Amazon QuickSight vs Microsoft Power BI comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft are both solutions in the BI (Business Intelligence) Tools category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #3 with an average rating of 7.4, while Microsoft is ranked #1 with an average rating of 7.9. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 7.7% mindshare in BIT, compared to Microsoft’s 22.6% mindshare. Additionally, 62% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 93% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.

Amazon QuickSight

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62% willing to recommend

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93% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 8, 2024

Amazon QuickSight and Microsoft Power BI are leading business intelligence tools competing for user preference. While Amazon QuickSight stands out for its cost-effectiveness, Microsoft Power BI is favored for its extensive feature set and comprehensive integration with other Microsoft products.

Features: Amazon QuickSight is known for efficient real-time data processing, straightforward setup, and interactive dashboard delivery. Microsoft Power BI is recognized for advanced analytics, seamless integration with Microsoft tools, and its powerful suite of features supporting complex data analytics.

Room for Improvement: Users suggest Amazon QuickSight could improve customization options, integration capabilities, and expand feature variety. Microsoft Power BI could enhance performance speed, handle large datasets better, and simplify certain advanced features.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Amazon QuickSight simplifies deployment with its intuitive setup and supportive performance framework. Microsoft Power BI requires more technical expertise in deployment but is backed by comprehensive documentation and a thorough support system.

Pricing and ROI: Amazon QuickSight is highlighted for competitive pricing and strong ROI, appealing to cost-sensitive projects. Microsoft Power BI, despite higher initial costs, is justified by users for strong ROI and significant business impact from its robust features.

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon QuickSight

Ranking in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools

3rd

Average Rating

7.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Microsoft Power BI

Ranking in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools

1st

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

315

Ranking in other categories

Reporting (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the BI (Business Intelligence) Tools category, the mindshare of Amazon QuickSight is 7.7%, down from 11.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Power BI is 22.6%, up from 22.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Anoop Jose

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

Helpful for visualization purposes but delayed drill-downs feature

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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Amol Rane

Solutions Architect M365 at Sogeti UK

Supports AI initiatives in terms of predictive analytics

The only issue is with permissions. Sometimes, despite granting granular permissions, dashboards are visible to people who shouldn't have access. It's difficult to understand why the permissions slip out. Sometimes dashboards are visible to stakeholders even though they should not have permission. It's a bit difficult to understand why the permissions slip out. The dashboards lack a user-friendly appearance, and the permissions should be easier to understand. At this point, we have to go through a lot of details. It takes a lot of time to understand the permissions, so if there were better options available within the Power BI setup, it would be quite beneficial, especially for admins. So, there should be a more user-friendly dashboard appearance and easier-to-understand permissions.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The product is easy to learn."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Easily able to connect with our other services and easy to manage."

"It helped the managers to visualize the data activities."

"From an analytics perspective, it's really good for self-service analytics."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is the user interface."

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"I have found the quick reporting and the conductivity with all the data sources valuable."

"The various different ETL tools within it and the ability to have different data refreshes and scheduled refreshes [real-time data refresh capabilities] have most significantly improved the data analysis processes."

"You can learn a lot of things quickly using resources like ChatGPT or Microsoft's own solutions, which are very helpful within the Microsoft ecosystem."

"The most valuable features of Microsoft BI are the variety of possibilities to connect to various data sources. The visualizations are easily done, have useful rollover functions, and there are continuous updates being made to the system. You can benefit from the various improvements."

"The product is user-friendly."

"Provides data feeds for enterprise KPI reporting."

"We have found the product to be scalable."

"Allows business users with a mission to solve their own problems, without an IT person."

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Cons

"QuickSight needs to add more visuals similar to what Power BI offers."

"There is room for improvement in terms of the number of visualizations and dashboards that are available."

"One area where Amazon QuickSight could improve is its formatting features for dashboards."

"I would like to see a feature that allows us to save a draft version before making it public and publishing it."

"The number of features in the product is limited in comparison with the other tools in the market, like Power BI."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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"In an upcoming release, the solution could be simplified and have a more complete product package rather than a suite of products that we have to put together."

"I feel the modeling page should be simplified."

