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
Rajesh Nadipalli currently manages the software architecture and delivery of Zaloni's Bedrock Data Management Platform, which enables customers to quickly and easily realize true Hadoop-based Enterprise Data Lakes. Rajesh is also an instructor and a content provider for Hadoop training, including Hadoop development, Hive, Pig, and HBase. In his previous role as a senior solutions architect, he evaluated big data goals for his clients, recommended a target state architecture, and conducted proof of concepts and production implementation. His clients include Verizon, American Express, NetApp, Cisco, EMC, and UnitedHealth Group.
Prior to Zaloni, Rajesh worked for Cisco Systems for 12 years and held a technical leadership position. His key focus areas have been data management, enterprise architecture, business intelligence, data warehousing, and Extract Transform Load (ETL). He has demonstrated success by delivering scalable data management and BI solutions that empower business to make informed decisions.
Rajesh authored the first version of the book HDInsight Essentials, Packt Publishing, released in September 2013, the first book in print for HDInsight, providing data architects, developers, and managers with an introduction to the new Hadoop distribution from Microsoft.
He has over 18 years of IT experience. He holds an MBA from North Carolina State University and a BSc degree in Electronics and Electrical from the University of Mumbai, India.
You can find him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/nadipalli.
