Amazon QuickSight - A Unified BI Platform

Overview

• Amazon QuickSight is a cloud-native, unified business intelligence (BI) service designed to enable BI for organizations and all their users in the format they prefer.
• QuickSight offers a variety of BI formats, including modern dashboards, pixel-perfect reporting, embedded analytics, and augmented analytics (e.g., predictive analysis, machine learning).
• QuickSight was built on a serverless architecture with autoscaling capabilities, ensuring consistent high performance for users regardless of demand.
• QuickSight's consumption-based pricing model allows for cost optimization by paying only for what is needed.

The Dashboarding Experience

• QuickSight provides a modern, interactive dashboarding experience with a library of visualizations and interactivity features to quickly design engaging insights for end-users.
• The dashboards are accessible on any device, and insight sharing is simple with a one-step publishing for secure sharing.

Pixel-Perfect Reporting

• QuickSight's pixel-perfect reporting offers highly formatted, printable reports with the same visuals and images as the interactive dashboards.
• It enables scheduled delivery of reports via email in PDF or CSV formats, as well as point-in-time reporting with auto-archival up to one year for historical analysis.
• The unified offering allows the same data ingestion and governed data sets to feed both the dashboards and reports, providing a single source of truth.
• Pixel-perfect reports can also be embedded within custom applications to enhance product value for internal or external customers.

Amazon Q in QuickSight

• Amazon Q is a generative AI assistant for business intelligence, added to QuickSight to further accelerate the path to creating and getting deeper insights.
• For authors, Q provides AI-powered natural language capabilities to perform common BI tasks more efficiently.
• For readers, Q enables on-demand AI-powered data summaries, Q&A, and data storytelling to reduce dependency on data teams.

Customer Benefits

• According to a study by TechTarget's Enterprise Strategy Group, customers migrating to QuickSight saw an average 74% reduction in total cost of ownership over 3 years, along with a 300% increase in BI usage.

Opendoor's Journey with QuickSight

• Opendoor, a real estate technology company, used QuickSight to address challenges with outdated data models, SQL-centric BI tools, and BI tool sprawl.
• Key features that drove adoption at Opendoor include SPICE for fast dashboard rendering, pixel-perfect reports for daily market metrics distribution, and custom user experience functionality.
• The migration to QuickSight was completed in 5 months, covering 1,000 users, 900+ dashboards, and 26+ edge cases, by focusing on both technical and user adoption aspects.
• Opendoor was able to save 80% on their annual BI spend by consolidating on QuickSight.

Resources

• 30-day free trial of QuickSight
• QuickSight YouTube channel for tutorials and customer testimonials
• QuickSight Community for learning resources, demos, and Q&A
• QuickSight hands-on workshop at re:Invent on November 29th
• Visit the Amazon Q in QuickSight kiosk in the re:Invent Expo Hall