Helical Insight: An AI-Powered Open Source Unified BI Platform

Every Feature. Free Forever. No Exceptions.

Download Helical Insight from GitHub and get every feature from day one — AI-powered conversational analytics, embedding, SSO, pixel-perfect canned reporting, multi-tenancy, and row-level security. No enterprise tier required to unlock any of it. 

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Compare Helical Insight with
other Open Source BI offerings

Compare Helical Insight with today’s other popular open source BI tools including Superset, Metabase, Redash and Lightdash on various features like AI capabilities, paginated canned reprots, embedding, SSO support, multi-tenancy, reporting, white labelling, scheduling, and total cost of ownership to understand which platform best fits your organization.

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Are you still using legacy reporting first tools like Jasper Reports, Pentaho, SSRS, Crystal reports, BIRT etc? See how Helical Insight combines pixel-perfect reporting with modern dashboards, AI-powered analytics, embedded BI, and self-service capabilities in a single platform. Read a detailed comparison with these traditional BI tools.
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Features

Self Service BI
drag and drop self service analytics with customizable dashboards and reports

Self Service BI

Simple drag-drop, user friendly interface for all users.

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Instant BI
natural language query analytics for business users without coding

Instant BI

No more need of knowing the technology or learning SQL. Ask the system what you need and it will give you the results

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Canned Reports
pixel perfect reporting for invoices financial statements and print ready reports

Canned Reports

Create pixel perfect printer friendly paginated report like Invoice, P&L Statement, Balance sheet etc.

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Browser Based & Responsive
browser based analytics access across devices without installation

Browser Based & Responsive

Completely browser based BI product with single server installation. Helical Insight is fully responsive for any device and screen size.

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Embed, SSO & White Label
embedded analytics with iframe and api integration for data visualization

Embed, SSO & White Label

Embed BI reports in your own app with SSO. Implement white label for uniform look and feel.

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Exporting & Email Scheduling
role based access control with multitenancy for dashboards and reports

Exporting & Email Scheduling

Export and email schedule in various formats like PDF XLS CSV.

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Multi-tenancy & Row Level Security
multitenancy analytics with role based access control security

Multi-tenancy & Row Level Security

Multi-tenancy support for your clients including row level security based on session variables.

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DB Sources & Dynamic DB Switching
bi tool multi database connectivity with dynamic data source switching

DB Sources & Dynamic DB Switching

With Helical Insight you can connect to almost any database via JDBC driver. Further, same reports and dashboards can connect to different databases based on configuration rules for each organization.

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OnPrem / Cloud
on premise and cloud deployment for secure and scalable analytics

OnPrem / Cloud

Our application installer works well with secured In-house solution or widely accessible cloud solutions

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High Performance
high performance BI for big data analytics

High Performance

Features like Caching, pagination, load balancing, and in-memory options ensure blazing fast rendering.

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API Driven & Extensible
api driven open source bi framework customization platform

API Driven & Extensible

API first approach for all functions. Extensible framework-driven architecture.

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Workflow
custom BI workflow automation in open source bi tool

Workflow

Customize and design your own workflows according to your business processes.

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Connect to Any Data Source

Be it a RDBMS, using big data technologies, or unstructured data, or even flat files. You will be able to connect to almost any data source and start making information from your data. The application is so extensible that you can connect to any JDBC connection and use it.

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Customized dashboards and reports with open source Business Intelligence

Every user has unique requirements, and we understand that. You can design reports and dashboards that makes sense to you and your clients. All the required KPIs on a single screen with so many visualizations to choose from. Design your own way into analyzing your data.

You can have clients using tiny screens of mobile phones, or small screen of smart phones, and tablets or they have big screens of laptops or desktops, or be it large wallboards. Not only the reports and dashboards, but the entire application is responsive. No matter you are commuting and skimming through the last day’s report or presenting annual reports to stakeholders, you are covered.

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This has been one of the best Customer Support experiences I have ever had. The design of the theme also, AMAZING!

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This has been one of the best Customer Support experiences I have ever had. The design of the theme also, AMAZING!

Lieke Martens Web Developer

This has been one of the best Customer Support experiences I have ever had. The design of the theme also, AMAZING!

