We were able to acccomplish the following; 1. It's easy to analyse our datasets. 2. We can create any variation of dashboards and implement it for our client usage in seconds.

Holistics aim to make it easy for semi-tech users to be able to make an analysis on their own without the need for technical assistance. It's really easy to set up and you can get running within minutes after connecting your databases.

As your databases get more complex and you require some processing before merging the relationships, Holistics might not be the best software. That said, they are probably not designed for this function.

Holistics has successfully become part of the fabric of our business, underpinning our efforts to become data driven while offering good value for money for the number of users and representing a low TCO due to low admin overhead.Coming from a Looker background, I was very familiar with its concepts of analytics-as-code, and generally we have been able to achieve everything we needed in terms of reporting. The experience can lack the polish of Looker but this is definitely fuller featured than Looker in its early days.

Good value for money, excellent scaling from small number of usersAnalytics as codeExcellent scheduled export options - email/slack/ftp/Google sheetsShare dashboards with external usersRuns native SQL on top of cloud datawarehouseDecent out of the box visualisation and dashboardingAd-hoc query building and sharingSupport for custom visualisations (via Vega-Lite, maps via geojson)Customer support is pretty responsive (within limits of timezones)Low admin overheadGithub integrationDBT integration

Custom business calcs currently pretty limited compared to Looker (they are working on this in their roadmap)Adding new widgets to busy dashboards can be time consuming due to lack of auto-scrollingGenerated SQL more difficult to follow due to obfuscated naming conventionsNo many-to-many joins or looker-like fanout management via symmetric aggregates (warnings given instead).Model relationships have to be on a single business key, sql join logic not supported (no > < range joins)No capability to separate front-end presentation BI model from underlying data modelNo dynamic variables (currently in roadmap)Company and engineers' office location means PII cannot be exposed via the tool

Unusable and unresponsive

When it works, it can work like a charm.

The web UI. Oh my its one of the least usable UI / Web I have yet encountered. Buttons are unresponsive. Things needed done are nested deep and imagine having to traverse unresponsive elements. I have always complain to my boss on why some reports are not being tended to, Ill simply say its unusable how are you to expect me to work

We have several products competing for engineering resources, and having a product like Holistics saves us the time from building the reports and dashboards ourselves. The fact that it has a robust scheduled delivery feature, we always start our morning with reading our product metrics delivered to us via Slack and e-mail.

Easy setup, Intuitive drag and drop UI, schedules report delivery, and most of all the world class support team

Occasional edge-case bugs, mostly visual. However, they are always addressed quickly and sufficient workarounds are suggested while they are being looked into.

We started working with Holistics as an alternative to powerBI and with the support of the Holistics crew we managed to get an extensive set of reports and dashboard up in no time. The option to email reports to multiple users is very handy.

It's really easy to setup and within minutes you have reports and dashboards that you can easily distribute. The support from the Holistics team is great, if you have questions or feature requests they respond quickly.

It is not as extensive as some other products but for most users this wont be an issue. What you do have to keep in mind is that the queries are ran on your server so it can give some pressure on your DB.