All Amazon QuickSight Reviews
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Donny
Verified reviewer
Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed June 2023
Amazon Quicksight is great for visualizing data!
Overall Amazon Quicksight has been a great tool!
PROSIt has helped us display different metrics and improve our performance more than before!
CONSSome of the GUI is not the best but it's just the process of customizing it more.
Reason for choosing Amazon QuickSight
Price
Reasons for switching to Amazon QuickSight
Price
Anonymous
11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed May 2022
Quick set up, simple embedding, backed by the power of AWS
Overall, our team has been very please with what we get with Amazon QuickSight. The support team and our account reps have assisted us every step of the way. Their unique (from our previous solution) pricing structure took a bit of time to quote out, but once the math was done it was clear which solution was best. While we didn't keep as many dashboard author seats as first expected, the time and workload associated with onboarding and implementing was not something that overly taxed our engineers or analysts.
PROSThe pricing structure alone got us interested, but the ease of setup and the user experience kept our attention. On the data-prep side, linking our RDS and Aurora instances was as simple as a login prompt. Mapping and prepping data was just as simple too. The process of building out our first interactive dashboards and then embedding them for our users occurred in 1/4 of the time as our previous BI solution.
CONSWe still find a desktop SQL client the easiest route for the initial dataset queries. The editor in QuickSight is very beginner-friendly though. Someone with more time writing queries will likely only copy/paste into the editor, however.
Reason for choosing Amazon QuickSight
The pricing structure was the biggest influence on our decision. However, we did not have to sacrifice our other needs or requirements just to hit the budget.
Reasons for switching to Amazon QuickSight
Poor support, high pricing, and quality of visuals.
David
Verified reviewer
Computer Software, 51-200 employees
Used monthly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
3
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed April 2022
Easily deployed, not so easily used and not fully integrated
Ultimately, I'm not enamoured with QuickSight at all. Yes, it is an easy-to-use, highly accessible, AWS-compatible BI product but it feels half-baked with the rest of AWS, and it has some curious approaches, some complexities that are unintuitive, and some other things that make it just that bit more frustrating than it needs to be.
PROSQuickSight is simple to set up - it's a public cloud AWS service so if you're already using AWS it's already there and you merely sign in to your AWS console and navigate over. It's also easy to set up your first visuals; you create a data source, create an analysis, and away you go. It helps you make interesting and effective visuals too, giving recommendations based on the nature of the data too. So, the barrier to entry for QuickSight and to start using it is extremely low. There's nothing to it.
CONSIt's clear QuickSight is a product AWS acquired rather than natively developed because so many things are different or inconsistent with the usual AWS standards - menus, security groups, user accounts, etc. Some things you could only do via the AWS CLI. As an example, until only just recently, QuickSight had no GUI support for groups. We could make groups via the CLI, and then assign data sources and analysis to the group, but it was not available or visible in the GUI in any way. Thankfully, this feature has been added during March or April 2022. Another issue is that QuickSight sometimes doesn't work as you expect. We encountered issues with pivot tables whereby we got different results when pivoting/grouping on a specific column than when we exported the exact same data into Excel and pivoted there. We manually compared each individual row and confirmed we were looking at the exact same data. The Excel pivot was correct, while our QuickSight pivot was doing some averaging. We logged this with AWS support for help and while it was resolved the issue is that some things that ought to be simple and intuitive become a bit more complex in QuickSight. Also, QuickSight can store results for quicker access in storage it calls SPICE, and you buy SPICE quota. However, if you run out of SPICE it won't run your scheduled reports and they simply fail.
Reasons for switching to Amazon QuickSight
We switched from Tableau and Logi Info Self Service (one of the products in the Logi Analytics suite) with the goal of having a single, easy, customer self-service platform. However, our experience with QuickSight led us back to Logi Analytics and Logi Composer instead.
john
Verified reviewer
Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed January 2023
Amazon QuickSight Review
This tools has helped me in Business Intelligence and visualization and creating stories to provide graphical details of the data.
PROSIt offers data upload from many data sources.
