Alternative to AWS Quicksight

In this article, we explore alternatives to AWS QuickSight, with Helical Insight standing out as the top choice. Helical Insight offers robust features and greater customization, making it an excellent alternative to AWS QuickSight.

Quicksight Introduction: QuickSight is a serverless browser based business intelligence (BI) service built by Amazon Web Services (AWS). It integrates seamlessly with various AWS data sources and databases.

Pricing and limitations

  • Costly: Quicksight pricing is based on per session of usage. Hence with more users, cost can be very heavy
  • Quicksight is only available on AWS, hence if you are using some other cloud you can not use it. Further it always needs internet to work
  • Quicksight is only available as a cloud offering, hence if you would like to use something within your servers then Quicksight will not work for you
  • There are limited customization and charting options

AWS Quicksight Alternative: You can look at Open Source BI product Helical Insight as a cost affective and strong reporting Business Intelligence (BI) alternative to Quicksight. Below are the features which makes Helical Insight as a good option

AWS Quicksight Alternative

  • Embeddable BI & SSO options: Helical Insight comes with embedding options, thus suited for product based companies who are looking for embedding reports dashboard and other advanced analytics within their product. Helical Insight supports various kind embedding and SSO options (JWT, oAuth, oAuth 2.0, CAS, LDAP, ADFS etc)
  • Flexible deployment option: Unlike Quicksight, Helical Insight gives you flexibility to deploy and use Helical Insight on choice of your servers. So you can install on any cloud vendors, on-premise servers. You can get docker, kubernetes or direct installer file.
  • Flat pricing: UnlikedQuicksight, Helical Insight comes at a flat pricing option irrespective of the usage. Hence you don’t have to worry about the number of sessions, or users, or data size etc. You can expose the reports dashboard and analytics to a much larger audience. There is even a community edition also present which is completely free.
  • Various kind of reports dashboards support: Based on the kind of requirement you are having, Helical Insight supports multiple different visualization options
    • Canned Reports: These are pixel perfect paginated reports like bank statements, invoices, salary slips etc.
    • Data visualization and dashboard: Build modern reports/dashboards with various kind of visualizations which can have filters, drill down, drill through options. We support various kind of visualizations and it’s customization as well as option to add new charts as well within Helical Insight.
    • GenAI based analysis: Helical Insight is also working on GenAI integration, thus it would allow chat based data analysis and much more advanced analysis capabilities as well.
  • Other Features: There are a lot of other features which are present which includes
    • Support of more than 40+ data sources
    • Row level data security
    • Exporting
    • Email scheduling
    • Support of HA, LB, Caching, Pagination, Virtualization etc for performance enhancement
    • Extensive API support
    • Developer friendly with options of adding code, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Groovy, java etc to extend the capabilities
    • White labelling
    • Localization

Please reach out on support@helicalinsight.com for a demo, pricing and POC.

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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