Compare community and enterprise edition

Community-driven innovation via Helical Insight CE

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Helical Insight is developer friendly open source BI framework built on Java and frontend being HTML and CSS. Helical Insight not only allows you to develop data analysis on top of your data and embed it, but also being a framework allows you to build plugins and add functionalities using your own HTML and Java developer when required.

Helical Insight comes in two versions i.e. Community Edition (Free) but with limited set of features and Enterprise Edition (Paid) with all the features. Community edition code can be downloaded from Github/sourceforge and used.

Details about the difference between the two versions, tutorials, services etc can be found in the subsequent tabs.

Community EditionEnterprise Edition
Instant BI : Machine learning and NLP driven interface for allowing search driven analytics
Adhoc Reporting : Self service drag drop based interface for reports creation
Dashboard designer : UI driven dashboard designer with drag drop interface
Backend EFW method of reports, dashboards and other data analysis creation
User Role Management
Exporting
Email scheduling
Canned Reports
SupportSupport via forumEnterprise support with dedicated account manager, tickets, email, call and extensive documentation.
Data SecurityPossible by making changes in XMLUI Driven interface available
WorkflowXML drivenVia UI
UpgradesOnly Community upgrades All the upgrades
Embedding
Multitenancy

Getting started

Get started with Helical Insight Community Edition (CE) that gives user freedom to create, customize and change the visualization of a report or dashboard. Read the following links to get started.

 

Training

Helical Insight training team can provide you an exhaustive training which will reduce your learning curve. These training programs can be conducted either onsite or offsite. The training program can also be completely customized as per your requirement. Main broad topics of training are described below:

  1. Helical Insight CE introduction and architecture
  2. Creation of reports, dashboards with input parameters, inter-panel communication and varying levels of complexity. Achieveing drill down and drill through
  3. User role management
  4. Embedding Helical Insight inside your application
  5. Helical Workflow (rule engine) introduction and usage
  6. Achieve Single sign On

Support

Are you stuck somewhere? Do you need any support or assistance for developing the data analysis? Are you looking to implement any custom business process but need a helping hand? Is there any other issue for which you are looking to find a solution? You can purchase the support services from us. Our professional services team will handhold you and help you in fixing all the issues, clarifying all the doubts and provide any other kind of inputs which you may require while building the solution.

Consultancy

You can take consultancy services by Helical Insight team to help you achieve your business objectives. Our professional consultation will help you in hardware sizing based on your requirement and number of users etc, technology stack (like database, whether to use inmemory or build data warehouse), best approach and practices for solution designing, deployment etc.

  • Development: You can take help of Helical Insight professional development services to achieve any of the below objectives.
  • Proof of Concept:  With our help, build a quick prototype based on your reporting and analytics requirement.
  • Feature Enhancement:  Are you looking for some feature which is not directly present with Helical Insight? Helical Insight Product team can chip in and build a product feature that can plugin and fulfil your requirement.
  • Solution Development:  Outsource your BI solution development to the experts from Helical Insight.
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