Category: AWS Quick Sight

Bill.com is a leading provider of cloud-based software that simplifies, digitizes, and automates back-office financial processes for small and mid-size businesses. Bill.com helps businesses streamline their financial workflow, generate and process invoices, stream approvals, send and receive payments, sync with their accounting systems, and manage their cash. It connects businesses from all industries, ranging from […]

January 2023: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. AWS Quick Sight is a fast, cloud-powered, business intelligence (BI) service that makes it easy to deliver insights to everyone in your organization. With the Quick Sight Enterprise edition, you can also embed the Quick Sight dashboard into a webpage or your custom application. Salesforce […]

This is a guest blog post by Best Western Hotels and Resorts. In their own words, “Best Western Hotels & Resorts is an award-winning global network of hotels located in over 100 countries and territories that offers accommodations for all types of travelers.” With 18 brands and varied ownership structures across geographies, Best Western Hotel […]

AWS Quick Sight is a cloud-native BI service that allows end users to create and publish dashboards in minutes, without provisioning any servers or requiring complex licensing. You can view these dashboards on the QuickSight product console or embed them into applications and websites. After you deploy a dashboard, it’s important to assess how they […]

AWS Quick Sight recently added support for Amazon Athena Federated Query, which allows you to query data in place from various data sources. With this capability, QuickSight can extend support to query additional data sources like Amazon CloudWatch Logs, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon DocumentDB (with Mongo DB compatibility) via their existing Amazon Athena data source. […]

November 2022: Please visit our blog on Admin console for latest updates. Given the scalability of AWS Quick Sight to hundreds and thousands of users, a common use case is to monitor QuickSight group and user activities, analyze the utilization of dashboards, and identify usage patterns of an individual user and dashboard. With timely access […]

This is a guest blog post by Kazuhide Fujita, Product Manager at Yahoo! JAPAN. Yahoo! JAPAN is a large internet search and media company, with Yahoo! JAPAN’s web portal being the one of the most commonly used websites in Japan. Our smart devices team is responsible for building and improving Yahoo! JAPAN apps for voice […]

This is a guest post from an AWS Quick Sight customer, Edmunds GovTech Over the past 30 years, Edmunds GovTech has grown to provide enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions to thousands of East Coast municipalities. We also serve cities and towns in 25 other states. In this blog, I’ll talk about how we used AWS […]

This post is co-written with Shawn Koupal, an Enterprise Analytics IT Architect at Best Western International, Inc. A common ask from AWS Quick Sight administrators is to understand the lineage of a given dashboard (what analysis is it built from, what datasets are used in the analysis, and what data sources do those datasets use). […]

Amazon Athena now supports federated query, a feature that allows you to query data in sources other than Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). You can use federated queries in Athena to query the data in place or build pipelines that extract data from multiple data sources and store them in Amazon S3. With Athena […]