We performed a comparison between Amazon QuickSight and Qlik Sense based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Qlik Sense is robust, flexible, and has more capabilities than most solutions in the marketplace today. In contrast, many users feel Amazon QuickSight is a simple tool with limited features. Its visualization offering is very basic and it also has minimal functionality and lacks a solid security protocol.
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon QuickSight is its connectivity with other Amazon services."
"The most valuable feature I have found is the low-level securities are very easy to use."
"From an analytics perspective, it's really good for self-service analytics."
"The query and dashboard capabilities are entirely good."
"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."
"Easily able to connect with our other services and easy to manage."
"The graph charts, pie charts, and box plots are valuable."
"Takes the super features of QlikView ETL capabilities to a whole new level with its new drag and drop feature, and extension capabilities derived from the robust Qlik API."
"We have been using Qlik Sense to generate reports that have taken hours to prepare before that we are now able to update in a couple of minutes and are available to users on a centralized platform where they are able to get the required reports."
"It has high performance when interacting with dashboards and reports."
"My organization now has data from disparate systems at their fingertips in a way that lets them get the answers they need when they want it."
"Data-driven decisions are now easier."
"The product is very stable."
"All the necessary information is available to everyone in real time."
"For a deployment scenario, Qlik Sense is also very easy to use. I can start development from any platform, on-premise or cloud, and continue from where I left off."
"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."
"One area where Amazon QuickSight could improve is its formatting features for dashboards."
"There should be better connectors for different data sets."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in terms of the number of visualizations and dashboards that are available."
"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."
"The solution must be more user-friendly."
"Lacked connectivity with other third-party tools and data sources."
"I would like to have the ability to better customize the visuals including changing fonts, sizing, colors, axes, and titles."
"I would like to more easily themed environments."
"There is a direction currently with feature releases within QLik Sense which are focused towards the SaaS or Cloud offerings of Qlik Sense. This leaves those who have invested heavily in on-premise enterprise deployments in a difficult position to gain the benefits of some powerful new features they have to look to reinvest further towards these SaaS or Cloud deployments or bring in a hybrid model. Qlik provides no real split between what features are available in each of the deployment options."
"The management console appearance needs improvement to its look."
"The security rules should be made easier to use."
"The augmented intelligence features don't work well for the analytical user."
"Reload failure alerts on the application within the Qlik Management Console without any use of extensions. QlikView is able to handle these alerts directly through the QlikView Management Console. We would appreciate a similar solution that is easy to set up and use. Simple formatting options in the pivot and straight tables such as adjusting line thickness and font selection and size."
"Qlik dashboards are not friendly with end-users, but they have been enhancing this shorted in some recent releases and next releases hopefully."
Amazon QuickSight is ranked 4th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 24 reviews while Qlik Sense is ranked 2nd in Data Visualization with 114 reviews. Amazon QuickSight is rated 6.8, while Qlik Sense is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Amazon QuickSight writes "Useful for developing dashboards for various lines of business". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Qlik Sense writes "Customizable with good ROI and a quick learning curve". Amazon QuickSight is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Looker, Google Data Studio and IBM Cognos, whereas Qlik Sense is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Apache Superset, Alteryx and IBM Cognos.
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