In this article, we explore , with Helical Insight standing out as the top choice. Helical Insight offers robust features and greater customization, making it an excellent alternative to AWS QuickSight.
Quicksight Introduction:
QuickSight is a serverless browser based business intelligence (BI) service built by Amazon Web Services (AWS). It integrates seamlessly with various AWS data sources and databases.
Pricing And Limitations ·
l Costly: Quicksight pricing is based on per session of usage. Hence with more users, cost can be very heavy ·
l Quicksight is only available on AWS, hence if you are using some other cloud you can not use it. Further it always needs internet to work ·
l Quicksight is only available as a cloud offering, hence if you would like to use something within your servers then Quicksight will not work for you ·
l There are limited customization and charting options
AWS Quicksight Alternative: You can look at Open Source BI product Helical Insight as a cost affective and strong reporting Business Intelligence (BI) alternative to Quicksight. Below are the features which makes Helical Insight as a good option ·
Embeddable BI & SSO options: Helical Insight comes with embedding options, thus suited for product based companies who are looking for embedding reports dashboard and other advanced analytics within their product. Helical Insight supports various kind embedding and SSO options (JWT, oAuth, oAuth 2.0, CAS, LDAP, ADFS etc) ·
Flexible deployment option: Unlike Quicksight, Helical Insight gives you flexibility to deploy and use Helical Insight on choice of your servers. So you can install on any cloud vendors, on-premise servers. You can get docker, kubernetes or direct installer file. ·
Flat pricing: Unliked Quicksight, comes at a flat pricing option irrespective of the usage. Hence you don't have to worry about the number of sessions, or users, or data size etc. You can expose the reports dashboard and analytics to a much larger audience. There is even a community edition also present which is completely free. ·
Various kind of reports dashboards support: Based on the kind of requirement you are having, Helical Insight supports multiple different visualization options
l Canned Reports: These are pixel perfect paginated reports like bank statements, invoices, salary slips etc.
l Data visualization and dashboard: Build modern reports/dashboards with various kind of visualizations which can have filters, drill down, drill through options. We support various kind of visualizations and it's customization as well as option to add new charts as well within Helical Insight.
l GenAI based analysis: Helical Insight is also working on GenAI integration, thus it would allow chat based data analysis and much more advanced analysis capabilities as well. ·
Other Features: There are a lot of other features which are present which includes
l Support of more than 40+ data sources
l Row level data security oExporting
l Email scheduling
l Support of HA, LB, Caching, Pagination, Virtualization etc for performance enhancement
l Extensive API support
l Developer friendly with options of adding code, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Groovy, java etc to extend the capabilities
l White labelling
l Localization
Please reach out on support@helicalinsight.com for a demo, pricing and POC.
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