Effective Business Intelligence with QuickSight
by Rajesh Nadipalli
Paperback: 262 pages
Publisher: Packt Publishing (10 Mar. 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1786466368
ISBN-13: 9781786466365
Book Description
From data to actionable business insights using Amazon QuickSight!
About This Book
A practical hands-on guide to improving your business with the power of BI and Quicksight
Immerse yourself with an end-to-end journey for effective analytics using QuickSight and related services
Packed with real-world examples with Solution Architectures needed for a cloud-powered Business Intelligence service
Who This Book Is For
This book is for Business Intelligence architects,BI developers,Big Data architects,and IT executives who are looking to modernize their business intelligence architecture and deliver a fast,easy-to-use,cloud powered business intelligence service.
What You Will Learn
Steps to test drive QuickSight and see how it fits in AWS big data eco system
Load data from various sources such as S3,RDS,Redshift,Athena,and SalesForce and visualize using QuickSight
Understand how to prepare data using QuickSight without the need of an IT developer
Build interactive charts,reports,dashboards,and storyboards using QuickSight
Access QuickSight using the mobile application
Architect and design for AWS Data Lake Solution,leveraging AWS hosted services
Build a big data project with step-by-step instructions for data collection,cataloguing,and analysis
Secure your data used for QuickSight from S3,RedShift,and RDS instances
Manage users,access controls,and SPICE capacity
In Detail
Amazon QuickSight is the next-generation Business Intelligence (BI) cloud service that can help you build interactive visualizations on top of various data sources hosted on Amazon Cloud Infrastructure. QuickSight delivers responsive insights into big data and enables organizations to quickly democratize data visualizations and scale to hundreds of users at a fraction of the cost when compared to traditional BI tools.
This book begins with an introduction to Amazon QuickSight,feature differentiators from traditional BI tools,and how it fits in the overall AWS big data ecosystem. With practical examples,you will find tips and techniques to load your data to AWS,prepare it,and finally visualize it using QuickSight. You will learn how to build interactive charts,reports,dashboards,and stories using QuickSight and share with others using just your browser and mobile app.
The book also provides a blueprint to build a real-life big data project on top of AWS Data Lake Solution and demonstrates how to build a modern data lake on the cloud with governance,data catalog,and analysis. It reviews the current product shortcomings,features in the roadmap,and how to provide feedback to AWS.
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Style and approach
This book takes a fast-paced,example-driven approach to demonstrate the power of QuickSight to improve your business' efficiency. Every chapter is accompanied with a use case that shows the practical implementation of the step being explained.
Contents
Chapter 1. A Quick Start to QuickSight
Chapter 2. Exploring Any Data
Chapter 3. SPICE up Your Data
Chapter 4. Intuitive Visualizations
Chapter 5. Secure Your Environment
Chapter 6. QuickSight Mobile
Chapter 7. Big Data Analytics Mini Project
Chapter 8. QuickSight Product Shortcomings