CONSThe entire tools completely meets all my needs
Reason for choosing Amazon QuickSight
It offers a free trial version besides meets most of my business needs
Daniele
Information Technology and Services, 10,000+ employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed July 2023
Great for visualizing data.
What I like the most about Quicksight is ease of use - even if you're not a BI, it's fairly simple to create dashboards and real-time updates for visualizing data. Learning curve to actively creating these is way faster than similar tools on the market. If you have more developed knowledge - no worries, integration with AWS services can keep you busy to create something a bit more comprehensive. Being part of AWS galaxy, it's quite 'plug and play' if you already use other AWS services.
CONSCould do with some improvement on filtering (as each tab is handled separately, you can't 'filter all' on your reports to slice data on different reports). Also borrowing some more customization and pivoting option as other actors in the market do (see extreme flexibility from end-customer side that Looker has) would be a massive leg up, as current system is a bit 'rigid' as a end user - ie., very little opportunity to customize.
Joe
Verified reviewer
Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2021
Awesome system once you've learned some basics
Overall, my experience with Amazon Quicksight has been amazing. I wasn't the person responsible for the initial integration/implementation within our software ecosystem, but I am one of the primary dashboard creators on our team and I'm definitely not a developer. As a semi-technical user I've found that the platform is very robust and has tons of features that make Business Intelligence reporting easy to do. Although I still haven't gotten the hang of ALL the advance features, I do feel like I'm slowly catching on to them and am probably in the 80th percentile of users. Now that I've had this tool, I definitely couldn't live without it.
PROSEase of use with the reporting mechanisms is second to none. The ability to incorporate Amazon insights (AI) is amazing. I've also noticed that they release tons of new features constantly. Dashboards look really good as well.
CONSPretty difficult to configure initially. If you're looking to leverage all the tools within your current system, then you'll really want to have someone certified in AWS or at least a team of devs with advanced skills. We actually reconfigured our implementation within our software after about 6 months of use and it made our lives much better.
Gabriel
Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed October 2023
Best Embedding Option among Hyperscalers
We used quicksight to display insights from over 300 million points of data from IoT devices. Overall, it does perform really well with creating attractive dashboards. You are limited with options in terms of visualizations compared to other solutions, however, it does have some out of the box ML options. I wish there was an option to display real time data, but you can only refresh and consume data every 30 minutes which in some cases can be a little late to display info. Value for money is definitely the highest but there is plenty of room for improvement.
PROSI liked how easy it was to embed the dashboard into an app and web. It was literally a plug and play feature with different customization options.
CONSCustomer support needs to improve significantly. When I posted a question, it took them weeks to get back and the response can easily get lost. The community based support didn't work for me and the criticality sometimes can be high, so an immediate response is needed.
Reason for choosing Amazon QuickSight
It was the cheapest option for embedded analytics compared to other main solutions by a clear mile. Pricing was also super transparent.
Nehal
Verified reviewer
Information Technology and Services, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed June 2021
Stunning dashboard over the cloud
I can say it is the future of visualization over the cloud and it needs to evolve compared to the other products in the market to sustain with the features in such competitive market in the business intelligence domain
PROS1. Our organization is using Amazon QuickSight for developing visually appealing dashboard 2. It is fully based on cloud and has a SPICE engine which brings all the data into the engine for faster development 3. Machine Learning and AI is a great feature which automatically creates awesome visuals without any hassle - we are using this feature quite often for faster developments
CONS1. Customization to the charts is very limited 2. Calculated fields is a bit tedious to be created 3. Limited SPICE engine data consumption 4. Resolution based dashboards have limited options - one is Autofit and other option has fixed resolutions
Santiago
Computer Software, 51-200 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed October 2023
QuickSight Review
The business problem we are solving with QuickSight is the integration of all our business data in one single place. With this platform we're able to analyze our data efficiently and in a more complete way.
PROSThe feature I like the most about QuickSight is its ability to source data and information from other systems we use, like Salesforce and Aircall, and we're able to integrate data from these systems together for more robust and complete data reports.
