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."Easily able to connect with our other services and easy to manage."
"It is fine for basic reporting."
"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."
"The ease with which it integrates with different data sources is most valuable. Especially when everything is on AWS, it is easy to connect to the data source and organize different dashboards."
"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."
"It helped the managers to visualize the data activities."
"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."
"One of the most valuable features of Amazon QuickSight has been the speed at which visualizations can be created."
"We've made a few enhancements to our Enterprise Manager system to allow self-reporting to grow. We see that as a very useful system. It's been incredibly beneficial in diagnosing production performance issues, diagnosing what reports are running slowly, where the SQL could be optimized, opportunities or metrics where we see long-time running performance. Enterprise Manager has been absolutely vital in giving us some of the insights about our system."
"Cube performance and easy integration with third-party tools/products, are valuable features."
"The scalability is great. It was one of the selling points for us on MicroStrategy."
"It has had a direct impact on bottomline improvements."
"Getting more data to people more quickly. Providing more flexibility for how they use the data."
"Visual Insight gives you the capability of doing self-service analytics. This has been the most powerful and valuable feature."
"It is a reliable solution for our needs."
"The most important feature is the way it handles ad hoc queries and provides formatted reports."
"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."
"I would like to see a feature that allows us to save a draft version before making it public and publishing it."
"Lacked connectivity with other third-party tools and data sources."
"They could provide more options for graphics and other features."
"One area where Amazon QuickSight could improve is its formatting features for dashboards."
"Amazon QuickSight's visualization could be improved."
"There is room for improvement in terms of the number of visualizations and dashboards that are available."
"Data preparation-wise, it was not so straightforward with respect to getting different sources. Preparing or transforming the data inside and then bringing it onto the dashboard was a bit difficult, and the experience could have been better."
"I would like to see more Writeback capabilities that would allow our IT department not to be worried about the wild, Wild West of Writeback."
"MicroStrategy should become more user friendly. It should behave more like Tableau."
"We've found the scalability to be very good. However, it depends on the environment. In general, it could be much better."
"If you do not learn the ins or outs, it can be a difficult tool to use. You could do a PoC and get enough out of it to be able to use it. However, when it comes to administering it, you definitely need the training."
"There are some challenges in our organization on how we store the data."
"There might be opportunities for reporting or data analysis, perhaps even in the realm of simulation."
"Our users tend to say the interface is a pain."
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 Alteryx, 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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