We performed a comparison between Amazon QuickSight and Microsoft BI based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Microsoft BI is the clear winner in this comparison. It has excellent customer support, is scalable, reliable, and has a good user interface. In general, it is a more mature solution than Amazon QuickSight.
"The solution is very quick to turn around and integrate."
"The most valuable feature I have found is the low-level securities are very easy to use."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon QuickSight is its connectivity with other Amazon services."
"The query and dashboard capabilities are entirely good."
"The graph charts, pie charts, and box plots are valuable."
"The integration is very seamless. We stored our result CSV files in S3 and connected directly from there."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its flexibility to visualize certain logs."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is an easy-to-use tool."
"Initial setup was very straightforward. Users can get up and running reporting on databases within minutes."
"The stability is good."
"I like how the Query Editor lets me manipulate the data, and the available visuals are good. You can do everything using the UI."
"Very intuitive and easy to use."
"The solution is quite scalable."
"The Microsoft Power BI app is very good. It's also very flexible."
"It ingegrates nicely with Office 365."
"It should support integration with Python or R."
"The product is quite expensive because the price is too close to QlikView's prices but it does not ring as well as QlikView."
"Amazon QuickSight has minimal features. The feature set can be improved to allow you to create good production-ready dashboards. This does not happen with QuickSite, it needs to mature to be used in production."
"The solution must be more user-friendly."
"They could provide more options for graphics and other features."
"There is room for improvement in terms of the number of visualizations and dashboards that are available."
"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."
"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."
"Their technical support can be better. They normally take too long to escalate and resolve a case."
"If you have to pull multiple data sources performance is somewhat lacking."
"It has limited performance capabilities in terms of connecting to large transactional databases, but it is fine for simple and quick queries from Excel spreadsheets or one table. The premium level is going to be more applicable for the higher transaction-level databases."
"The Microsoft BI interface should be simpler and more user-friendly. I find it very difficult to move between their data sources and their analytics section."
"The report server feature is quite limited."
"Microsoft Power BI was born native on the cloud, however, it's quite difficult when it has to connect to on-premise data sources."
"It is not yet ready for enterprises. For a big enterprise data model, it is not so stable, and it also doesn't scale so well."
"We would like it if they added more Python libraries in the Power BI service. For Power BI service right now, you can use Python, but it is limited to a few libraries or a few packages from Python."
Amazon QuickSight is ranked 4th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 24 reviews while Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews. Amazon QuickSight is rated 6.8, while Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Amazon QuickSight writes "Useful for developing dashboards for various lines of business". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Power BI writes "A complete ecosystem with an builtin ETL tool, good integrations with python and R, and support of DAX and Power Query (M languages)". Amazon QuickSight is most compared with Tableau, Looker, Google Data Studio, Qlik Sense and IBM Cognos, whereas Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, KNIME, Domo, Oracle OBIEE and Databricks. See our Amazon QuickSight vs. Microsoft Power BI report.
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