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nClouds wanted to enhance project management productivity and gain actionable insights into the performance of their service delivery teams.
Amazon QuickSight, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), Amazon Aurora Serverless, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon DynamoDB, AWS Lambda
Enhanced productivity
Actionable insights
Pay-per-session pricing
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At nClouds, we focus relentlessly on making our clients successful. With Amazon QuickSight, we can quickly gain insights into the productivity and performance of our teams to support our clients’ success.”
Co-Founder & CEO, nClouds
nClouds’ project managers were using Airtable, a database with a spreadsheet-like interface, to manage the projects of their teams. However, when they needed to create a report for senior management on the progress of these projects, the report had to be created manually, impacting productivity.
nClouds wanted to enhance productivity by automating analysis and reporting of project management data. They also wanted to seamlessly transform and analyze this data to gain actionable insights into the attainment of project performance goals and quarterly AWS certification targets.
nClouds decided to implement Amazon QuickSight, a fully managed service to create and publish proactive, interactive dashboards to analyze and visualize their data. Dashboards can be accessed from any device and embedded into applications, portals, and websites.
See this high-level overview of how it works:
Source: Amazon Web Services, Inc. Amazon QuickSight. [online] Available at: https://aws.amazon.com/quicksight/
nClouds wanted to continue to use Airtable to input project management data (as they liked its ease of use) and connect it to Amazon QuickSight to perform the analysis and generate automated reports. They used an AWS Lambda function and the Airtable API to synchronize the Airtable data with the Aurora Serverless database. Amazon Aurora Serverless has native integration with Amazon QuickSight.
nClouds built a Slack application using AWS Lambda and Amazon DynamoDB, to enable their project managers to update project information by using Slack. Slack data flows to an Amazon API Gateway and from there to Amazon Aurora Serverless. The AWS Lambda Project Management function also sends the Slack data to serverless DynamoDB to store and manage that stateful data.
Within the AWS Cloud is an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). Residing in the Amazon VPC are the AWS Lambda Project Management function, a Public Subnet, and a Private Subnet. Amazon Aurora Serverless is in the Private Subnet to enhance security. A network address translation (NAT) gateway managed service within the Public Subnet enables instances in the Private Subnet to connect with the Airtable API and Slack Project Management App that are located outside of the AWS Cloud.
Using QuickSight, nClouds’ project managers can be more productive as they no longer need to spend time manually investigating and analyzing data to create reports for senior management.
nClouds gains actionable insights on the performance of their teams instantly and effortlessly. QuickSight’s interactive dashboard visualizations reveal trends and key business drivers.
nClouds now has access to rich, interactive dashboards on a pay-per-session basis with no upfront costs or complex capacity planning.
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