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."
"It helped the managers to visualize the data activities."
"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."
"From an analytics perspective, it's really good for self-service analytics."
"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."
"One of the most valuable features of Amazon QuickSight has been the speed at which visualizations can be created."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the user interface."
"I like the fact that Power BI lets me use Excel data. At least 90% of my state data is in Excel spreadsheets. Having the ability to just attach a spreadsheet as a data source is very, very important. It's also good for training and teaching. Sometimes you don't always have access to a live production database, so having a spreadsheet with sample data is always nice."
"It's a very easy-to-use solution."
"It is easy to use. It has got a desktop where people can develop their own dashboards. Basically, we have figured out how to connect finance contracts and all programs for the government agency. So, they can see everything in a dashboard. So, it is very easy to use from a technical standpoint of view."
"We have found the product to be scalable."
"The product is user-friendly."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"It has greatly improved our reporting capabilities."
"My primary use is for view of the dashboard."
"I just want a few more features to be added."
"There is room for improvement in terms of the number of visualizations and dashboards that are available."
"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."
"Amazon QuickSight's visualization could be improved."
"One area where Amazon QuickSight could improve is its formatting features for dashboards."
"It should support integration with Python or R."
"The solution must be more user-friendly."
"There should be better connectors for different data sets."
"Microsoft BI lacks integration capabilities, so it needs to consider increasing its integration capabilities."
"We haven't used it that long and I haven't come across anything that's stood out as needing to be fixed."
"I would like it to be a little bit more secure when I'm using the design feature on my desktop. For example, to have the ability to set up security passwords for opening the file. Currently, they don't have that. Tableau, for example, has a visual way of doing data processing steps, whereas the Power BI system still has some code, although it is very low code. It would be great to have the kind of view that Tableau has."
"The admin view could be improved by making it more simplified to manage a users' activity and other things."
"From any improvement perspective, I want the product to be made available to users free of cost...The stability and scalability of the product can be better."
"Actionable insights could be better."
"The solution is somewhat costly in comparison with MSBI tools."
"Real-time updating needs improvement."
Amazon QuickSight is ranked 5th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 23 reviews while Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews. Amazon QuickSight is rated 7.0, 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 MicroStrategy. See our Amazon QuickSight vs. Microsoft Power BI report.
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