Name: Helical Insight
Author: Helical IT Solutions

Help Desk

Web and Video Conferencing

Customer Support

Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST)

Kubernetes Monitoring

Software Repositories

WebOps

Development

Academic Advising

Classroom Management

Education

Business Intelligence (BI)

Collaboration

File Sharing

Workspace Planning

Enterprise

Accounting

Invoicing

Finance and Accounting

Applicant Tracking

Background Check

Corporate Learning Management

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)

HR Management

Payroll

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

Business Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

Cloud Storage

Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS)

Configuration Management Databases

Content Delivery Networks (CDN)

Data Collaboration

Data Observability

Database Load Balancing

Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)

Enterprise Architecture Management

Fraud Detection

IT Operations Analytics

Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Internet Security

MLOps

Network Monitoring

Network Performance Monitoring

Release Management

SOA Application Gateways

Secret Managers

Technology Scouting Software

Threat Intelligence

WiFi Hotspot

Workload Automation

Information Technology

A/B Testing

AI Writing Assistant Software

Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

Content Management

Digital Asset Management

Digital Content Creation

Email Marketing

Landing Page

Marketing Automation

Online Proofing

Retail Media Advertising

Search Engine Marketing (SEM)

Social Media Management

Social Media Marketing

Survey & Forms Building

Swag Management

Video Collaboration

Web Analytics

Marketing

Project Management

Professional Services

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Social Commerce

Sales

Video Surveillance

Security

Oil and Gas

Real Estate

Vertical-Specific

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Helical Insight is a Business Intelligence (BI) framework designed to provide instant business answers through machine learning and natural language processing algorithms. It caters to small to large enterprises and is utilized by various professions and industries including business analysts, data analysts, IT professionals, finance professionals, and the healthcare industry.

## Key Features

**Instant BI**: According to the vendor, Helical Insight allows users to ask queries in English language and get instant business answers.

**Work Flow**: The vendor claims that users can customize and design workflows according to business processes, and create and implement custom business-specific workflows.

**Self Service BI**: The vendor states that users can create ad hoc reports without technical knowledge by dragging, dropping, and creating reports on the fly.

**Extend And Expand**: According to the vendor, users can build functionalities based on business needs with their own IT resources, enabling them to add custom features and functionalities to the framework.

**Exporting**: The vendor claims that Helical Insight provides flexibility in exporting data and reports in various formats like PDF, image, Excel, etc.

**API Driven**: According to the vendor, users can add or build functionalities in-house using APIs, as the framework offers extensive API support for seamless integration and customization.

**Connections**: The vendor states that Helical Insight allows users to establish seamless connections to any database, custom data source, flat files, or APIs, enabling integration with various data sources for comprehensive analysis.

**100% Browser Based**: According to the vendor, Helical Insight allows for the creation and consumption of BI directly from the browser, eliminating the need to download heavy tools and providing accessibility from anywhere.

**Data Analysis**: The vendor claims that Helical Insight offers a wide range of data analysis options, including traditional and modern methods of reporting, dashboards, maps, what-if analysis, infographics, etc., for comprehensive insights.

**Auto Emailing**: According to the vendor, users can schedule reports and dashboards to be emailed automatically, streamlining the process of sending reports to relevant stakeholders.

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Helical IT Solutions

BI Platform

Administration via Windows App

Administration via MacOS App

Administration via Web Interface

Live Connection to External Data

Snapshot of External Data

In-memory data model

OLAP (Pre-processed cube representation)

ROLAP (SQL-layer querying)

Multi-Data Source Reporting (Blending)

Data warehouse / dictionary layer

ETL Capability

ETL Scheduler

Supported Data Sources

Data sources that can be consumed by the application.

MS Excel Workbooks

Text Files (CSV, etc)

Oracle

MS SQL Server

IBM DB2

Postgres

MySQL

ODBC

Cloudera Hadoop

Hortonworks Hadoop

EMC Greenplum

IBM Netezza

HP Vertica

ParAccel

SAP Hana

Teradata

Sage 500

Google Analytics

BI Standard Reporting

Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.

Pixel Perfect reports

Pixel Perfect reports are highly-formatted reports with graphics and ability to preview the report before printing.

Customizable dashboards

Customizable dashboards are dashboards providing the builder some degree of control over the look and feel and display options.

Report Formatting Templates

Ad-hoc Reporting

Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.

Drill-down analysis

Drill down analysis is the ability to get to a further level of detail by going deeper into the hierarchy.

Formatting capabilities

Ability to format output e.g. conditional formatting, lines, headers, footers.

Predictive modeling

Predictive modeling is the ability to build future forecasting models.

Integration with R or other statistical packages

Integration with the open-source R predictive modeling environment.

Report sharing and collaboration

Report sharing and collaboration is the ability to easily share reports with others.

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

Publish to Web

Publish to PDF

Output Raw Supporting Data

Report Versioning

Report versioning is the assignment of version numbers to each version of a report to help in tracking.

Report Delivery Scheduling

Report Delivery Schedule is the ability to have reports delivered to a destination at a specific data and time.

Delivery to Remote Servers

Ability to deliver reports to remote servers

Data Discovery and Visualization

Data Discovery and Visualization is the analysis of multiple data sources in a search for patterns and outliers and the ability to represent the data visually.

Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)

Pre-built visualization formats are canned visualization types that can be selected to visualize different kinds of data.

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

Location analytics is the visualization of geographical or spatial data.

Predictive Analytics

Predictive Analytics is the ability to build forecasting models based on existing data sets.

Support for Machine Learning models

Machine learning refers to computer programs that can learn when exposed to new data.

Pattern Recognition and Data Mining

Pattern recognition and data mining mean the ability to recognize hidden patterns in large quantities of data.

Access Control and Security

Access control means being able to determine who has access to which data.

Multi-User Support (named login)

Named model access means that users have access based on name and password.

Role-Based Security Model

Role-based access means that access to data is determined by job or position in the corporation.

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

Multiple access permission levels means that different levels of users have different rights.

Report-Level Access Control

Report-level access control means that the type of report determines who has access to it.

Table-Level Access Control (BI-layer)

Helical Insight

Overview

What is Helical Insight?