1. Nadine Fares,Catelyn Schmiedebusch, Nan Sun MIST 5620
Amazon QuickSight
Nadine Fares,Catelyn Schmiedebusch, Nan Sun
MIST 5620

2. Overview What is Amazon QuickSight? Key Features Pricing Pros and Cons
Competitors
Demo
Recap
and Nadine will talk about the demo

3. What is Amazon QuickSight?
Very Fast, Easy to Use, cloud-powered BI service for 1/10th the cost of traditional BI solutions
Amazon QuickSight is a very fast, cloud-powered business intelligence (BI) service that makes it easy for all employees to build visualizations, perform ad-hoc analysis, and quickly get business insights from their data. Amazon QuickSight uses a new, Super-fast, Parallel, In-memory Calculation Engine (“SPICE”) to perform advanced calculations and render visualizations rapidly. Amazon QuickSight integrates automatically with AWS data services, enables organizations to scale to hundreds of thousands of users, and delivers fast and responsive query performance to them via SPICE’s query engine. At one-tenth the cost of traditional solutions, Amazon QuickSight enables you to deliver rich BI functionality to everyone in your organization.
Easily connect Amazon QuickSight to AWS data services, including Amazon Redshift, Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, Amazon EMR, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon S3, and Amazon Kinesis; upload CSV, TSV, and spreadsheet files; or connect to third-party data sources such as Salesforce.

4. Key Features SPICE Sharing & Collaboration
Native Access on Major Platforms
Smart Visualizations
Super-fast, Parallel, In-memory, Calculation Engine ("SPICE")
allow users to run interactive queries on large datasets and get rapid responses. SPICE supports rich calculations that help customers derive valuable insights from their analysis without ever having to worry about provisioning or managing infrastructure. SPICE automatically replicates data for high availability and also enables Amazon QuickSight to scale to thousands of users who can all simultaneously perform fast interactive analysis across a wide variety of AWS data sources.
Sharing and Collaboration
Amazon QuickSight allows you to easily share business insights by packaging them up as interactive stories that you can share with others. Using the StoryBoard feature in Amazon QuickSight, you can combine visualizations into business dashboards, annotate them with comments, and share in a secure manner with individuals or broad groups in your organization.
Native Access on Major Mobile Platforms
You can access your data on Amazon QuickSight using native applications for iPad, iPhone, Android phones and tablets. You also have control over the availability of analyses, stories and dashboards for offline viewing, and creating annotations in offline mode, to be reconciled when your device is reconnected to the Internet.
Smart Visualizations
Amazon QuickSight comes with a built-in suggestion engine that provides you with recommended visualizations based on the properties of the underlying datasets. Suggestions serve as possible first or next steps of an analysis and remove the time-consuming task of interrogating and understanding the schema of your data. As you drill in to your data, Amazon QuickSight provides the most appropriate graph types to visualize your data using AutoGraph, a collection of algorithms that learn over time the best visualizations that match your analytical patterns.

5. Pricing
Amazon QuickSight is available in two editions: Standard and Enterprise. Enterprise features the same capabilities as standard except with added features such as support for integration and encryption. Users can choose to pay either month-to-month or one-year commitment. The monthly rate is 9 dollars a year or $12 per month for standard edition , and 18 dollars a year or 24 per month for enterprise edition. Each edition also provides you with an initial 10GB of SPICE capacity per user. You can purchase additional GB per month at $0.25 for Standard Edition and $0.38 for Enterprise Edition.

6. Pros and Cons Cons Pros Price Reliance on database models and schemas
Fast
Ease of Use
Price
Data must be in SPICE database
Reliance on database models and schemas
The Pros seem to outweigh the Cons, however, the biggest issue is for data to be analyzed, it must be in the SPICE database.
Going to target AWS users as potential customers

7. Some of the top customers of AWS.
Gartner: Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure

8. Competition $9 per month per user or $18 per month per user
Self-discovery tool - people don’t have to have in-depth knowledge
Lightweight visualizations
Starting at $500 per user per year
Requires certain level of expertise
Deeper & significant insights
Cost gives QuickSight a huge edge over other competitors, especially while catering to small to medium enterprises, which are sensitive on budget.
QuickSight is most appropriate for data that is stored in AWS’s cloud and also more importantly the data that can be put onboard SPICE. QuickSight will be suitable for lightweight visualizations. Many companies still keep their data outside of AWS’s cloud. Since, Tableau has a provision for ingesting data from multiple sources it has the ability to provide much deeper and significant insights.

9. Demo
6:10

10. Recap Available only in preview
Could dominate BI services market with fast visualizations + ease of use
Good for: non-technical people
Bad for: data not stored in AWS and SPICE
Available only in preview so we don’t know the impact it’s going to have yet
Could dominate BI services market with it’s fast visualisations and low cost
It’s easy for executives and people with not as much technical background to use.
But for data that is not stored in SPICE or AWS services, it is not that convenient.

11. Thank you
Any Questions?