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Metabase - Open Source BI tool

 Metabase         

Metabase is a business software suite and open source business intelligence framework. It allows users to store data about their business or a specific aspect of their business for their analytics in a secure data source. This intuitive software is designed to allow users to ask questions about their data and access answers that reduce jargon and code, making it very user-friendly and ideal for professionals who want to visualize their business’s data accurately         

         

Install in docker https://github.com/punitprabhu/MetabaseNew.git        

Excecute in CLI docker run -d -p 3000:3000 --name metabase metabase/metabase        

Host http://localhost:3000 ,         

 http://localhost:3000/browse/1-sample-database        

         

         

         

         

         

         

         

         

         

         

         

         

         

         

         

         

Databases for Data Import         

"Amazon Athena, BigQuery (Google Cloud Platform), Druid, Google Analytics, H2, MongoDB (version 4.2 or higher), MySQL (version 5.7 or higher, as well as MariaDB version 10.2 or higher),

Oracle, PostgreSQL, Presto, Redshift (Amazon Web Services), Snowflake, SparkSQL, SQL Server, SQLite, Vertica"         

Other Drivers - https://www.metabase.com/docs/latest/developers-guide/partner-and-community-drivers#partner-drivers , https://github.com/search?q=metabase+driver         

         

Features         

"Visual Query Builder

Free your data from the confines of SQL, letting everyone query in a UI humans actually love. Need joins, drill-downs and calculated columns


Dashboards

Easily create and share interactive dashboards, from TB-scale analytical workloads to day-to-day operational workflows, with 15+ visualization types


Models

Craft metadata-rich, semantic models which let people query on their own, keeping things consistent and avoiding repetition. With a single tab open and no CLI needed


Sharing Reports

Share via Email subsription or Slack.Share visualizations individually, or collect them together into a dashboard. Either way, sharing is as easy as sending a URL. Get your favorite dashboard, right in your inbox or slack channel. Schedule ahead or set triggers for timely alerts.


SQL Editor

A native SQL editor is available for advanced users. SQL templates and snippets help them share their work with others.


Automatically generated Dashboard


Embed 

Embed your visualizations and dashboards in webpages, presentations. Include Metabase in your own products, including advanced functionality like the query-builder


Data Security

Control who can access what. Set permissions at the row, table, and dashboard levels.Integrate Metabase with your SSO of choice to automatically handle user signups and group permissions.


Auditing of BI tool

Auditing tools show you query logs, downloads, and activity for all your users. See what data is being accessed, and which of your dashboards and questions are being looked at the most.


Performance

Smart results caching keeps your Metabase feeling nimble. And performance management tools help you track down intensive queries and optimize at the database, dashboard, or question level.

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Advantages :-          

"1) It is fairly simple to use, and learn, compared to Tablea 

2) It has unique features: 

a) you can mail reports or dashboards daily / monthly/ or after any specified time period directly to an email list.  

b) It is very easy to join tables on keys. 

c) It is EASIER to drag and drop tables/ visualizations onto dashboards compared to Tableau.

d) It is quite easy for a beginner with no experience in building dashboards- to create visualizations. The tool provides certain suggestions such as aggregates on which visualizations can be developed. For example, it gives suggestions for calculating mean of a particular column, say, order amount by customer, and the tool does it directly for you. e) If the data is fed correctly through database, visualizations can be created simply by drag and drop."         

         

         

         

Disadvantages:-         

"1) The tool is quite inflexible: Creating filters is not great with this tool.

2) The tool has a lot less tutorials and community support.

3) Highly reliant on SQL. It is impossible for me to filter the duplicates through metabase.

4) No formatting flexibility. Cannot add custom labels, cannot change colors.

5) There is no way to share dashboards other than through an email"         

         

         

         

         

Case Study - https://www.metabase.com/case_studies         

         

Jaspersoft         

Jaspersoft is a Business Intelligence (BI) solution that features interactive analytics, reports, and dashboards to lead organizations in making better business decisions. With its open source framework, it provides support for mobile and cloud deployments as well as big data and allows users to efficiently deliver services at large. As a cost-effective and flexible Business Intelligence platform, Jaspersoft is one of the most widely deployed software solutions in the field with more than 14.5 million downloads and over 250,000 members registered in the community. It has offices located in different parts of the world.         

         

         

         

"Audit logging, Data analytics, Server repository, Reporting & dashboard, Business Intelligence, Mobile apps for Android and iOS, Interactive heat map visualizations

Multi-tenancy, Ad hoc report designer, In-memory analysis engines, Data integration, Interactive report workbooks, Data virtualization, 

Pluggable custom visualizations

Metadata layer

OLAP Server

Embeddable dashboards

ODS

Muli-dimensional analytics"         

         

"The main benefits of Jaspersoft are its robust features, scalability, rich documentation, open-source architecture, and reliable support. Here are the details:

Robust features

Jaspersoft provides its users with powerful tools for data visualization, reporting, and analytics. It is capable of giving actionable data on application usage and operational processes in real time. With insights, businesses can make smarter decisions.

The system also features a library that is Java-based that has the ability to track documents and render a pixel-perfect copy of usage data from various data sources.

Another benefit is users get to use a centralized server repository. This feature can store various information such as dashboards, reports, user profiles and analytics reviews among others.

Scalable

Jaspersoft is a highly scalable solution in terms of architecture and pricing. It can scale to the needs of small, medium, and enterprises, allowing them to digest insights from different data sources.

Trusted brand

Jaspersoft is one of the most widely deployed BI solutions in the market because of the quality services it offers. Aside from having office branches all around the globe, it is backed by a large community with a user base reaching over 250,000 members. The software has a download hits of more than 14.5 million copies. These numbers are a testament to its popularity.

