Migrate to QuickSight: Reduce costs and increase productivity (BSI205)

Migration to Amazon QuickSight: Best Practices and Customer Success Stories

Overview

  • Thousands of customers have migrated to Amazon QuickSight, seeing benefits such as increased BI usage, high ROI, and cost savings of up to 75% over 3 years.
  • QuickSight is a complete and unified BI platform that caters to all users, both internal and external, empowered by generative AI and ML capabilities.
  • QuickSight automatically scales in real-time without user intervention, eliminating the need to plan for resources and capacity.
  • QuickSight is a fully managed service with no servers to manage, always up-to-date, and a pay-as-you-go model.

Migration Best Practices

  1. Planning Phase:

    • Identify the benefits of migration for your users.
    • Compare your existing BI solution with QuickSight to understand the ROI.
    • Set a timeline for migration, aligning with the renewal of your previous BI tool.
    • Form a tiger team consisting of admins, builders, and testers.
  2. Build and Execution:

    • Map entities and assets between the previous BI tool and QuickSight.
    • Identify and prioritize business-critical reports for migration.
    • Leverage QuickSite APIs to migrate assets programmatically.
    • Build on the wins and communicate them to the broader team.
  3. Resources:

    • Utilize migration assets as bundles to manage large-scale migrations.
    • Leverage AWS Professional Services or AWS Partner migration tools.
    • Explore funding programs like AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) for large enterprises.

Whole Foods Market's Journey

  • Whole Foods faced challenges with poor dashboard performance and high costs with their legacy BI platform.
  • They migrated over 20,000 users to QuickSite within 6 months, achieving a 75% cost reduction and improving dashboard load time from over a minute to under 6 seconds.
  • Key lessons learned:
    • Gain leadership alignment for migration of this scale.
    • Prioritize dashboards with highest usage and impact.
    • Upskill the team on QuickSite and create a knowledge-sharing community.

ITA Unibanco's Journey

  • ITA Unibanco is the largest bank in Latin America, with a $8.4 billion market value.
  • They migrated 17,000 dashboards from an on-premises BI platform to QuickSite over 2 years.
  • Key challenges and solutions:
    • Integrating QuickSite with their data mesh architecture for access control and security.
    • Developing a self-service onboarding process for authors and business users.
    • Executing a phased migration strategy based on dashboard complexity and usage.
    • Leveraging AWS Professional Services and a partner for support and dashboard re-design.
  • Next steps include exploring Amazon Q for conversational BI and improving data asset searchability.

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