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Effective Business Intelligence with QuickSight

By : Rajesh Nadipalli
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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


QuickSight is a cloud-native business analytics service that is poised to disrupt the traditional BI tools and will empower users to explore and visualize data on their own, without the need for long IT cycles. QuickSight product features can be categorized under the following groups: easy visualization, wide data connectivity, visual data preparation, sharing and security. While QuickSight delivers on theses core feature sets, there are several feature gaps when compared to an enterprise product, primarily in regard to usability, integrations, and visualizations.

QuickSight is owned by the largest cloud hosting company in the world and is strategically important for the AWS Data Lake Solution, which means that Amazon will most likely add several features or acquire related software to improve their client experience in the year 2017. I encourage readers to get involved by providing valuable feedback to AWS using QuickSight forums to help make this product better for all. Happy analytics...