Holistics Data Reviews & Product Details

I use Holistics Data for building dashboards and analyzing data directly from our data warehouse. It helps me create reports, explore metrics, and share insights with the team in a structured way, without needing to rely heavily on engineering. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I dislike about Holistics Data is that the interface can feel a bit outdated and less intuitive compared to newer BI tools. There’s also a learning curve when it comes to modeling data and setting things up properly, especially for non-technical users. In some cases, performance can slow down with more complex queries or larger datasets, which can make analysis a bit frustrating. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Fantastic BI tool with semantic layer (like Looker). Dashboards as code. Really powerful dashboarding - AQL + Canvas dashboards + AI assistant provide outstanding, polished and meaningul results with deep analysis. Excellent and responsive support team. Integration with dbt. Integration with Google Sheets & Slack make it easy to bring into our workflows. 3rd party access/embedding of dashboards. Product is continuously evolving and adding features.

Easy to get to grips with coming from a Looker background, but much better value. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Would be great to be able to add an ad-hoc SQL analysis to a dashboard. Dynamic AQL can be a little hard to get to grips with, but the new AI assistant does help. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We’ve been using Holistics for a while now and overall, it’s been a great experience. We needed a BI platform that could handle drill-down analysis, offer a semantic layer for consistent metrics across different data sources, and give end-users more self-service capabilities. And so far, Holistics has checked all those boxes nicely.

What really stands out to me is the support. I’ve never had this kind of help from a BI vendor before. Most of the time, I get support from people who work on the product. They reply fast, they know what they’re doing, and they even suggest better ways of solving problems, or sometimes go ahead and fix things for me. That level of hands-on help is rare and super appreciated.

The platform is evolving fast. There’s a steady rollout of new features, and I’ve been especially excited about their AI chat and composable query language. It’s clear they’re building with the future in mind, which gives me a lot of confidence in sticking with them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Slight Learning Curve for Self-Service: There’s a bit of a learning curve when it comes to setting up the data model, which means most of our team still leans on a central data builder for now. We haven’t fully tapped into the self-service potential just yet. That said, we’re optimistic about Holistics AI, which can help our business users explore and access data more independently and more easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cost of the product compared to other competing tools is very good value.

Their team are very friendly and love to work with their customers to improve their product.

Overall, the product is fairly easy to use and provides a single place to define your tables and their relationships, leading to less duplication of code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Holistics is missing a few key features that other platforms have e.g. Role Playing Dimensions, Cross model calculations.

However, I know the team are looking into these missing features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Implementation is easy and customer support is great, it supports major databases. Also supports developing custom charts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lack of localization support, filtering based on text values Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's very easy to use, very intuitive. It has all the data visualizations that an organization might need, but it has the capability to let you create new visualizations via (xml- vega lite visualizations). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In some visualizations I would like to have a bit more of autonomy to run my own specific configurations. For instance: mark with colours the cells in a metric-sheet depending on conditions over the numbers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of use, Ease of Implementation, and great customer support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Need more flexibility in customizing design of charts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The tool is to use and how it meets all our needs. I havent come across any issues with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Snowflake has been a problem for us since it affects the integration and retrieval of data, from different sources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love the UI, it's very clean and easy to understand. Makes the job of checking on specific data a lot less cumbersome compared to competitors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It isn't compatible with all of the internal databases that we use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's been pretty easy to get acquainted with it, as I haven't used this type of platform before.

I reckon with some time spent on training, if the platform produces its own learning resources, I'll be super-confident with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

My only quibbles are around finding it difficult to customise existing datasets and visualisations, and our team finds it very slow - we'll be stuck at 99% progress for minutes on end frequently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.