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Amazon QuickSight – Business Intelligence by AWS

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Post by polmolea » Wed, Oct 07, 2015, 4:05 PM UTC

Amazon QuickSight – Business Intelligence by AWS
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Post by nostromo » Wed, Oct 07, 2015, 4:17 PM UTC

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

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Post by codezero » Wed, Oct 07, 2015, 4:18 PM UTC

nostromo wrote: post #2

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

Embrace then exterminate.

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Post by sokoloff » Wed, Oct 07, 2015, 4:20 PM UTC

nostromo wrote: post #2

At 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.

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Post by andrewstuart2 » Wed, Oct 07, 2015, 4:20 PM UTC

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.

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Post by smileysteve » Wed, Oct 07, 2015, 4:21 PM UTC

They mention integration with RDS, which is kind of scary considering the data a lot of databases hold.

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 07, 2015, 4:21 PM UTC

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Post by tidon12 » Wed, Oct 07, 2015, 4:22 PM UTC

Seems like a cool way to further increase the "stickiness" of AWS

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Post by ececconi » Wed, Oct 07, 2015, 4:23 PM UTC

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 more technology focused companies don't have any issues using these self-service models, but you wouldn't believe the innumeracy that some people have in industry.

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Post by ececconi » Wed, Oct 07, 2015, 4:28 PM UTC

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.

It's because this product is probably aimed more at the business side of the company as opposed to being a pure technology product.