Anyone in your company can build their own reports in just 15 mins, with no help from data analyst
Holistics is a self-service BI platform that allows everyone in the company to answer their own data questions.
Technical users can set up the Holistics Data Modelling layer to give users in any departments the granularity they want. Business users drag-and-drop and create their reports easily, without writing a single line of code.
Risk-free. We don’t store your data and no credit card required.
Holistics is trusted by 100s of startups, small businesses and enterprises. From over 20 countries
Holistics vs Tableau
| Feature | Holistics | Tableau |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing and Budget | ||
| Pricing suitable for | Provide collaborative company wide analytics. Ideal for companies of under 100 people | Large enterprises above 100 people (min 100 viewers) or for individual data team members |
| What you can purchase with $100/mth budget | 10 users and 50 Reports | Single Data Analyst |
| What you can purchase with $250/mth budget | 20 users and 150 Reports | 3 Analysts (Min Number of Explorers = 5) |
| What you can purchase with $500/mth budget | 20 users with unlimited reports | 5 Analysts and 5 Explorers, or 1 Analyst and 12 Explorers |
| Monthly or yearly payment | Both monthly and yearly plan available. Yearly plan at 20% discount off monthly plans. | Only yearly plan available |
| Focused on | DataOps-first approach towards analytics workflows | Data Visualization and Interactivity first approach towards analytics |
| Report Creation done via | Cloud; 100% browser-based, works perfectly on all OS (Mac, Linux, Windows) | It’s largely desktop based than browser-based. You cannot create your reports without installing Tableau on your computer. |
| Works well with data sources that are | Cloud SQL databases(s) | Desktop Spreadsheets, SQL, and a large number of application connectors |
| Variety of visualizations | All basic chart types including maps with basic customization options | Large variety of data visualization types that are highly interactive and beautiful in nature |
| Data Dictionary and Relationships | ||
| Data Modeling and Transformation | ||
| User experience designed for | SQL Analysts who prefers to build data models and transformations with SQL instead of GUI | Non-technical business analysts who prefers a GUI-first (non-SQL) towards building data models and transformations |
| Approach towards Data Modeling | Data models designed to be built with a first-class SQL experience approach Easy access to underlying SQL of all data models provide visibility on how they are created | Models designed for non-technical business analyst to be built using data modeling GUI Semi-opaque behind the scenes data modeling approach |
| Data Preparation Workflows setup via | Data preparation done via the automatic execution of SQL transforms models (including materialized views). | Data Preparation prepared through configuring data workflows via a GUI (Tableau data preparation, purchased separately) |
| Cloud SQL editor | Write and test SQL queries quickly with Holistics in-built cloud SQL editor | Typically requires a separate SQL editor software outside Tableau to test and run queries |
| Skillsets needed for Data Modeling | Anyone can use Holistics as long as they know how to write SQL queries, without extension engineering knowledge | Needs Tableau developer skill-sets to use it well Typically requires technical DBA to setup and prepare database table for querying" |
| Data Delivery to external stakeholders | ||
| Shareable links, without any login (Restrict views to specific email addresses), with password protection and permission control | Shareable links can be created and shared easily to external stakeholders without a Holistics user account | To view dashboards online, viewers need to login with their own account. |
| Automatic email delivery | Email schedules can be created to send to any number of recipients, including non-Holistics user | Email schedules is only available to Tableau users on self-service basis, and not available to external stakeholders. |
| Automated slack schedules | Available natively within Holistics | Need 3rd party integration |
| Google sheet export (Automatic) | Available natively within Holistics | Need 3rd party integration |
| SFTP export schedule | Available natively within Holistics | Need 3rd party integration |
| Availability of Embedded Dashboards | Priced by Concurrent Workers (Unlimited viewers and view count) | Embedded users are priced by user count |
Why companies are making the switch from Tableau to Holistics
100% Cloud-based
For Tableau, you need to install on your computer before you can create dashboards and export the dashboards to the cloud.
Holistics allow anyone in your company to access their reports/dashboards anywhere, with no installment in your computer.
Share reports easily with shareable links
In Tableau, users are required to have login using their Tableau account to access and view data. This is cumbersome if you’ve many users or external stakeholders viewing the reports.
