We performed a comparison between Amazon QuickSight and Looker based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."The solution's most valuable feature is its flexibility to visualize certain logs."
"The solution is simple to implement."
"The solution is very quick to turn around and integrate."
"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."
"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."
"The graph charts, pie charts, and box plots are valuable."
"The most valuable feature I have found is the low-level securities are very easy to use."
"The query and dashboard capabilities are entirely good."
"The stability of Looker has been good since I have been using it. However, it depends on what components are being used."
"The product is easy to use."
"I would rate the stability a ten out of ten. I didn't face any issues with stability."
"Looker allows you to generate the most optimal SQL queries in a DC through UI actions. We had signed a contract with Google Cloud to use BigQuery. That was the primary reason we adopted Looker. It works better with BigQuery than any other BI platform. We also like how this tool was developed. It was designed with an eye toward microservices architecture."
"It's quite effortless to navigate through various applications and review their updated data in real-time."
"It is a pretty stable solution because it is a cloud-based product."
"We can centralize all our data models."
"With Looker, I have experienced benefits in terms of usability and shareability."
"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."
"I just want a few more features to be added."
"One area where Amazon QuickSight could improve is its formatting features for dashboards."
"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."
"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 number of features in the product is limited in comparison with the other tools in the market, like Power BI."
"I would like to see a feature that allows us to save a draft version before making it public and publishing it."
"The product does not have documented material."
"The visualization capability of the product is limited."
"Integrations with other BI tools could be better."
"Looker doesn't connect to Excel, which is a huge disappointment because a lot of data is presented in Excel. Also, it can't consume data directly from REST APIs, which is necessary. Looker needs to expand its horizons when it comes to data sources. The inability to connect to different data sources is hampering our use cases. Currently, it only has an ODBC connection that connects to a database. It needs to connect to other data sources, such as Excel, APIs, and different platforms."
"Stability needs improvement."
"It needs to be more user-friendly."
"The integration with different databases must be improved."
"The main area of concern in Looker is probably related to blending the data from the different sources, including the data present internally in the company and on the cloud."
Amazon QuickSight is ranked 4th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 24 reviews while Looker is ranked 5th in Embedded BI with 19 reviews. Amazon QuickSight is rated 6.8, while Looker 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 Looker writes "The APIs are exposed at every level, so it's highly modular". Amazon QuickSight is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Google Data Studio, Qlik Sense and IBM Cognos, whereas Looker is most compared with Tableau, Google Data Studio, Databricks, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Qlik Sense.
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