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.
"The solution is very quick to turn around and integrate."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its flexibility to visualize certain logs."
"It is fine for basic reporting."
"The most valuable feature I have found is the low-level securities are very easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon QuickSight is its connectivity with other Amazon services."
"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."
"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 graph charts, pie charts, and box plots are valuable."
"Tableau is easy to use and it has great predictive features."
"I like Tableau's heat maps and the storyboard. You can create data stories and tons of visuals with it, and it goes together really well. Tableau lets you manipulate the data in various ways."
"It provides business users with a tool, so they are not dependent on IT."
"It is a complete solution allowing a lot of integrations, different graphics, multiple operations and analyzes our date and gives us meaning from it."
"The solution is configurable and flexible. We can customize the dashboards and configure the interface the way that we want. The data can be manipulated and arranged in different ways, such as columns."
"Technical support has been responsive."
"The stability seems to be very reliable."
"It's very easy to use and users don't need any IT support to access it as the information is right there."
"I would like to see a feature that allows us to save a draft version before making it public and publishing it."
"One area is that integrating data from different sources into QuickSight can be a bit tricky, especially with Amazon Connect. To get data flowing, you need to use two additional services and configure them correctly."
"There could be an end-to-end pipeline for data cleaning as well as presenting it using different visualizations."
"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."
"You can't tell a data story as well in QuickSight as you can on others, especially in TIBCO Spotfire."
"The product is quite expensive because the price is too close to QlikView's prices but it does not ring as well as QlikView."
"Improvements can be made in template support. The workbook file structure is really hard to version control. If there was some sort of version control support offered particularly for workbooks, that would help big time."
"The architecture should be improved to better handle the data."
"The SQL programming functionality needs to be improved."
"I would like to be able to set the parameters in a more specific manner."
"When you create new fields in Tableau and you enter the formulas, there is a new small window that is there in the interface. You can enter the calculated fields, it could be more user-friendly. At this time it is limited and hard to understand at the beginning. The fields should be easier to use, such as in Microsoft Excel. You can have a difficult time understanding what to do in the fields, you end up doing trial and error to figure it out."
"There should be more GIS features, such as location analysis, which is quite limited. There are very few location-based functionalities."
"Licensing and pricing options could be made better so that more users would be able to use it."
"If you mainly need a tool for BI reporting, it's not the best option. Tableau needs better abilities to generate simple reports, integrate, create databases, and work with data lakes."
Amazon QuickSight is ranked 4th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 24 reviews while Tableau is ranked 2nd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 293 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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