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New scatter plot options in HAQM QuickSight to visualize your data

Are you looking to understand the relationships between two numerical variables? Scatter plots are a powerful visual type that allow you to identify patterns, outliers, and strength of relationships between variables. In this post, we walk you through the newly launched scatter plot features in HAQM QuickSight, which will help you take your correlation analysis […]

How Huron built an HAQM QuickSight Asset Catalogue with AWS CDK Based Deployment Pipeline

This is a guest blog post co-written with Corey Johnson from Huron. In this post, we walk you through a solution that Huron Consulting Group implemented to keep track of and manage the lifecycle for all HAQM QuickSight resources across the organization by collaborating with AWS Data Lab Resident Architects and the AWS Professional Services […]

How Dafiti made HAQM QuickSight its primary data visualization tool

This is a guest post by Valdiney Gomes, Hélio Leal, and Flávia Lima from Dafiti. In this post, we discuss why we chose HAQM QuickSight and how we implemented it. Data and its various uses is increasingly evident in companies, and each professional has their preferences about which technologies to use to visualize data, which […]

Visualize Confluent data in HAQM QuickSight using HAQM Athena

This is a guest post written by Ahmed Saef Zamzam and Geetha Anne from Confluent. Businesses are using real-time data streams to gain insights into their company’s performance and make informed, data-driven decisions faster. As real-time data has become essential for businesses, a growing number of companies are adapting their data strategy to focus on […]

Configure ADFS Identity Federation with HAQM QuickSight

As of August 2023, HAQM QuickSight is now an AWS IAM Identity Center enabled application. This capability allows administrators who subscribe to QuickSight to use IAM Identity Center to enable their users to log in with Azure AD and other external identity providers. For more information, see Simplify business intelligence identity management with HAQM QuickSight and […]

How Ruparupa gained updated insights with an HAQM S3 data lake, AWS Glue, Apache Hudi, and HAQM QuickSight

This post is co-written with Olivia Michele and Dariswan Janweri P. at Ruparupa. In this post, we show how Ruparupa implemented an incrementally updated data lake to get insights into their business using HAQM Simple Storage Service (HAQM S3), AWS Glue, Apache Hudi, and HAQM QuickSight. We also discuss the benefits Ruparupa gained after the […]

A dive into redBus’s data platform and how they used HAQM QuickSight to accelerate business insights

This post is co-authored with Girish Kumar Chidananda from redBus. redBus is one of the earliest adopters of AWS in India, and most of its services and applications are hosted on the AWS Cloud. AWS provided redBus the flexibility to scale their infrastructure rapidly while keeping costs extremely low. AWS has a comprehensive suite of services […]

How BookMyShow saved 80% in costs by migrating to an AWS modern data architecture

This is a guest post co-authored by Mahesh Vandi Chalil, Chief Technology Officer of BookMyShow. BookMyShow (BMS), a leading entertainment company in India, provides an online ticketing platform for movies, plays, concerts, and sporting events. Selling up to 200 million tickets on an annual run rate basis (pre-COVID) to customers in India, Sri Lanka, Singapore, […]

Secure your database credentials with AWS Secrets Manager and encrypt data with AWS KMS in HAQM QuickSight

HAQM QuickSight is a fully managed, cloud-native business intelligence (BI) service that makes it easy to connect to your data, create interactive dashboards, and share them with tens of thousands of users, either directly within a QuickSight application, or embedded in web apps and portals. Let’s consider AnyCompany, which owns healthcare facilities across the country. […]

Create advanced insights using level-aware calculations in HAQM QuickSight

Calculation at the right granularity always needs to be handled carefully when performing data analytics. Especially when data is generated through joining across multiple tables, the denormalization of datasets can add a lot of complications to make accurate calculations challenging. HAQM QuickSight recently launched a new functionality called level-aware calculations (LAC), which enables you to […]