Amazon QuickSight vs Tableau Desktop

• 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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• Tableau Desktop has a great variety of visualizations. Once a dashboard is created refreshing the data is quick and easy.
• The calculations in Tableau Desktop are easy and logical. It suggests as you type, making it quick and easy.
• Parameters are very powerful ways to slice and filter the dashboards.

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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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• It's weak with Tabular reporting. It also won't let you reference a specific cell in the same table, making scorecards difficult.
• It needs some more options on colors, shading, 3D, etc., to add variety to the visualizations.
• Dashboard creation isn't as easy as it could be. Lining different elements up, centering, etc., was sometimes difficult.

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• Saves analysts tremendous amounts of time from authoring/formatting/distributing traditional rigid reports in Excel.
• Enhances skill sets of users to better understand how data is structured and its impact on business in areas previously 'invisible' using traditional wall of text reports, resulting in 'cleaner' data which gives more visibility to all areas previously deemed not relevant.
• Ability to answer business questions quickly and allow rapid prototyping of dashboards which gives stakeholders much faster turnaround time to reach decisions.

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