Amazon QuickSight vs Microsoft Power BI

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Power BI lacks in horsepower compared to other tools with more robust ETL components built in. Particularly if you connect to any type of source system database like SQL, you have to either have a SQL View built for you that limits the volume of data your bring in, or have solid knowledge of the SQL table structures to build yourself custom (and correct!) connections to the tables.
• Security is not as robust as other BI tools, like Qlik Sense. We often need to restrict subsets of data by customer and even functional position of an individual within a customer. Power BI’s security seems to be built for using just within a company, so if you leverage your work outside the firewall there can be issues when figuring out security streams.
• I do not like the pricing. It’s really a dirty trick, Microsoft goes around and says the product is free. Well, the stand-alone is free, yes, but you have to pay for the “enterprise” version so you can share files. They say it only costs $10 a month/user, which again is a white lie. You need much more IT infrastructure and people to build SQL views and Tabular Models so you can use the tool, and Microsoft does not tell you that. So we find it is a good stand-alone tool to analytics, but a fairly heavy cost structure if you roll it out enterprise-wide as compared to Qlik or Tableau (which are more expensive per license, but require less back-office support).

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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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