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Amazon QuickSight vs. Tableau Desktop

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Amazon QuickSight

50 Reviews and Ratings

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2,288 Reviews and Ratings

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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon QuickSight

    Score6.1 out of 10
    		N/AN/A

    $24

    per month per user

    Tableau Desktop

    Score8.1 out of 10
    		N/ATableau Desktop is a data visualization product from Tableau. It connects to a variety of data sources for combining disparate data sources without coding. It provides tools for discovering patterns and insights, data calculations, forecasts, and statistical summaries and visual storytelling.

    $75

    per month

    Pricing
    Amazon QuickSightTableau Desktop
    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
    $75
    per month per user
    Tableau Enterprise
    $115
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon QuickSightTableau Desktop
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    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.All pricing plans are billed annually.
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    Community Pulse
    Amazon QuickSightTableau Desktop
    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
    Verified User
    Chose Amazon QuickSight
    QuickSight is best suited to augment your other BI solutions, not as a primary tool. It still very immature when you compare it to products like Tableau, Qlik, Microsoft Power BI and others. However, it is very easy to get connected to data sources and a good way to …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Amazon QuickSight
    In our case, we are storing our large amount of data in the cloud so using QuickSight adds up to the performance of the reporting. We are using it as a secondary reporting tool so that a business user can generate their own report. We are using Tableau as our primary reporting …
    Incentivized
    Lakhan Suri
    Senior System Engineer in Information Technology at TietoEVRY (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees)
    Chose Amazon QuickSight
    As per our requirement, the Amazon Eco System leads us to use the Amazon Quick Sight platform. It works well with Redshift datasources.
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Amazon QuickSight
    Due to the fact that our platform infrastructure is mainly based on AWS, it was seamless and effortless for integration. Our second consideration is the operating cost in which QuickSight is reasonably low compared to other tools we had evaluated. From a development …
    Incentivized
    Tableau
    John Rome
    Deputy CIO and BI Strategist in Information Technology at Arizona State University (Higher Education, 10,001+ employees)
    Chose Tableau Desktop
    Tableau supports more data sources that both Amazon QuickSight and Microsoft Power BI. It also created a much more sophisticated dashboard which is important for leadership and others who use it. However, we use other products like Toad Data Point and Alteryx and tools that …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Amazon QuickSightTableau Desktop
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Amazon QuickSight and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    Amazon QuickSight
    8.0
    5 Ratings
    Tableau Desktop
    8.3
    167 Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports8.04 Ratings8.8139 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards8.05 Ratings8.4166 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates8.05 Ratings7.8145 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Amazon QuickSight and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    Amazon QuickSight
    7.2
    5 Ratings
    Tableau Desktop
    8.7
    164 Ratings
    Drill-down analysis8.05 Ratings8.6159 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities8.05 Ratings9.2162 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages6.03 Ratings7.7122 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration7.05 Ratings9.2157 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Amazon QuickSight and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    Amazon QuickSight
    6.9
    5 Ratings
    Tableau Desktop
    8.1
    158 Ratings
    Publish to Web8.03 Ratings7.3149 Ratings
    Publish to PDF6.32 Ratings7.9149 Ratings
    Report Versioning6.04 Ratings8.2116 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling7.04 Ratings9.2123 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers7.03 Ratings8.073 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Amazon QuickSight and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    Amazon QuickSight
    5.8
    5 Ratings
    Tableau Desktop
    8.4
    156 Ratings
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)6.05 Ratings9.0154 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization8.04 Ratings8.2149 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics3.52 Ratings8.6126 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Amazon QuickSight and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    Amazon QuickSight
    8.0
    5 Ratings
    Tableau Desktop
    8.7
    142 Ratings
    Multi-User Support (named login)8.05 Ratings9.0139 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model8.05 Ratings8.0119 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.05 Ratings8.8129 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)8.04 Ratings8.877 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Amazon QuickSight and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    Amazon QuickSight
    3.9
    4 Ratings
    Tableau Desktop
    8.0
    135 Ratings
    Responsive Design for Web Access4.03 Ratings8.2124 Ratings
    Mobile Application3.52 Ratings7.097 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile3.84 Ratings8.8117 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Amazon QuickSight and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    Amazon QuickSight
    6.0
    3 Ratings
    Tableau Desktop
    9.0
    64 Ratings
    REST API6.12 Ratings9.256 Ratings
    Javascript API6.62 Ratings9.051 Ratings
    iFrames7.03 Ratings9.249 Ratings
    Java API6.12 Ratings10.046 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)7.03 Ratings8.453 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)3.03 Ratings8.446 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Amazon QuickSightTableau Desktop
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.7
    (194 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.9
    (39 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.6
    (63 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (10 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.1
    (9 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (56 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.4
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (34 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.1
    (2 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    7.1
    (4 ratings)
    8.4
    (115 ratings)
    Data Sources
    7.1
    (4 ratings)
    7.9
    (115 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)