What we do
Data lake and warehouse on AWS
We design and build the data foundation behind your dashboards: ingestion into Amazon S3, transformation with AWS Glue, and querying with Amazon Athena, so reports run on trusted, governed data instead of one-off exports.
Amazon QuickSight dashboards and BI
Architecture, datasets, dashboards and rollout in Amazon QuickSight, designed around the decisions your team actually makes.
Embedded and secure analytics
Customer-facing and portal analytics with single sign-on, multi-factor authentication and row-level security, including HIPAA-conscious builds for regulated industries.
Migration to QuickSight
Move reporting from spreadsheets or another BI tool into QuickSight, with the data model rebuilt so the numbers match what leadership already trusts.
Training and handoff
Author and reader training, documentation and a clean handoff, so your team can own the environment after we step back.
Work we have delivered on AWS
Brewer International
A Single Source of Truth dashboard on Amazon QuickSight, using AWS Glue ETL and Amazon Athena to unify QuickBooks and operational data into one real-time, interactive view.
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International Code Council
ICC adopted DashProphet, Cruz Street's analytics platform hosted on AWS QuickSight, to centralize insights across Product, Marketing, and Sales.
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Health Care Startup
A HIPAA-compliant BI portal with single sign-on and AWS QuickSight dashboards analyzing medication efficiency and cost trends.
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Wiley
Cruz Street mapped a global publisher's disparate data systems and served as solution architect for a data model that improved insight, lead flow, and targeting.
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GARP
Cruz Street spun up a hosted data lake for GARP and migrated roughly 500 million rows of historical Pardot engagement data before it was lost.
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Skyborne
A flight school's logbook and student data turned into real-time AWS QuickSight dashboards for instructors and administrators.
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What leaders say
“You guys are moving in the right direction. There is a huge need in this space for data transformative services.”
— Data Leader – Thought Leadership Organization
“I wish we had the DashProphet platform during our data project working with Cruz Street. We could have put it to use. I'll be interested in using it once it's complete.”
— Director of Marketing – Educational Publisher
“Quickly putting data science in the hands of executives who need insight for digital transformation solves a big need in this space. Keep me posted! We might use your platform ourselves!”
— Principal Product Manager – Database Marketing Services Company
“Cruz Street's DashProphet platform and focus are spot on. There is a large need for companies to consume large amounts of data and drive insight in a more nimble way that exists today.”
— Senior Data Governance Leader – Automotive
“The DashProphet platform is going in the right direction. Many people are trying to do this. It's all about execution.”
— Former CDO – Data Service Company
“The DashProphet data science platform fills a need in the market. Many companies want to leap directly into data science without having the data foundation figured out first.”
— Former CTO – Marketing Services Company
AWS data analytics and QuickSight FAQ
What is QuickSight?+
QuickSight is the Amazon Web Services (AWS) dashboarding tool that is part of the AWS suite of cloud solutions to store, transform, and visualize data.
What insights can I get from QuickSight?+
QuickSight can summarize many kinds of data including e-commerce, product, engagement, customer feedback, financial, health, and many more. By grouping, filtering, and sorting data, users can view trends over time. Anomalies from the average can help stakeholders understand and address positive and negative shifts in key performance indicators.
What is Amazon QuickSight used for?+
QuickSight can help businesses of all sizes see their data in real time or in daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly aggregations to discover actionable insights.
Why are more businesses turning to QuickSight?+
Businesses are turning to QuickSight to avoid the expensive per-user costs of Tableau, Looker, and Power BI, as well as to take advantage of the speed provided by the in-memory SPICE datasets that power its dashboards. In short, it beats the competition because it's economical and fast.
What are the benefits of using QuickSight?+
Top benefits of QuickSight include speed, usage-based pricing, and the fact that it's backed and supported by the industry-leading AWS development team.
What is the role of QuickSight in business intelligence?+
QuickSight is a great solution for the last part of the data pipeline. It can be used by technical teams to help prepare data and by non-technical stakeholders to view the final output of data projects.
Why would you need a QuickSight consultant?+
Consultants like Cruz Street help ensure that QuickSight is configured to meet the objectives of the business leaders viewing the data. A typical QuickSight project includes initial discovery with a client to validate project assumptions, provide initial budget and time estimates, discuss an architectural approach, ensure data is ready for dashboarding, configure a connection, and, if needed, bring in data scientists and analysts to build the dashboards.
What does an AWS data analytics consultant do?+
An AWS data analytics consultant designs how your data is collected, stored, modeled and reported on AWS. For Cruz Street that usually means a data lake or warehouse (Amazon S3, AWS Glue, Amazon Athena), a governed data model, and Amazon QuickSight dashboards on top, plus the security, training and handoff that make it usable.
Do I need a consultant to use Amazon QuickSight?+
Not to get started. A consultant helps most when your data is spread across systems, when you need row-level security or embedded dashboards, or when a previous rollout produced dashboards nobody trusts. We scope the smallest engagement that fixes the real problem.
What data sources can QuickSight use?+
QuickSight connects to AWS sources such as Amazon S3, Athena and Redshift, to many databases, and to files and SaaS applications. We confirm your specific sources during the strategy call.
Can you build secure, embedded or HIPAA-conscious analytics?+
Yes. We have built a HIPAA-compliant BI portal with single sign-on and QuickSight dashboards (see the Health Care Startup case study), and we design access with MFA and row-level security from the start.
How is Cruz Street different from a large AWS reseller?+
We are a focused analytics firm. You work with the people who design and build your environment, and we build for you to own it afterward rather than to keep you dependent.
How do we start?+
Book a strategy call or send the form on this page. We review your data sources, reporting goals and timeline, then recommend a scoped first project.
For technical how-tos and pricing, see the QuickSight resource hub.
Tell us what you need to see
Share your data sources and reporting goals. We will come back with a scoped first project, not a generic pitch.
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