Instant BI: AI-Powered Conversational Analytics for Everyone

Instant BI: AI-Powered Conversational Analytics for Everyone

Summarize this article:

Business users don’t think in SQL—they think in questions.

Instant BI module empowers everyone in your organization to analyze data simply by asking questions in natural language. Whether you’re on your laptop, tablet, or mobile phone, just type what you want to know and Instant BI instantly transforms your question into meaningful insights in the form of charts, tables, KPIs, and reports.

No SQL. No drag-and-drop report building. No technical expertise.
Just ask, and let your data answer.

Powered by the latest Large Language Models (LLMs), Instant BI democratizes analytics by enabling every business user to become a data analyst.

Key Features

Conversational Analytics

Ask questions and get answers in plain English language and receive instant answers in the form of charts, tables. Save, share the analysis.

Bring your own LLM

Unlike other tools which lock you into a specific AI provider, Helical Insight gives you complete flexibility of using your choice of LLM.

Control over your data

Keep your AI strategy aligned with your organization’s security and compliance requirements. Helical Insight can be installed on choice of your servers, with access to source code as well.

Enterprise Token Monitoring

Track and optimize AI usage across your organization, users, date range, model wise etc.

Transparency You Can Trust

AI should never be a black box. Every generated insight user can inspect Generated SQL, fields used, tokens consumed, AI model used, tables & columns used.

Custom AI analytics assistant

With the support of extensive API’s, you can also build your own AI chatbot (with your own theme, look & feel etc) and make use of our backend APIs.

Try Instant BI Today

Register to download & try the enterprise version, or download the open source free version from Github.

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FAQs: AI-Powered Conversational Analytics for Everyone

Everything you need to know about Helical Insight Instant BI and AI-powered conversational analytics.

1. What is AI-powered conversational analytics in Helical Insight?

Helical Insight Instant BI allows users to analyze business data using natural language. Instead of writing SQL queries or building reports manually, users simply ask questions in plain English and receive insights as charts, tables, KPIs, and reports within seconds.

2. Can I use my preferred Large Language Model (LLM)?

Yes. Helical Insight supports a Bring Your Own LLM (BYO-LLM) approach, allowing organizations to integrate their preferred AI models instead of being restricted to a single AI provider. This provides greater flexibility, cost control, and compliance with internal AI policies.

3. How does Helical Insight protect my business data when using AI?

Helical Insight gives organizations complete control over their data. The platform can be deployed on-premises or within your preferred cloud environment, ensuring that AI usage aligns with your security, governance, and compliance requirements. Organizations also have access to the source code for complete transparency.

4. Can business users analyze data without SQL or technical knowledge?

Absolutely. Instant BI is designed for business users, analysts, and decision-makers who want answers without learning SQL or complex BI tools. Users simply ask questions in natural language, and the platform automatically generates meaningful visualizations and insights.

5. What makes Helical Insight Instant BI different from other AI analytics tools?

Helical Insight combines conversational analytics, Bring Your Own LLM support, complete deployment flexibility, enterprise-grade security, token usage monitoring, AI transparency, embedded analytics, and customizable APIs. Unlike many AI analytics platforms, it gives organizations full control over both their AI strategy and their data.

