Based on just looking at the screenshots and limited amount of text, it looks like more of a report writing tool with basics such as filtering, rowcolumn pivoting, etc. Therefore, it would be fine for KPI dashboards and sales charts for the customers' dataset residing in the cloud.
For some, "business intelligence" would emphasize data-mining algorithms such as identifying clusters (k-means, etc), dimension reduction, etc. If QuickSight also has these capabilities, it doesn't seem like Amazon is advertising it.
Odd choices of data visualizations for a visualization-focused product.
Especially the last two: the second-to-last contains the "Sales Amount by Count of Subcategory", and since count is an numeric aggregate, the plot should be a labeled scatterplot and not a bar plot; the fact that it isn't a scatterplot gives me skepticism of the software. The last chart is plain unreadable with that many labels.
Normally I would not nitpick data visualization, but data analysts are the target demographic.
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Especially the last two: the second-to-last contains the "Sales Amount by Count of Subcategory", and since count is an numeric aggregate, the plot should be a labeled scatterplot and not a bar plot; the fact that it isn't a scatterplot gives me skepticism of the software. The last chart is plain unreadable with that many labels.
Normally I would not nitpick data visualization, but data analysts are the target demographic.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10346811