Helical IT Solutions adds New Capabilities to its BI product

Helical IT Solutions is making major changes in its game-changing Business Intelligence (BI) product Helical Insight’s version 5.0. The tech company launched the world’s first open-source BI framework called Helical Insight in 2016. With version 5.0, Helical IT Solutions expects to bring a paradigm shift in how people see open-source BI products compared to proprietary BI products.

The entire application is rebuilt as SPA (Single Page Application) with the latest upgraded React Framework and Ant design UI libraries. Being a single web page application, navigation across different pages is much faster. Usage of AntD for building all the modules gives a very consistent user experience. All the modules have undergone user experience improvements based on the user feedback they have been receiving.

In the 5.0 version, a new reporting interface has been introduced, making the entire process of creation of visualization reports with filtering and drill-down capabilities a breeze. This version allows a single click option for implementing drill down and drill through, separate rows and columns section, filters with advanced options for controlling and configuring display & value among many other features.

BI refers to the application of technology, strategies, and practices that make way for collecting, analyzing, incorporating, and displaying business information that allows a company to have better decision-making in the business. The new dashboard designer module in version 5.0 allows for the creation of dashboards very quickly. It allows the single-click option of adding filters. All panels can listen to the filter without any additional effort. Additional options like pin, exporting, maximizing, editing, etc. are all user-friendly.

The File Browser of Helical Insight has undergone a major change in UI design and has been made more user-friendly. A few new databases support have been added, like Databricks, Athena, etc., and more and more data sources are in the pipeline according to the company. UI of metadata has been upgraded to match the current design, i.e., using the latest version of React as well as AntDesign. UX has been improved as well as known bugs have been fixed.

Nitin Sahu, Co-founder of Helical IT, said, “With version 5.0 and from now on, everything will be saved in a database unlike earlier when everything was being saved as physical files in the drive (reports, dashboard, metadata, canned reports, community reports, etc.). The new version can increase the productivity of the company and time required for BI resources in building required analysis by more than 80%. Helical Insight’s roadmap includes features in machine learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) collectively called ‘Instant BI’. This feature will allow any non-tech user to ask questions from data and get required analysis with zero technical knowledge required without too much hassle and time wasted relying upon tech support. We have been working on this specific version for nearly 1.5 years. We are now releasing the snapshot version without the canned reporting and community reporting module. These modules will be added later in the first General Availability (GA) release alongside other additional capabilities.