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Re: Amazon QuickSight – Business Intelligence by AWS

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Post by 7952 »

mmaunder wrote: post #67
nostromo wrote: post #2

At first glance, this seems like a Tableau competitor. So I'm surprised to see Tableau listed as a partner.

Agreed re Tableau being a competitor. But I'm not surprised they're not a partner. Last quote we got from Tableau for desktop was $2k. This comes in at around $200/year. That is probably where the "1/10th of the cost of traditional BI solutions" comes from at the top of the home page.

Tableau are pushing their web system over their desktop tools. It is perfectly possible to use the free reader to consume data without needing hundreds of licences for a cloud product or the full edition.

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Post by dang »

Negitivefrags wrote: post #70
dang wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All the major tech companies bundle their announcements like this in order to make a bigger splash. It's common on such days for HN to have many announcements from the same company. As long as the stories are significant and it happens rarely, this seems ok. Edit: we buried the "preview" stories, though. That's too much when there are already several actual launches on the front page.

So what about yesterday when all the unrelated Microsoft stories were bundled together? It was not only extremely confusing, but it also effectively destroyed the discussion on topics like the Hololense that I was keen to see discussed.

Good question. I thought we only bundled together the stories about the Surface Pro and Surface Book? Those didn't seem different enough.

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Post by poutine »

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…

At Telemetry (https://www.telemetryapp.com) we're trying to solve this issue which is quite a bit more difficult than it initially seems. We're not a BI tool though, just a transmission, management and visualization layer.

Keeping dashboards persistently up and running on televisions, provision mobile devices with granular permissions and enterprise features like SSO. We provide an agent to integrate on the client side to help send metrics from whatever data source you may have. Take a look, I'd love to know your thoughts.

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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…

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Post by ickwabe »

JPKab wrote: post #87
solutionyogi wrote: post #13

For 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…

My question is how does SPICE differ from BigQuery? I can connect to BigQuery from Tableau, BIME, Chartio, etc.

Not sure about BIME, Chartio. But Tableau certainly connects to Google BigQuery.

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Post by etrain »

saosebastiao wrote: post #39
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…

There is an interesting phenomenon that I've noticed about BI: By the time data is appropriately gathered, cleaned, aggregated, and presented, the data is so closely aligned to the decision process that the decisions themselves might as well be automated and optimized. But that never happens. We build reports so that executives can look at them and feel important while they make slower and less optimal decisions than…

This is the heart and soul of quantitative investment management.

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Post by polskibus »

6stringmerc wrote: post #80
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…

I lead a team that develops a more advanced BI toolkit, that apart from supporting all typical BI scenarios, handles PPTX export very well (generating 50+ quarterly presentation for investors, etc.). If you're interested, drop us a line at www.binoclebi.com.

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Post by m0th87 »

neovintage wrote: post #82
m0th87 wrote: post #19

We 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…

Have you tried using Postgres Foreign Data Wrappers? There's a redis fdw that will allow you to use SQL from Postgres and query the keys in Redis. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/sql-createforeignd...

Oh man, that is a very good idea. Apparently Heroku (our pg provider) supports it as well: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-data-links

Re: Amazon QuickSight – Business Intelligence by AWS

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Post by copsarebastards »

tlunter wrote: post #48
copsarebastards wrote: post #42

Currently 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.

Enlighten me on what you think I don't understand.
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