We performed a comparison between Amazon QuickSight and Tableau based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Tableau wins out in this comparison because users feel it is easy to use, provides intuitive reporting, and has outstanding features. Many users feel Amazon QuickSight is a very simple tool with limited features. They say its visualization offering is too basic. It also has minimal functionality and lacks a solid security protocol.
"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."
"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 solution's most valuable feature is its flexibility to visualize certain logs."
"The integration is very seamless. We stored our result CSV files in S3 and connected directly from there."
"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."
"It is notably fast in handling large data set refreshes, making it efficient for data analysis."
"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."
"Tableau is easy to use compared to some other solutions, such as Excel."
"Gradual scalability from simple to complex situations"
"It is very good for data visualization. It has very powerful visualizations and is easy to use."
"Tableau has many good features. It is user-friendly, has a simple-to-use interface, and has a customizable dashboard."
"It's a very good, flexible product, and it's easy to learn."
"The ability to deploy is the added ability to centralise the Tableau repository for all Tableau Developers."
"The use of a storyboard helps the flow of the data visualisation."
"The data blending capabilities is a huge factor for our team."
"You can't tell a data story as well in QuickSight as you can on others, especially in TIBCO Spotfire."
"There could be an end-to-end pipeline for data cleaning as well as presenting it using different visualizations."
"An area for improvement in Amazon QuickSight is storage. Data cleanup also needs improvement because I'm experiencing errors when cleaning the data. Amazon QuickSight needs video tutorials showing its different functions and purposes."
"One area where Amazon QuickSight could improve is its formatting features for dashboards."
"There is room for improvement in terms of the number of visualizations and dashboards that are available."
"I just want a few more features to be added."
"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."
"It's not ideal for reports that are more complex."
"Include forecasting on table calculation fields."
"The solution needs to improve its integration capabilities."
"The pricing is high. I'm using a student license, however, I know that even this license is very expensive. I've tried to have this product in our organization, however, it's quite expensive. We don't have the internal budget."
"What is happening, with so many tools coming up in the market, is that people have to continuously get educated in order to use some of the more advanced features."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"It should have more integration with different tools and technologies. Its licensing cost should also be improved."
"The charts need to be improved. The drawings and the visualization need to be more accurate."
"The charts in Tableau are quite limited."
Amazon QuickSight is ranked 4th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 24 reviews while Tableau is ranked 2nd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 292 reviews. Amazon QuickSight is rated 6.8, while Tableau is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Amazon QuickSight writes "Useful for developing dashboards for various lines of business". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tableau writes "Provides fast data access with in-memory extracts, makes it easy to create visualizations, and saves time". Amazon QuickSight is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Looker, Google Data Studio, Qlik Sense and IBM Cognos, whereas Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Domo, SAS Visual Analytics, Databricks and SAP Analytics Cloud. See our Amazon QuickSight vs. Tableau report.
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