Amazon QuickSight vs Microsoft Power BI

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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

Marketing Director

LightRx Face & BodyConsumer Services, 201-500 employees

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The recommendation for a company would be that with this free/low-cost tool for desktop it can help a lot in making decisions and thereby get a result that you can visualize if your company is on the right path. The user will also get some more creativity about the creation of the panels.

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Gabriel Oliveira

Programmer Analyst

Alcoa Aluminio S.AMining & Metals, 10,001+ employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Amazon QuickSight

8.4

Microsoft Power BI

8.2

Pixel Perfect reports

10.0

7.9

Customizable dashboards

7.8

8.5

Report Formatting Templates

7.6

8.1

Amazon QuickSight

7.7

Microsoft Power BI

8.3

Drill-down analysis

8.2

8.5

Formatting capabilities

7.2

8.2

Report sharing and collaboration

7.8

8.3

Integration with R or other statistical packages

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8.4

Amazon QuickSight

5.5

Microsoft Power BI

8.1

Report Versioning

8.0

8.2

Report Delivery Scheduling

3.0

8.1

Publish to Web

—

8.6

Publish to PDF

—

7.9

Delivery to Remote Servers

—

7.7

Amazon QuickSight

8.8

Microsoft Power BI

8.2

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

7.6

8.6

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

10.0

8.3

Predictive Analytics

—

7.7

Amazon QuickSight

7.1

Microsoft Power BI

8.2

Multi-User Support (named login)

8.6

8.3

Role-Based Security Model

8.0

7.6

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

8.0

8.1

Single Sign-On (SSO)

4.0

8.6

Amazon QuickSight

9.6

Microsoft Power BI

8.1

Responsive Design for Web Access

10.0

8.0

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

9.2

8.1

Dedicated iOS Application

—

8.1

Dedicated Android Application

—

8.1

Amazon QuickSight

—

Microsoft Power BI

7.6

REST API

—

7.8

Javascript API

—

7.8

iFrames

—

7.4

Java API

—

7.1

Themeable User Interface (UI)

—

7.7

Customizable Platform (Open Source)

—

7.6

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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Megan Sullivan

Marketing Director

LightRx Face & BodyConsumer Services, 201-500 employees

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Easily connect to multiple databases or cloud solutions.
Possibility to modify datasets or change formatting in Power BI vs having to modify data at the source.
Since Power BI can cache locally some of the data, it's possible to continue working offline on datasets.

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Francois Salvert

Web Analytics and Data dashboarding (consulting mandate)

Keolis CanadaOnline Media, 1-10 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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A bit heavy to run and not that intuitive compared to other tools.
Dashboarding is really a pain compared to other tools and the visualization provided with the tool are not what you should expect.
Very very frequent updates that require you to reinstall the software almost on a monthly basis. Will need admin rights from your organization.

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Francois Salvert

Web Analytics and Data dashboarding (consulting mandate)

Keolis CanadaOnline Media, 1-10 employees

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Microsoft Power BI 10.0

Based on 1 answer

I find it helpful and easy to use

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jim paroly

Freelance Photographer

j. paroly photoGraphic Design, 1-10 employees

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Microsoft Power BI 9.0

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PBI is very easy to use because of its similarity with power pivot and excel. DAX is the basic foundation language to be mastered to quickly build reports. Custom measures have been introduce to write instant DAX functions (But doesnt work all the time and need a understanding of DAX to debug). Easy to chart multiple charts and also third party charts

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Rohit Acharya

Business Intelligence Manager

ZALORA GroupInternet, 1001-5000 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

Marketing Director

LightRx Face & BodyConsumer Services, 201-500 employees

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Microsoft BI tool does a better job than most of the other software. The reason is excellent visualizations and its capability to connect with various other software and data sources. Tableau does a better job when it comes to tutorials and being more user-friendly. Also Tableau has an easier deployment mechanism. Cost wise Power BI is better than Tableau. Overall, Power BI would be in top two with Tableau in competition.

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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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It's a good start for setting up customized dashboards.
Available for all users based on Office 365 platform we have in place.
Doesn't really allow depth of report - specifically customization of visual displays.

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Mark Metz

Enterprise Services Consultant

Bristol-Myers SquibbPharmaceuticals, 10,001+ employees

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