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Build a centralized granular access control to manage assets and data access in Amazon QuickSight

A large business intelligence (BI) project with many users and teams and sensitive information demands a multi-faceted security architecture. Such architecture should provide BI administrators and architects with the capability to minimize the amount of information accessible to users. For a straightforward solution to manage Amazon QuickSight user and asset access permissions, you can use […]

Calculated fields, level-aware aggregations, and evaluation order in Amazon QuickSight

Amazon QuickSight is a fast, cloud-native, serverless, business intelligence service that makes it easy to deliver insights to everyone. QuickSight has carefully designed concepts and features that enable analysis builders, such as QuickSight authors, to design content-rich, interactive, and dynamic dashboards to share with dashboard viewers. As authors build an analysis, QuickSight transforms, filters, and […]

Establish private connectivity between Amazon QuickSight and Snowflake using AWS PrivateLink

October 2023: This post was reviewed and updated to include SPICE setup Amazon QuickSight is a scalable, serverless, embeddable, machine learning-powered business intelligence (BI) service built for the cloud. QuickSight lets you easily create and publish interactive BI dashboards that include Machine Learning-powered insights. QuickSight dashboards can be accessed from any device, and seamlessly embedded […]

Enable federation to multiple Amazon QuickSight accounts with Microsoft Azure Active Directory

Amazon QuickSight is a scalable, serverless, embeddable, machine learning (ML)-powered business intelligence (BI) service built for the cloud that supports identity federation in both Standard and Enterprise editions. Organizations are working towards centralizing their identity and access strategy across all of their applications, including on-premises, third-party, and applications on AWS. Many organizations use Microsoft Azure […]

Migrate Amazon QuickSight across AWS accounts

This blog post is co-written by Glen Douglas and Alex Savchenko from Integrationworx. Enterprises that follow an Agile software development lifecycle (SDLC) process for their dashboard development and deployment typically have distinct environments for development, staging, QA and test, and production. One recommended approach when developing using AWS is to create multiple AWS accounts corresponding […]

Power operational insights with Amazon QuickSight

Organizations need a consolidated view of their applications, but typically application health status is siloed: end-users complain on social media platforms, operational data coming from application logs is stored on complex monitoring tools, formal ticketing systems track reported issues, and synthetic monitoring data is only available for the tool administrators. In this post, we show […]

DOCOMO empowers business units with self-service knowledge access thanks to agile AWS QuickSight business intelligence

NTT DOCOMO is the largest telecom company in Japan. It provides innovative, convenient, and secure mobile services that enable customers to realize smarter lives. More than 73 million customers in Japan connect through its advanced wireless networks, including a nationwide LTE network and one of the world’s most progressive LTE Advanced networks. In addition to […]

Build a data quality score card using AWS Glue DataBrew, Amazon Athena, and Amazon QuickSight

Data quality plays an important role while building an extract, transform, and load (ETL) pipeline for sending data to downstream analytical applications and machine learning (ML) models. The analogy “garbage in, garbage out” is apt at describing why it’s important to filter out bad data before further processing. Continuously monitoring data quality and comparing it […]

Create threshold-based alerts in Amazon QuickSight

Every business has a set of key metrics that stakeholders focus on to make the most accurate, data-driven decisions, such as sales per week, inventory turnover rate, daily website visitors, and so on. With threshold-based alerts in Amazon QuickSight, we’re making it simpler than ever for consumers of QuickSight dashboards to stay informed about their […]

Securely analyze your data with AWS Lake Formation and Amazon QuickSight

Many useful business insights can arise from analyzing customer preferences, behavior, and usage patterns. With this information, businesses can innovate faster and improve the customer experience, leading to better engagement and accelerating product adoption. More and more businesses are looking for ways to securely store and restrict access to customer data, which may include personally […]