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Re:Amazon QuickSight – Business Intelligence by AWS by something123 on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @01:00PM (#10347216)
Surely if you're that large then you could invest in some in-house domain-specific solution. There are whole programming languages dedicated to doing statistics on datasets.
Re:Amazon QuickSight – Business Intelligence by AWS by slg on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @01:09PM (#10347285)
Isn't that the whole point of AWS and their competitors? The savings of passing the problem off to domain experts to work out all the details often outweighs the benefits of having a solution that is 100% customized for your business.
Re:Amazon QuickSight – Business Intelligence by AWS by lotso on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @01:13PM (#10347312)
For many companies (even large companies) it is cheaper and faster to use a service like this than build an in-house solution.
Re:Amazon QuickSight – Business Intelligence by AWS by sageabilly on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @01:25PM (#10347424)
Not to mention that if you want this built for your company you call up the BI provider and tell them to send some consultants over to build it for you. You might train one person or possibly two at the most to be able to make tech calls with the BI provider. Much easier for a company to say "I want a dashboard that reports X, Y, and Z" and then the BI company scurries off, builds it, brings it back to you, and you hand over some cash for their effort.