Data drives good business decisions and a data-driven culture can help organisations increase profitability and reduce costs. Amazon QuickSight is a very fast, cloud-powered Business Intelligence (BI) service that makes it easy for all employees to build visualisations, perform ad-hoc analysis, and quickly get business insights from their data. Speaker: David McAmis, Consultant, Amazon Web Services

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David McAmis, Big Data & Analytics Consultant
Amazon Web Services
Creating a Data-­Driven Culture with
Amazon QuickSight
Technical 201

2. 95% of the 1.2 zettabytes
of data in the digital
universe is unstructured
70% of this is user-­
generated content
Unstructured data growth
explosive, with estimates
of compound annual
growth (CAGR) at 62%
from 2008 – 2012.
Source: IDC
GB TB
PB
ZB
EB
Unconstrained Data Growth

3. Gartner: User Survey Analysis: Key Trends Shaping the Future of Data Center Infrastructure Through 2011
IDC: Worldwide Business Analytics Software 2012–2016 Forecast and 2011 Vendor Shares
Available for Analysis
Generated Data
Data Volume -­ Gap
1990 2000 2010 2020
Availability is a Major Issue

4. Moving from what we THINK
to
What we KNOW
Data Drive Culture

5. Data Drive Culture
Data is an
Asset
Data is
Accessible
Fact-­Based
Decision Process

6. Data is an Asset
Data is an
Asset
• Valuable
• Registered
• Tracked
• Maintained
• Accessible
• Retired

7. Data is Accessible
Data is
Accessible
• Centralised Data Store
• Data Catalogue
• Ability to Easily Explore Data
• Automated Provisioning
• Automated Access Control
• Accessible by a Wide Range of
Tools/Technologies

8. Fact-­Based
Decision Process
Fact-­Based Decision Process
• Define the Problem
• Obtain Relevant Data
• Analyse and Share Data
• Make a Decision
• Evaluate the Results

9. What is Amazon QuickSight?

10. Very Fast
Cloud-­Powered
BI Service for 1/10th the Cost
Traditional BI Software
Amazon QuickSight

11. $9
per User per Month
With 1 Year Commitment

12. Business User
Sign-­in
First Analysis in About 60 Seconds

13. Data Prep Metadata SuggestionsConnectors SPICE
QuickSight API
Business User
QuickSight UI
Mobile Devices Web Browsers
Partner BI products
Amazon
S3
Amazon
Kinesis
Amazon
DynamoDB
Amazon
EMR
Amazon
Redshift
Amazon RDSFiles Third-­party

14. Innovations
Easy Exploration of AWS Data
Fast Insights with SPICE
Intuitive Visualisations and Transitions (AutoGraph)
Native Mobile Experience (iOS/Android)
Secure Sharing and Collaboration (Stories)

15. How do I SPICE up my Data?

17. Easy Exploration of AWS Data
• Securely Discover and Connect to AWS Data
• Quickly Explore AWS Data Sources
• Relational databases (Amazon RDS, Amazon RDS for
Aurora, Amazon Redshift)
• NoSQL databases (Amazon DynamoDB)
• Amazon EMR, Amazon S3, files (CSV, Excel, TSV,
XLF, CLF)
• Streaming data sources (Amazon DynamoDB,
Amazon Kinesis)
• Easily Import Data from any Table or File
• Automatic Detection of Data Types

18. Fast Insights With SPICE
• Super-­fast, Parallel, In-­memory optimised,
Calculation Engine
• 2 to 4 x Compression Columnar Data
• Compiled Queries with Machine Code
Generation
• Rich Calculations
• SQL-­like Syntax
• Fully Managed – No Hardware or
Software to License

19. Intuitive Visualisations with AutoGraph
• Automatic Detection of Data Types
• Optimal Query Generation
• Appropriate Graph Type Selection
• Ability to Customise the Graph Type
• Very Fast Response

20. Fast to Get Started Fast Insights
with SPICE
Easily Explore
any AWS Data
Easy to Use and Share Effortless Scale Low Cost

21. Low Cost
Standard Edition
Ad-­hoc analysis, data connectors,
sharing, embedding, mobile experience
+ 10 GB of SPICE storage
Enterprise Edition
Standard Edition + Active Directory
integration, user access control, encryption
at rest, 2X throughput
$9
$18
Per User Per Month
Per User Per Month

22. Pricing Details
Standard Edition Enterprise Edition
Subscription Annual Monthly Annual Monthly
Price per user per month $9 $12 $18 $24
SPICE Capacity (GB)* 10 10 10 10
Additional SPICE
GB-­month $0.25 $0.38
* Per user SPICE capacity is pooled across all users in an account. As an example, a customer with
100 user subscriptions will get 1,000 GB of SPICE capacity for the account.

23. Creating a Data-­Driven Culture with
Amazon Quicksight
• Make Required Data Available to Users
• Automate Data Collection/Provisioning
• Determine Best Platform/Tool to Surface
Data for Analysis
• Leverage Existing Skills/Expertise Across
the Business

24. Amazon QuickSight
DEMO

25. Amazon QuickSight Demo
ü First Analysis in 60 Seconds
ü Creating Analyses
ü Working with Stories
ü Creating Dashboards
ü Filtering Data
ü Working with Data Sets

26. Data Driven Culture
Data Driven: Creating a Data Culture (O’Reilly)
Amazon QuickSight
QuickSight Product Page
QuickSight Announcement (Video)
QuickSight FAQ’s
Resources

27. AWS Training & Certification
Intro Videos & Labs
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help you learn to work
with 30+ AWS services
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Learn how related
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together
AWS Certification
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29. Thank You!