There are times where we need to change how the dates and numbers appears on the report. Should it be having a thousand separator, round of to 2 decimal places if this number means an accounting unit, if the number is an ID then it should not have any decimal place or separator. If the
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In this blog, you will see how you can connect Snowflake to open source BI product Helical Insight. To connect to Snowflake, follow the steps given below: Step 1: Download this zip file and extract the contents. Step 2: Now connect to Helical Insight server and go to DataSources page and click on “Add Driver”
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Before we connect with snowflake let’s understand what is snowflake :- While data is a core asset for modern enterprises, technology’s ability to scale has created a surge of big data. Managing and storing that data has become a critical function for modern business operations. Choosing a data platform that can handle massive volumes of
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Information fuels the business; however, it requires a precise tool to extract meaningful information from complex and mysterious data lying underneath. Tableau is a market leader when it comes to a powerful data visualization and BI product. There are some special features that sets apart Tableau from rest of the analytical and business intelligence applications.
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In this blog we are going to cover a comparison of Open Source BI product Helical Insight with another Open Source BI product Pentaho. We would be covering on all points comparison. Where Pentaho performs better and points where Helical Insight performs better, we would be covering an all honest review below. This comparison is
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In this blog we are going to cover a comparison of Open Source BI product Helical Insight with another Open Source BI product Jaspersoft. We would be covering on all points comparison. Where Jaspersoft performs better and points where Helical Insight performs better, we would be covering an all honest review below. This comparison is
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In this blog we are going to cover a comparison of Open Source BI product Helical Insight with Open Source BI product Metabase. We would be covering on all points comparison. Where Metabase performs better and points where Helical Insight performs better, we would be covering an all honest review below DEPLOYMENT DEPLOYMENT Technology
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In this blog we are going to cover a comparison of Open Source BI product Helical Insight with Open Source BI product Superset. We would be covering on all points comparison. Where superset performs better and points where Helical Insight performs better, we would be covering an all honest review below DEPLOYMENT Technology Stack: Helical
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Helical Insight application mainly hosted on Apache tomcat application server. There are multiple ways using which we can enable SSL on apache tomcat for ex. HTTPS proxy redirection, AJP redirection, IIS, NGINX, HAProxy, configuring SSL details at apache tomcat level etc. The SSL certificate can be applied at any of the webserver or directly at
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In this blog we are going to cover how to connect to an API / HTTP requests from Open Source BI product Helical Insight and use that to create reports. Introduction : Apache drill has introduced HTTP storage plugin from drill version 1.18 and onwards. The HTTP storage plugin lets you query APIs over HTTP/REST.
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