We performed a comparison between Amazon QuickSight and Microsoft BI based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Microsoft BI is the clear winner in this comparison. It has excellent customer support, is scalable, reliable, and has a good user interface. In general, it is a more mature solution than Amazon QuickSight.
"The integration is very seamless. We stored our result CSV files in S3 and connected directly from there."
"The solution is very quick to turn around and integrate."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon QuickSight is its connectivity with other Amazon services."
"Easily able to connect with our other services and easy to manage."
"It is notably fast in handling large data set refreshes, making it efficient for data analysis."
"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 most valuable feature of this solution is the user interface."
"It's a great tool for visualization data, and it's free for engineers."
"It integrates better with other Microsoft products. It is very easy to use and has very powerful visualizations. It has also got a lot of development going on."
"I like that I can use Power BI to upload data. That is very important for me. The visualization is also convenient and easy to use."
"It is a pretty straightforward and flexible solution for data integration and modeling. It is a low-code solution. When you are doing data integration, you can use the GUI, which is very simple and straightforward. You can also do very intricate custom queries and model it at different levels. It is very easy to use and scalable."
"It seems stable. I haven't heard of any difficulties from my clients that utilize Power BI."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft BI is its visualization and its ease of use."
"The most valuable feature is integration with Python."
"I like having the ability to connect Excel files as data inputs."
"Right now, you can't use Amazon QuickSight on other cloud providers, so I'd like it to have availability on other cloud providers. This is an area for improvement in the product. What I'd like to see in Amazon QuickSight in the future is a distributed centralized system where I can manage all reports in one place, and for Amazon QuickSight to become reporting as a service."
"Lacked connectivity with other third-party tools and data sources."
"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."
"It's not ideal for reports that are more complex."
"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 solution must be more user-friendly."
"It should support integration with Python or R."
"Amazon QuickSight has minimal features. The feature set can be improved to allow you to create good production-ready dashboards. This does not happen with QuickSite, it needs to mature to be used in production."
"It would be nice to use other connectors to link with the data."
"Compared to other applications, like Tableau, Microsoft BI doesn't have as many functions that allow you to do more in-depth analysis and represent the findings."
"The UI looks awkward once the graphs have been generated in the console. This is what Microsoft can work on."
"The product doesn't support unstructured data. It doesn't support video, streaming, and strings of files."
"Microsoft BI could improve by allowing large-size data sources. We have large data sources, and we have problems loading them in Microsoft BI."
"From an improvement perspective, I think if the Power BI developers of that platform would really focus on being more detailed and specific on the error messages, it would help a lot of developers troubleshoot and maintain the report ECT or the dashboard ECT."
"Integration with artificial intelligence would help. Humans take time to review the data and eliminate errors. Artificial intelligence based on machine learning and understanding can bring the same functionality."
"The look is simple, and could be a little more professional."
Amazon QuickSight is ranked 4th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 24 reviews while Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews. Amazon QuickSight is rated 6.8, while Microsoft Power BI 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 Microsoft Power BI writes "A complete ecosystem with an builtin ETL tool, good integrations with python and R, and support of DAX and Power Query (M languages)". Amazon QuickSight is most compared with Tableau, Looker, Google Data Studio, Qlik Sense and IBM Cognos, whereas Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, KNIME, Domo, Oracle OBIEE and Databricks. See our Amazon QuickSight vs. Microsoft Power BI report.
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