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Category: Amazon QuickSight

AWS Specialist Insights Team uses Amazon QuickSight to provide operational insights across the AWS Worldwide Specialist Organization

The AWS Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO) is a team of go-to-market experts that support strategic services, customer segments, and verticals at AWS. Working together, the Specialist Insights Team (SIT) and the Finance, Analytics, Science, and Technology team (FAST) support WWSO in acquiring, securing, and delivering information and business insights at scale by working with the […]

Visma InSchool uses Amazon QuickSight to meet varied business intelligence needs with employees and customers

This is a guest post by Vasily Ulianko and Per Brandser from Visma InSchool. Located in Europe and Latin America, with headquarters in Norway, Visma has a bold vision to shape the future of society through technology. To do that, we provide business-critical software solutions for over 1 million customers across the Nordics, Benelux, Central […]

Leverages uses Amazon QuickSight to drive valuable and effective customer engagement with embedded market trends and insights

This is a guest post from Tomotaka Inoue, Data Analyst at Leverages. Founded in 2005, Leverages offers job staffing and web tools—Levtech and Levwell—for the IT and healthcare industries, serving both companies seeking talent and job seekers who are in the market for their next role. Inspired by a data point showing a proportional correlation […]

AWS Marketplace Seller Insights team uses Amazon QuickSight Embedded to empower sellers with actionable business insights

AWS Marketplace enables independent software vendors (ISVs), data providers, and consulting partners to sell software, services, and data to millions of AWS customers. Working in partnership with the AWS Partner Network (APN), AWS Marketplace helps ISVs and partners build, market and sell their AWS offerings by providing crucial business, technical, and marketing support. The AWS […]

Secure your database credentials with AWS Secrets Manager and encrypt data with AWS KMS in Amazon QuickSight

Amazon QuickSight is a fully managed, cloud-native business intelligence (BI) service that makes it easy to connect to your data, create interactive dashboards, and share them with tens of thousands of users, either directly within a QuickSight application, or embedded in web apps and portals. Let’s consider AnyCompany, which owns healthcare facilities across the country. […]

AWS Analytics sales team uses QuickSight Q to save hours creating monthly business reviews

The AWS Analytics sales team is a group of subject-matter experts who work to enable customers to become more data driven through the use of our native analytics services like Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon QuickSight. Every month, each sales leader is responsible for reporting on observations and trends in their business. To support their […]

Build an AWS Lake Formation permissions inventory dashboard using AWS Glue and Amazon QuickSight

AWS Lake Formation makes it easier to centrally govern, secure, and share data for analytics with familiar database-style grant features managed through the Glue Data Catalog. Lake Formation provides a single place to define fine-grained access control on catalog resources. These permissions are granted to the principals by a data lake admin, and integrated engines […]

Enable federation to Amazon QuickSight with automatic provisioning of users between AWS IAM Identity Center and Microsoft Azure AD

Organizations are working towards centralizing their identity and access strategy across all their applications, including on-premises, third-party, and applications on AWS. Many organizations use identity providers (IdPs) based on OIDC or SAML-based protocols like Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) and manage user authentication along with authorization centrally. This authorizes users to access Amazon QuickSight […]

Perform multi-cloud analytics using Amazon QuickSight, Amazon Athena Federated Query, and Microsoft Azure Synapse

In this post, we show how to use Amazon QuickSight and Amazon Athena Federated Query to build dashboards and visualizations on data that is stored in Microsoft Azure Synapse databases. Organizations today use data stores that are best suited for the applications they build. Additionally, they may also continue to use some of their legacy […]

New analytical questions available in Amazon QuickSight Q: “Why” and “Forecast”

Amazon QuickSight Q uses machine learning (ML) to enable any user to ask questions about business data in natural language and receive accurate answers with relevant visualizations in seconds. Today, Amazon QuickSight announces support for two new question types that simplify and scale complex analytical tasks using natural language: “forecast” and “why.” In this post, […]