AWS Business Intelligence Blog

Category: Thought Leadership

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 […]

Build embedded analytics architectures using Amazon QuickSight

This post helps cloud architects, cloud engineers, and developers build embedded analytics architectures on the AWS Cloud using AWS purpose-built data analytics services and Amazon QuickSight by providing various architectural patterns for building personalized dashboards based on user role or job function. We also discuss best practices and key considerations that showcase the power of embedded analytics, and share additional resources for getting started with building embedded analytics on AWS.

New enhancements in Amazon QuickSight: Programmatic export to Excel format

Amazon QuickSight is a scalable, serverless, embeddable, machine learning (ML)-powered business intelligence (BI) service built for the cloud. You can now export content to Excel workbooks by selecting multiple tables and pivot table visuals from any sheet of a dashboard on the QuickSight console via schedules or programmatically via a set of new Snapshot Export APIs. This post outlines these new functionalities and guides you through their implementation.

Improve power utility operational efficiency using smart sensor data and Amazon QuickSight Part 2: Paginated Report

In the first post, we showed how Amazon QuickSight can be used to improve power utility operational efficiency. Power utility distribution network engineers or operators can visualize smart sensor status in real time and troubleshoot smart sensor issues. In this post, we share with you how to create, schedule, and share highly formatted multi-page reports based on different dashboards.

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 […]

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 […]