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Upgradation
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Steps to Upgrade the Helical Insight

With every newer version of Helical Insight being launched there might be a need to upgrade Helical Insight to the later versions. This blog will provide step by step guide to upgrade Helical Insight to the later version while keeping all the work and customization’s intact as per the previous version of Helical Insight. We
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EFW
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Creating Cascading Parameter in Helical Insight

From version 5.0 of Helical Insight Enterprise Edition, the entire method of implementing cascading input parameters has been simplified and it can be acheived from the UI itself. Please refer to this blog to learn how to do that. If you are using an older version you can go read further. Introduction: Cascading Parameter are
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Adhoc Module
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How to Change Validation Settings in Helical Insight

Helical Insight application is having validations on each and every page and actions. This blog elaborates how you can disable those validations, change the messages etc related to validations. The validation logic which is needed to validate different inputs and modules in Helical Insight can be configured in Validation.xml file. <p.‘Validation.xml file’ is located at
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Adhoc Module
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Configurations in Setting.xml File in Helical Insight

There are various settings and customization related to Helical Insight which one can do by making changes in the settings.xml present in the back-end directory. Thus, the brief about various settings present in the setting.xml file  is documented below: Location of settings.xml file: “..\hi\hi-repository\System\Admin” Note: The above path might change based on where you have installed it.
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Charts customization through UI
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Setting Y-axis Range

This article will help users to understand how to set different scale range for y-axis variables. Following are the steps to set data labels: Step 1: Create any axis chart that is required and the click on customize button   Step 2: Now select the Y-axis range option by double-clicking on it   Step 3:
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Charts customization through UI
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Value Based color

This article will help users to understand how to set different color in a chart for different values. Following are the steps to do the same: Step 1: Create any axis chart that is required and the click on customize button   Step 2: Now select the Value based color option by double-clicking on it
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Charts customization through UI
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Static Line

This article will help users to understand how to set a static line for a particular value in different axis chart. Following are the steps to do the same: Step 1: Create any axis chart that is required and the click on customize button   Step 2: Now select the Static line option by double-clicking
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Charts customization through UI
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Data label

This article will help users to understand how to apply data labels for axis charts. Following are the steps to set data labels: Step 1: Create any axis chart that is required and the click on customize button.   Step 2: Now select the data label option by double-clicking on it   Step 3: Click
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Charts customization through UI
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Combination Chart

This article will help users understand how to Combination charts. Combinations charts can be used in cases where there are two numerical variables and one categorical variable. In these cases users could then create a chart with multiple types of visualizations. Following are the steps to create a combination chart: Step 1: Create any axis
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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