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Re: Amazon QuickSight – Business Intelligence by AWS

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Post by cle »

gorena wrote: post #35
brador wrote: post #31

I 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…

> Bezos is the #1 CEO in Tech right now. As long as you're not one of his employees, sure. If I had a choice between working for Bezos or working for Joel Spolsky at half the pay, it wouldn't even be close. Of course, in real life, Fog Creek probably pays more anyways.

Depends on what kind of impact you want your work to have.

(Not saying that Bezos's style is the reason for his impact, though it might be.)

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Post by tricolon »

wpietri wrote: post #64
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…

> one report that a client says is mission critical, but is never used. My dad started developing software in the late 60s. As a kid (let's say circa 1982, definitely in the minicomputer era), I remember him talking about a problem at work: to do all their daily processing, they needed about 28 hours. A lot of the workload was reporting, so he asked managers what reports were no longer useful. Naturally, he was assur…

That's an excellent example of loss aversion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion

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Post by cthalupa »

slg wrote: post #54
tlunter wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think you understand re:invent. This happens every year.

I think a valid question is why these threads aren't being merged like is common practice and happened to a number Microsoft threads during yesterday's event. I'm not sure Hololens has more in common with a Surface Book than Quicksight and Snowball.

I would have greatly preferred those threads to not be merged.

It's not a particularly good user experience to have a bunch of different unrelated products being discussed under the same article. It's a lot easier for me to just click 'next' and go to page 2 if I'm interested in reading more articles than it is to keep track of what everyone is talking about in a comment section with hundreds of posts and dozens of threads.

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Post by Jgrubb »

erik-n wrote: post #65

>Super-fast, Parallel, In-memory Calculation Engine (“SPICE”) Now that's a nice acronym! I think Amazon have skilled people in charge of marketing. They make their announcements feel exciting but not too "markety".

On the one hand, you're totally right about the annoucements. On the other hand, the names they give their AWS products are pretty mystifying. AWS Snowball?

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Post by wpietri »

gshx wrote: post #23

For one, this: "makes it easy for all employees to.." work with business insights data is usually inaccessible to everyone for a reason.

Building your business around carefully constructed employee ignorance is a dangerous strategy. It basically assumes that they won't do any useful thinking. That was fine circa 1930, where treating people as dumb pairs of hands was an effective strategy because there was so much manual work to do. But the more we turn rote work over to machines and software, the less this will work.

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Post by ing33k »

liscovich wrote: post #14
nostromo wrote: post #2

At 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.

especially when you consider the pricing

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Post by westernmostcoy »

brador wrote: post #62
astazangasta wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of the most destructive aspects of the mythology of modern tech culture is this ridiculous worship of CEOs, as if they are supermen and the thousands of creative people who actually build the products we enjoy are just the gloves these heroes wear. Stop doing this. You're devaluing the worth of everyone here.

It's his name on the door. The buck stops there. (And he's driving the culture.)

The culture which may launch a lot in some parts, but does not uniformly ensure quality and is well documented as being difficult to work in.

Amazon is far too large to give Jeff credit for 100% of the output, despite his name being on the door or ultimate decision making authority belonging to him.

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Post by Daishiman »

brador wrote: post #58
gorena wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Bezos is the #1 CEO in Tech right now. As long as you're not one of his employees, sure. If I had a choice between working for Bezos or working for Joel Spolsky at half the pay, it wouldn't even be close. Of course, in real life, Fog Creek probably pays more anyways.

Fog creek is nice, but you're working on small localized projects compared to Amazons scale and breadth. Amazon employees are pushed hard, and that's their key to shipping innovation. Look at Googles cuddle farm - Lots of innovation that rarely ships and no risk taking. How about Apple - Constrained innovation, low risk, Once a year shipping. And there's a hundred other CEOs and companies that just don't come close.…

Under those metrics, almost all of Amazon's products have been flops and none are not any way similar to the cash cows that Google and Apple have managed to develop and maintain without succumbing to competitors.

I don't think that having to run rust to stay in place the way Amazon does is a sustainable business strategy.

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Post by gshx »

wpietri wrote: post #75
gshx wrote: post #23

For one, this: "makes it easy for all employees to.." work with business insights data is usually inaccessible to everyone for a reason.

Building your business around carefully constructed employee ignorance is a dangerous strategy. It basically assumes that they won't do any useful thinking. That was fine circa 1930, where treating people as dumb pairs of hands was an effective strategy because there was so much manual work to do. But the more we turn rote work over to machines and software, the less this will work.

Agree with your comment wholeheartedly. My comment was mostly around business information flow to the market since that's regulated due to various reasons.

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Post by 6stringmerc »

vkb wrote: post #26

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? E…

I'm not really a BI guy by trade, though I've developed related skills over time. My expertise is in communications. Specifically responding to RFPs/RFIs/SOQs, and marketing collateral.

Whenever I see a program such as this, I'm definitely impressed.

Then, a little voice comes into my head, one from having spent years in the RFP and presentation trenches...

"Put this in a PowerPoint slide."

Point being, for internal use it's nice, but it may not be that different from what other software already does with proper data input (e.g. Excel).

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