AWS Business Intelligence Blog

Category: Analytics

Trakstar unlocks new analytical opportunities for its HR customers with Amazon QuickSight

This is a guest post by Brian Kasen and Rebecca McAlpine from Trakstar, now a part of Mitratech. In this post, we discuss how we use Amazon QuickSight to deliver powerful HR analytics to over 3,000 customers and 43,000 users while forecasting savings of 84% year-over-year as compared to our legacy reporting solutions. Trakstar, now […]

Defontana provides business administration solutions to Latin American customers using Amazon QuickSight

This is a guest post by Cynthia Valeriano, Jaime Olivares, and Guillermo Puelles from DeFontana. In this post, we discuss how Amazon QuickSight has sped up our development time, enabled us to provide more value to our customers, and even improved our own internal operations. Defontana develops fully cloud-based business applications for the administration and […]

Softbrain provides advanced analytics to sales customers with Amazon QuickSight

This is a guest post by Kenta Oda from SOFTBRAIN Co., Ltd. In this post, we discuss how QuickSight is helping us provide our sales customers with the insights they need, and why we consider this business decision a win for Softbrain. Softbrain is a leading Japanese producer of software for sales force automation (SFA) […]

Improve power utility operational efficiency using smart sensor data and Amazon QuickSight

This blog post is co-written with Steve Alexander at PG&E. In today’s rapidly changing energy landscape, power disturbances cause businesses millions of dollars due to service interruptions and power quality issues. Large utility territories make it difficult to detect and locate faults when power outages occur, leading to longer restoration times, recurring outages, and unhappy […]

Perform secure database write-backs with Amazon QuickSight

Amazon QuickSight is a scalable, serverless, machine learning (ML)-powered business intelligence (BI) solution that makes it easy to connect to your data, create interactive dashboards, get access to ML-enabled insights, and share visuals and dashboards with tens of thousands of internal and external users, either within QuickSight itself or embedded into any application. A write-back […]

New scatter plot options in Amazon QuickSight to visualize your data

Are you looking to understand the relationships between two numerical variables? Scatter plots are a powerful visual type that allow you to identify patterns, outliers, and strength of relationships between variables. In this post, we walk you through the newly launched scatter plot features in Amazon QuickSight, which will help you take your correlation analysis […]

Build an analytics pipeline for a multi-account support case dashboard

As organizations mature in their cloud journey, they have many accounts (even hundreds) that they need to manage. Imagine having to manage support cases for these accounts without a unified dashboard. Administrators have to access each account either by switching roles or with single sign-on (SSO) in order to view and manage support cases. This […]

How Huron built an Amazon QuickSight Asset Catalogue with AWS CDK Based Deployment Pipeline

This is a guest blog post co-written with Corey Johnson from Huron. In this post, we walk you through a solution that Huron Consulting Group implemented to keep track of and manage the lifecycle for all Amazon QuickSight resources across the organization by collaborating with AWS Data Lab Resident Architects and the AWS Professional Services […]

AWS recognized as a Challenger in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms

AWS has been named a Challenger in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence (ABI) Platforms. Previously, AWS was positioned as a Niche player in the Magic Quadrant for ABI platforms. The Gartner Magic Quadrant evaluates 20 ABI companies based on their Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. In our view, […]

How Dafiti made Amazon QuickSight its primary data visualization tool

This is a guest post by Valdiney Gomes, Hélio Leal, and Flávia Lima from Dafiti. In this post, we discuss why we chose Amazon QuickSight and how we implemented it. Data and its various uses is increasingly evident in companies, and each professional has their preferences about which technologies to use to visualize data, which […]