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Amazon QuickSight – Business Intelligence by AWS
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#42Currently 6 out of 30 links on HN are Amazon links, 4 of them in the top 5. Looks like someone paid for placement.
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#43I say: Bezos is the #1 CEO in Tech right now. Amazon takes risks, and ships innovative products and services every month. Their risk taking is relentless and they take failure in their stride. They "get" how to do push. No other tech company comes close to their pace. And the key to that is the juicy under the radar micro manager that is Jeff Bezos. If there was an award for best tech CEO. 2015, i'd nominate him in a…
I'd say Andrew Jassy is the person you are looking for. Jeff Bezos doesn't give a shit about the day to day strategy of AWS or any other existing Amazon business. He has implicitly said as much in his speeches at Amazon. He really only cares about the next billion dollar business to build within Amazon. Jassy leads AWS, which is the only technologically innovative part of Amazon. The retail side of Amazon is a technological black hole...a few standouts swimming amongst a sea of half-implemented non-solutions to problems that no longer exist but can't be changed because legacy.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
For many companies (even large companies) it is cheaper and faster to use a service like this than build an in-house solution.
Not to mention that if you want this built for your company you call up the BI provider and tell them to send some consultants over to build it for you. You might train one person or possibly two at the most to be able to make tech calls with the BI provider. Much easier for a company to say "I want a dashboard that reports X, Y, and Z" and then the BI company scurries off, builds it, brings it back to you, and you hand over some cash for their effort.
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#45I say: Bezos is the #1 CEO in Tech right now. Amazon takes risks, and ships innovative products and services every month. Their risk taking is relentless and they take failure in their stride. They "get" how to do push. No other tech company comes close to their pace. And the key to that is the juicy under the radar micro manager that is Jeff Bezos. If there was an award for best tech CEO. 2015, i'd nominate him in a…
Their risk taking is relentless and they take failure in their stride.
Their risk taking is also very well managed because they're shipping dog food.
Almost everything that we techies see as innovative is really a byproduct of their primary business of shipping "stuff".
Their risk is reduced because they know what they're pushing has already been outrageously successful for their toughest customer: themselves.
That's a valuable lesson for all would-be startup founders.
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#46Presumably 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…
Excel gets a bad rap. You can do a lot in Excel including slicing multidimensional data and pivot tables. You can also pull data externally and connect to external data pipelines.
Excel is point and click and allows for a wide rang of programming skill. There are also a lot of plugins and of course you can work in offline mode. It is also easy to integrate old Excel data etc... And you don't need a full time programmer who knows javascript etc or some other language to produce something.
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#47I'd really hate to be in the same space as amazon.
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#48Currently 6 out of 30 links on HN are Amazon links, 4 of them in the top 5. Looks like someone paid for placement.
I don't think you understand re:invent. This happens every year.
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#49I say: Bezos is the #1 CEO in Tech right now. Amazon takes risks, and ships innovative products and services every month. Their risk taking is relentless and they take failure in their stride. They "get" how to do push. No other tech company comes close to their pace. And the key to that is the juicy under the radar micro manager that is Jeff Bezos. If there was an award for best tech CEO. 2015, i'd nominate him in a…
He's the REAL Steve Jobs
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#50We 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 pro…
It is terrific that your end users are willing to spend the time and effort on building their own BI solutions. In my experience, at least with C-levels, that is not the case at all. C-levels also tend to want the most stuff.