About Holistics
Holistics is a business intelligence platform that helps data teams deliver self-service analytics to the rest of a company. People can explore data using natural language or point-and-click tools without writing SQL, while the data team keeps control through a modeled definition of the business.
That control comes from a programmable semantic layer written in Holistics' own modeling language, AML, along with an analytics query language and an analytics-as-code approach where metrics and dashboards are defined as code and versioned with Git. Other features include a dbt integration, canvas dashboards, reusable analytics components, dynamic data sources chosen by user and environment, and development with coding agents.
Holistics is a proprietary, hosted commercial product that also supports embedded analytics for customers. The vendor provides a demo sandbox with sample data, documentation, a public roadmap and a pricing page.
Key features
- Programmable semantic layer in AML
- Analytics-as-code with Git version control
- Natural-language data exploration
- dbt integration
- Canvas dashboards
- Embedded analytics for customers
Good fit for
- →Giving non-technical staff self-service analytics
- →Managing metrics as version-controlled code
- →Embedding dashboards in a SaaS product
- Tags
- business-intelligence
- semantic-layer
- analytics-as-code
- self-service
- dbt
- embedded-analytics
- dashboards
- ai-analytics
Holistics: questions and answers
- What is Holistics used for?
- Holistics is a self-service BI platform with a programmable semantic layer, analytics-as-code workflow and AI-assisted exploration for data teams and embedded use. It is a good fit for giving non-technical staff self-service analytics, managing metrics as version-controlled code and embedding dashboards in a SaaS product.
- How much does Holistics cost?
- Paid plans for Holistics start at $960 per month, and there is no free plan. A free trial is available.
- Is Holistics open source?
- No. Holistics is proprietary (closed-source) software. Open-source alternatives to Holistics include Evidence, Lightdash and Metabase.
- What are some alternatives to Holistics?
- Holistics competes with Looker, Sigma and Power BI. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Holistics alternatives.
Open-source alternatives to Holistics
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Google Cloud business intelligence platform with a governed semantic modeling layer
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Omni
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