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Expanding the Cloud: Introducing Amazon QuickSight

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In such a data intensive environment, making key business decisions such as running marketing and sales campaigns, logistic planning, financial analysis and ad targeting require deriving insights from these data. When you point QuickSight to a data source, data is automatically ingested into SPICE for optimal analytical query performance.

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Rethinking the 'production' of data

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This starts with integrated platforms that can manage all activities, from market research to production to logistics. If data take center stage then companies must learn how to create added value out of it – namely by combining the data they own with external data sources and by using modern, automated analytics processes.