Amazon QuickSight vs Qlik Sense

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

Marketing Director

LightRx Face & BodyConsumer Services, 201-500 employees

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Qlik Sense

If you have the technical know-how to build out Qlik Sense apps in house or budget allows for consulting help, this is a great tool. There really isn't a BI tool on the market where some programming knowledge isn't needed for setup and maintenance and I feel this is one of the easiest ones out there to get set up, running, and providing you with great data storytelling.

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Mark Walker

Knowledge Management & Technology Officer

The Jessie Ball duPont FundPhilanthropy, 11-50 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Amazon QuickSight

7.5

Qlik Sense

8.4

Pixel Perfect reports

10.0

8.7

Customizable dashboards

6.5

8.8

Report Formatting Templates

6.1

7.8

Amazon QuickSight

6.7

Qlik Sense

8.6

Drill-down analysis

7.3

8.7

Formatting capabilities

6.3

8.6

Report sharing and collaboration

6.5

9.1

Integration with R or other statistical packages

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8.0

Amazon QuickSight

5.5

Qlik Sense

9.0

Report Versioning

8.0

8.7

Report Delivery Scheduling

3.0

9.2

Publish to Web

—

9.0

Publish to PDF

—

8.9

Delivery to Remote Servers

—

9.0

Amazon QuickSight

8.0

Qlik Sense

8.0

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

6.1

8.3

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

10.0

8.3

Predictive Analytics

—

7.5

Amazon QuickSight

6.5

Qlik Sense

8.4

Multi-User Support (named login)

8.2

8.7

Role-Based Security Model

6.9

8.2

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

6.9

7.6

Single Sign-On (SSO)

4.0

9.0

Amazon QuickSight

9.7

Qlik Sense

8.4

Responsive Design for Web Access

10.0

8.9

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

9.4

9.1

Dedicated iOS Application

—

8.2

Dedicated Android Application

—

7.5

Amazon QuickSight

—

Qlik Sense

8.2

REST API

—

7.0

Javascript API

—

8.0

iFrames

—

8.0

Java API

—

8.0

Themeable User Interface (UI)

—

10.0

Customizable Platform (Open Source)

—

8.0

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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Marketing Director

LightRx Face & BodyConsumer Services, 201-500 employees

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The desktop version is FREE
Very easy to configure detailed visualizations, lots of drag and drop functionality
Once apps are developed (apps are what QlikSense calls its reports) just about anyone can filter and run them.
Great for storytelling with data

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Mark Walker

Knowledge Management & Technology Officer

The Jessie Ball duPont FundPhilanthropy, 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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Only promote features such as multi-cloud deployments when they are available for all customers to use.

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Mark O'Donovan

Security and Investigations, 201-500 employees

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Usability

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Qlik Sense9.5

Based on 5 answers

It's very simple and easy to use, with minimal learning curve

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Mohan Suswaram

Enterprise Data Architect

CIBC MellonUtilities, 1001-5000 employees

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Support

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Qlik Sense8.5

Based on 4 answers

Its good, but not world class. Partners are the deepest and most knowledgeable

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Consultant in Professional Services

Information Technology and Services Company, 51-200 employees

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In-Person Training

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Qlik Sense9.1

Based on 1 answer

The instructor was very knowledgeable.

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Verified User

Professional in Information Technology

Printing Company, 501-1000 employees

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Online Training

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Qlik Sense9.1

Based on 1 answer

The online instructor was very knowledgeable.

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Printing Company, 501-1000 employees

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Implementation

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Qlik Sense9.0

Based on 3 answers

Qlik worked along with us during our implementation, and it made it go quick and easy.

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Printing Company, 501-1000 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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Qlik Sense is an attempt to provide a more user friendly self-service experience and it does well in this and essentially extends the Qlik View experience. Our experience has been positive and would consider Qlik Sense enterprise to formalize our proactive self-service offering for business analytics. It would be interesting to see if natural language analytics will be the next step.

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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Return on Investment

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Qlik Sense dashboards are not completely developed and isn't fully available for all the Business Users, but the users who are using it are happy with the application

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