Month: April 2016
Will QuickSight Kill Tableau?
Over the past years we have seen an exponential increase in the amount of data being generated. On an average, nearly 2.5 quintillion bytes of data was being generated every day in 2012. Extracting actionable insights from such prodigious amount of data can be a nearly impossible task at times. Fig 1: Gartner: Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, Worldwide report, Lydia Leong et al, published 18 May, 2015 Amazon Web Services has been one of the pioneers in catering to the ever-changing data needs of enterprises with its highly scalable and pay-as-you-use services. AWS senior vice-president, Andy Jassy recently unveiled QuickSight, a brand new service from AWS in Business Intelligence domain, during an annual re-invent…