Open source

The platform uses a commercial business model with open source architecture. This setup is cost-effective for companies with technical capabilities and who wants to configure a powerful system to their preferences."         

         

"Technical Specifications

Devices Supported

Web-based

iOS

Android

Desktop

Customer types

Small business

Medium business

Enterprise

Support Types

Phone

Online"         

         

Hellical Insight         

"Helical Insight is an Open Source Business Intelligence Framework which is powered with NLP & ML and also an integrated workflow engine. Helical Insight boasts of features like in-memory engine, email scheduling, alerting and notification, mobile and cloud compatibility, alerting notification, self service reporting interface, big data support etc.

Helical Insight comes with extensive API support of more than 360+ APIs. Also with an inbuilt workflow engine Helical Insight allows you to define your own workflows via triggering APIs. Helical Insight provides extensive XML configuration files as well as placeholders to inject HTML, CSS, javascript code for customizations. Over and above that being open source you can get one of the most feature rich BI solution at a fraction of cost. Please get in touch with us now to know about the capabilities of the product, differentiators as compared to other BI products as well as demo with your own data."         

         

Features         

"Instant BI

Conversation analytics is going to be the next wave in analytics domain wherein people can interact with their data in natural English language via chat bots or search boxes…


Workflow

Generally most of the BI software’s have predefined flow of events which can’t be changed or configured. This is primarily because they do not have extensive APIs…



Self-Service BI

Helical Insight comes with Self service BI capabilities allowing users to use the frontend to create reports. It has a strong adhoc interface which allows users to ‘drag n drop’, 


Extend and Expand

Unlike other BI vendors who have a closed-garden approach and have very high vendor dependence what we offer is an extremely developer friendly BI product….


Exporting

The Reports and Dashboards that are created using Helical Insight can be exported into various file formats like PDF, JPEG, PNG, Excel etc. Data from the individual reports can..


Connections

Helical Insight supports a lot of datasources which could be used for data analysis purposes. Helical Insight supports all relational databases (Oracle, Postgres, MySql etc.),..


100 % Browser based

Most of the BI software requires a desktop based development tool using which you develop the reports/dashboards which is then deployed on the server. This architecture…


Data Analysis

Helical Insight supports traditional methods of reporting like tabular reports, cross tab reports, dashboards and geographical dashboards, as well as…


Emailing

Helical Insight has the capability which allows users to email the report/dashboard one time or schedule it on a specific frequency…


User & Role Management

Helical Insight has four levels of data security (Organization, Role, User and Profile), which ensures that Administrator can control which user(s) gets to see what and the kind of functions..


Multi-Tenancy

Multi-tenancy means that a single instance of the software and all of the supporting infrastructure serves multiple customers. Each customer shares the software….


Multi-Device Compatibility

With today’s business users always on the move it’s very imperative that they get the right set of data on any device. The entire solution of Helical Insight is built on bootstrap framework..


White Labelling

White Label means changing the look and feel and interface of one product to make it appear as certain other product. With a lot of companies using Helical Insight analytics…


Embedding

Product based companies who are using Helical Insight they would like to integrate the reporting and solution built from Helical Insight inside their own product…


Caching

Helical Insight comes with server-level caching mechanism which is highly configurable. Caching ensures that even with large data and many concurrent users,..


Dynamic DB Switching

Generally with other BI products the reports or the metadata is getting connected to a predefined datasource. In most of the cases this works perfectly fine but in…


Jasper Report Support

Jasper reports is the most popular and strongest reporting tool present in the market. There are myriad number of companies which are using JRXML files and are looking for direct..



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Looker Google Data Studio         

Self-service business intelligence with unmatched flexibility for smarter business decisions. (Formerly known as Data Studio). Tell impactful stories by creating and sharing engaging reports and data visualizations ,Unite your data by easily connecting to more than 800 data sources, Transform your data to impactful business metrics and dimensions with intuitive smart reports, Empower your teams with key business metrics by sharing automated dashboards, Create meaningful, shareable, customizable, charts and graphs with just a few clicks         

         

         

Benefits         

"Your data is beautiful—use it

Looker Studio unlocks the power of your data by making it easy to create interactive dashboards and compelling reports from a wide variety of sources, driving smarter business decisions.

Connect to data without limits

You can access a wide variety of data sources through the more than 600 partner connectors that instantly enable you to connect virtually any kind of data, without any coding or software.

Share your data story

You can share your compelling reports with your team or with the world, collaborate in real time, or embed your reports on the web."         

         

         

         

         

Features         

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An easy-to-use web interface

Looker Studio is designed to be intuitive and easy to use. The report editor features simple drag-and-drop objects with fully custom property panels and a snap-to-grid canvas.

Report templates

With a robust library of report templates to choose from, you can visualize your data in minutes. Connect your data sources and customize the design to meet your needs.

Data connectors

Data sources act as pipes to connect a Looker Studio report to underlying data. Each source has a unique, prebuilt connector to ensure your data is easy to access and use.

Looker Studio API

The Looker Studio API allows Google Workspace or Cloud Identity organizations to automate management and migration of Looker Studio assets. You can configure an application to use the Looker Studio API quickly and easily.

Report embedding

Embedding allows you to include your Looker Studio report in any web page or intranet, making it easier for you to tell your data story to your team or the world."         

         

         

         

         

         

         

In Depth Overview - https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-looker-studio-beginner-guide/471369/#close         

         

LinceBI         

https://github.com/LinceBI/lincebi.git         

docker run -d -p 8080:8080 repo.stratebi.com/lincebi/lincebi-cloud:8.3         

         

         

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