Work with a Team of QuickSight Experts that's Done it All Before
Turn your raw data into dynamic, shareable dashboards and actionable insights. Whether you're just starting out or looking to scale your existing analytics infrastructure, our certified AWS experts will guide you every step of the way — from planning and architecture to visualization and user training.
You’ll get:
- ✓Custom Dashboards Built for Your Business Goals
- ✓Seamless Integration with AWS and Third-Party Data Sources
- ✓Cost-Optimized QuickSight Setup & Configuration
- ✓Training & Enablement for Your Internal Teams
- ✓Embedded Analytics Build-Outs
Get custom dashboards, seamless integration, and scalable insights from a team that's worked with QuickSight since it was launched — in fact, we were one of ten partners that helped launch QuickSight in North America.
“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, CEO
“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, CEO
“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, CEO
“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, CEO
“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, CEO
“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, CEO
Why Amazon QuickSight? Why Cruz Street?
AWS-Certified Expertise
AWS-certified professionals who ensure your QuickSight setup is optimized for your unique needs.
Unified Data Integration
Effortlessly unify data from various sources, enabling cross-platform collaboration and enhanced data-driven strategies.
Tailored Analytics Solutions
Custom dashboards designed to equip your organization with scalable business intelligence, offering real-time analytics from a unified source.
Instant, Actionable Insights
Use real-time data to make faster, informed decisions, giving your organization the agility to adjust strategies and outperform competitors.
Scalable & Cost-Effective
Grow your analytics capabilities without the heavy infrastructure costs.
Intuitive, User-Friendly Interface
Empower your team, regardless of technical skill, to access and understand data.
Proven Track Record
Trusted by leading enterprises across multiple industries to deliver data-driven results.
On-Demand Analysts
Leverage the expertise of our seasoned data analysts for on-demand QuickSight support.
Client Success Stories
Education
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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Industrial
Brewer International
Cruz Street built a Single Source of Truth dashboard on Amazon QuickSight, using AWS Glue ETL and Amazon Athena Query Service to unify QuickBooks and operational data into one real-time, interactive view.
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Associations
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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Associations
International Code Council (ICC)
ICC adopted DashProphet, Cruz Street's analytics platform hosted on AWS QuickSight, to centralize insights across Product, Marketing, and Sales.
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Aeronautics
Skyborne
A flight school's logbook and student data were turned into real-time AWS QuickSight dashboards for instructors and administrators.
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Health Care
Health Care Startup
Cruz Street built a HIPAA-compliant BI portal with single sign-on (SSO) and AWS QuickSight dashboards analyzing medication efficiency and cost trends.
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A Brief Overview of AWS QuickSight
QuickSight empowers IT to provision product, marketing, finance, and other leaders with actionable data for real-time business insights. This AWS service can be especially useful for joining data from multiple systems of record, prototyping reports before committing to expensive, long projects, or unifying data from disparate business units. Typical outcomes allow organizations to improve how they:
- Monitor user engagement
- Report on media consumption
- Aggregate product or financial metrics from disparate sources
- Normalize data to correct for source inconsistency
QuickSight benefits both Authors and Readers within your organization. Cruz Street can help you establish appropriate access management by integrating QuickSight roles with your existing active company directories or other administrative systems. Ask us about virtually free Reader pricing and low-per-Author pricing — your organization can realize significant cost savings versus other solutions.
Author Features
- Quickly analyze data to uncover actionable insights
- Leverage engaging data visualization features to help translate data more meaningfully
- Integrate seamlessly within your existing AWS data ecosystem
Reader Features
- Interact with dashboards by filtering, sorting, and drill-downs
- Access relevant visuals without altering underlying data
Authors are usually analysts who are familiar with the data and empowered to design reports. Cruz Street can provide analysts to author starter dashboards for you, or even act as your internal data analytics team if needed. Because Cruz Street has a fully-functional pre-built prototyping engine, we can onboard sample data and provision your team with shareable dashboards within minutes or days — giving you the ability to see end-state proof-of-concept dashboards to help you gain buy-in for QuickSight build-outs in your ecosystem, or wait for your internal resources to free up.