CONSI find it sometimes difficult to find my way around the app's interface, I think it could be a bit better visually appealing, specially for users that don't interact often with databases and data apps.
Gouri
Verified reviewer
Telecommunications, 501-1,000 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed June 2022
Amazon QuickSight for Model Monitoring dashboards
Overall experience using Amazon QuickSight is good, we are using this for our machine learning models performance monitoring dashboards post model deployment. It's easy to use.
PROSThe best thing about Amazon QuickSight is it has variety of connectors available to fetch the reporting database. quality of plots are good. Dashboard creation is easy
CONSThe feature in Amazon QuickSight which can be improved further is the interactive plots. on the large dataset, latency is high to reload.
Aditya
Information Technology and Services, 10,000+ employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed September 2022
Wonderful Tools for Insights
Wonderful
PROSBest and ease of usage for both developers and end users
CONSNA because everything looks good to me and my team
Reasons for switching to Amazon QuickSight
Ease of use
Ricardo
Information Technology and Services, 1 employee
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
2
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
2
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
1
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed February 2023
My experience using Amazon Quicksight
Not good. We use this to implement a product on top of that and to analyse data, however the bottom line is that it is worst than Power BI, Qlikview and Tableau, all tools that I used before.
PROSThe drag and drop functionality is easy, however it's not easier than other BI products that I used before.
CONSThe graphical resources are limited, poor integration (even with Amazon), difficulty to create intelligent reports, the data is not integrated in a fluid way (if you filter in one page, the filter is not applied to other pages), there are few guides and good learning documents to understand how the product works.
Reasons for switching to Amazon QuickSight
All our that is stored in Amazon
Arika
Verified reviewer
Financial Services, 10,000+ employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed January 2023
Best data visualization platform
Amazon QuickSight is a very good tool to collaborate data from multiple sources to a single place. You can easily combine multiple data points to get create reports that fulfills your need.
PROS1. The platform processes (big) data quickly2. It can support SQL queries3. It can also read reads JSON files
CONSIt is a very good platform without any drawbacks
Reasons for switching to Amazon QuickSight
Data
Nfon
Computer Networking, 1 employee
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed April 2021
Amazon Quick sight. A highly recommended data tool
It is already a very solid data solution but needs to mature a lot if it wants to become an enterprise solution. But the new features coming out are definitely taking it up the charts. I will definitely recommend this to every body
PROSQuicksight is an incredible platform and provides me with first-class and easy to use business intelligence. The fact that I am only charged as i use makes it more exciting and economical. Its integration into other AWS Services is one of its most appealing features.
CONSIt is lacking in pixel perfect visualisation and functionality. Still has limited options for different type of graphs/charts.
Anonymous
1 employee
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
3
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed February 2019
Great visualizations
I want to build Dashboards so I can help companies visualize how their campaigns are running. If there is a keyword/hashtag, they need to analyze, we can easily view it on the screen. I was able to build a dashboard easily and view real-time changes as well as the sentiment analysis. This proved to be of great use to me.
PROSI liked the fact that the visualizations were easy to create. Typically, I used to prefer using Elasticsearch and Kibana for my visuals. This one did not require much tinkering or knowing a great deal of code to set it up. There were many choices in graphs, charts, etc especially when it came to setting up a dashboard. The trial service was not restrictive either and it allowed me to explore the many choices. I loved that it has support for other services such as Salesforce, Tableau etc to import data. The sharing feature makes it fun for everyoneto view the dashboards within an organization.
CONSThere is a lack of tutorials on how one can use it more effectively. There weren't many choices when it comes to charts, graphs. I also hated having to sign up for it separately as it's not a third party service and is part of Amazon. They should just make it easy for one to use this service without having to sign up for it again. Another issue is that there is no way for an outsider such as a client to view the visualisations as they have to be part of a team to view it. I wanted to share my dashboard with a client but it was not possible to share the link. Maybe I must have missed it but there was no simple way to do it.
Anonymous
5,001-10,000 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed March 2023
BI solutions to build business reports !
AWS solution for BI reporting !
PROSThe best cloud based BI solution provided by AWS to build analytical reports . The power of the cloud infrastructure can be utilized to build report with huge volume of data .
