Amazon QuickSight vs Looker

Likelihood to Recommend

I'm likely to recommend it because it would become so native if other cloud services are based on AWS infrastructure, like our current setup. It is very seamlessly integrated with other services to feed in data for the visualization. In addition, supporting a reasonably large number of users concurrently is not an issue and should be able to scale horizontally as needed.

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Verified User

Director in Research & Development

Computer Software Company, 51-200 employees

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For less evolved reporting, it is not bad at all. It is not designed to scale, fully. I mean that as long as you do not intend to scale, it is a good product for your company. Log aggregation level reporting is not suited for Looker. Customer facing data reporting is. As long as the reporting is not too multi-dimensional, Looker is good.

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Joe Hughes

Senior DevOps Engineer

Simpli.fiOnline Media, 201-500 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Amazon QuickSight

Looker

Pixel Perfect reports

Customizable dashboards

Report Formatting Templates

Amazon QuickSight

Customizable Platform (Open Source)

Pros

Lightweight and serverless BI tool that can be used for niche dashboards.
Its integration into other AWS Services is one of its most appealing features.
The low monthly cost is another benefit.

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Verified User

Vice-President in Information Technology

Higher Education Company, 10,001+ employees

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It's on-demand and in the cloud, we don't have to mess with AMIs or scaling issues
Looker's data domain creating tool is better than anything we've seen
LookML, Looker's specialized language is incredibly extensible and allows us to connect and visualize almost any data type

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C-Level Executive in Corporate

Education Management Company, 11-50 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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Megan Sullivan

Marketing Director

LightRx Face & BodyConsumer Services, 201-500 employees

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Mobile viewing is HTML based, not always highly viewable.
Basic operations can be difficult to achieve. There is a function called table calculations which allows this.
Running on a single server, the entire instance can slow down if even one user schedules a large dashboard.

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Verified User

Director in Finance and Accounting

Internet Company, 201-500 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

No score

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Looker 9.0

Based on 4 answers

We've been very happy with Looker so far, and all teams in the organization are starting to see its value, and use it on a frequent basis. It has quickly become our accessible "source of truth" for all data/metrics.

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Verified User

Director in Corporate

Internet Company, 51-200 employees

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Usability

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Looker 7.9

Based on 10 answers

Nontechnical users can create reports easily. Can create customized reports individually or on the whole for the group. Slicing and dicing data through Looker fairly simple. Drill-downs are much better than anticipated. Especially heat map drill-downs, became most popular within the company, considering the company is a location analytics ad tech company.

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Anson Abraham

Data Lord

PlaceIQInternet, 51-200 employees

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Support Rating

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Looker 7.8

Based on 14 answers

Looker provides great customer support and service solutions. The team will prioritize user feedback and relationships. The customer issue is answered on time by the agents and provides full resolution support. The agents are very well trained, smart, and knowledgeable. The availability of the agents and the response time are awesome and the company is really very well concerned about this.

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Project Manager in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

In our case, we are storing our large amount of data in the cloud so using QuickSight adds up to the performance of the reporting. We are using it as a secondary reporting tool so that a business user can generate their own report. We are using Tableau as our primary reporting tool.

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Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology

Building Materials Company, 501-1000 employees

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Looker stacks up very well against the other tools we have evaluated and used. All the tools have their own pros and cons. Looker had a better edge in terms of visualizations when we chose to use it. After several updates, other tools began to have newer features. Looker still stands competitive.

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Purav Vaidya

Vice President, Mobile technology

Bank of America Merrill LynchFinancial Services, 10,001+ employees

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Return on Investment

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The platform allows you to create visual representations of your data and store them in charts, graphs and maps.
Gives the business owner the flexibility to visualize their data in a real time manner, thereby enabling the business owner to be on top of their data and understand its dynamics.

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Greg Alder

Account Executive

GayTravelAirlines/Aviation, 11-50 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Amazon QuickSight Editions & Modules

Edition

Authors	$24.00¹
Readers	$5.00¹

Per Month

Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Looker Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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Rating Summary

Amazon QuickSight

Looker

Amazon QuickSight

Looker

Amazon QuickSight

Looker

Amazon QuickSight

Looker

Likelihood to Recommend