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Empower readers with customizable tables and pivot tables in Amazon Quick Sight

Amazon Quick Sight now offers customizable tables and pivot tables that empower dashboard readers to personalize their data views without requiring author intervention. In this post, we explore how readers can sort, reorder, hide/show, and freeze columns to focus on the metrics that matter most to their role, enabling faster self-service analytics and more efficient decision-making across sales, finance, operations, and executive teams.

Enhance enterprise analytics with new Amazon Quick Sight theming features

Amazon Quick Sight now provides powerful theming capabilities that solve three critical enterprise analytics challenges: maintaining consistent brand identity, simplifying migration from legacy business intelligence platforms, and creating seamless embedded analytics experiences. In this post, we explore the new theming features and how they help address enterprise analytics needs through interactive sheet customization, visual card styling, and typography control across dashboards.

How BMW Group breaks down knowledge silos with Amazon Quick Sight

In this post, BMW Group demonstrates how they evolved their Cloud Data Hub beyond breaking down data silos to tackle knowledge silos by making Amazon Quick Sight dashboards discoverable and shareable as data products within their centralized platform. The initiative resulted in a remarkable 197.9% growth in Quick Sight adoption among CDH users within just one year, showcasing how transforming accessible data into actionable visual intelligence can drive decisions across all organizational levels.

Transform and visualize your data preparation flow in Amazon Quick Sight without SQL

In this post, we explore how AnyCompany, a mid-sized retail company, helps their business analysts transform complex data without writing a single line of SQL using the new Quick Sight data preparation experience. The step-by-step visual interface transforms how organizations work with data, enabling features like Append, Join, Unpivot, and Aggregate to solve real-world data challenges through an intuitive point-and-click interface that democratizes data transformation for users without technical expertise.

How D2L transformed educational analytics using visual data preparation in Amazon Quick Sight

In this post, we show how D2L enhanced its Brightspace Analytics offerings in the Performance+ package using new data preparation features in Amazon Quick Sight, democratizing data insights across educational institutions and enabling educators and administrators to transform raw data into actionable insights through simple clicks without requiring technical expertise. The new Quick Sight data preparation experience has been revolutionary for D2L’s approach to educational analytics by providing a visual, low-code interface for data transformation that removes technical barriers and empowers users of all skill levels to work directly with data.

Expand your dashboard design with font customization for axes and data labels in Amazon Quick Sight

In this post, we walk you through the new font customization features for axes and data labels in Amazon QuickSight visuals, including step-by-step instructions and best practices for creating more readable and brand-consistent dashboards. These enhancements give you pixel-level control over font size, choice of font family, text styling options, and custom colors to fine-tune your dashboard’s visual design and improve readability for end-users.

Automate governance of Amazon Quick Suite features using custom permissions

In this post, we demonstrate how to programmatically implement feature-level restrictions at the account level using custom permissions in Amazon Quick Suite, helping organizations adopt the latest innovations in generative AI while maintaining enterprise-grade security and compliance. We walk through how to apply custom permissions to turn off AI-based capabilities at the account level for both new and existing Quick Suite account subscriptions using AWS services like CloudTrail, EventBridge, Lambda, and CloudFormation.

Establishing enterprise governance in Amazon Quick Suite using custom permissions

In this post, we explore how Amazon Quick Suite administrators can implement comprehensive enterprise governance using custom permissions at account, role, and user levels. The post provides a detailed guide on restricting various capabilities like Flows, Automate, Spaces, Actions, Chat Agents, Research, Analyses, and Dashboards while maintaining security and user access policies.

Reimagine business intelligence: Amazon QuickSight evolves to Amazon Quick Suite

In this post, we announce that Amazon QuickSight is evolving into Amazon Quick Suite, marking a significant leap forward in making comprehensive business insights readily available to everyone in your organization. The evolution introduces several AI-powered features including Quick Research, Quick Flows, Quick Automate, and Quick Index, all accessible through Quick chat while maintaining enterprise-grade security and governance.