Discover the top 10 BI tools in our comprehensive guide, featuring Helical Insight as the best BI tool for your data needs.
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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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According to Forrester blog a typical BI tool costs $1,50,000/- and ETL costs about the same. Services, hardware and implementation.
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In this article you will learn how to use Crosstab in Adhoc. Crosstab report can be easily used for comparing the data values between multiple entries. Drag and drop the columns into canvas and create a report. Here we would be using Travel data. In order to visualize the report in a crosstab format, click
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Different functions like sum, group by, and Count etc. can be applied to the variables. If the user drags or selects a column in the selection area, a function would be applied to that column by default, depending upon the type of variable. Mostly, a group by function is applied automatically for categorical variables and
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Metadata is basically a logical DB schema which gets stored locally in the backend DB of Helical Insight and allows users to define which tables, columns they would want to keep. Thus, different Metadata can be created for the different set of users like finance metadata, sales metadata, operations metadata which then can be shared
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In this blog, we will how to connect to a data source in Helical Insight. Overview of Data Sources Tab The list of Data sources is present as a collection of icons for each database. User can search for the data source by typing in the search box. User can also search based on type
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Users can create Reports in the form of Table, Chart, Cross-tab and Geographical Map. Table: Output is seen in a tabular format (Rows & Columns) Charts: Users can select any of the charts from the list containing Non-axes charts, Axes charts & advanced charts to create data visualizations. Cross-tab: Data in the tabular format
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In Settings tab, users can change the sample size to any numerical value or select full sample size. Note : Sample size is the size of data that would be visualized while you create a report. Users can unselect the option of prepending the table names. Doing this, users would then only see the column
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Toggle Metadata: It allows user to hide/unhide the metadata tables & columns on clicking. Tab is always available on the left side of the window in adhoc page. Once the report is created, this tab can be used to hide so that the space available to show the report is more. Hide Mode: Unhide Mode:
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