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Effective Business Intelligence with QuickSight

You're reading from   Effective Business Intelligence with QuickSight Boost your business IQ with Amazon QuickSight

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2017
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ISBN-13 9781786466365
Length 262 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rajesh Nadipalli Rajesh Nadipalli
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. A Quick Start to QuickSight FREE CHAPTER 2. Exploring Any Data 3. SPICE up Your Data 4. Intuitive Visualizations 5. Secure Your Environment 6. QuickSight Mobile 7. Big Data Analytics Mini Project 8. QuickSight Product Shortcomings

Chapter 1.  A Quick Start to QuickSight

We are in an era where data drives business and is also growing exponentially. The organizations that can empower their business with easy-to-use, fast, and real-time data will have the competitive edge over their peers. Amazon QuickSight is the next generation Business Intelligence (BI) application that can help you build interactive visualizations on top of various data sources hosted on Amazon Cloud Infrastructure. QuickSight delivers fast and responsive insights on big data and enables organizations to quickly democratize data visualizations and scale to hundreds of users at a fraction of the cost when compared to traditional BI tools.

In this introduction chapter, we will get an overview of Amazon QuickSight and its differences compared to traditional BI tools. We will cover the following topics:

  • Era of big data
  • Current BI landscape
  • Rise of cloud powered BI
  • Overview of QuickSight
  • How is this different than other BI tools?
  • High level architecture of a BI solution on QuickSight
  • How does one get started with QuickSight?
  • Performing your first analysis in under 60 seconds
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Effective Business Intelligence with QuickSight
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