In Holistics, users can create shareable links and share data/reports easily with external stakeholders via automatic email/Slack delivery.
Safe and secured, with password protection.
No account needed. No additional cost for viewers.
Self-service analytics: a tool that both technical users and non-technical can use
In Holistics, data analysts can do their analysis by writing SQL queries while non-technical users can use our drag-and-drop UI/UX to explore the data by themselves, without writing a single line of code.
In Tableau, if you don’t have a big data team, business users would face difficulties in getting data and making fast decisions. Holistics empower business users to create their own reports, without asking for help from analysts. Reduce time-to-insights by 50%.
Maintain your ETL and reports/dashboards in a no-fuss way
Tableau users typically need to do lots of technical database administration work.
Holistics enable data analysts to set up basic ETL and data transformation workflows, without assistance from the engineering team.
With Holistics Data Modelling layer, data analysts can give users in any departments the granularity they want. They just need to do this setup ONE time, and all the reports/dashboards will be updated automatically. No more manual work and redo.
Unlike Tableau, we save you money from hiring someone dedicated to maintain the dashboards.
Empower business users to create their reports, without asking for help from analysts
Reduce time-to-insights by 50%
Risk-free. We don’t store your data and no credit card required.
Hear from others who made the switch from Tableau to Holistics
Noustique Perfumes
Noustique Perfumes is a fragrance startup, based in Spain, with their flagship store in Paris, France.
Noutstique originated from a collaboration between BSH Hausgeräte GmbH, Europe’s #1 home appliance manufacturer, and Puig, a global leader in fragrance. They made it possible for everyone to create their own unique fragrance at home.
Our greatest challenge is everything had to go through the data analyst using Tableau. Anybody wanted any kind of metrics were not able to do it themselves.
Tableau is not only about SQL, it’s also about learning the tool itself, having the software installed in your computer. But once the models are built in Holistics, you know, we’re not really that on top of the tool, because the tool is working automatically, we don’t have to do much after that.
The biggest thing for me is that business users feel much more empowered using Holistics than Tableau.
Albert Casademont, Head of IT
Qoala
Qoala is a disruptive insurtech company that uses big data, machine learning, IoT and the blockchain to revolutionize the insurance landscape in Indonesia. They’ve raised $13.5 million in its Series A financing round.
The best feature we found in Holistics is the ability to centralize all the information, which means that we can stream information from any kind of source and put it under one dashboard or report. With this, we can easily ingest the data and deliver the report or dashboard with ease.
Insan Ramadhan, Data Team Manager
Read more on how Qoala centralize all their data sources to keep track of their KPIs.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who shouldn’t use Holistics?
That being said, we came up with a 8-point checklist. If any of the following 7 items appeal to you, then you should not buy Holistics.
- You value data visualization only, and not the entire data pipeline, and how your data operations work with the rest of the departments.
- You want simple summarized reports only.
- You are looking for on-premise solution and you don’t want a cloud solution.
- You’re looking for a data visualization tool, and not a BI and analytics tool.
- You don’t have a SQL data warehouse and have no plan of getting one.
- You don’t need to know the context of the underlying data, and you don’t need to ask deeper questions about your business.
- You have simple datasets that doesn’t require any cleaning or joining at all.
- You don’t need a holistic tool, for both front-end visualization and backend ETL.
Do Holistics support my data sources?
https://docs.holistics.io/docs/connect/#supported-databases
Other data sources that we support:
https://docs.holistics.io/docs/integrations
If we’re not supporting your data sources, you can use StitchData or Fivetran to put your data into your data warehouse.
I don’t have a data analyst in my company. Can I still use Holistics?
Can I use both Tableau and Holistics together?
Grab, a ride-hailing unicorn startup in Southeast Asia, valued at USD14 billion (as of 2020), with more than 2000 employees, has been using Holistics alongside with Tableau. They use Tableau for data visualization and Holistics for data operations and data workflows.
What is on your product roadmap?
Is Holistics EU-compliant? Do you guys have GDPR?
We also have a standard Data Privacy Agreement provided upon request, please contact us for more information.
I’m based US/Europe. Will customer support be a problem?
Because Data Team Is Not IT Help Desk
Less ad-hoc data questions. Happier data teams. All start with Holistics .