AWS Business Intelligence Blog

Are you finding it cumbersome to scroll horizontally in pivot tables to see all your row fields? Are you dealing with data that has a hierarchical structure, like cost center or product hierarchies? If you are, then there’s exciting news for you! Amazon QuickSight now offers a new layout option called hierarchy layout for pivot […]

Financial statements are a set of documents that contain formal records of financial activities of a business at a specific point in time. For example, a profit and loss (P&L) statement summarizes the revenues, expenses, and resulting net profit or loss of a business. It is a snapshot of the organization’s financial performance, starting from […]

Generative BI capabilities for dashboard authoring are now in Public Preview! Read more. Data is a connective force that accelerates business growth. However, despite significant investments in data analytics, organizations often don’t use data-driven insights to make business decisions. Why? Among other reasons, traditional business intelligence (BI) tools force you to invest in time-consuming processes […]

Color plays a crucial role in visualizations. It conveys meaning, captures attention, and enhances aesthetics. You can quickly grasp important information when key insights and data points pop with color. However, it’s important to use color judiciously to enhance readability and ensure correct interpretation. Color should also be accessible and consistent to enable users to […]

The technology landscape has been evolving rapidly, with waves of change impacting IT from every angle. It is causing a ripple effect across IT organizations and shifting the way IT delivers applications and services. The change factors impacting IT organizations include: The shift from a traditional application model to a services-based application model (SaaS, PaaS) […]

This is a guest post authored by Kris Bliesner and Mike Brown from Vega Cloud. Vega Cloud is a premier member of the FinOps Foundation, a program by Linux Foundation supporting FinOps practitioners on cloud financial management best practices. Vega Cloud provides a place where finance, engineers, and innovators come together to accelerate the business […]

AWS customers are looking for an efficient tracking method of support cases raised with AWS Support across their multiple interconnected accounts. Having a unified view lets the cloud operations team derive actionable insights across the support cases raised by different business units and accounts. This helps ensure that the team has a comprehensive understanding of […]

This is a guest post by Gonzalo Lezma from Amazon Mexico FP&A. In this post, I discuss how QuickSight has enabled the Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team in Mexico to focus on financial and business analysis that helps drive business strategy. The Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team in Mexico provides strategic support to […]

Using embedded analytics from Amazon QuickSight can simplify the process of equipping your application with functional visualizations without any complex development. There are multiple ways to embed QuickSight dashboards into application. In this post, we look at how it can be done using React and the Amazon QuickSight Embedding SDK. Dashboard consumers often don’t have […]

This is a guest post by Vinod Nambiar from Position2. In this post, we share how Arena Calibrate helps our customers drive marketing efficiency using Amazon QuickSight Embedded. Position2 is a leading US-based growth marketing services provider focused on data-driven strategy and technology to deliver growth with improved return on investment (ROI). Position2 was established […]