Helical Insight

Helical Insight software is world’s first business intelligence framework which helps you to make sense out of your data and make well informed decisions. Helical Insight is an open source developer friendly BI framework. Creation and consumption of BI solution is completely web based. Helical Insight uses Java as backend and HTML, JavaScript as its front end. Helical Insight allows you to connect to any database, flat files, big data, API or any other custom data source.

For reports and dashboards creation, it allows three methods

(1) Instant BI : With an integrated machine learning and NLP, with a google like interface it allows you to just type your question and get instant business answers, for example : What is the revenue in last 3 months?. This way instantly reports, dashboards, geographical dashboard etc can be created. The same interface could also be used for customizing like color change, adding heading, customizing the chart etc.

(2) Self service BI : For slightly advanced user it provides option to drag and drop the columns, add filters and create reports and dashboards on the fly without any technical knowledge. It has place holders to add javascript, HTML, CSS, AJAX etc for further customization of these charts.

(3) EFW : For advanced users like developers it also allows the option to use any editor like notepad++ and create data analysis in the form of reports, dashboards, what-if analysis etc.