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Holistics adds period-over-period comparison to dashboards and turns viz aggregations into metrics.

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◆Current state
Holistics is shipping weekly changes on both the modeling and consumption sides of its BI product. Viewers can now compare periods from a dashboard chart's Analyze menu, next to trend and reference lines. On the modeling side, aggregating a dimension on a viz now creates a reusable metric, after recent additions of Data Lineage, Apache Ossie conversion and branches.
◆Where it's heading
Analysis that used to need a modeler keeps moving into the dashboard viewer's hands, while ad-hoc work in vizzes feeds back into the semantic layer as reusable definitions. Both directions strengthen the semantic model as the center of the product.
◆Prediction
More Analyze-menu options for viewers look likely, since period comparison is the third such tool added in a month after trend and reference lines.

◆Recent moves

  1. 2d ago

    Holistics puts date grains directly in the field list

    Date grains such as day, week or month can now be picked straight from the field list instead of configured separately. A small but frequent time-saver for anyone building time-series reports.

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  2. 2d ago

    Localization is coming to embedded analytics

    Embedded dashboards will show translations per viewer's language from a single build. It is an announcement rather than a release, and it extends the viewer-side work of recent weeks to customers who embed Holistics in their own products.

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  3. 8d ago

    📅 Compare periods directly in dashboards

    Period-over-period comparison joins trend and reference lines in the dashboard Analyze menu, the third viewer-side analysis tool in a month. Viewers can check change against a prior period without asking a modeler.

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  4. 9d ago

    🧩 Aggregating a dimension on a viz now creates a metric

    An aggregation made on a viz now becomes a metric that can be reused, instead of a one-off calculation. It feeds ad-hoc work back into the semantic layer.

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  5. 12d ago

    Holistics AI chat notifies you when a long task needs input

    Holistics AI now sends a notification when a chat needs attention, so users can leave long-running AI tasks in the background. It treats the AI assistant as a tool for multi-step work rather than quick one-off questions.

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  6. 18d ago

    Pick your own color for the "Others" chart group

    Charts now let you set the color of the "Others" group, so the long tail can be muted or highlighted. A small option that fits the month's run of dashboard presentation controls.

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