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What’s new with data visualization in Amazon QuickSight – 2023 in review

Amazon QuickSight is a fully managed, cloud-native business intelligence (BI) service that you can use to connect to your data and create interactive dashboards that can be shared with tens of thousands of users. The dashboards can be used within QuickSight or embedded in software as a service (SaaS) apps. As we bid farewell to […]

Pinnacle Infotech’s pioneering business intelligence strategy takes off with Amazon QuickSight

Pinnacle Infotech is the global leader in Building Information Modeling (BIM) services. BIM is the foundation of digital transformation in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry. We use technology to bring certainty to construction projects’ coordination, collaboration, asset management, risk mitigation, logistics planning, and cost optimization. Our small business intelligence (BI) team of six members (three data analysts and three data engineers) were new to BI and the cloud. Our BI team started from three existing web services engineers who had no idea about data warehousing but later grew into a team of six members who forged ahead anyway, building a sophisticated BI team. In this post, we share how Pinnacle used Amazon QuickSight to bring a new BI strategy to life.

How Dialog Enterprise monetizes its data with Amazon QuickSight

Dialog Enterprise stands at the forefront as Sri Lanka’s leading ICT Business solution provider, catering to a diverse clientele of over 4000 enterprises across the island. Our comprehensive suite of services spans converged connectivity, cloud & co-location, security, data analytics, and IoT, all tailored to meet the distinct needs of businesses, regardless of their scale. In this post, we share how Dialog monetizes data using Amazon QuickSight, a unified, serverless business intelligence (BI) service enabling organizations to deliver data-driven insights to all users, and to set up dashboards and visualizations that let non-technical users interact with and explore the data.

How ibiDs.io used embedded analytics dashboards to create a new, user-friendly product

ibiDs.io is a platform that helps users pull useful business insights out of public government procurement data in the Dominican Republic. ibiDs.io lets users view government contract information fast enough to capitalize on opportunities with the help of an embedded analytics dashboard for analyzing historical contract data. Built from the ground up with Amazon QuickSight and an AWS architecture, ibiDs.io makes it straightforward for users to learn about and track relevant new opportunities in their industry, do strategic market research, find potential partnerships among suppliers, create proactive marketing plans, and automate their requests for proposal (RFP) reply documents. In this post, we discuss how ibiDs.io delivers embedded analytics using QuickSight to help customers maximize bid competitiveness.

Unlock the power of unified business intelligence with Google Cloud BigQuery and Amazon QuickSight

Amazon QuickSight is a cloud-native, serverless business intelligence (BI) service that lets you build visualizations, perform ad hoc analysis, and gain insights through machine learning (ML) capabilities such as anomaly detection, forecasting, and natural language querying. QuickSight utilizes its robust in-memory engine SPICE (Super-fast, Parallel, In-memory Calculation Engine) to rapidly perform advanced calculations and deliver visuals.BigQuery is Google Cloud’s fully managed, petabyte-scale, cost-effective analytics data warehouse that lets you run analytics over vast amounts of data in near-real time. In this post, we walk you through the permissions and connection details needed in BigQuery to bring BigQuery data into QuickSight through OAuth and create a simple dashboard.

Build custom and interactive dashboards using new runtime capabilities in QuickSight Embedding SDK

Amazon QuickSight is a fully managed, cloud-native business intelligence (BI) service that you can use to connect to your data and create interactive dashboards that can be shared with tens of thousands of users. The dashboards can be used within QuickSight or embedded in software as a service (SaaS) apps. Today, we’re launching a feature you can use to dynamically update the theme and filters of embedded dashboards and visuals at runtime through the QuickSight Embedding SDK. Runtime filtering and theming of embedded dashboards and visuals can help you seamlessly integrate your SaaS application with QuickSight embedded dashboards and visuals. You can now use the new methods available in the Embedding SDK

Automate your Amazon QuickSight assets deployment using the new Amazon EventBridge integration

We heard that you wanted an automated, scalable way to deploy, back up, or replicate Amazon QuickSight assets at scale so that BIOps teams within your organization can work in an agile manner. We are launching QuickSight assets Create, Update, and Delete (CUD) events using Amazon EventBridge. With EventBridge, developers can respond automatically to events in QuickSight such as a new dashboard creation or update. These events are delivered to EventBridge in near real time. Developers can write simple rules to indicate which events are of interest to them and what actions to take when an event matches a rule. By subscribing and responding to QuickSight events in EventBridge, customers can automate their workflows, such as continuous deployment, replication, and backups.

CubeServ elevates HR analytics and workforce planning for customers using Amazon QuickSight

CubeServ is a premium consulting company that specializes in making data relevant and usable for customers. Founded in Switzerland in 2001, CubeServ provides advanced analytics solutions that specializes in making data insights accessible and assisting customers with the ideation and creation of BI projects. In this post, we discuss how we migrated from an in-house BI solution to delivering embedded analytics within PeoplePLAN using Amazon QuickSight.

Introducing new analysis experience on Amazon QuickSight

Amazon QuickSight is a scalable, serverless, embeddable, machine learning (ML)-powered business intelligence (BI) service built for the cloud. It enables you to create and publish interactive dashboards and highly formatted reports accessible through web browsers or mobile devices. On November 16, 2023 – QuickSight has launched a new analysis experience, enabling a more intuitive and efficient way for you to author dashboards on QuickSight. In this post, we will walk you through the key experiences of this redesign and explore the enhanced workflows that empowers authors to create beautiful dashboards and reports. With the new experience, we have redesigned the core authoring workflows to be more intuitive, scalable, and efficient. This post outlines the key elements and the core authoring workflows that has been redesigned.

What’s new with Amazon QuickSight at AWS re:Invent 2023

AWS re:Invent is a learning conference hosted by AWS for the global cloud computing community. The event features keynote announcements, training and certification opportunities, access to more than 2,000 technical sessions, a partner expo, after-hours events, and so much more. This year’s re:Invent will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, from November 27 to December […]