Get Better Results with an Amazon QuickSight Consultant
The role of a QuickSight consulting partner is to leverage deep product knowledge and past projects to smooth out implementation. Without this support, projects can suffer from the following handicaps:
- Data inputs that do not meet end-user needs
- Misunderstandings about data meanings
- Re-work late in the project due to unclear requirements
- Under or over-baked solutions and unclear costs
- Unexpected lifecycle & maintenance issues
- Lack of clear project management leading to delays
- Dashboards that don't generate the required insights
- Lack of analysts trained to handle ad hoc reporting requests
It can be hard to implement QuickSight without third-party support. And even IT teams will benefit from an expert QuickSight delivery partner to ensure a smooth process.
Cruz Street: Your Team’s QuickSight Specialist
Cruz Street's QuickSight services include end-to-end data engineering as well as analytical output based on your unique organization and datatypes. We not only help you set up QuickSight — we also ensure you get the data science and analytical outcomes you need. Unlike purely technical consultants, our analysts have years of experience building dashboards and communicating insights, and will work with you to design the right solution. Please ask us about any specialized requirements you may have and we'll be happy to discuss them with you.
QuickSight Consulting
This is a great option if you have an existing QuickSight instance and just need help refining your dashboards. We can assist with field transformations, filters, parameters, calculations, and other SPICE dataset refinements so your teams can get back to higher-level tasks. The work here can be about data storytelling, simplifying presentations to better meet stakeholder expectations, or doing the opposite and working to unpack topline reports into more granular analyses. You can purchase buckets of our analyst hours in 10-hour increments.
QuickSight Prototyping
Cruz Street has a full-SaaS QuickSight prototyping tool called DashProphet. This allows you to load or connect to data and see fully built QuickSight dashboards live within minutes. You can even share them with colleagues with unlimited viewers.
Data Science on Demand
Sometimes you just need a quick, small set of data cleaned, joined, or analyzed. Based on your needs, you'll be paired with one of our analysts or data scientists. We're fluent in many tools from Python to DAX, and in descriptive deep-dives to predictive models. You can purchase buckets of our analyst hours in 10-hour increments. Our work is structured to let you understand an end-state while contracting incrementally — we'll work with you up front to structure deliverables, milestones, and timelines as much as possible, and can engage in a small discovery project if needed to better guide you on final outcomes and dependencies.
AWS ensures its partners have the certifications and training required to ensure project success. Whether you use Cruz Street or another consulting firm, we recommend you select one that is within the Amazon Partner Network.
Data Pipelines & Secure Access Behind QuickSight
Data pipelines behind QuickSight
A QuickSight dashboard is only as good as the data feeding it. For complex needs we pair analysts with data engineers on full data warehouse, data lake, and API build-outs — using technologies like AWS Glue ETL and Amazon Athena Query Service — so QuickSight datasets are built on a trusted, queryable foundation rather than one-off exports.
Custom BI portals & secure access
We scope, plan, and build QuickSight-powered BI portals end-to-end, including HIPAA-compliant portals with single sign-on (SSO) for regulated industries. Security is non-negotiable at inception: from Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) to Row-Level Security (RLS), QuickSight users only see what they should.
How Amazon QuickSight compares
QuickSight and Tableau are both strong data-visualization (dashboarding) products. QuickSight was launched by AWS in 2015; Tableau was founded in California in 2003 and acquired by Salesforce in 2019. Because it was founded earlier, Tableau has an installed-software heritage and only more recently developed cloud versions. QuickSight is cloud-native, with no desktop app required.
QuickSight differentiators
- Super-fast in-memory engine (SPICE)
- Lower, usage-based pricing
- Fully SaaS — no desktop data management
Tableau strengths
- Well-established in market
- Leading UI tools for designing rich visualizations
Amazon QuickSight Consulting 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.
For technical how-tos (layouts, calculated fields, drill-downs, joins, SPICE) and product comparisons, see our Amazon QuickSight resource hub, or the official Amazon QuickSight User Guide ↗.
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