Helical IT Solution Pvt Ltd recently launched the latest version of its successful flagship Open Source Business Intelligence (BI) Product Helical Insight – 4.1 GA of Open Source BI Product Helical Insight.
This new version is launched in keeping the growing demands of customers and issues that have been faced by them during this difficult covid-era. During Covid times, many companies have tried to cut costs and look for alternative options for costly proprietary products. Contrary to market conditions, Helical IT Solutions, which specializes and works extensively in open source BI ETL DW technologies, have seen an increased sales for their enterprise license which is a cost-effective open-source BI option for their customers, without really compromising on the features.
That’s why they launched the new version which comes with new features and capabilities which include support of session-less load balancing for high performance, support of ADFS as one more additional SSO option, security fixes and enhancements, more charting, and chart customization options, and many more other attractive features.
Helical Insight comes in two versions i.e. community version (completely free) and enterprise version (paid). The pricing depends on whether the customer is looking for subscription or perpetual license, as well as whether a customer is looking for a distribution or non distribution license type. The company is also working at introducing more pricing options as well in future.
Talking about the benefits of this new version, Nikhilesh Tiwari, Co-founder, Helical IT Solutions, shared, “Being open-source, the enterprise version of Helical Insight is 80-85% more cost-effective as compared to any other open source or proprietary BI product existing in the market, without compromising on the functionalities”.
“With this newer version, we are expecting newer and bigger clients, that will start using this newer version as we have provided support of session-less load balancing and enhanced security and many others. With support of session less load balancing it will give a big boost to performance, thus clients with huge amount of data also will see fast performance.” added Nitin Sahu, Co-founder, Helical IT Solutions.
“We have been working on Helical Insight since 2016 and there are 45+ customers who are using our enterprise version in their production environment. Apart from that thousands of customers and users are using our community version as well. Right now we have just released version 4.1 GA of Helical Insight and we have already started working on version 5.0 which is going to be a game-changer” he further added.
Helical Insight is one of the rare Open Source BI product which can fulfill both traditional document kind of canned reporting as well as new generation drag-drop based dashboard and data visualization requirements of end customers at a fraction of cost without compromising on the functionalities of the product.
Understanding the criticality of the uptime required in cases of BI server, with the newer release Helical Insight can support load balancing and High availability in a session less modeADFS is also supported with the newer release. Following are the features which are added in the new version:
SSO: With every growing list of product-based customers requiring embedded SSO, Helical Insights’ latest release is now able to support one more method of SSO called ADFS along with other methods which were already supported like Oauth, AD, Active Directory, LDAP, and token-based authentication mechanism.
Customization: The newer release is having a lot of additional charts and visualizations customization options, thus allowing end customers to do a lot more. The existing known bugs of various customization options have also been fixed.
Security: A lot of efforts have been put in place to ensure that known security issues and flaws are closed. Various kinds of known security issues regarding sharing and endpoints have been rectified. Also, various places where SQLinjection could have been possible have been fixed with various kinds of configurable security options. Thus with the newer release, the product has been much more secure.