Helical Insight’s self-service capabilities is one to reckon with. It allows you to simply drag and drop columns, add filters, apply aggregate functions if required, and create reports and dashboards on the fly. For advanced users, the self-service component has ability to add javascript, HTML, HTML5, CSS, CSS3 and AJAX. These customizations allow you to create dynamic reports and dashboards. You can also add new charts inside the self-service component, add new kind of aggregate functions and customize it using our APIs.
Helical Insight’s self-service capabilities is one to reckon with. It allows you to simply drag and drop columns, add filters, apply aggregate functions if required, and create reports and dashboards on the fly. For advanced users, the self-service component has ability to add javascript, HTML, HTML5, CSS, CSS3 and AJAX. These customizations allow you to create dynamic reports and dashboards. You can also add new charts inside the self-service component, add new kind of aggregate functions and customize it using our APIs.
Helical Insight, via simple browser based interface of Canned Reporting module, also allows to create pixel perfect printer friendly document kind of reports also like Invoice, P&L Statement, Balance sheet etc.
Helical Insight, via simple browser based interface of Canned Reporting module, also allows to create pixel perfect printer friendly document kind of reports also like Invoice, P&L Statement, Balance sheet etc.
If you have a product, built on any platform like Dot Net or Java or PHP or Ruby, you can easily embed Helical Insight within it using iFrames or webservices, for quick value add through instant visualization of data.
If you have a product, built on any platform like Dot Net or Java or PHP or Ruby, you can easily embed Helical Insight within it using iFrames or webservices, for quick value add through instant visualization of data.
Being a 100% browser-based BI tool, you can connect with your database and analyse across any location and device. There is no need to download or install heavy memory-consuming developer tools – All you need is a Browser application! We are battle-tested on most of the commonly used browsers.
Being a 100% browser-based BI tool, you can connect with your database and analyse across any location and device. There is no need to download or install heavy memory-consuming developer tools – All you need is a Browser application! We are battle-tested on most of the commonly used browsers.
We have organization level security where the Superadmin can create, delete and modify roles. Dashboards and reports can be added to that organization. This ensures multitenancy.
We have organization level security where the Superadmin can create, delete and modify roles. Dashboards and reports can be added to that organization. This ensures multitenancy.
We have organization level security where the Superadmin can create, delete and modify roles. Dashboards and reports can be added to that organization. This ensures multitenancy.
We have organization level security where the Superadmin can create, delete and modify roles. Dashboards and reports can be added to that organization. This ensures multitenancy.
A first-of-its-kind Open-Source BI framework, Helical Insight is completely API-driven. This allows you to add functionalities, including but not limited to adding a new exporting type, new datasource type, core functionality expansion, new charting in adhoc etc., at any place whenever you wish, using your own in-house developers.
A first-of-its-kind Open-Source BI framework, Helical Insight is completely API-driven. This allows you to add functionalities, including but not limited to adding a new exporting type, new datasource type, core functionality expansion, new charting in adhoc etc., at any place whenever you wish, using your own in-house developers.
It handles huge volumes of data effectively. Caching, Pagination, Load-Balancing and In-Memory not only provides you with amazing experience, but also and does not burden the database server more than required. Further effective use of computing power gives best performance and complex calculations even on the big data even with smaller machines for your personal use. Filtering, Sorting, Cube Analysis, Inter Panel Communication on the dashboards all at lightning speed. Thereby, making best open-source Business Intelligence solution in the market.
It handles huge volumes of data effectively. Caching, Pagination, Load-Balancing and In-Memory not only provides you with amazing experience, but also and does not burden the database server more than required. Further effective use of computing power gives best performance and complex calculations even on the big data even with smaller machines for your personal use. Filtering, Sorting, Cube Analysis, Inter Panel Communication on the dashboards all at lightning speed. Thereby, making best open-source Business Intelligence solution in the market.
With advance NLP algorithm, business users simply ask questions like, “show me sales of last quarter”, “average monthly sales of my products”. Let the application give the power to users without knowledge of query language or underlying data architecture
With advance NLP algorithm, business users simply ask questions like, “show me sales of last quarter”, “average monthly sales of my products”. Let the application give the power to users without knowledge of query language or underlying data architecture
Our application is compatible with almost all databases, be it RDBMS, or columnar database, or even flat files like spreadsheets or csv files. You can even connect to your own custom database via JDBC connection. Further, our database connection can be switched dynamically based on logged in users or its organization or other parameters. So, all your clients can use the same reports and dashboards without worrying about any data security breech.
Our application is compatible with almost all databases, be it RDBMS, or columnar database, or even flat files like spreadsheets or csv files. You can even connect to your own custom database via JDBC connection. Further, our database connection can be switched dynamically based on logged in users or its organization or other parameters. So, all your clients can use the same reports and dashboards without worrying about any data security breech.
Our application can be installed on an in-house server where you have full control of your data and its security. Or on cloud where it is accessible to larger audience without overheads and maintenance of the servers. One solution that works for all.
Our application can be installed on an in-house server where you have full control of your data and its security. Or on cloud where it is accessible to larger audience without overheads and maintenance of the servers. One solution that works for all.
Different companies have different business processes that the existing BI tools do not encompass. Helical Insight permits you to design your own workflows and specify what functional module of BI gets triggered
Different companies have different business processes that the existing BI tools do not encompass. Helical Insight permits you to design your own workflows and specify what functional module of BI gets triggered