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.
"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."
"Easily able to connect with our other services and easy to manage."
"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."
"The most valuable feature I have found is the low-level securities are very easy to use."
"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."
"The graph charts, pie charts, and box plots are valuable."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"One of the most valuable aspects of this tool is its ease of use and the ability to easily share information with others."
"It is very good, and it supports the Microsoft ecosystem, including Excel, etc."
"Two valuable most features are the ability to create columns and create measures."
"It is really flexible. The charts and reports are really nice. You have the flexibility of self-service."
"There is continual improvement year-over-year."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft BI is its visualization and its ease of use."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the visual aspect and the DAX capabilities to virtually do anything."
"There should be better connectors for different data sets."
"The product has some storage and SPICE data issues."
"It's not ideal for reports that are more complex."
"Amazon QuickSight's visualization could be improved."
"There is room for improvement in terms of the number of visualizations and dashboards that are available."
"It should support integration with Python or R."
"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."
"The product is quite expensive because the price is too close to QlikView's prices but it does not ring as well as QlikView."
"here are still better UI designs they can go through. I'm assuming they are focusing more on capabilities rather than look-and-feel designs."
"The solution could improve by simplifying the user interface and adding integration or compatibility with APA."
"This solution is resource-heavy."
"The solution's documentation needs improvement."
"It should have more report outputs. They should expand the report outputs. Its documentation should also be better."
"The initial setup is a little bit technical."
"I'm not overly technical, and so I can't really speak to any shortcomings from a technical standpoint."
"Microsoft BI can improve some of the visual level filters or visual functionality, that are available in other BI tools, such as Tableau or Qlik Sense."
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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