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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

High level BI solution architecture with QuickSight


Let's take a deeper look into how the complete solution architecture will look with QuickSight. The following diagram shows the high level architecture that takes data from various sources and presents as insights using QuickSight:

Figure 1.4: QuickSight architecture

Let's review this architecture starting from the bottom and going to the top:

  • Data Sources: QuickSight can handle many data sources including files already in S3, files from your laptop in Excel files, standard log files, relational databases including RDS, Aurora, Redshift, DynamoDB, NoSQL databases, and on-premise databases. You can also connect to SaaS like Salesforce directly and report it on QuickSight.

  • Caching layer: Superfast, Parallel, In-memory, Calculation Engine (SPICE) is an in-memory columnar database with a SQL-like interface that provides quick responses to the queries made by the visualization layer. SPICE has APIs and interfaces planned to integrate with partner products like TIBCO, Tableau, and DOMO.

  • Visualization: QuickSight comes with intuitive visualizations with autographs based on automatic data type detection, native mobile user experience, and ability to integrate third-party visualization tools.

Next, let's look at how easy it is to get started and build a dashboard using QuickSight.