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Category: Announcements

Align the Amazon QuickSight UI with your organization’s brand

With the new application customization feature in QuickSight, you can now create a branded analytics environment that aligns with your organizational identity. For enterprises, this helps with establishing brand coherency and a consistent look and feel for users. For ISVs, it helps with seamlessly integrating QuickSight into the look and feel of the application. In this post, we show how to configure and manage custom brands in your QuickSight account so you can present a branded analytics environment that aligns with your organizational identity to your end-users.

Introducing repeating sections in Amazon QuickSight pixel-perfect reports

Pixel-perfect reports in Amazon QuickSight enable you to create and share highly formatted, personalized reports containing business-critical data to hundreds of thousands of end-users without infrastructure setup or maintenance, upfront licensing, or long-term commitments. To save time copying the same visual multiple times to filter for different values and generate an invoice for all your customers, you can use repeating sections in pixel-perfect reports. With repeating sections, authors can build visuals in a report one time but have the system repeat for as many values of a dimension exist. In this post, we demonstrate how to use this new feature.

Amazon Q is now generally available in Amazon QuickSight, bringing Generative BI capabilities to the entire organization

We’re excited to announce that Amazon Q in QuickSight, previously announced in preview at AWS re:Invent 2023, is now generally available, bringing Generative BI capabilities to all Amazon QuickSight user roles. Organizations have amassed massive amounts of data, and customers we talk with are looking for faster ways to put that data to work informing […]

Announcing QuickSight Arena: Explore Amazon QuickSight for free and showcase your dashboards

The Amazon QuickSight Community serves as a one-stop-shop where business intelligence (BI) authors and developers from across the globe can access learning content, ask and answer questions, stay up to date, network, and learn together about Amazon QuickSight. QuickSight powers data-driven organizations with unified BI at hyperscale. With QuickSight, all users can meet varying analytic needs from the same source of truth through modern interactive dashboards, paginated reports, embedded analytics, and natural language queries. In this post, we walk through the new QuickSight Arena—an embedded instance of QuickSight on the QuickSight Community—and explain its use cases and how to get started.

Meet the Top 10 QuickSight Experts of 2023 from the Amazon QuickSight Community!

We are thrilled to introduce the Top 10 QuickSight Experts on the Amazon QuickSight Community for 2023! This worldwide group of esteemed business intelligence (BI) experts has shared their incredible expertise in data visualization in order to propel others forward on their BI and generative BI learning journey. They dedicate their time to help others, […]

What’s new with data visualization in Amazon QuickSight – 2023 in review

Amazon QuickSight is a fully managed, cloud-native business intelligence (BI) service that you can use to connect to your data and create interactive dashboards that can be shared with tens of thousands of users. The dashboards can be used within QuickSight or embedded in software as a service (SaaS) apps. As we bid farewell to […]

Build custom and interactive dashboards using new runtime capabilities in QuickSight Embedding SDK

Amazon QuickSight is a fully managed, cloud-native business intelligence (BI) service that you can use to connect to your data and create interactive dashboards that can be shared with tens of thousands of users. The dashboards can be used within QuickSight or embedded in software as a service (SaaS) apps. Today, we’re launching a feature you can use to dynamically update the theme and filters of embedded dashboards and visuals at runtime through the QuickSight Embedding SDK. Runtime filtering and theming of embedded dashboards and visuals can help you seamlessly integrate your SaaS application with QuickSight embedded dashboards and visuals. You can now use the new methods available in the Embedding SDK

Automate your Amazon QuickSight assets deployment using the new Amazon EventBridge integration

We heard that you wanted an automated, scalable way to deploy, back up, or replicate Amazon QuickSight assets at scale so that BIOps teams within your organization can work in an agile manner. We are launching QuickSight assets Create, Update, and Delete (CUD) events using Amazon EventBridge. With EventBridge, developers can respond automatically to events in QuickSight such as a new dashboard creation or update. These events are delivered to EventBridge in near real time. Developers can write simple rules to indicate which events are of interest to them and what actions to take when an event matches a rule. By subscribing and responding to QuickSight events in EventBridge, customers can automate their workflows, such as continuous deployment, replication, and backups.