A few months ago, I wrote about how our clients have embraced Amazon QuickSight, a cloud-based data analytics tool that transforms how they visualize, understand, and access their data. Now, AWS has announced a major shift in its offerings – leaping into the realm of agentic applications by bundling these existing QuickSight features into its new offering, Amazon Quick Suite.
From Data Visualization to Agentic AI: Understanding the Quick Suite Transformation
AWS is calling this a significant evolution and expansion, and I wholeheartedly agree. With QuickSight alone, users have had to make the leap from data analysis to action on their own. I have seen the incredible value of better understanding the story that a company’s data is telling, but half of the effort is applying that knowledge to do something about it. As the AI landscape is quickly evolving, AWS is strategically positioning itself in response to the growing need for adopting modern, AI-driven workspaces that enhance not only your understanding of your data but also help you to make decisions and take action.
Amazon Quick Suite vs QuickSight: What’s Different?
The new Quick Suite workspace offers a much wider range of features. Rest assured, existing QuickSight functionality is preserved so that you will not have to relearn skills or rework existing integrations. I’m excited about these new features because they deliver on the other half of the “analysis and action” equation: combining existing business intelligence features with AI-powered research, workflow automation, and agents into a unified workspace.
I’m encouraged that Quick Suite supports users throughout every stage of their workflow: from researching opportunities, assessing compliance, or evaluating trends to creating support tickets, generating status reports, or updating external systems, such as opportunities in Salesforce.
What’s New in Amazon Quick Suite
Quick Research: AI-Powered Business Intelligence
Quick Research lets you synthesize information across a variety of sources to deliver comprehensive, cited insights by securely blending internal and external data sources. It’s ideal for use cases like strategic planning, market analysis, and compliance.
Quick Flows: Natural Language Workflow Automation
Quick Flows let you create and share workflow automations using natural language. For example, you can transform meeting notes into action items, automate weekly reports that use your latest insights, and streamline customer support processes.
Quick Automate: Multi-Step Business Process Management
Quick Automate lets you build complex, multi-step business processes that involve multiple approval steps, system integrations, and cross-departmental coordination. Good use cases include onboarding, procurement, or compliance procedures.
Quick Index: Your Centralized Knowledge Base
Quick Index provides a shared knowledge base of your company’s documents and data. It is a secure, searchable repository that consolidates documents, files, and application data to power AI-driven insights.
Quick Spaces: Customizable AI Workspaces for Teams
Quick Spaces lets you create customized spaces for individuals and teams to access data, agents, and other Quick Suite resources relevant to their area of focus. Spaces provide a straightforward way for each user to add their own context by uploading files or connecting to specific datasets and repositories that are either specific to their work or to a particular business function. These can be scaled from personal use to enterprise-level deployment.
Quick Suite Chat: Team-Specific AI Agents
Quick Suite chat allows you to customize Quick Suite’s AI agents and workspaces for specific teams, enabling seamless collaboration and contextual insights.
Integrations: Connect Quick Suite to Your Existing Tools
Integrations enables you to connect Quick Suite with external applications to perform actions or trigger processes. Users can extend functionality to these applications and integrate data from them back into Quick Suite to enhance their AI agents and chat experience.
How to Implement Amazon Quick Suite in Your Organization
My colleagues and I are excited not only by this evolution in generative AI workspaces but also by the potential that Quick Suite has to revolutionize how businesses operate. Amazon Quick Suite marks a significant leap forward in streamlining workflows, unlocking insights, and driving innovation while empowering users to work efficiently and explore data in a secure way.
As we step into a new era of adopting AI into our workflow and workspaces, it’s important to collaborate with a trusted technology advisor to safely engage with these AI tools and workspaces and to understand how they can fit into your business strategy. Effectively adopting a new workspace like Quick Suite requires thoughtful implementation on how it can best serve your business alongside an understanding of how to set up its governance policies and train users to make the most of its powerful features.
Partner with Experts for Quick Suite Implementation
At Soliant, we get great satisfaction from helping you to use AI safely and effectively to transform how your teams and business operate. We’d love to meet with you and explore the potential of Quick Suite together to see what it can do for you. Contact us to get started today.