CONSSince its a cloud based solution connecting to any databases located on prem is bit of a difficult job.
Anonymous
5,001-10,000 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
2
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed September 2022
One of the cheapest & superfast Analytics tool
It is amazing requires let management
PROS1. Easy to setup and use 2. Fastest due to spice engine 3. Cheapest as compared to tableau powerbi
CONSThe first disadvantage is there are minimum number of charts some are still not available
Reason for choosing Amazon QuickSight
Cheapest
Jorge
Financial Services, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed March 2021
Great BI tool
A great BI tool that can serve anyone. Easy to use on a beginner level, but also customizable enough for an advanced user. The drag and drop fields are very cool to test different layouts, and very quick to show the new graphs upon any change.
PROSVery easy to use. It has a lot of graph options. Once a new type is selected, the visual automatically adapts and shows the new graph. The drag and drop fields make it easy to change the fields in order to achieve your goal. The ability of calculating fields using functions on Quicksights eases the load of doing it in the query.
CONSThe calculated fields and parameters can be a little complex, but totally worth the time spent on learning how to use them. I don't like the fact that in the Analysis screen, the visuals cannot be freely moved, and automatically stick to the above visual. It should be possible to add images in order to "beautify" the dashboards
Anonymous
51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed July 2021
Super cool bi tool
So far I used several bi tools and although QuickSight is relatively new and not that widespread as for example Tableau, I can say that I enjoy using it from day 1
PROSDashboards are very easy to create, a lot of data sources can be easily connected and the Performance of the System is quite great
CONSNot that many tutorials and courses are available on the web
Rebecca
Verified reviewer
Computer Software, 501-1,000 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed March 2021
Great way to keep tabs on data!
As a person who never liked numbers but needed to report on numbers to let clients know how their program was going, I appreciated a tool like QuickSight. Our Data Team was able to build us a wide variety of dashboards with filters so that I could easily grab the numbers that I needed and take a quick look at trends over certain periods of time.
CONSWe eventually swapped over to Tableau because our Data Team felt that the latter was more robust and could produce more beautiful visuals that can be easily used to present the data.
Jesse
Marketing and Advertising, 501-1,000 employees
Used less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed December 2019
Quicksight can help you create visualizations quickly... most of the time
Quicksight could be extremely helpful for some lightweight use cases. It wasn't the best tool for a larger-scale integration into a SAS platform.
PROSThe interface is clean-looking, the charts and graphs look appealing, things seem to run quickly enough.
CONSThe data layer concept is a little harder to understand coming from other tools, the configuration interfaces for the visualizations feel a little clunky. Integrations are a little lacking.
Nirav
Automotive, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2022
QuickSight - Best way to look at data
We had been using a Business Intelligence platform called QlikView. But it froze a lot and could not load all the data. Also, we were not able to download data quickly using the same. It was a very slow tool. That is where we explored Amazon QuickSight.
PROS- Loads very fast even if you have heavy data to consume - Multiple users can check the data simultaneously - You can also check data using a mobile device through their app
CONS1. It is very expensive 2. Limited ways to plot graphs
Khaled
E-Learning, 2-10 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed August 2021
Quick and important review
Excellent service designed with care can be sure of this yourself, with the price is unexpected and easy to use with a quick response clients support
PROSEasy control and continuous customer support 24 hours, excellent design comfortable for eye
CONSThe site may be slow to navigate some pages
Soumya Ranjan
Verified reviewer
Medical Devices, 10,000+ employees
Used monthly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
2
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed June 2021
Cloud based visualization tool
Easy to log in ,no need to install in local system
CONSVisualization and data integration can be improved ,there are lot of features available in other visualization tool like Power BI and Tableau
Reasons for switching to Amazon QuickSight
Tableau has better feature than AWS quicksight
Anonymous
1,001-5,000 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed March 2019
Easy to implement and Use
Functionalities related to the analysis are good and this was easy to implement
CONSThe learning curve involved with utilizing all the tools within the software is steep but rewarding.