Amazon QuickSight Reviews

Name: Amazon QuickSight
Brand: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Rating: 3.5 (25 reviews)

3.5 out of 5

25 reviews
57% willing to recommend

610 followers

What is Amazon QuickSight?

Amazon QuickSight is a fast, cloud-powered business analytics service that makes it easy to build visualizations, perform ad-hoc analysis, and quickly get business insights from your data. Using our cloud-based service you can easily connect to your data, perform advanced analysis, and create stunning visualizations and rich dashboards that can be accessed from any browser or mobile device.

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Amazon QuickSight is the #3 ranked solution in top Business Intelligence Tools. PeerSpot users give Amazon QuickSight an average rating of 7.0 out of 10. Based on the analysis of the 25 most recent Amazon QuickSight reviews, the overall sentiment is positive, with a sentiment score of 7.6. (Among the highest in the category). Amazon QuickSight is most commonly compared to Microsoft Power BI: Amazon QuickSight vs Microsoft Power BI. Amazon QuickSight is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 65% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 15% of all views.

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Featured reviews

Anoop Jose

Senior Manager - Architecture and engineering excellence at a healthcare company with 201-500 employees

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. Especially for root cause analysis, the ability to drill down from a high-level problem to its root is crucial. Aside from that, QuickSight is a good service.

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Nerissa Serrano

Sr. Business Intelligence Analyst at ClearSource Bpo

Yes, before using Amazon QuickSight, I worked with other products, including Power BI and Tableau. We switched to Amazon QuickSight since it was more affordable. Compared to Amazon QuickSight, Power BI offers a broader range of visualization options and more flexible formatting capabilities. Power BI provides more visual choices, easier page formatting with specific control options, and the ability to use bookmarks to enhance the dashboard's appeal. One area where Amazon QuickSight could improve is its formatting features for dashboards. For small-scale businesses, Amazon QuickSight is cost-effective. However, for larger datasets, tools like Power BI and Tableau may be more efficient, even if they require additional AWS services. QuickSight's pay-per-view model is suitable for smaller data, but your choice depends on your data size and requirements.

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Abhishek Malviya

Lead Software Engineer at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

I just want a few more features to be added. We'd like an increase in the number of visuals, and we find the graphs are still very restricted. We need reporting around telementary use and QuickSight users, including which user is opening which dashboard, at what time, and for how long he is using the dashboard. They built reader access based on the session. However, they don't report it anywhere. I was expecting this very basic thing, yet it has not been rolled out. In order to know which user is opening which dashboard and at what time, I have to basically deep dive into the CloudTrail log. Even there, it's not a very detailed log. It does not give you an idea about the session or session duration. It only gives you an idea about whether a dashboard was loaded or not. Currently, auto-reporting is limited to some 30 times a day. As it is, if you want to set a data set to get it refreshed every half an hour, you cannot achieve it. We would like to have more auto-reporting.

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Amazon QuickSight mindshare

As of November 2024, the mindshare of Amazon QuickSight in the BI (Business Intelligence) Tools category stands at 8.3%, down from 12.0% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

Last updated Nov 21, 2024

Valuable Features

"It works well with the AWS ecosystem."
"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 integration is very seamless. We stored our result CSV files in S3 and connected directly from there."

Room for Improvement

"The cost of queries is very high."
"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."

ROI

Pricing

"It's affordable compared to other long-term contractor business tools available in the market."
"The product pricing is better than other vendors."
"The solution's pricing is cheaper than the other products in the market."