Amazon QuickSight vs. Tableau Cloud

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon QuickSight
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
N/A
$24
per month per user
Tableau Cloud
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Tableau Cloud (formerly Tableau Online) is a self-service analytics platform that is fully hosted in the cloud. Tableau Cloud enables users to publish dashboards and invite colleagues to explore hidden opportunities with interactive visualizations and accurate data, from any browser or mobile device.
$15
per month per user
Pricing
Amazon QuickSightTableau Cloud
Editions & Modules
Reader
$3
per month per user
Author
$24
per month per user
Reader Pro
$24
per month per user
Author Pro
$50
per month per user
Tableau Viewer
$15
per month billed annually per user
Enterprise Viewer
$35
per month billed annually per user
Tableau Explorer
$42
per month billed annually per user
Enterprise Explorer
$70
per month billed annually per user
Tableau Creator
$75
per month billed annually per user
Enterprise Creator
$115
per month billed annually per user
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon QuickSightTableau Cloud
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsProspective buyers can also purchase a set number of sessions or questions in lieu of a monthly subscription.
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Community Pulse
Amazon QuickSightTableau Cloud
Considered Both Products
Amazon QuickSight

No answer on this topic

Tableau Cloud
Chose Tableau Cloud
[My selection was more determined] by the legacy files from the previous data scientists who build the dashboard with Tableau rather than I decided to choose Tableau from all other options.
Features
Amazon QuickSightTableau Cloud
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Amazon QuickSight
10.0
6 Ratings
20% above category average
Tableau Cloud
7.6
74 Ratings
7% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports10.05 Ratings7.756 Ratings
Customizable dashboards10.06 Ratings8.774 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates10.06 Ratings6.563 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Amazon QuickSight
10.0
6 Ratings
22% above category average
Tableau Cloud
7.6
74 Ratings
6% below category average
Drill-down analysis10.06 Ratings8.674 Ratings
Formatting capabilities10.06 Ratings7.271 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages10.04 Ratings6.247 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration10.06 Ratings8.672 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Amazon QuickSight
8.4
6 Ratings
2% above category average
Tableau Cloud
7.8
72 Ratings
5% below category average
Publish to Web8.03 Ratings8.568 Ratings
Publish to PDF10.03 Ratings7.567 Ratings
Report Versioning10.05 Ratings7.655 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling7.04 Ratings8.559 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers7.03 Ratings6.538 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Amazon QuickSight
10.0
6 Ratings
22% above category average
Tableau Cloud
7.8
70 Ratings
2% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)10.06 Ratings8.267 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization10.05 Ratings8.266 Ratings
Predictive Analytics10.03 Ratings7.757 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining10.01 Ratings7.26 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Amazon QuickSight
10.0
6 Ratings
16% above category average
Tableau Cloud
8.4
69 Ratings
1% below category average
Multi-User Support (named login)10.06 Ratings8.363 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model10.06 Ratings7.756 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)10.06 Ratings8.559 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control10.01 Ratings8.77 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)10.05 Ratings8.654 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Amazon QuickSight
3.9
4 Ratings
66% below category average
Tableau Cloud
7.5
59 Ratings
3% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access4.03 Ratings7.457 Ratings
Mobile Application3.52 Ratings7.744 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile3.84 Ratings7.851 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Amazon QuickSight
6.0
3 Ratings
25% below category average
Tableau Cloud
6.9
41 Ratings
11% below category average
REST API6.12 Ratings7.836 Ratings
Javascript API6.62 Ratings7.234 Ratings
iFrames7.03 Ratings6.833 Ratings
Java API6.12 Ratings5.629 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)7.03 Ratings6.735 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)3.03 Ratings7.232 Ratings
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User Ratings
Amazon QuickSightTableau Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(6 ratings)
9.3
(75 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(2 ratings)
8.8
(28 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.7
(20 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon QuickSightTableau Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon AWS
Amazon Quicksight is a truly cloud-based solution so it works perfectly fine and saves a lot of expense in terms of hardware and maintenance. We can maintain it by ourselves by giving commands on UI. If you have connectivity issues then it can cause headaches because it's a cloud platform and it's a bit costly as compared to other services
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Tableau
If you're using Tableau as the primary BI tool, then Tableau Cloud is well suited to publish and share the results with a wide(r) audience. It is well suited for various degrees of self-service proficiency, from pure consumers of analytical work to more advanced users who can use web editing for smaller or larger adjustments, and even for desktop power users who will publish their work to Tableau Cloud. It has many good ways to organize the content and make it easily accessible via search, favorites, folders, collections ("playlists for your data"), or history ("recents"). It might not be ideally suited if there are many on-prem sources to be used (even though there are options to connect them) or if you have very special requirements regarding custom server setup, which is limited in a shared cloud environment like Tableau Cloud.
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Pros
Amazon AWS
  • Easily to set up for data sources, already supports quite a few of AWS and non-AWS data sources
  • Cost friendly since users are charged only for basis of usage
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Tableau
  • Tableau Online is completely cloud based and that's why the reports and dashboards are accessible even on the go. One doesn't always need to access the office laptop to access the reports.
  • The visualizations are interactive and one can quickly change the level at which they want to view the information. For example, one person might be more interested in looking at the country level performances rather than client level. This is intuitive and one doesn't need to create multiple reports for the same.
  • The feature to ask questions in plain vanilla English language is great and helpful. For quick adhoc fact checks one can simply type what they are looking for and the Natural Language Programming algorithms under the hood parse the query, interpret it and then fetch the results accordingly in a visual form.
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Cons
Amazon AWS
  • It is still immature as a cloud-based BI tool.
  • Its functionality is about 40-50% of its competitor's products.
  • Application is still a little buggy and non-intuitive at times.
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Tableau
  • Can be a steep learning curve for new users
  • Modeling and building algorithms aren't always intuitive and take some testing/retesting to ensure it's working as it should
  • Inability to integrate easily with our HRIS platform. Reports are pulled from HRIS at various intervals and uploaded into Tableau
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Usability
Amazon AWS
It was helping us a lot as per our business needs. Reporting is way easy with QuickSight that helps us to understand the performance of campaigns effectively and so does the performance of sales individual. We can analyze the data and create a new strategies effectively. Setup and maintenance was way easy
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Tableau
Based on comments from our clients, I awarded it this grade. Non-technical customers frequently compliment us on the ease with which they can utilize Tableau Online. Usability is rarely a source of contention amongst our customers. Few complaints have come from me as a user of our internal products.
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Support Rating
Amazon AWS
They provide proper support when needed. They are always ready to provide the box solution and make things easier for users.
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Tableau
I have not had any issues that require customer support from Tableau at this time, which speaks well to Tableau. I have taken an online course with Tableau and it was very professional and well done, so based on that I would assume a similar level of quality for their customer service.
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Alternatives Considered
Amazon AWS
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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Tableau
In determining whether to go with Tableau Online versus Alteryx, two important factors stood out in determining our go-to solution. First, while Alteryx is an impressive tool for data cleansing, it did not stack up in terms of data visualization capabilities. Tableau, on the other hand, provided us everything we needed in terms of visualizing our data and analytics. The second factor is cost. Well neither solution would be considered cheap, Tableau was the more cost effective solution for our needs.
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Return on Investment
Amazon AWS
  • Cost Effective
  • Easy setup and maintenance
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Tableau
  • When we release new products, we are now able to quickly see data and toggle between current periods and previous to see performance
  • Generating new reports requires less IT time to build
  • Data can be shared across many different device types
  • We now have integration where our customers can extract data from our software more easily-this was a big ask from our customers
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