Headless BI
Providing consistent, real-time insights to every data consumer
What is Headless BI?
Headless BI provides consistent, real-time insights to an array of different data consumers: Excel; BI tools like Power BI, Qlik, and Tableau; data science notebooks; and applications. It achieves consistency and governance via a common semantic model and single-source metrics.
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Why build on top of Headless BI?
Don’t waste time rebuilding models, metrics, visualizations, security, or deployment. Build a single version of truth — once. See how headless BI compares to traditional BI deployments:
 Headless BI | Traditional BI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Single source of metrics |  | - | |||
Real-time analytics | | - | |||
OpenAPI-based integration | | - | |||
Declarative definitions | | - | |||
CI/CD pipeline deployment | | - | |||
Composable UI | | - | |||
Self-service analytics | |  | |||
Microservices architecture | | - | |||
Common data source connectors | | | |||
User management and SSO | | | |||
Flexible deployment (Private DC, AWS, GCP, Azure) | | - | |||
Metrics with consistent results
Metrics with consistent results
- Work with composable metrics that can be reused in different contexts — without deep knowledge of the underlying data structure.
- Build analytics on top of easy-to-use semantic data abstractions.
Compatible with third-party BI tools
Compatible with third-party BI tools
- Make metrics and insights available to all of your data consumers, including external BI tools, machine learning systems, and notebooks.
- Seamlessly integrate with existing data tools.
Compatible with developer ecosystems
Compatible with developer ecosystems
- Inbuilt elasticity dynamically reacts to data volume and user traffic.
- Easy to deploy through technologies like Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines.
- OpenAPI layer for easy integration.
- Automated code promotion through the declarative definition of all analytical objects stored in version control system (VCS) repositories such as GitHub.
- Multi-tenant architecture.
Rapid front-end application development
Rapid front-end application development
- Build dashboards programmatically in your native programming language.
- Use GoodData.UI SDK to easily build or embed analytical content via iFrame or JavaScript frameworks (React, Angular, and Vue).
- Alternatively, use our ready-made self-service UI that can be customized and embedded to fit your product.
