Amazon QuickSight vs D3.js

Amazon QuickSight

Amazon QuickSight is well suited in any organization that is making business decisions based on performance data whether it be Marketing, Sales, Call Center, etc. It is a great tool especially for mature organizations that have a lot of data to work with. Amazon QuickSight may be not as well suited for newer organizations that are just beginning to drive data/performance metrics. The data available becomes more and more valuable to more that you have.

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Megan Sullivan

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LightRx Face & BodyConsumer Services, 201-500 employees

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D3.js

D3.js is great for visualizing with medium and small size datasets. It's also great for prototyping visualizations quickly and sharing on the web so others can view it without having to install any software on their machines

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Firaz Peer

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Georgia Institute of TechnologyHigher Education, 5001-10,000 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Amazon QuickSight

7.4

D3.js

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Pixel Perfect reports

10.0

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Customizable dashboards

6.3

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Report Formatting Templates

5.8

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Amazon QuickSight

6.5

D3.js

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Drill-down analysis

7.2

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Formatting capabilities

6.2

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Report sharing and collaboration

6.3

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Amazon QuickSight

5.5

D3.js

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Report Versioning

8.0

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Report Delivery Scheduling

3.0

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Amazon QuickSight

7.9

D3.js

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Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)

5.8

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Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

10.0

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Amazon QuickSight

6.4

D3.js

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Multi-User Support (named login)

8.1

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Role-Based Security Model

6.7

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Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

6.7

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Single Sign-On (SSO)

4.0

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Amazon QuickSight

9.7

D3.js

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Responsive Design for Web Access

10.0

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Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

9.5

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Pros

Amazon QuickSight is a really easy program to learn how to use.
Amazon QuickSight allows our team to customize the data using the various data sets, which makes the available reports incredibly powerful to our organization.
Our organization has the ability continually adjust our reports and build new reports as business needs change.
Even though our organization has different reports built for different departments, each department can still access and understand reports from across the company.

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LightRx Face & BodyConsumer Services, 201-500 employees

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It provides multiple ways of visualizing data easily.
It is fast and light on system resources. It is built with JavaScript and visualizations can be easily hosted on the web across browsers.
It has a huge community backing it so it is easy to find people to help with whatever you're doing.

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Firaz Peer

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Georgia Institute of TechnologyHigher Education, 5001-10,000 employees

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Cons

One of the primary challenges I've had with Amazon QuickSight so far is that some of the reports I want to build use data from different data sets. Instead of being able to put all of the information I want to see into one report.
Some of our Amazon QuickSight reports only update every 24 hours. It would be great to see that data in real-time.
I would remove the various time zones from Amazon QuickSight and only use the time zone we are in.

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LightRx Face & BodyConsumer Services, 201-500 employees

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Has a steep initial learning curve.
It is slow when dealing with really large datasets.
Not great for making maps.

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Firaz Peer

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Georgia Institute of TechnologyHigher Education, 5001-10,000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

All of the other reporting platforms my organization has used previously were within our CRM and not a standalone program. In that we were very limited in being able to slice and dice the data the way that we wanted to

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Megan Sullivan

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LightRx Face & BodyConsumer Services, 201-500 employees

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Protoviz does not require as much knowledge of programming to build visualizations as with D3.js or Google Charts. Highcharts or AnyChart are other alternatives that are more specific to building charts only

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Georgia Institute of TechnologyHigher Education, 5001-10,000 employees

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Amazon QuickSight5.8

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There are many members across my organization that use the QuickSight reports throughout each business day. There are various reports built for various departments as well as reports that cross over to all departments. There have not been any issues across the various departments with viewing the reports and using unique filters to look at the reports differently. Our IT department is the only department within the organization that has the necessary permissions to create new reports and/or make changes to existing reports

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LightRx Face & BodyConsumer Services, 201-500 employees

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Data Integration

Amazon QuickSight7.5

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All of the data that feeds into Amazon QuickSight comes from our CRM, Clarity. We do not have data coming in from any other sources. Some of the data that comes in is in real-time and some of the data only updates every 24 hours. Overall, the API feed of data seems to be very seamless and there have not been any hiccups in the feed.

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LightRx Face & BodyConsumer Services, 201-500 employees

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