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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

Installing QuickSight


Currently the QuickSight mobile application is only available for Apple devices with Android support coming soon. You can install the Amazon QuickSight app from the Apple iTunes store for no cost. You can search for the app from the iTunes store and then proceed to download and install, or alternatively you can follow this link to download the app: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/amazon-quicksight/id1148226615?ls=1&mt=8.

Note

Amazon QuickSight is certified to work with iOS devices running iOS Version 9.0 and above.

Once you have the app installed, you can proceed to log in to your QuickSight account, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 6.1: QuickSight sign in

After you log in to the application using a QuickSight account or an IAM account, it will show all dashboards and analyses that you have access to. On the mobile application, any changes you make such as changing the filters or chart type are done just for that session and not persisted to the original...