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.<p>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.<p>Especially the last two: the second-to-last contains the "Sales Amount by <i>Count</i> 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 <i>unreadable</i> with that many labels.<p>Normally I would not nitpick data visualization, but data analysts are the <i>target demographic.</i>
Other discussion from the front page, which links to the product marketing page rather than the blog:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10346811" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10346811</a>