Yellowfin’s mission has always been to simplify analytics and make actionable insights easily accessible for everyone. With the release of Yellowfin 9.14, we’re focusing on providing developers with the tools to integrate our advanced analytics into their software seamlessly, expand integration capabilities, and provide a significant step forward in making embedded business intelligence (BI) more accessible and impactful.
In this blog, Yellowfin GM Chance Coble will break down what embedded BI is, what comes with the Yellowfin 9.14 update, and how 9.14 further refines what embedded analytics brings to the table in terms of better user experience and data-driven decisions.
The role of embedded BI using Yellowfin
Embedded BI is the process of integrating analytics features directly into your software applications, creating a native, unified user experience . By embedding analytics, your end users benefit from powerful data insights without needing to switch platforms or even realize that a BI tool is working in the background. Critical features like seamless authentication, custom styling, and intuitive functionality align analytics perfectly with your host application, delivering a cohesive and integrated experience.
Yellowfin has long been a leader in the embedded BI space, and version 9.14 further enhances our ability to provide developers with the flexibility and tools they need to embed powerful analytics seamlessly and create robust, data-driven applications.
Read more: The Ultimate Guide to Embedded Analytics - A Starter Kit for Embedded BI
What’s new in Yellowfin 9.14?
In version 9.14, our focus has been on developer empowerment, equipping your team with robust tools and capabilities through significant enhancements across our solution offering:.
- New REST API features: Numerous quality-of-life fixes, new content, dashboards, presentations and themes endpoints, an enhanced import and export endpoint, cached filter refreshes, and a new integration API utility for external developers.
- New AI chatbot assistants: As part of our continuing AI analytics initiatives, Ask Yellowfin and Code Assistant are now available via the Yellowfin website, serving as a Wiki and code generation assistant tool to help your developers and data analysts find information they need to get technical answers and quickly generate code for report customizations in Yellowfin to fulfill your most immediate analytics needs. Learn more about our AI chatbots here.
- Enhanced report builder experience: Major improvements to the user interface for re-ordering columns, using Calculated Totals with more chart types, and improved charting capability to give your developers and end-users more control over achieving the exact visual design they’re looking for.
- Better popup UI functionality: Based on developer feedback, we have expanded popup windows from just the Browse Page to display when sharing content, creating folders, and accessing the View Summary, while also enhancing the UI for managing User Access on Folders with more options, like the ability to resize table columns.
Our expansion of Yellowfin’s API endpoints mean developers can build custom analytics front-end on top of Yellowfin. This enables endless possibilities for tailoring analytics experiences to meet specific user needs and application workflows. Whether you want to create a completely unique user interface or deeply embed Yellowfin’s analytics into an existing system, the tools in this release provide the foundation to make that happen.
Read about every change in more detail in our Yellowfin 9.14 release highlights blog.
How Yellowfin 9.14 further redefines embedded analytics
Yellowfin 9.14 is not just a product update; it’s a redefinition of what’s possible with embedded analytics. By delivering solutions that are faster and easier to create, we’re enabling developers to integrate rich analytics functionality seamlessly into their products.
The result? Enhanced user experiences that feel like a natural extension of your application, seamlessly embedded data insights into your system’s workflows, dashboards and reports that blend perfectly with your application’s UI, and a stronger, more flexible analytics framework.
Chance Coble is the General Manager (GM) of Yellowfin BI and former President of Blacklight Solutions, an applied analytics consulting company. As a founding member of Yellowfin North America, Chance helped spearhead the introduction of Yellowfin into the US market through his tenure at Blacklight Solutions, with decades of experience in the data analytics industry. Chance has extensive experience in consulting with Fortune 500 companies and international organizations, helping them solve complex business problems through data-driven analytics for over 15 years. Coble holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Austin and a Master of Science in Biomedical Informatics from The University of Texas at Houston.
Next steps: Explore Yellowfin embedded analytics
Ready to explore how embedded analytics can help you deliver faster value? Reach out to our team today to learn more about how you can integrate powerful BI tools into your product and accelerate your time to market.