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This is a guest post from an Amazon QuickSight 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 Amazon QuickSight […]

This post is co-written with Shawn Koupal, an Enterprise Analytics IT Architect at Best Western International, Inc. A common ask from Amazon QuickSight 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). QuickSight […]

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 […]

Amazon QuickSight is a fast, cloud-powered business intelligence (BI) service that makes it easy to create and deliver insights to everyone in your organization. In this post, we explore how authors of QuickSight dashboards can use some of the new chart types, layout options, and dashboard formatting controls to deliver dashboards that intuitively deliver insights […]

Before you can create visuals and dashboards that convey useful information, you need to transform and prepare the underlying data. The range and complexity of data transformation steps required depends on the visuals you would like in your dashboard. Often, the data transformation process is time-consuming and highly iterative, especially when you are working with […]

August 30, 2023: Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics has been renamed to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink. Read the announcement in the AWS News Blog and learn more. Businesses in ecommerce have the challenge of measuring their ad-to-order conversion ratio for ads or promotional campaigns displayed on a webpage. Tracking the number of users that […]

As 2020 draws to a close, we’ve put together this post to walk you through all that’s changed in Amazon QuickSight this year. For your reading convenience, this post is broken up into the following sections: Embedded Analytics at scale Faster insights with Q & ML Business Intelligence (BI) with QuickSight Build Rich, Interactive Dashboards […]

Amazon QuickSight Enterprise edition now offers a new, session capacity-based pricing model starting at $250/month, with annual commitment options that provide scalable pricing for embedded analytics and BI rollouts to 100s of 1000s of users. QuickSight now also supports embedding dashboards in apps, websites, and wikis without the need to provision and manage users (readers) […]

Many organizations have an Apache Hive metastore that stores the schemas for their data lake. You can use Amazon Athena due to its serverless nature; Athena makes it easy for anyone with SQL skills to quickly analyze large-scale datasets. You may also want to reliably query the rich datasets in the lake, with their schemas […]

Amazon QuickSight is a cloud-scale business intelligence (BI) service that you can use to deliver easy-to-understand insights to the people you work with, wherever they are. QuickSight connects to your data in the cloud and combines data from many different sources. On a single data dashboard, QuickSight can include AWS data, third-party data, big data, […]