Chapter 8. QuickSight Product Shortcomings

QuickSight is a new AWS service and was launched in November 2016. While the product is revolutionary and has a bold vision, there are several shortcomings with the current version for it to replace enterprise BI solutions. In this chapter, we will review the following:

  • A recap of the key product features
  • Features lacking and what is in the roadmap
  • User guide and community forum

QuickSight product features

QuickSight is designed to make analysis easy for all employees within an organization - with interactive visualizations, ad hoc analysis, and the ability to query data from most AWS data sources. Let's review the key features of the product; I have grouped them into the following categories:

  • Visualizations ...

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