tool for data preparation is a most valuable tool."
"It is a complete solution allowing a lot of integrations, different graphics, multiple operations and analyzes our date and gives us meaning from it."
"Technical support has been responsive."
"It most valuable feature is its ease of developing visualizations, not just charts and graphs."
"The most important feature is the tool is very easy to use. This makes it simple to introduce it to CxOs. After a rapid demo, they are usual impressed by the results shown, because it has such a rare simplicity."
"We frequently utilize visualizations using maps and different objects, all with rich coloring options. And tooltips are absolutely essential for us. Tooltips, like the pop-up descriptions when you hover over some object or graph. Those tooltips in Tableau are great features."
"It allows us to basically understand and evaluate our numbers in an expedient manner."
"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."
"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."
"Lacked connectivity with other third-party tools and data sources."
"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."
"They could provide more options for graphics and other features."
"One area where Amazon QuickSight could improve is its formatting features for dashboards."
"You can't tell a data story as well in QuickSight as you can on others, especially in TIBCO Spotfire."
"There could be an end-to-end pipeline for data cleaning as well as presenting it using different visualizations."
"The charts in Tableau are quite limited."
"Its price should be improved. Its price is much higher than Power BI and QlikView. Programming is not easy on Tableau. For programming, you have to have a separate model. They should include programming directly on the web portion of the Tableau desktop so that people can write Python or JavaScript code for customizations instead of using a different model. Currently, Tableau Data Prep is a separate application that you have to purchase. It would be helpful if they can include Tableau Data Prep and programming languages such as R, Python in the next version. Tableau Public, which is a community version, doesn't allow you to save your work on your desktop. They should allow it. Currently, you can only upload it in the community."
"The tool's OpenAI integration was announced last year. However, it is late. Tableau is a good solution for end customers. However, there are some concerns regarding the stability and performance of its server architecture, including SaaS services. The server side appears unstable, and performance issues are noticeable, often accompanied by unclear error messages."
"The customization in the front end is a bit difficult."
"Overall, the only major frustration that I have had so far is with Tableau Public. I first used Tableau Public when I was building capacity, and when there was a later release to download and you wanted to upgrade, all your work would have to be manually re-entered."
"It needs more ETL capabilities, to be able to address the end-to-end BI need."
"When there are millions of records, scaling up is quite difficult."
"Some of our clients are looking for better UI when using Tableau as they often work with this solution directly."
Amazon QuickSight is ranked 4th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 24 reviews while Tableau is ranked 2nd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 292 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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