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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

Overview of QuickSight


The Amazon web services team has been in the forefront of providing real solutions that are designed for massive scale; their S3 storage is the most popular cloud storage service and it is used by companies like Netflix, Nasdaq, Airbnb, and Redfin to name just a few. QuickSight is a new cloud BI service specifically designed to address the need for every day analytics and reporting. QuickSight allows enterprises to get started in minutes, access data from multiple sources, build interactive visuals, get answers fast, and tell a story with data.

While QuickSight has competitors, I believe it is poised to become the leader in cloud powered BI due to the deep connectivity to AWS services, next generation distributed architecture, with an in-memory caching layer on the worlds most scalable infrastructure. Additionally, AWS has made it extremely affordable that competitors will find it hard to match. Let's review in detail how QuickSight differs from other BI tools.