Summary

In this chapter we looked at how organizations leverage business intelligence tools. However, many of the legacy BI tools are either not able to cope with the new use-cases or struggle to keep the costs down.

Amazon QuickSight is a serverless BI service from AWS that’s scalable, flexible, easy to use and operationalize; at the same time helps keep the costs down. QuickSight provides intuitive UI for authoring visualizations, dashboards and reports. The dashboards can also be embedded into other web portals to enable all customers to leverage the full power of a modern BI tool. QuickSight Q provides a ML powered NLQ feature that allows end users to ask questions in plain English and the service generates the necessary visualizations by interpreting the intent behind the question. QuickSight seamlessly integrates with other AWS services, especially with AWS Lake Formation to enable data governance with ease. A variety of BI use-cases can be easily solved using QS as...