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Introduction
- The session is presented by Jesse Gebhardt, the leader of the QuickSight Solution Architecture team worldwide.
- He will be joined by two customers, Michael Privat from Availity and Steve Bailey from Anthology, who will share their journeys using QuickSight and Amazon Q.
- The session will cover how generative AI can help reimagine the capabilities of business intelligence.
Amazon QuickSight Overview
- QuickSight is a unified BI service that provides a consistent experience across various BI and analytics capabilities.
- It offers a serverless architecture, flexible pricing models, and tight integration with AWS security frameworks.
- QuickSight has over 100,000 customers across different industries and geographies.
The Evolution of BI Capabilities
- In the 80s and 90s, BI was mostly static, tabular reporting accessible to a small group of highly skilled developers.
- In the late 2000s, the dawn of interactive, drag-and-drop dashboarding empowered business and data analysts.
- However, this often led to a proliferation of similar dashboards to answer follow-up questions.
Generative AI and BI
- Generative AI is good at accessing broad knowledge and performing specific tasks like summarization and learning assistance.
- BI is designed to answer precise questions, automate data transformation, and provide data lineage and governance.
- The combination of these two capabilities leads to "Generative BI", which is the focus of this session.
Amazon Q in QuickSight
- Amazon Q in QuickSight has three main capabilities:
- Empowering authors (analysts) to build dashboards and find insights more proficiently.
- Enabling readers (end-users) to get executive summaries and ask follow-up questions.
- Facilitating storytelling to communicate insights and drive decision-making.
- These capabilities can also be embedded into applications.
Demonstration
- The demonstration showcases how to use Amazon Q in QuickSight to:
- Build visuals, calculations, and refine dashboards using natural language prompts.
- Perform Q&A on data to answer both vague and specific questions.
- Generate data stories to communicate insights in an interactive, secure, and easily updatable format.
Customer Journeys
Availity
- Availity is a healthcare technology company that facilitates communication between healthcare providers and insurance plans.
- Availity uses QuickSight and Amazon Q to enable self-service for their internal users and customer-facing products.
- Strategies include providing starter dashboards as "jumping-off points" for users, generating data stories, and empowering users to build their own dashboards using natural language.
Anthology
- Anthology is an educational technology company that provides various EdTech solutions.
- Anthology uses QuickSight and Amazon Q to deliver insights to their customers across their product portfolio.
- They embed the QuickSight experience within their own Illuminate product, allowing customers to explore data, ask questions, and access summaries in plain language.
- Anthology is looking forward to leveraging the generative BI capabilities, such as data stories, to further enhance their customer experience.
Getting Started
- There is a 30-day free trial available for new QuickSight users, with access to the Q capabilities.
- The QuickSight community is recommended as a one-stop resource for learning materials, demos, and Q&A forums.
- The session highlights upcoming BI-focused sessions at re:Invent, including a hands-on workshop for trying out Amazon Q in QuickSight.