Introducing Yellowfin 9
What’s new?
See how Yellowfin 9 provides business users with unique ways to engage with and act on their data, and addresses the needs of data analysts and developers who want to build and deploy amazing analytical experiences.
Yellowfin 9.13
Release date: September 2024
Menu navigation updates
9.13 introduces a new, modern menu style that includes simpler, one-click navigation to move between major system functions, and a more intuitive design for accessing administration settings, the Users’ profile and the Create Menu.
Text charts
A new text chart type has been added. This chart enables a single text field to be displayed, or in the event of multiple text fields, a word-cloud.
New Reports info pop-ups
A new “info” popup can also be configured on Reports shown on a Dashboard - users can hover on the icon to quickly access a description of the report.
Yellowfin 9.12
Release date: Jun 2024
Browser page enhancements
In 9.12, we have further refined the browser page UI to make it more efficient by reducing the number of clicks to achieve key functions, including Content Type, Recent Items, and My Favourites.
Qubole data sources for Yellowfin Views
In this release, we have certified Qubole data sources, a simple, open, and secure Data Lake Platform for machine learning, streaming, and ad-hoc analytics.
Better Export capability
9.12 optimizes Yellowfin Export performance and introduces new features, including the ability to broadcast reports to external emails and a new PDF export option for dashboard to PDF.
Yellowfin 9.10
Release date: November 2023
An browser page UI upgrade
The user interface of the Yellowfin Browse Page has been revamped with a cleaner and simpler look to enhance the browsing experience by providing easy navigation for reports, dashboards, presentations, and more.
Drill through on YF Stories
Yellowfin Stories now supports report drill-through, allowing users to click hyperlinks within a report to navigate to related reports, revealing more detailed information.
Minimum memory allocation to the PDF exporter
You can now set the initial and the maximum memory setting to the PDF exporter, ensuring that the PDF export process has sufficient resources to function smoothly.
Yellowfin 9.9
Release date: July 2023
An installer UI upgrade
The UI of the Yellowfin Installer, Updater and Uninstaller has been modernized, with a cleaner and simpler look to make the process of installing and upgrading Yellowfin much easier for first time users.
Drill down and drill anywhere
We have added the ability to include the current drill-state (drill down or drill anywhere) in Yellowfin Bookmarks, which can be created as Filters only, Drill state only or both Filter and Drill state, to be used in live Dashboards, or in Dashboard broadcasts.
Better Data Views
9.9 includes two new pre-defined date filters to enhance your reporting experience.
Yellowfin 9.8
Release date: September 2022
A more intuitive search experience
To make Guided NLQ even more intuitive to use, we have added the ability to create synonyms for fields, so your users don’t have to remember the specific name of a field in order to use it in a question.
Ask a question to generate cross-tab reports
Crosstab reports allow a user to view metric data sliced by dimensions, appearing in both rows and columns. The 9.8 release now allows Crosstab questions to be asked in Guided NLQ using the Crosstab keyword.
Better Data Views
In 9.8, we have added the ability to update the view name, description and folder location without having to edit the view.
Yellowfin 9.7
Release date: November 2021
A simple way for anyone to ask the hard questions
How do business leaders foster a data-driven culture to help drive decision-making? That’s a good question, and Yellowfin Guided NLQ (Natural Language Query) is the right answer.
Know what, when and why — wherever you are
Experience your Yellowfin Reports alongside Signals and Stories on the mobile app with all-new interactions, delivered through a simple timeline interface curated for mobile.
Govern your data models effortlessly
Manage every performance, security, and automation setting for your data models in one place with new navigation menus.
Yellowfin 9.6
Release date: June 2021
Stories at your fingertips
Stay in your flow and let rich, contextual Stories find you with the brand new Data Storytelling Feed. Create new and relevant Stories faster with Story Templates and Filters.
Your charts, your way
Perform deeper customizations with new options for chart axis values and labels, category spacing, and sorting.
Get to where you want to go
Analyze your Dashboards quicker with sticky filter menus that remain on the page as you scroll. Jump directly to any slide in Presentations with the new Slide Picker.
Yellowfin 9.5
Release date: March 2021
Make your content pop
Beautiful graphics are a must. Bring creative designs and animations across popular formats including SVG, GIF and Adobe Photoshop Documents into your analytic content.
Reach your users wherever they are
Stay informed on the latest status with smart notifications that are actionable and follow you within the platform.
Shape your data faster
Model and prepare your data faster with enhanced metadata request management and caching.
Yellowfin 9.4
Release date: December 2020
Share your data stories everywhere
Easily grow how many people see, use and are guided by their data with embeddable Stories. Share pixel-perfect representations of your stories in PDF.
Automate approvals for your content
Automate sign-off requests and maintain high quality analytic content with Approval Workflows for your dashboards and presentations.
Look the same way to everyone
Ensure your brand, visual formatting and custom fonts are retained with total fidelity in our improved PDF exports.
Yellowfin 9.3
Release date: October 2020
Make it yours effortlessly
Bring your design language to your dashboards easily with refreshed Text and Image Widgets, and a brand new Image Manager. All in a familiar user interface.
Embed exactly what you want
Assemble the best analytical experience with our enhanced JavaScript API - enabling your product teams to choose the right level of interactivity and even embed A.I. capabilities. Create and administer rich application experiences that are automated and scalable with new REST API functions.
Keep your teams on the same page
Have the right information reach the right people with our new scheduled broadcasts for dashboards. Share pixel-perfect representations of your dashboards in PDF.
Yellowfin 9.2
Release date: June 2020
Discover profound shifts in your data
Data discovery does not need to be slow and costly. Monitor and glean insights from enduring shifts in your business data automatically with Step Change Signals.
Get the full experience
Experience your beautiful dashboards and presentations in greater detail and automatically hide distractions including toolbars, headers and footers with Full-Screen Mode.
Embed and extend with one familiar language
Embed and apply fine-grain control over your analytic content with our all-new JavaScript API. Utilize the same API in Dashboard Code Mode to extend and customize your dashboards.
Yellowfin 9.1
Release date: March 2020
Create beautiful and meaningful dashboards
If you can think it, you can build it. Assemble creative, on brand infographics and actionable dashboards on a flexible, free-form canvas with our new dashboard builder.
Build actionable and engaging experiences on the fly
Extend dashboard functionality with our new Code Mode, Code Widgets, and Actions - enabling developers to create custom, actionable, and rich application experiences that we haven’t even thought of. Perform deeper integration and embedded analytics with an enhanced Javascript API that is both contextual and state-aware.
Collaborate and short cut the design process
Bring your design language to your dashboards easily with refreshed Text and Image Widgets, and a brand new Image Manager. All in a familiar user interface.
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