Explore the Growth of Helical Insight at Helical Tech with Tech Leader and Co-Founder – Nikhilesh Tiwari

Every moment of a day is full of innovations, challenges and achievements. Today we are presenting the life story of Mr. Nikhilesh Tiwari– Tech innovator and Co- founder of Helical Tech. He believes in the hard-work, dedication and devotes a large portion of his day to meet daily challenges and raising efforts for client engagement. Nikhilesh is also known for strategic planning to grow any tech empire successfully. 

His daily routine includes client demos of their Open-Source BI product. Nikhilesh works harder to gather meaningful information from prospects and current customers which helps in deciding the roadmap and improving the product. He believes that a presentation needs to be a healthy conversation to understand client’s need and to make your clients understand your ideas for their need. Also, he recommends that a demo should be a clear solution post addressing their unique business needs, challenges and goals. He is also engaged in working on World’s first NLP based Data Engineering called Ask On Data tool. Along with that, strategical sessions, internal calls with SEO, marketing, support, and services, market research, decision-making and other activities keep him engaged for more than 10 hours in a day. 

Regarding the educational and professional journey of Nikhilesh, he is an engineering degree holder from Pune University. After that, he did MBA from Symbiosis University. From an engineering student to a co-founder of Helical Tech his journey includes many ups downs and challenges. He co-founded Helical Tech alongside Nitin Sahu. At the starting stage Helical Tech, it was primarily focused on data-related services such as such as Data Warehousing, Data Engineering, Business Intelligence, and Data Analytics that too primarily using open source tools. Later the company expanded servided into proprietary tools and cloud technologies as well. They started serving many clients and established partnerships with tools like Jaspersoft, Pentaho, Dbt, Snowflake, AWS, and more. 

Recognizing the gaps in the existing open-source BI tools, they focused on developing their own BI solution- Helical Insight. This BI solution was launched in beta in 2016 and right now Helical Insight version 5.1 is there in the market. Helical Insight comes with amazing set of features like; Single Sign-On (SSO), drag-and-drop interface, support for Docker and Kubernetes, data export capabilities, email scheduling, user role management, paginated reports, and multi-tenancy etc which have made it popular in a very short duration. Helical Insight has became an economical choice for enterprises searching for the robust BI features. 

Nikhilesh believed in innovations strongly and he increased his focus to the data engineering/ETL space. By understanding the growing demand for clean and transformed data across various roles, from BI developers to analysts to AI developers, he recognized the complexities of existing data engineering tools. To address this, team at Helical is launching the world’s first NLP-based Data Engineering tool (powered by ML & AI) called Ask On Data. With simple chat interface, Ask On Data allows users to perform data cleaning, processing, transformations, loading and other data related tasks without requiring technical expertise. With simple chat interface and no tech knowledge required to use it, Ask On Data aims to revolutionize the development of data pipelines. 

As the founder of HelicalTech, the most fulfilling aspects for Nikhilesh are innovation, impactful solutions and continuous evolution. With the great belief in “Build in India and Built for the World”, Nikhilesh and his team started leading the development of technologically advanced products like Open-Source BI product Helical Insight. The upcoming World’s first NLP-ML based Data Engineering tool AskOnData, Nikhilesh and his team is highly capable to provide an exciting direction to identify industry gaps and bring innovative products in the market to fill that gap. Nikhilesh is contributing to the advancement of open-source BI and data engineering with best of their knowledge, expertise and experience. 

Nikhilesh is very much engaged these days with clients to deliver solutions that exceed expectations and create a culture of innovation. Nikhilesh expressed his feeling of being a witness of his product success with great positive recognition in the market and contribution in the advancement of the industry. He gave credit of this success to the entire team and their collective efforts at Helical Tech. 

By explaining the concept of NLP and its impact of businesses, Nikhilesh shared the golden line by Andrej Karpathy– “The hottest new programming language is English.“ 

Nikhilesh is bringing this NLP approach in the domain of data engineering/ETL with his product Ask on Data to simplify the data engineering related work. According to him Ask on Data, with a chat interface, can allow anyone to simply chat and create various kind of data pipelines, schedule it, run it and do more activities related with the entire data engineering task. 

Also, an open-source BI solution Nikhilesh and his team made Helical Insight a hero with multi-level advantages to benefit businesses across different sectors. Nikhilesh shared following key benefits of Helical Insight: 

1. Cost-Effective Solution: 

As per Nikhilesh, being an open-source BI tool, Helical Insight is a cost-effective solution if you compare it with other BI solutions. This plus point is very helpful for the smaller businesses with tight budget issue. 

2. Flexibility and Customization: 

He also discussed it’s another advantage of allowing extensive customization. That means businesses can customize and extend Helical Insight to meet their specific requirements. 

3. Transparent and Accessible Codebase: 

The transparency of the codebase helps businesses to have a clear understanding of their tool’s functioning and promotes trust by encouraging community contribution. Helical Insights supports by allowing for in-house customization in the case of need. 

4. Comprehensive Feature Set: 

Nikhilesh disclosed the featural advantages of Helical Insight like support of Single Sign-On, a self-service drag-and-drop interface, Docker and Kubernetes support, exporting options, email scheduling, user role management, paginated reports, multi-tenancy, caching and more. Because of the availability of these features Nikhilesh call it a versatile BI solution. 

5. Community Support: 

With its open-source nature that encourages a large community of users and developers. Nikhilesh found this community support valuable for sharing best practices, addressing challenges, and staying updated on the latest developments in BI. 

6. Scalability: 

By appreciating the design of Helical Insight Nikhilesh said it is effective to scale with the growing needs of your business whether you are starting with small or expanding rapidly. 

Conclusion:

Nikhilesh is a completely devoted to his work, client’s satisfaction and engagement, tech innovation, his team and company product- Helical Insight. He values various aspects that matters a lot for any business such as customization, community support and transparency in BI implementation. 

Helical Insight offers a cost-effective, flexible, and feature-rich BI solution suitable for businesses looking to optimize their analytics capabilities. It is an excellent choice for those valuing customization, community support, and transparency in their BI implementation. His life story as a tech innovator and Co-founder of Helical tech explains his expertise in strategic planning, tech visionary, innovation and navigation. His efforts for the growth of Helical Tech have made the Helical Insight a wonderful, useful, and cost-effective solution to match with current business needs. 

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