Presumably this is for data that you want graphs of but doesn't fit in Excel?
Amazon QuickSight – Business Intelligence by AWS
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#12Presumably this is for data that you want graphs of but doesn't fit in Excel?
When you're working with large companies that process enormous volumes of transactions you can't just download things to excel.
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#13For me, the most interesting part is SPICE. To implement a data warehouse, one creates a star schema (OLAP) database from a regular OLTP database. This involves massive amount of work. It looks like SPICE aims to replace the need for OLAP database and produce similar data directly from OLTP systems. I would love to know more about this engine. I hope Amazon open sources the engine (I highly doubt that they will do it).
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#14At first glance, this seems like a Tableau competitor. So I'm surprised to see Tableau listed as a partner.
Looker (http://www.looker.com), Periscope (http://www.periscope.io), Mode Analytics (http://www.modeanalytics.com), and Chart.io (http://www.chart.io) should probably be even more worried than Tableau.
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#15Presumably this is for data that you want graphs of but doesn't fit in Excel?
When you're working with large companies that process enormous volumes of transactions you can't just download things to excel.
That doesn't stop people from trying. I'm sure some manager in some company is angry at his IT staff because he is trying to load 10GB of statistics into Excel and his staff is telling him that he shouldn't do that.
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#16At first glance, this seems like a Tableau competitor. So I'm surprised to see Tableau listed as a partner.
Looks like Tableau is a front-end option with AWS QS doing the grunt work of the data handling and digestion.
What is the point of this then? Tableau can directly connect to most of these data sources already. Is this meant as a replacement for a data warehouse to take transactional information into a format that is quicker to report on?
EDIT: After reading into this more it seems like Quicksight is Amazon's version of Tableau and connects to SPICE which is Amazon's version of a data warehouse. If you prefer Tableau, you can apparently connect that directly to SPICE. If you already have Tableau connected to a data warehouse, this would appear to be a new competitor to the market and wouldn't add anything to your specific setup (beyond Amazon's claims that they will do it better).
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#17I'm glad to see they put a little more effort into the product page for this release than seems typical for AWS products. It's much easier on the eyes and, at least for me, much more readable.
Now they just need to modernize the AWS web console :)
Seriously though this product page is a huge improvement over some of their previous releases so kudos to them.
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#18Presumably this is for data that you want graphs of but doesn't fit in Excel?
And as I understand BI, also for when you want complex graphs that can't be easily modeled in Excel.
With BI solutions you can perform "slices" as they call it, of multi-dimensional data (cubes), and then represent that as graphs that can also be used for drill-down on one or more dimensions of said data.
When you have say 17 dimensions, these solutions are easier to use than using excel to try to do the same.
I have only implemented very simple BI solutions a couple of times, so anyone with more experience can correct me if I'm wrong.
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#19We use Chartio at my company. If you haven't tried it yet, this product is stellar - almost all of our BI needs are handled directly by stakeholders rather than having to go through an engineer, and their support is very helpful and responsive.
I would consider moving off to something like Quicksight if it supported redis. Some of our BI-related data is stored there, and currently to get at it we have an app that proxies data from there to postgres for Chartio's sake.
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#20A lot of what you are paying for in BI solutions is implementation costs and then to a lesser extent yearly maintenance and support costs. I wonder how they intend to lower implementation costs, since that is kind of lengthy and inherently difficult process.