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Category: Pixel-perfect reports

Meet the Top 10 QuickSight Experts of 2023 from the Amazon QuickSight Community!

We are thrilled to introduce the Top 10 QuickSight Experts on the Amazon QuickSight Community for 2023! This worldwide group of esteemed business intelligence (BI) experts has shared their incredible expertise in data visualization in order to propel others forward on their BI and generative BI learning journey. They dedicate their time to help others, […]

Amazon QuickSight AWS re:Invent 2023 recap

AWS re:Invent 2023, held this year from November 27 through December 1 in Las Vegas, Nevada, is a learning conference hosted by AWS for the global cloud computing community. The in-person event features keynote announcements, innovation talks, workshops, builder labs, and more. Amazon QuickSight powers data-driven organizations with unified business intelligence (BI) at hyperscale for […]

Amazon QuickSight: 2023 year in review

As 2023 comes to a close, we at the Amazon QuickSight team wanted to provide you with a summary of all that’s new in the product. Over the course of the year, we built capabilities that make data and insights more accessible to business users than ever before. From Amazon Q in QuickSight, which lets […]

Global Mile Exports uses Amazon QuickSight to orchestrate a global transportation and logistics network

Global Mile is a foundational team within Amazon that helps to build, manage, and operate its global transportation network for orders that cross international borders. Global Mile Exports Visibility was set up in 2019 to architect and own the team’s data management, strategy, and underlying platform. In this post, we discuss how Global Mile migrated their BI dashboards and reports to Amazon QuickSight to enhance their operations.

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.

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.

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 […]

Announcing the Amazon QuickSight Community Developer Corner

The Amazon QuickSight Community was launched in February 2022 to serve as a one-stop-shop where Business Intelligence (BI) authors and developers from across the globe can access learning content, ask and answer questions, stay up-to-date, network, and learn together about Amazon QuickSight. In this post, we’ll walk through the resources offered in the QuickSight Community, highlighting the newly launched Developer Corner for application developers, which showcases QuickSight’s embedded analytics capabilities across all facets of the customer experience.

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.

Introducing advanced formatting options for pivot table totals and subtotals in Amazon QuickSight

Readers want to understand data quickly when viewing reports in Amazon QuickSight. To achieve that, authors need more capability to control the format and design of pivot tables. That is why QuickSight has launched more visual display options for pivot tables, giving you more control over the positioning of totals as well as contextual information for subtotals. These capabilities are part of a continued focus of giving QuickSight users more flexibility when designing dashboards and paginated reports. Additionally, the recent launch of the hierarchy layout for pivot tables includes a layout option for pivot tables that uses indentations to differentiate items from different fields, resulting in a more readable table.