Author here. Thanks everyone for using Poli. I am happy to answer any questions!
Most of our teams are viewing BI from their phones. Is there plan to develop a mobile app or mobile friendly version
Show HN: Poli – An easy-to-use, open-source BI alternative
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Re: Show HN: Poli – An easy-to-use, open-source BI alternative
#42Nice, believe you're using JavaFx for UI correct, very cool!
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#43Nice, believe you're using JavaFx for UI correct, very cool!
No, the UI uses React. I can't see where JavaFX is involved.
Re: Show HN: Poli – An easy-to-use, open-source BI alternative
#44Would be useful to have some information how this compares with https://www.metabase.com/ or https://meltano.com/
Metabase can't be beaten in terms of looks and functionality but I do like this.
Is there anyway to use a BI tool like Metabase and combine it with Qradar? I'm interested in being able to create useful reports.
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#45Author here. Thanks everyone for using Poli. I am happy to answer any questions!
Most of our teams are viewing BI from their phones. Is there plan to develop a mobile app or mobile friendly version
I launched a simple mobile BI app before but it didn't get any traction so for Poli, there is no recent plan to make it mobile friendly :(
Re: Show HN: Poli – An easy-to-use, open-source BI alternative
#46Author here. Thanks everyone for using Poli. I am happy to answer any questions!
What was your inspiration / motivation behind this project? Are you the sole dev or is there a team behind you?
The main motivation behind the project is that I'd like to have an easy-to-use SQL to Dashboard web application that I can use to solve my own problem. I did try search and use existing BI tools first but found that they are either too complicated to setup/use or the license/fee is not friendly enough. I believe they are designed for more advanced user cases for a good reason and don't seem to suit my simpler needs. Thy's why I build Poli. Yes, I am the solo developer on this project.
Re: Show HN: Poli – An easy-to-use, open-source BI alternative
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Superset's not the best in terms of looks, but it beats Metabase hands down for functionality.
Which functionalities would you point out as the most important in Superset that are missing in Metabase?
Depends heavily on your use case, but there are a lot of advanced features.
From a review last year (so some of this may be outdated):
- Broader datasource support - 20 sources in Superset, vs 12 in Metabase
Superset supports:
- view creation by users ('create table as'), as well as materialization
- geo/GIS based visualizations
- day over day, week over week, etc. charting; moving averages, etc.
Superset is missing data catalog-like functions, which metabase has, though I didn't evaluate metabase's data catalog in depth. It also requires you to write SQL, where Metabase includes a query builder UI - though there was a rather strange difference in capabilities within Metabase between the SQL-based charting and the query builder UI.
Re: Show HN: Poli – An easy-to-use, open-source BI alternative
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
What was your inspiration / motivation behind this project? Are you the sole dev or is there a team behind you?
The main motivation behind the project is that I'd like to have an easy-to-use SQL to Dashboard web application that I can use to solve my own problem. I did try search and use existing BI tools first but found that they are either too complicated to setup/use or the license/fee is not friendly enough. I believe they are designed for more advanced user cases for a good reason and don't seem to suit my simpler needs.…
That's wonderful to hear. Will definitely give you feedback once I play around with the project in a few weeks.