--- description: Review of Holistics Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs on Software Advice Ireland. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/software_advice/og_logo-55146305bbe7b450bea05c18e9be9c9a.png title: Holistics | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice IE --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Data Analysis Software](/directory/535/data-analysis/software) > [Holistics](/software/41167/holistics) # Holistics Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/41167/holistics Page: 1 / 5\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/41167/holistics?page=2) > Holistics is a cloud based business intelligence (BI) application with integrated data reporting and preparation tools. The application works in a SQL-based environment and allows businesses to connect multiple SQL databases, run ad-hoc queries, predict trends and visualize data. With Holistics, data analysts only need to script reports once. The system automatically creates reports on a periodic basis for regular queries. The reports generated are customizable and the data within these reports can be configured as needed. Holistics' dashboard combines and visualizes data from multiple reports using dynamic charts and graphs. The email scheduler feature sends reports and dashboard snapshots to users on a periodic basis. Additionally, it provides tools to set alerts for threshold events, report issues and send reports to external users via a shareable link. Holistics is available on a monthly subscription basis. > > Verdict: Rated **4.6/5** by 89 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.6/5** | 89 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.7/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Holistics Software - **Founded**: 2015 ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: US$800.00 - **Pricing model**: Flat Rate (Free Trial) - **Pricing Details**: A 14-day free trial is available. Entry: $800/mo Standard: $1000/mo Security Compliance Suite: $2000/mo Embedded Analytics: $800/mo Enterprise: Contact Holistics Software for further pricing details. - **Target Audience**: 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based - **Available Countries**: Singapore ## Features - API - Access Controls/Permissions - Activity Dashboard - Ad hoc Analysis - Ad hoc Query - Ad hoc Reporting - Alerts/Notifications - Benchmarking - Charting - Collaboration Tools - Customisable Dashboard - Customisable Reports - Dashboard - Dashboard Creation - Data Connectors - Data Discovery - Data Management - Data Transformation - Data Visualisation - Data Warehouse Software ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Chat ## Category - [Data Analysis Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/535/data-analysis/software) ## Related Categories - [Data Analysis Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/535/data-analysis/software) - [Manufacturing BI Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/3828/manufacturing/software) - [Data Visualization Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/400/data-visualization/software) - [Business Intelligence Platform](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/4336/bi/software) - [Data Integration Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/3304/data-integration-tools/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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[Domo](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/5822/domo) — 4.3/5 (329 reviews) ## Reviews ### "Well priced cloud self-serve analytics and BI tool" — 4.0/5 > **Michael** | *22 March 2023* | Financial Services | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: - Reasonable pricing per-user, good for data democratisation initiatives- Self-serve tooling and data set are more flexible than most competitors, while remaining quite reliable- Very easy to set up and connect to data warehouse, with dbt and git integrations- Team regularly releases new features > > **Cons**: - Access control are less granular than the big enterprise products- Covers the majority of basic data visualisations, but highly customised visualisations are more difficult (via custom Vega viz) > > \- Enabled stakeholder access to data via self-serve, reduced data team BAU burden and allowed us to focus on higher value task- Works well with the Modern Data Stack paradigm- Great in our requirement discovery phase, when we weren't sure what kind of regular dashboards would be needed. Allowed stakeholders/users to do the first level of requirement discovery via their own self-serve, and iterated on that afterwards. ----- ### "Centalised Visualisation Platform for the whole company" — 4.0/5 > **Craig** | *19 March 2024* | Health, Wellness & Fitness | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: The price of Holistics is very good compared to their competitors, some being 10x the cost but would not deliver 10x the value. The team at Holistics is very friendly and always open to feedback, which we really liked. They are always looking to improve their product and get community and key customer feedback into their product. I like that they provide a single place for you to model your data and the interface for modelling (both Code and Visual) allow for good flexibility in creating what you want to do. > > **Cons**: Holistics is missing a few key features which does make it a little harder to use than other systems. This can mean additional work or complexity when trying to do something quite complex within Holistics e.g. Role Playing Dimensions or cross model calculations. ----- ### "UI super clunky and unresponsive" — 1.0/5 > **Ahmad Akmaluddin** | *1 November 2021* | Oil & Energy | Recommendation rating: 1.0/10 > > **Pros**: When it works, it can work like a charm. > > **Cons**: 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 > > Unusable and unresponsive ----- ### "Fantastic BI tool with the best price-to-value ratio on the market" — 5.0/5 > **Jan** | *11 December 2023* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: 1) The data modeling as-code is great. It saves a lot of time and it helped us migrate from one data warehouse to another. Modifying SQL syntax is easy and it helped save a lot of time. 2) Business users can easily explore from existing dashboards to answer their own questions. This solved our data exploration limitation faced with Data Studio. 3) Overall cadence of feature releases is impressive as well as customer support and reliability of the product. > > **Cons**: The only thing we are missing is the management of dashboards as code as it would help speed up the development and lower the maintenance time needed for that part of Holistics (I understand this feature is about to be released in Beta soon). > > We have been able to use Holistics to promote a self-service data culture across the whole company. All business teams are actively making use of Holistics. Marketing teams use Holistics every day to monitor marketing performance and aid decisions on campaign optimizations and lead attribution. Our finance team uses it to track all unit metrics for operations of the business, from recurring revenue, churn to retention. We basically cover everything with Holistics. It's the only BI tool we have. ----- ### "Excellent BI tool for customers looking for a budget Looker alternative" — 4.0/5 > **Alex** | *5 April 2023* | Food & Beverages | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: 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 > > **Cons**: 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 > > 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. ----- Page: 1 / 5\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/41167/holistics?page=2) ## Links - [View on SoftwareAdvice](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/41167/holistics) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | de | | | en | | | en-AU | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | | fr | | ----- ## Structured Data