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.
"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."
"It is fine for basic reporting."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the user interface."
"It helped the managers to visualize the data activities."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"It allows you to create a new column using split on a current column, which we find very useful."
"Quick reporting."
"Self-service use of the desktop version with the ability to port applications into the server environment."
"The time it takes to deliver a dashboard is real quick."
"The integration with R & Python for predictive modeling, and possibly machine learning in the future, is very valuable."
"The changes in a dashboard are very easy."
"The UI is very easy to use, with drag and drop self-service analytics."
"The flexibility of a non-IT developed solution allows for fast to market solutions."
"One area where Amazon QuickSight could improve is its formatting features for dashboards."
"Lacked connectivity with other third-party tools and data sources."
"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."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in terms of the number of visualizations and dashboards that are available."
"The product has some storage and SPICE data issues."
"There should be better connectors for different data sets."
"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."
"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."
"Even though a huge set of learning material is available, anyone starting his/her journey on learning the software doesn't even know where to start it. The so-called Continous Classroom service is not cheap, but there are many free tutorials, they are not sorted or enlisted adequately though."
"I'd like to see more end-user-friendly UI designs."
"Qlik Sense should have a conversion tool which automatically converts QlikView to Qlik Sense, so customers can easily migrate between the products of Qlik."
"I would like to see Qlik add more DevOps functionality to their product. Currently, we have to turn to 3rd party products to handle things like Source Control, Code Deployment through environments, etc."
"Report generation without the need for NPrinting, which has limited capabilities anyway, would be an improvement."
"I would like to more easily themed environments."
"More focus needs to be on data streaming/real-time data reporting."
Amazon QuickSight is ranked 4th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 24 reviews while Qlik Sense is ranked 2nd in Data Visualization with 114 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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