"The cost of the solution can get high."

"The solution could improve the mobile application design. It is difficult to use compared to the desktop version."

"They can improve the user interface a little bit to make it more user-friendly. When creating a dashboard, it is not very user-friendly. You have to click on a certain style and use your keyboard keys to move it. You cannot drag and drop it."

"Microsoft needs to provide more drivers to connect other data sources in a native way."

"I would like to see integration with Excel."

"Powerpoints are not available in the report server."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Amazon QuickSight you subscribe and you use the service."

"The product pricing is better than other vendors."

"I'm using a paid version of Amazon QuickSight, paying about $22 monthly. As I have yet to learn about the pricing for other tools, such as Power BI, I won't be able to compare."

"The solution's pricing is cheaper than the other products in the market."

"The pricing is cost-effective with a good plan."

"Amazon QuickSight charges $250 per user, which becomes expensive when managing multiple departments."

"I wouldn't say that it is an expensive product, but to stay competitive they would need to bring down the prices."

"The solution is not affordable."

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"In the beginning, the solution cost approximately $1,000 per month, we have a Microsoft startup subscription. There is a subscription pack for startups company which we are able to have for one year."

"Power BI is subscription-based, and you have three options. The Pro edition, which is the standard one, is about $9 per user. The Premium edition, which provides AI and cloud capabilities but at a limited size, is for small to medium enterprises. It is about $20 per user. For large enterprises, such as manufacturing facilities, there is an option for the capacity. The capacity subscription is about $4,000 per capacity level. They also have an option for the on-premises version, but it is not common to see someone going for the on-premises version. The on-premises version requires a specific license that is attached to SQL Server. I believe it is about $17,000, but I'm not sure about it."

"The solution is affordable."

"It is reasonably priced."

"We have a premium Power BI license in-house that's quite an expensive license. It's $10 a month for four users and then I think 35,000 at the premium rate."

"Microsoft Power BI has reasonable pricing."

"Paid for itself in the first month."

"Microsoft BI is very cost-effective and this is why we use it."

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Senior Manager - BI Head at NVidia

Feb 4, 2015

Comparison of SAP BO, Tableau, QlikView, Cognos, Microsoft, OBIEE and Pentaho

1. SAP BO/BI Enterprise scalability Security Ease of use Semantic layer 2. Tableau Visualization Data discovery Turnaround time 3. IBM Cognos Enterprise scalability Security In-memory feature 4. MS BI - Flexibility 5. Pentaho - Open source but still enterprise grade 6. QlikView Data…

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

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Educational Organization

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Amazon QuickSight?

The integration is very seamless. We stored our result CSV files in S3 and connected directly from there.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon QuickSight?

QuickSight is considered cost-effective. As far as I know, QuickSight is cheaper compared to other solutions like Power BI.

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What needs improvement with Amazon QuickSight?

QuickSight needs to add more visuals similar to what Power BI offers. I have noticed that many drill-down visuals and other visual options available in Power BI are missing in QuickSight.

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Seeking lightweight open source BI software

There are many...It would rather depend what System BI architecture or Enterprise legacy you have at your end...I would recommend as follows: 1) If you have legacies of SAP, Oracle - look for SAP...

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Is Power BI a complete platform or only a visualization tool?

Power BI is an advanced visualization tool oriented to big data with a very complete set of widgets to visualize information, control users accessing information, the configuration of governance po...

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How does Oracle OBIEE compare with Microsoft BI?

Oracle OBIEE is great in allowing design and creativity per the individual needs of the organization. Dashboards are fully customizable and very user-friendly. This solution is very stable. Oracle ...

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SSRS, SSAS, MSBI, MS Reporting Services, Microsoft BI Tools, Microsoft Big Data, Power BI Pro, MS BI

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Overview

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.

Microsoft Power BI is a powerful tool for data analysis and visualization. This tool stands out for its ability to merge and analyze data from various sources. Widely adopted across different industries and departments, Power BI is instrumental in creating visually appealing dashboards and generating insightful business intelligence reports. Its intuitive interface, robust visualization capabilities, and seamless integration with other Microsoft applications empower users to easily create interactive reports and gain valuable insights.

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