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Effective Business Intelligence with QuickSight

By : Rajesh Nadipalli
Book Image

Effective Business Intelligence with QuickSight

By: Rajesh Nadipalli

Overview of this book

Amazon QuickSight is the next-generation Business Intelligence (BI) cloud service that can help you build interactive visualizations on top of various data sources hosted on Amazon Cloud Infrastructure. QuickSight delivers responsive insights into big data and enables organizations to quickly democratize data visualizations and scale to hundreds of users at a fraction of the cost when compared to traditional BI tools. This book begins with an introduction to Amazon QuickSight, feature differentiators from traditional BI tools, and how it fits in the overall AWS big data ecosystem. With practical examples, you will find tips and techniques to load your data to AWS, prepare it, and finally visualize it using QuickSight. You will learn how to build interactive charts, reports, dashboards, and stories using QuickSight and share with others using just your browser and mobile app. The book also provides a blueprint to build a real-life big data project on top of AWS Data Lake Solution and demonstrates how to build a modern data lake on the cloud with governance, data catalog, and analysis. It reviews the current product shortcomings, features in the roadmap, and how to provide feedback to AWS. Grow your profits, improve your products, and beat your competitors.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Effective Business Intelligence with QuickSight
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Chapter 1.  A Quick Start to QuickSight

We are in an era where data drives business and is also growing exponentially. The organizations that can empower their business with easy-to-use, fast, and real-time data will have the competitive edge over their peers. Amazon QuickSight is the next generation Business Intelligence (BI) application that can help you build interactive visualizations on top of various data sources hosted on Amazon Cloud Infrastructure. QuickSight delivers fast and responsive insights on big data and enables organizations to quickly democratize data visualizations and scale to hundreds of users at a fraction of the cost when compared to traditional BI tools.

In this introduction chapter, we will get an overview of Amazon QuickSight and its differences compared to traditional BI tools. We will cover the following topics:

  • Era of big data

  • Current BI landscape

  • Rise of cloud powered BI

  • Overview of QuickSight

  • How is this different than other BI tools?

  • High level architecture of a BI solution on QuickSight

  • How does one get started with QuickSight?

  • Performing your first analysis in under 60 seconds