Analytics — reports without a data team

Ask a question in plain English or write SQL over your live business data; pin results to dashboards. Business reporting without a BI stack or data team.

Part of AxisIQ's single business model — The understanding layer (Understand the business). How the layers fit.

Reporting is usually the moment a business discovers its data is in five places. You export from one system, paste into a sheet, VLOOKUP against another export, and by the time the number is right it is a week old.

AxisIQ has no such gap. Your reports run directly on your live operational data, in the same workspace, a second after the record changed.

Three ways to ask

Plain English. Type "revenue by month for the last year, split by channel" and get a query back. You see the SQL it produced before it runs — so it is a drafting tool, not a magic box you have to trust blindly.

Real SQL. If you know SQL, you get SQL: joins, aggregates, CTEs, window functions, the lot. No proprietary query builder to fight, no "this chart type does not support that grouping".

Ask Axis. For a one-off question, skip the query screen entirely and ask the assistant. It runs the same engine and renders the table and chart in the conversation.

Safe by construction

Letting people write SQL against a live business database is normally a terrible idea. Here it is not, because every query goes through a parser that enforces the rules before a single row is read:

• Read-only, single statement. A SELECT (or a set operation of them). No writes, no stacked statements, no calls into anything else.
• Your org only. A query can only reference your own object types. There is no syntax that reaches another organisation's data, because the parser rejects it before execution.
• Field-level permissions still apply. Every referenced type is transparently replaced with a masked view: live rows only, and any field the person is not allowed to see comes back as NULL. Someone who cannot see cost price cannot see it via a clever query either.
• Bounded. Results cap at 1,000 rows and queries have a hard time budget, so a bad JOIN costs you a red error message rather than an outage.

From a question to a dashboard

A query you want again becomes a saved report — named, described, shared with your team. Reports get re-validated against the rules every time they run, so a report written when someone had broader access does not become a permission bypass later.

Reports assemble into dashboards: a few numbers at the top, the charts that matter, the tables you check every morning. Filters in the header narrow every chart at once, and clicking a bar or a slice opens the records behind it. The main workspace dashboard is built the same way — invoiced, collected and outstanding are live aggregates, not a cached figure from last night.

Told when a number crosses a line

Any query that returns one number can become an alert: "cash below ₹2 lakh", "more than ten invoices overdue". It is checked every 15 minutes, hourly or daily, as the person who set it, and you hear once when the line is crossed — not on every check — in the bell and by email.

Undo a bad edit

Report pages keep their saved versions — who changed what, and when, including changes Ask Axis made. Preview any earlier version on the page, and restore it for everyone if it was better.

Typical first reports

• Revenue by month, by channel, by product category
• Outstanding receivables by age and by customer
• Stock on hand versus committed, by warehouse
• Order-to-ship time, and where the days actually go
• Purchase spend by supplier, versus last quarter
• Margin by product, once your cost fields are populated

What you do not need

No data warehouse. No ETL schedule. No separate BI seat licence. No analyst to translate a business question into a data model. The data model is the operational one, and it is already yours.

Reporting is included on every plan — see pricing, or read how the permission engine decides what a query is allowed to see.