Advanced Analytics with GenAI Insights: Amazon QuickSight Q Workshop

As a Premier AWS Partner, NorthBay is proud to offer the Advanced Analytics Strategy Workshop, designed to empower businesses to harness the full potential of their data. This comprehensive workshop helps organizations uncover opportunities, address pain points, and develop actionable solutions tailored to their unique challenges. The focus is on understanding your business, identifying key problems, and exploring how advanced analytics and tools like Amazon QuickSight can drive measurable results.

The workshop begins with collaborative sessions to align with your business objectives, where NorthBay’s experts work closely with your team to prioritize use cases, define metrics, and uncover customer pain points. By diving deep into your operational and strategic goals, we craft a tailored plan that addresses your most pressing challenges. Our approach includes designing interactive dashboards, leveraging advanced analytics, and showcasing proof-of-value solutions that demonstrate the tangible impact of QuickSight in solving real-world problems.

Approach

NorthBay collaborates to transform data into actionable insights, addressing challenges, designing interactive dashboards, and leveraging advanced analytics like QuickSight Q for natural language querying and anomaly detection. The workshop concludes with a roadmap and tailored proposal, empowering confident, data-driven decisions and measurable outcomes.

Activities

Key activities we will provide throughout the journey:

(1) Understand business objectives, data sources, metrics, and security requirements to ensure QuickSight aligns with organizational needs. (2) Build interactive dashboards with filters, drill-downs, and parameters. Configure ML Insights for trend analysis and anomaly detection, and set up QuickSight Q for natural language querying. (3) Use CloudWatch and CloudTrail for performance monitoring and auditing, and configure cost management with SPICE storage and pay-per-session pricing to optimize expenses. (4) Train users and administrators on QuickSight features, providing ongoing support to encourage adoption and effective usage. (5) Continuously gather feedback to refine the solution, update datasets, and enhance dashboards. Leverage new AWS features as they become available to maintain solution relevance.

NorthBay offers comprehensive data analytics solutions that cover QuickSight solutions that align with business needs, providing secure, scalable, and effective analytics capabilities to empower data-driven decision-making.

Deliverables

Depending on scope, you can expect to receive the following:

(1) Co-design solutions with AWS-certified experts to leverage the AWS environment during up to 8 hours of discovery sessions with NorthBay and your technical teams. (2) Receive a diagram of the agreed-upon architecture as a visual reference. (3) A summary of discovery session findings, justifications for architectural decisions, and a future solution plan with recommended next steps. (4) Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) estimates, prefilled with key values from the sessions, to help you accurately project ongoing AWS operational costs. (5) A no-obligation proposal for NorthBay’s Professional Services detailing implementation costs and next steps to accelerate your journey to a modern data platform on AWS.

(We typically require ~1 week to finalize all Deliverables from the conclusion of the interactive design sessions.)

Outcomes

(1) Enhanced Decision-Making: QuickSight’s interactive dashboards and real-time insights enable faster, more accurate data-driven decisions, benefiting operational and strategic goals. (2) Improved Accessibility: User-friendly features, like natural language querying, empower non-technical users to explore data, fostering a data-literate culture across the organization. (3) Cost-Efficient Analytics: SPICE’s in-memory processing and pay-per-session pricing optimize costs while delivering high performance, making QuickSight an affordable choice. (4) Seamless AWS Integration: NorthBay’s workshop enables smooth integration of Amazon QuickSight with external applications like Salesforce, Slack, and ServiceNow using AWS AppFlow, along with native services like S3 and Redshift.