Amazon Web Services now offers an enterprise-grade version its cloud-based data analysis and visualization service. Amazon QuickSight Enterprise Edition was launched by the company late last week, approximately one month after the release of the lighter-weight Standard Edition. QuickSight was first announced at the 2015 re-Invent conference. It allows users to organize, visualize, interact and…
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Preview: Amazon QuickSight for Big Data Analytics Launches
Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), announced yesterday that Amazon QuickSight, which is used for Big Data analytics and was now generally available. Amazon QuickSight is described as an affordable tool for business intelligence (BI) and was extensively tested by more than 1,500 organizations in a preview that lasted more than a year. AWS spokesperson Jeff…
Read moreAmazon QuickSight BI Service gets Anomaly Detection. After previously infusing its Amazon QuickSight business Intelligence (BI) service (with machine learning functionality), Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), has boosted it again with new features, including anomaly detection. Amazon QuickSight, a fully managed BI cloud service, is known for its pay-per-session pricing model. This is reportedly the first of its kind in the industry. AWS introduced several enhancements to the service last week, including anomaly detection. AWS stated that QuickSight Anomaly detection allows you to uncover hidden insights within your data by continuously analysing billions of data points. With the current launch, subscribers can subscribe to receive email alerts when an anomaly occurs in business metrics. These alerts will also highlight the factors that lead to these anomalies. This allows you to immediately address the business metrics that require attention. These alerts can be configured based on the significance of the anomaly or its directionality. Other improvements include:
Support for Favorites allows users to bookmark dashboards and analyzes. Filtering past N data points within a set can be used, for example, to view sales metrics from a previous week, while excluding incomplete data from the current week. Word Cloud is a new chart type that visually represents insights from categorical fields as well…
Read moreAmazon Offers $100 Usage Credits to Support Alexa Skills Development
Amazon will award $100 promotional credits to developers who publish Alexa Skills, which allow users to use natural language commands to control voice-controlled devices like Echo. Developers who use Amazon Web Services Inc.’s (AWS) free Tier to publish Alexa Skills and then exceed their limits and incur usage fees will receive monthly credits. The AWS…
Read moreAmazon pledges resources as part of Biden’s Cybersecurity Push
Amazon is just one of many tech giants that met with the Biden administration this week and promised to increase their efforts against cyberattacks. The company has pledged to offer a multi-factor authentication (MFA), device at no cost to customers who qualify for Amazon Web Services (AWS). It will also make its internal security training…
Read moreAmazon Pinpoint gets 2-Way Messaging and Expanded Notification Support
Amazon Web Services (AWS), recently released several improvements to its Pinpoint mobile analytics solution. These include two-way SMS texting, and support for push notification services. Pinpoint was first introduced at the 2016 reInvent conference. It allows mobile app developers to interact directly with their users via push notifications, e mails, and SMS texts. It also…
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A route-based VPN (also known as. tunnel interface VPN) rather than a site to site one. Both establish a secure tunnel between appliances. However, a route policy controls traffic through the tunnel. This gives you more control over the services (ports), you want to open, as well as redundancy to reroute traffic in the event…
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Agile training methods are now mainstream. They work! Each Agile practice may not be appropriate for every organization. However, they have all provided real value to many organizations. Some Agile practices can be used by everyone! Advantage #1: We meet the needs of our customers Agile projects involve customers regularly, not only at the beginning…
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As you add more operations, it can be more difficult to get the best performance from your SQL server. Online transaction processing, for example, requires the ability to add, delete, modify, and retrieve data quickly. This data might seem obvious. The theory is that it should be easier to analyze and retrieve the data if…
Read moreAda Lovelace Day Interview With Melanie Franklin
Melanie Franklin was my last encounter. I didn’t think I made a good impression. I told Melanie that I wrote mainly about handbags*, and I expected to come off as a bit flippant. So it was with some trepidation that after work I sat down at Maven Training to interview her for Ada Lovelace Day….
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