When comparing NextReports vs Helical Insight, the Slant community recommends NextReports for most people. In the question“What are the best open source reporting tools?” NextReports is ranked 1st while Helical Insight is ranked 17th. The most important reason people chose NextReports is:
NextReports Designer is a desktop application written in Java so it can run on any OS with a Java version 7+.
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Pros
Pro Cross platform
NextReports Designer is a desktop application written in Java so it can run on any OS with a Java version 7+.
Pro Very stable
Pro Supports exporting reports to different format
With NextReports you can design beautiful reports and you can export them to different formats of your choosing, for example pdf, excel and HTML are supported (there are also many other formats that are available).
Pro Easy to use
Reports can be easily designed using a grid layout similar to excel.
Pro Android app
There's a very good Android application called NextReports Sight which can be connected to the server and you can watch all the real time widgets from your phone.
Pro API which can be used to run Next reports
NextReports Engine is a very simple Java api which can be used to run Next reports.
Pro NextReports Server
NextReports Server brings security, centralization, dashboards, BI features, scheduling, monitoring and many other features.
Pro Canned Reporting Module
Pro Canned Reporting Module
Pro Multi database
Supports all the JDBC4 compliant databases, NoSQL, Big Data, RDBMS, Cloud db, Columnar database etc.
Pro Feature of NLP and machine learning
Pro Open source
Pro Easy to use
Cons
Con Suspicious upvotes
Lot's of one-time votes from members that did not vote on anything else.
Con Official website changed
The link http://www.next-reports.com/ leads to a company called "Capone" now (does this sound a little suspicious?).