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Helical Insight’s self-service capabilities is one to reckon with. It allows you to simply drag and drop columns, add filters, apply aggregate functions if required, and create reports and dashboards on the fly. For advanced users, the self-service component has ability to add javascript, HTML, HTML5, CSS, CSS3 and AJAX. These customizations allow you to create dynamic reports and dashboards. You can also add new charts inside the self-service component, add new kind of aggregate functions and customize it using our APIs.
Helical Insight’s self-service capabilities is one to reckon with. It allows you to simply drag and drop columns, add filters, apply aggregate functions if required, and create reports and dashboards on the fly. For advanced users, the self-service component has ability to add javascript, HTML, HTML5, CSS, CSS3 and AJAX. These customizations allow you to create dynamic reports and dashboards. You can also add new charts inside the self-service component, add new kind of aggregate functions and customize it using our APIs.
Helical Insight, via simple browser based interface of Canned Reporting module, also allows to create pixel perfect printer friendly document kind of reports also like Invoice, P&L Statement, Balance sheet etc.
Helical Insight, via simple browser based interface of Canned Reporting module, also allows to create pixel perfect printer friendly document kind of reports also like Invoice, P&L Statement, Balance sheet etc.
If you have a product, built on any platform like Dot Net or Java or PHP or Ruby, you can easily embed Helical Insight within it using iFrames or webservices, for quick value add through instant visualization of data.
If you have a product, built on any platform like Dot Net or Java or PHP or Ruby, you can easily embed Helical Insight within it using iFrames or webservices, for quick value add through instant visualization of data.
Being a 100% browser-based BI tool, you can connect with your database and analyse across any location and device. There is no need to download or install heavy memory-consuming developer tools – All you need is a Browser application! We are battle-tested on most of the commonly used browsers.
Being a 100% browser-based BI tool, you can connect with your database and analyse across any location and device. There is no need to download or install heavy memory-consuming developer tools – All you need is a Browser application! We are battle-tested on most of the commonly used browsers.
We have organization level security where the Superadmin can create, delete and modify roles. Dashboards and reports can be added to that organization. This ensures multitenancy.
We have organization level security where the Superadmin can create, delete and modify roles. Dashboards and reports can be added to that organization. This ensures multitenancy.
We have organization level security where the Superadmin can create, delete and modify roles. Dashboards and reports can be added to that organization. This ensures multitenancy.
We have organization level security where the Superadmin can create, delete and modify roles. Dashboards and reports can be added to that organization. This ensures multitenancy.
A first-of-its-kind Open-Source BI framework, Helical Insight is completely API-driven. This allows you to add functionalities, including but not limited to adding a new exporting type, new datasource type, core functionality expansion, new charting in adhoc etc., at any place whenever you wish, using your own in-house developers.
A first-of-its-kind Open-Source BI framework, Helical Insight is completely API-driven. This allows you to add functionalities, including but not limited to adding a new exporting type, new datasource type, core functionality expansion, new charting in adhoc etc., at any place whenever you wish, using your own in-house developers.
It handles huge volumes of data effectively. Caching, Pagination, Load-Balancing and In-Memory not only provides you with amazing experience, but also and does not burden the database server more than required. Further effective use of computing power gives best performance and complex calculations even on the big data even with smaller machines for your personal use. Filtering, Sorting, Cube Analysis, Inter Panel Communication on the dashboards all at lightning speed. Thereby, making best open-source Business Intelligence solution in the market.
It handles huge volumes of data effectively. Caching, Pagination, Load-Balancing and In-Memory not only provides you with amazing experience, but also and does not burden the database server more than required. Further effective use of computing power gives best performance and complex calculations even on the big data even with smaller machines for your personal use. Filtering, Sorting, Cube Analysis, Inter Panel Communication on the dashboards all at lightning speed. Thereby, making best open-source Business Intelligence solution in the market.
With advance NLP algorithm, business users simply ask questions like, “show me sales of last quarter”, “average monthly sales of my products”. Let the application give the power to users without knowledge of query language or underlying data architecture
With advance NLP algorithm, business users simply ask questions like, “show me sales of last quarter”, “average monthly sales of my products”. Let the application give the power to users without knowledge of query language or underlying data architecture
Our application is compatible with almost all databases, be it RDBMS, or columnar database, or even flat files like spreadsheets or csv files. You can even connect to your own custom database via JDBC connection. Further, our database connection can be switched dynamically based on logged in users or its organization or other parameters. So, all your clients can use the same reports and dashboards without worrying about any data security breech.
Our application is compatible with almost all databases, be it RDBMS, or columnar database, or even flat files like spreadsheets or csv files. You can even connect to your own custom database via JDBC connection. Further, our database connection can be switched dynamically based on logged in users or its organization or other parameters. So, all your clients can use the same reports and dashboards without worrying about any data security breech.
Our application can be installed on an in-house server where you have full control of your data and its security. Or on cloud where it is accessible to larger audience without overheads and maintenance of the servers. One solution that works for all.
Our application can be installed on an in-house server where you have full control of your data and its security. Or on cloud where it is accessible to larger audience without overheads and maintenance of the servers. One solution that works for all.
Different companies have different business processes that the existing BI tools do not encompass. Helical Insight permits you to design your own workflows and specify what functional module of BI gets triggered
Different companies have different business processes that the existing BI tools do not encompass. Helical Insight permits you to design your own workflows and specify what functional module of BI gets triggered