Helical Insight is an Open Source Reporting Framework which is used for creating reports and dashboards from a variety of data sources. You can be using relational databases, NoSQL databases, columnar databases, flat files etc; you can connect to your database in 4 easy steps and start creating analytics. Helical Insight is one of the
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In this article we would cover about the meaning of data visualization, why is it needed, it’s importance, history of data visualization and its benefits. What is data visualization? Data visualization is the process of transforming data into graphical representations that are easy to understand. By making data easier to understand, data visualization can help
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The definition of Business Intelligence (BI) can be quite complex, but in general, it is a process of transforming raw data into meaningful and insightful information that can help businesses make better decisions. BI involves using various tools and techniques to collect, analyze and report on data that is relevant to the organization’s operations. Why
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Here we will cover the steps about how to migrate your Helical Insight application from an Older version to Helical Insight EE version 4.1.1.18666GA. (released on 24 Aug 2021). With this specific version we have migrated globalConnection.xml to database resulting in better performance and concurrency, pagination at the metadata level and fixing of some other
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In this blog we will cover how to use helical insight with ADFS SSO option. Prerequisite: HI-EE 4.1.18666 or higher must be installed ADFS should be running Steps 1. Save your federationmetadata.xml file on the below path “..hi\apache-tomcat-9\hi-ee\WEB-INF\classes\” It can be downloaded from online based on your ADFS domain https://< your hostname >/FederationMetadata/2007-06/FederationMetadata.xml 2. Generate
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In this blog we will cover how to show a report in dashboard only when a value in the filter is selected in the open source BI product Helical Insight. Otherwise the chart should be in invisible mode and not visible. When filter value is selected then only the chart should render. Go to the
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In this blog we are covering the best practices which should be followed while using Helical Insight to create your reports, dashboards, embedding, Single Sign On, optimal performance, higher security etc. DATASOURCES: a) Dynamic DB Switching : – There are certain cases when we would like the report or dashboard to all together switch to
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In this blog we would be discussing and explaining how can connect to Excel as a datasource using Open Source BI product Helical Insight via Apache Drill. You can refer to our other blog to learn how apache drill can be used to connect to other kind of flat files like CSV TSV Parquet JSON
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In this specific blog we would be covering db specific functions which are specific to NoSQL databases like Mongo etc present in the version of Helical Insight 4.1. Some of these functions like handling of JSON are now also are present for newer versions of databases like Postgress, MySQL etc JSON Specific function 1) You
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With version 4.1 GA of Helical Insight we are also supporting JWT as well. JWT offers a lot of advantages like enhanced security, sessionless mode support when implementing load balancing server at Helical Insight, another method of SSO implementation and more. In a stateful architecture, when the load or session is shifted to another server,
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