AWS Business Intelligence Blog

Category: Enterprise BI

Enhance data governance through column-level lineage in Amazon QuickSight

In this post, we explore how to create a simple serverless architecture using AWS Lambda, Amazon Athena, and QuickSight to establish column level lineage. Tracking column-level lineage provides a clear view of each column’s path through different parts of QuickSight, helping to optimize data processing, improve query performance, ensure accuracy, and meet regulatory requirements.

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.

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.

How Ping Identity uses embedded analytics dashboards to bring key metrics to customers

Ping Identity is a provider of identity and access management solutions that lead to frictionless and secure digital experiences. Ping’s services and embedded analytics dashboards make it easy for organizations to manage and control how their users access digital resources and apps. In this post, we discuss how Ping Identity uses Amazon QuickSight to embed analytics into the PingOne Cloud Platform to enhance customer experience and gain a better understanding of customer behavior with data-driven insights.

EasySend brings analytics to customers — and unlocks the secret of monetizing data

EasySend is a no-code platform that makes it easy for businesses to transition from long, plain-text forms to rich, interactive digital experiences. We work with over 100 enterprises, including world-leading carriers, agencies, brokerages, MGAs/MGUs, TPAs, and insurance software integrators. Using EasySend, the data collection process becomes more intuitive and enjoyable for end users — and, crucially, the data itself is easier for the business to manage, verify, and track by automatically syncing to customers’ core systems. In this post, we discuss how EasySend embeds analytics into their platform to enhance customer value through data and insights at their fingertips using Amazon QuickSight.

How Amazon QuickSight empowered Treez to build an industry-leading analytics product at a lower cost

Treez is a leading provider of enterprise point of sale (POS) software for the regulated cannabis retail industry, serving thousands of customers. It’s a young industry with a large proportion of small businesses operating within it, and they work in a complex environment of regulatory scrutiny and change. In this post, we discuss how we built an embedded business intelligence (BI) dashboard system in our POS offering for our customers and their own internal staff using Amazon QuickSight.

Enhanced table navigation: Freeze/unfreeze Table Columns in Amazon QuickSight

We are excited to introduce the latest feature in Amazon QuickSight that gives authors and readers the ability to freeze columns within tables. This new functionality brings a whole new level of control and convenience for analyzing data in tables. Now, with just a few clicks, you can lock specific columns in place, ensuring that essential information remains visible while scrolling horizontally across wide tables. No more losing sight of critical data points or headers as you explore your tables. This enhancement to the already robust suite of tools in QuickSight aligns with our commitment to delivering a more intuitive and responsive user experience. In this post, we demonstrate how to freeze columns for enhanced table navigation in QuickSight.

Deliver Amazon QuickSight pixel-perfect reports to non-QuickSight users

Amazon QuickSight Pixel-perfect Reports enables the creation and sharing of highly formatted, personalized reports containing business-critical data to hundreds of thousands of end-users without any infrastructure setup or maintenance, up-front licensing, or long-term commitments. In this post, we will cover how to use QuickSight, a serverless and cloud-native BI service, and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), an object storage service, to generate reports with specific parameters and have these reports delivered to users in a custom application.

Empowering Amazon’s solution architects with intuitive and performant business intelligence

The Solution Architect Empowerment Team (SET) is a division within the AWS Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO) that serves 1,600 specialist solution architects. SET develops specialized data intelligence tools in collaboration with various internal partners across different departments. These tools help the broader team enhance the customer experience by giving the solution architect leaders and stakeholders faster, more valuable insights to work with. In this blog post, we describe how the SET moved its insights-delivery environment to Amazon QuickSight to reap better cost savings and scalability.

Automate financial statements using Amazon QuickSight Snapshot Export APIs

Financial statements are a set of documents that contain formal records of financial activities of a business at a specific point in time. For example, a profit and loss (P&L) statement summarizes the revenues, expenses, and resulting net profit or loss of a business. It is a snapshot of the organization’s financial performance, starting from […]