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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

Summary


The QuickSight iOS app complements the standard browser-based application and provides BI on the go. You can stay connected to your data from anywhere, anytime on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Using this app, you can browse, search, and view dashboards, analyses, and stories from a simple menu at the bottom of the application. QuickSight allows you to favorite commonly used items so that you can quickly access them next time. Additionally, it allows you to share analysis with your peers.

All interactions on mobile devices are read-only and do not get persisted on QuickSight servers so that one does not accidentally change things while demonstrating using the mobile device. The mobile app does have some limitations, notably the lack of creating new or editing existing analyses and no option to zoom in/out for dense visuals.

Finally, a reminder: the mobile app is certified only for iOS devices and the Android application is coming soon.