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Amazon QuickSight – Business Intelligence by AWS

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Re: Amazon QuickSight – Business Intelligence by AWS

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Post by gdulli »

BinaryIdiot wrote: post #17
andrewstuart2 wrote: post #5

I'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.

My god I would be thrilled if there could just be a usable S3 filesystem browser.

Re: Amazon QuickSight – Business Intelligence by AWS

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Post by dtft »

ececconi wrote: post #12
pjc50 wrote: post #11

Presumably 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.

Very true. Even with smaller companies, data sets like events inside an app are too much for Excel. Ever since I picked up R, I haven't touched Excel.

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Post by vkb »

Having worked in some form BI for almost the entirety of my career now, there is not a single, consistent form of BI dashboard that is prevalent across any company. Every solution ends up being unique, because every company has a unique data set-up, stakeholders, definition of metrics, and access needs.

I've worked with Tableau, Domo, Oracle products, you name it. What's the solution that is passed around the most? Excel sheets, because they travel easily and have all-around permissions.

I've been waiting for an out-of-the-box solution that's at least relatively easy to leverage across different organizations, but I haven't seen a painless one yet.

I'm hopeful that Quicksight, while not the be-all end-all solution, provides an example for others to follow, if it does end up being easy to set up and use.

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Post by jdimov9 »

ececconi wrote: post #12
pjc50 wrote: post #11

Presumably 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.

You would be shocked and amazed by the kinds of things that Excel is routinely (mis)-used for in business.

Re: Amazon QuickSight – Business Intelligence by AWS

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Post by something123 »

ececconi wrote: post #12
pjc50 wrote: post #11

Presumably 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.

Surely if you're that large then you could invest in some in-house domain-specific solution. There are whole programming languages dedicated to doing statistics on datasets.

Re: Amazon QuickSight – Business Intelligence by AWS

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Post by bduerst »

ececconi wrote: post #9

I've been working exclusively in implementing BI solutions for the past five years. The thing that depresses me the most is not that BI solutions take forever to implement and cost a lot, but that clients many times just don't understand the data they are trying to report on. Many times it leads to over-engineered BI solutions just for one report that a client says is mission critical, but is never used. I'm sure mor…

Yep. Any exec or manager looking to buy this service as a solution to their reporting needs should sit down and have a serious talk with their analysts or teams who build their reports first.

Innumeracy is why the mantra of asking "Why?" instead of "How?" also applies to BI reporting. A flashy new tool or report isn't going to help as much as having a builder with industry knowledge or experience.

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