Amazon Quicksight

Amazon QuickSight

Business intelligence solutions frequently require teams of data engineers working for months on end to create complex data models. In this case, Amazon QuickSight makes life easier. Any employee may use Amazon QuickSight to generate visualizations, run ad-hoc analytics, and quickly get business insights from their data.

In today's AWS guide, we'll cover Amazon Quicksight, a super-fast cloud-based business intelligence service.

What is Amazon Quicksight?

Amazon QuickSight is a cloud-based machine learning-powered business analytics tool provided by Amazon Web Services. It allows businesses to make more informed, data-driven decisions.

Businesses may use Amazon QuickSight BI to generate and analyze data visualizations and receive easy-to-understand insights to help them make better business decisions. These dynamic dashboards may be integrated into a variety of apps, portals, and websites with ease. Because Amazon QuickSight is scalable, it can handle tens of thousands of users without the need for extra infrastructure or capacity planning. It is also device agnostic.

Benefits of Amazon Quicksight

? Easy to set up and use: QuickSight doesn't require any complicated server configurations, data models, or capacity planning, so customers can get started right away.

? Fast performance: QuickSight's in-memory computation engine, SPICE, replicates data automatically for high availability while saving time, money, and resources.

? Low total cost of ownership: Users won't have to pay for licenses up front using a pay-per-session approach for dashboard readers (consumers).

? Ability to create embedded dashboards and APIs: Users may create interactive visualizations and dashboards and incorporate them into apps and web portals without writing any code using single sign-on (SSO) and APIs.

? Compatible with multiple data sources: Users may access insights from SaaS apps, third- party databases, native AWS services, private Amazon virtual private cloud (Amazon VPC) subnets, and more using QuickSight.

? Security, multi-region availability, built-in redundancy: Users can securely disseminate dashboards and insights to large groups of people, and utilize role-based access management and single sign-on to manage users and information (SSO).

? Anytime, anywhere access to dashboards and visualizations: Users can access insights from their data on any device, from any place, with QuickSight Mobile.

Some Customers of Amazon Quicksight

NFL, Rio Tinto, Siemens, Volvo, Autotrader, Davinci.

How does Amazon Quicksight benefit companies?

? Rio Tinto: is one of the major metals and mining companies in the world. "Amazon QuickSight allows our analysts to create insightful dashboards quickly for our critical risk management program. Enabling us to move from static spreadsheets to interactive data. However, rolling out these dashboards at scale to the field was going to be costly and complicated. We asked AWS for a better solution, and they listened. Readers in QuickSight, with usage-based pricing, will help us scale the dashboards to more end-users across the world and only pay for what we use”

"Anthony Deakin-Chief Advisor, Critical Risk Management, Rio Tinto"

? Ecotrak: is a top-rated facility and asset management software for multi-location businesses. "Our overall experience with QuickSight has been nothing less than amazing. QuickSight offers an easy-to-use business intelligence platform, allowing Ecotrak’s customers to visualize large amounts of data in a modern, clean and consumable format. Fast, powerful and intuitive, QuickSight delivers clarity at scale and aligns with our mission to empower people with actionable data to make better business decisions."

"Matt Singer – CEO, Ecotrak Facility Management Software"

Amazon QuickSight FAQs

What is SPICE?

"SPICE" — a Super-fast, Parallel, In-Memory Calculation Engine – is used to create Amazon QuickSight. Columnar storage, in-memory technology, and machine code creation are all used by SPICE. It can quickly respond to interactive queries on massive datasets.

How is data transmitted to Amazon QuickSight?

You may upload files, connect to AWS data sources, connect to external data stores through JDBC/ODBC, or use other API-based data store connectors to bring your data into Amazon QuickSight.

How do I share an analysis, dashboard, or story in Amazon QuickSight?

The share icon on the QuickSight service interface allows you to share an analysis, dashboard, or story. Before sharing the information with others, you will be able to choose the recipients (email address, username, or group name), permission levels, and other settings.

Co-Author : Elif Nurber Karakas

Reference

https://aws.amazon.com/quicksight/
https://searchaws.techtarget.com/definition/Amazon-QuickSight
https://acloudguru.com/blog/engineering/amazon-quicksight-how-to-put-eyes-on-your-data-with-this-aws-bi-tool: