What is Amazon QuickSight and how does it work?

Amazon QuickSight is AWS's cloud-native business intelligence service that transforms complex data into interactive visualizations and insights. The integration with Abacum connects QuickSight's powerful visualization capabilities with Abacum's financial planning platform, enabling finance teams to create dynamic dashboards that bring budgets, forecasts, and scenarios to life.

Benefits of Integrating AlphaStaff with Abacum

• Transform Abacum's financial models into interactive, self-service dashboards accessible to stakeholders across your organization

• Leverage QuickSight's SPICE engine for lightning-fast performance when analyzing large datasets from multiple planning scenarios

• Create pixel-perfect reports that combine Abacum's planning data with operational metrics from your broader AWS ecosystem

• Enable natural language queries through Amazon Q, allowing non-financial users to ask questions about budgets and forecasts in plain English

• Embed financial dashboards directly into existing applications and portals, bringing FP&A insights into daily workflows

• Scale from small teams to thousands of users with pay-per-session pricing that keeps costs aligned with actual usage

• Maintain enterprise-grade security with row-level permissions ensuring users only access appropriate financial data

• Automate report distribution with scheduled delivery of key financial metrics to executives and department heads