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Helical Insight Installation Guide

Requirement: We recommend that the system has minimum 10 GB free space and 4 GB RAM. Your actual production server hardware requirements will depend on the data size and concurrent users. You should have admin privileges before installing. No previous instance of Apache Tomcat should be running. Please stop any Tomcat instance if it is
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Charts customization using JS/HTML/CSS
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Metadata Security Pre-Filtering

This article talks about introduction to Metadata Security Pre-filtering. Metadata pre-filtering is a process where a filtering of information within organization, user, role etc takes place at a metadata level. For example, your most of the company members can access database Adhoc UI and drag drop interface, but only few should have access to the
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Technical Guide
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Filter Expression usage in Helical Insight

In this article, you will learn about how to apply Filter Expression using Helical Insight. Filter expression is a query expression written in order to fulfill certain condition which cannot be directly fulfilled by applying a general filter. There are two types of filter expression which can be used, one in which functions are present
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Technical Guide
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Customizing Cache Memory For Helical Insight reports

In this article you will learn how to customize cache memory for Helical Insight reports. How to enable / disable cache By default cache for Helical Insight report is set to true. True means cache memory is enabled. The user can toggle the value by editing the cache.xml file located at  <installation directory>\hi-repository\System\Admin\cache.xml For example:
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Technical Guide
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Helical Insight Installation Guide for Linux

Following are the steps to install a Helical Insight Binary on a Linux Machine. Prerequisites : Please ensure that you have an active internet connection before proceeding with the Helical Insight installation. Internet connectvity is required only during intallation for downloading and updating application components. Once the setup is completed application will run without internet
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Technical Guide
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How to set default session timeout for Helical Insight

In this article you will learn about how to set default session timeout for Helical Insight. For setting the configuration follow the mentioned steps : Open the “web.xml” file from the location  “apache-tomcat-7/webapps/hi-ee/WEB-INF/web.xml”. After opening the file you can see the default time set is 30 minutes Now, if you want to change the time
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Adhoc Module
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Exporting a Report using Helical Insight

In this article, we will learn about how to export a report using Helical Insight. Exporting feature allows users to view report offline by exporting in various formats like PDF, PNG, JPEG. Using our APIs any new exporting type can also be added.  We can export reports like tabular reports, chart reports or cross-tabular report. Similarly, if
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Technical Guide
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Adding a database function

In this article you will learn about how to add a database functions based on datatype. A datatype shows you what kind of value a column contain . The various datatypes like numeric, text, date, time, date-time and so on are generally used to represent the type of data. Whenever you want to perform any
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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