What is Amazon QuickSight?
Amazon QuickSight is a serverless business intelligence service that provides interactive dashboards and visualizations for all users in the organization. The SPICE in-memory engine enables fast analysis of large data volumes. Integrated ML features automatically detect anomalies and create forecasts.
Core Features
- Interactive Dashboards: Drag-and-drop creation of visualizations with automatic adaptation to different screen sizes
- SPICE Engine: In-memory data processing for fast queries without loading source databases
- ML Insights: Automatic anomaly detection, forecasting, and contribution analysis without data science skills
- Natural Language Queries: Questions in natural language are converted into visualizations
- Embedded Analytics: Integration of dashboards into custom applications and portals via API
Common Use Cases
Enterprise-wide Dashboards: Executives and teams access central KPI dashboards that update automatically. From sales figures to production metrics to financial reports: all data in one place.
Embedded Analytics for SaaS Products: Software vendors integrate QuickSight dashboards directly into their applications. Customers receive analytics capabilities without needing to develop separate BI tools.
Self-Service Reporting for Business Departments: Marketing, sales, and controlling create their own reports and visualizations without IT support. Natural language queries lower the barrier to entry.
Benefits
- No infrastructure management through serverless architecture
- Cost-effective pricing model: pay per user or session
- Fast time-to-insight through SPICE and ML automation
- Easy scaling from few to thousands of users
Integration with innFactory
As an AWS Reseller, innFactory supports you with Amazon QuickSight: from data modeling and dashboard development to integration into your applications and training your users.
Typical Use Cases
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Amazon QuickSight?
Amazon QuickSight is a serverless business intelligence service for creating and publishing interactive dashboards. The service automatically scales to thousands of users and offers ML-powered insights like anomaly detection and forecasting.
Which data sources does QuickSight support?
QuickSight connects to AWS services like Redshift, RDS, Aurora, Athena, and S3 as well as external sources like Salesforce, Jira, ServiceNow, and on-premises databases via JDBC. SPICE enables fast in-memory analysis.
What is SPICE in QuickSight?
SPICE (Super-fast, Parallel, In-memory Calculation Engine) is QuickSight's in-memory engine. Data is imported into SPICE for fast queries and visualizations without loading the source databases.
Can I embed QuickSight in my application?
Yes, QuickSight offers Embedded Analytics: dashboards and visualizations can be embedded via API into websites, portals, and applications. Pricing is then per session instead of per user.
How does Amazon Q work in QuickSight?
Amazon Q in QuickSight enables natural language queries. Users can ask questions like 'Show revenue by region last quarter' and receive automatically generated visualizations and answers.