Looking for ways to keep everyone in the loop? Why not try Amazon QuickSight? This Amazon Business Intelligence service comes with interactive dashboards and a heap of other visuals to help showcase your KPIs, trends, and other insights.
Information is power. But only if it gives you actionable insights. With Amazon QuickSight, data-driven decisions are no longer the ambit of business analysts. Just about anyone can use Amazon Data Visualization. Here’s what you need to know about this Amazon Business Intelligence (BI) tool.
What Is Amazon QuickSight?
Amazon QuickSight is a Business Intelligence service. It’s cloud-native, serverless, and offered by Amazon. It’s also powered by the AWS Super-fast, Parallel, In-memory Calculation Engine (SPICE). Here are some of its main attributes:
- Enables users to create interactive dashboards within minutes.
- Extracts meaningful information from different sources.
- Shares information with employees and other stakeholders.
- Uses data analytics built on Machine Learning (ML) technology.
Its purpose? To help businesses perform in-house analysis and deliver accurate insights. With it, managers gain secure access to interactive visual dashboards. They can monitor, analyze, and drill down into datasets from any device, both remotely and on local networks. They can also spot patterns, deliver forecasts, and unlock monetization opportunities.
Benefits of Amazon QuickSight
- Easy-to-use and user-friendly interface.
- Attractive and intuitive visuals.
- Converts unstructured data into structured formats, ready for analysis.
- Compatible with AWS, SaaS, Big Data, B2B, on-premise databases, and third-party sources.
- Can display data from all available datasets on a single dashboard.
- Provides cost-effective and highly interactive BI capabilities.
- Delivers rapid data calculations and visual renderings via AWS SPICE, a robust in-memory engine with massive storage, compression, and processing capacity.
- Generates accurate responses to natural language queries using ML.
- Fully managed service with enterprise-grade security and built-in redundancy.
- Scalable from 10 to 10,000 users with built-in user-management tools.
- Cost-effective solution, as compared to traditional reporting tools.
- Comes in 2 flavors: the Standard Edition for authors with 10GB of free space and low monthly fee, as well as the Enterprise Edition with both capacity-based and user-based pricing.
- Sends anomaly alerts for changes to monitored metrics (Enterprise Edition only).
- Creates reports and schedules sharing with Paginated Reports (Enterprise Edition only).
- Stores up to 1 billion rows or 1 TB per dataset (Enterprise Edition only).
Key Features of Amazon QuickSight
Amazon QuickSight comes with a wide range of display options for the information it presents on dashboards. Here are the 5 basic types of visualization components and how you can use them in your BI process:
- Visuals. Create charts, diagrams, pivot tables, heatmaps, and other visuals or use AutoGraph mode to plot your visuals automatically by simply selecting your data fields.
- Insights. Leverage ML capabilities to interpret data, identify trends, forecast metrics, and inform decision making processes.
- Sheets. View your visuals together on a single screen, or on multiple sheets with separate chunks of information or from different perspectives.
- Stories. Compile visuals, display different analysis iterations together, and present them as a slideshow.
- Analysis. Arrange different iterations of your analysis and stories for maximum visual effect, creating ‘time lapse’ imagery.
Amazon QuickSight Applications
You can use these data renderings not only to share information with employees, but with other stakeholders as well. With Amazon QuickSight, you can embed all your visualizations into apps and websites. Customers can then query the data or interact with charts and maps, as is the case with this year’s Viz Challenge winning entry, Beat the Flu by Qalius.
Amazon QuickSight empowers businesses to leverage their data more effectively and efficiently. With all the capability of Amazon Data Visualizations, SPICE, and ML, this Amazon Business Intelligence service can help companies like yours make data-driven decisions in real time and gain a competitive edge in this dynamic and competitive marketplace.
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