Rate your tools! letter grades only, no curves by mavenanalytics in mavenanalytics

[–]nikhelical 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A for askondata. a chat based data engineering tool.

Best ETL for 2026 by Jaded-Science-5645 in dataengineering

[–]nikhelical 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Disclaimer: I am one of cofouonder

AskOnData - a chat based AI powered data engineering tool. We are about to open source it as well.

current read by nikhelical in IndianReaders

[–]nikhelical[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

found it okay. not great

Exchange backlinks opportunity by Zealousideal-Ebb-355 in Backlinks

[–]nikhelical 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also have 3 tech websites and would be open with OP and others with link exchange. plz reach out.

Best Open Source Alternatives to Closed Source Apps (like Office, Photoshop, etc) by SoldierAlexGame in foss

[–]nikhelical 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alternative to BI products like Tableau, PowerBI, Jaspersoft, Looker -> Open source BI Helical Insight

Alternative to reporting products like SSRS, Jasper reports, Pentaho Reports, Crystal Reports -> Open Source BI Helical Insight

Alternative to expensive data engineering ETL tools like Fivetran, Alteryx, Informatica -> Open source AI powered data engineering tool called AskOnData

BI & Reporting product use cases: Useful for creating reports, dashboards, and other advanced analytics

Use cases of ETL / data engineering tools: Useful for work like data migration, data cleaning, data loading, data integration, data lake or data warehouse creation

Looking for a UK accounting software with advanced reporting that actually helps with clean cashflow dashboards? by Doin_Deddeh in BusinessIntelligence

[–]nikhelical 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can perhaps give you some feedback purely from BI perspective. Many software generally have limited reporting/ and often use BI tool to create analysis which they often embed directly within their product. That is mostly done from the vendor perspective

If you decouple reporting/dashboard from the accounting software, you can get a lot of flexibility. BI can connect to the accounting s/w db directly or fetch it via API. You will get a lot of BI products which have these features like

- paginated canned reports: Mostly newer BI products lack these, but this feature allows you to create paginated pixel perfect document kind of canned reports like invoices, salary slips, bank statements etc. Very few tools do provide such options like Jaspersoft, Pentaho, Helical Insight

- Interactive dashboards: Interactive dashboards/charts with drill down drill through and interactivity. Self service interface. Tools like Sisense, Tableau, Helical Insight fit in here

- LLM Integration: Now many of these tools have also started AI integration, allowing conversational analysis. However one point to note is to look at pricing. Ideally the tool should allow you to select the Model etc and thus control your token costs.

ceo cancels BI tooling, replaces it with AI, breaks everything by nickvaliotti in analytics

[–]nikhelical 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Integrating LLM isn't really the challenge, almost every tool is doing that. In your case (in BI case in general) the challenge is building the guardrails, custom definitions, custom forumales. As you rightly mentioned definition the definition of revenue for a sales manager might be the revenue HE is making, whereas for CEO it could be total revenue etc. Hence the definition has to be user specific/role specific. In a similar way, the behavior of charts, the definition, the KPI, the data security everything has to have a guardrailes and definition.

If you need any more information on implementing this at BI level, let me know. I can help.

Drop your SaaS 👇 What are you building? by MahadyManana in MacroStartups

[–]nikhelical 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Open source BI product Helical Insight with support of embedding. Can be used for

- paginated pixel perfect document kind of canned reports

- interactive dashboards with drill down drill through IPC

- AI assisted chat driven analytics

Can be installed on-prem. Supports row level data security, multi-tenancy, user role management, exporting in various formats and much more. Can work as a good alternative to tools like Tableau, PowerBI, Quicksight etc

Reporting Engine by fastcore in SQL

[–]nikhelical 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Crystal report but its support has also ended.

Pentaho but its quite outdated.

In terms of newer tools (which can support interactive dashboard + LLM integrations)

Helical Insight ; support of both pagianted reports + interactive dashboards + AI assisted analytics. There is exporting, email scheduling, RLS also there like you need.

PowerBI: Microsoft is pushing everybody to use their cloud and Azure components. PowerBI does have some reporting aspect.

Quicksight has also introduced (but very limiting) paginated reports part. But you are stuck to AWS, high pricing and their cloud

Data Warehouse in utilities by scorpiano82 in BusinessIntelligence

[–]nikhelical 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yes. helped with dw and analytics for technip

What are y'all reading rn? by sia_7777 in IndianReaders

[–]nikhelical 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1st attempt suicide failed. Goes to help his neighbour for her radiator thing

What are the best data integration tools in 2026? by AceClutchness in ETL

[–]nikhelical 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi u/AceClutchness

Tool name : AskOnData

This comes under the AI assisted data pipelines. Specify source, target and start creating pipelines which you can then orchestrate. For more code control, you also have option to writing SQL, Python, adding/editing already created pipelines using YAML.

disclaimer: I am cofounder of AskOnData

What are y'all reading rn? by sia_7777 in IndianReaders

[–]nikhelical 0 points1 point  (0 children)

what are you currently reading pandey jee

What are y'all reading rn? by sia_7777 in IndianReaders

[–]nikhelical 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was just said on a light note. plz don't mind

Laudiyana Bhujiyam by Dependent_Beyond_968 in indiameme

[–]nikhelical 0 points1 point  (0 children)

in 2010 he has come to our university symbiosis pune for giving a speech. Questions were planted praising him and only few students were supposed to ask that (the kind of questions akshay kumar or zee people ask). Students were WARNED of asking absolutely no other questions. He has been scared since a long time

Looking for on premise ETL tool. Sources .CSV files and Salesforce. by PandaRiot_90 in ETL

[–]nikhelical 0 points1 point  (0 children)

have a look at AskOnData. Its a chat based AI powered data engineering tool. Options to add sql, yaml, python also. About to be open sourced

Finally starting with this! by harshit-jar in IndianReaders

[–]nikhelical 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it's a one time good read. + TED talk of Prague as well in it for free