Happy New Year from the Yellowfin team to our valued customers and partners, and welcome to our 2024 recap! As Yellowfin's new General Manager (GM), I'm excited to share our progress in 2024 and our vision for 2025. Yellowfin is committed to empowering your organization with smarter business intelligence (BI) solutions that drive data-driven decisions.

In this Digital era, getting your own hands into every operational activity is not the right thing to do. There are IT transformation consulting experts whose experience and skill set can be leveraged to reduce time, effort, and cost for your organization. In that context, today’s organizations are delivering more and more into cloud-based infrastructure.

Today, the demand for high-quality applications has never been greater. Agile methodologies, coupled with the rise of continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), have significantly increased the frequency of software releases. Companies now deploy updates daily or even multiple times a day, placing immense pressure on QA teams to ensure reliability without slowing down the development pipeline.

The world of business intelligence (BI) and analytics has evolved from descriptive to predictive, and now, to generative. Generative AI, a cutting-edge technology, is making its mark in embedded analytics solutions. These powerful AI analytics tools are assisting business users in analyzing their data sources more quickly and easily, generating new data sets for deeper insights, and helping make the embedded BI experience more accessible for more people.

In a time where data is being termed the new oil, businesses need to have a data management system that suits their needs perfectly and positions them to be able to take full advantage of the benefits of being data-driven. Data is being generated at rapid rates and businesses need database systems that can scale up and scale down effortlessly without any extra computational cost.

When building or maintaining software, one thing is certain: data is everywhere. Whether you’re running an e-commerce platform, a banking system, or a social media network, your application is handling, storing, and processing a ton of data. This is where Volume Testing comes into play. Think of it as testing your application’s ability to stay calm and composed when it’s hit with an ocean of data – thousands of records, large files, and long lists of entries.

Did you know 88% of users don’t return to sites with poor experiences, even if they offer excellent services and content? It’s time to recognize that a seamless user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) are essential to a product or company’s success, not mere luxuries. This is where Continuous UI Testing steps in. Ditching the conventional testing approaches, continuous UI testing integrates itself into almost every step of development & deployment.

In the fast-paced world of software development, time-to-market is everything. With AI and generative AI tools making their mark, developers now have the power to reduce development time drastically while maintaining high code quality. One such game-changing application? AI-powered VS Code extensions for unit testing. These intelligent extensions are not just tools; they’re enablers, helping teams ship features faster, reduce bugs, and maintain confidence in their code.

Businesses send and receive several invoices and payment receipts in digital formats, such as scanned PDFs, text documents, or Excel files. While digital formats have allowed workplaces to transition to a paperless environment, they have introduced a new challenge for business analysts: extracting the data from invoices and using it to draw relevant insights.

If you’re an SDET who’s been using Playwright for API testing, you might be all too familiar with the frustrations of dealing with database dependencies, data management, and the endless need for cleanup. Let’s face it – Playwright, while fantastic for UI testing, can be cumbersome when it comes to API testing. But what if there’s a better way to handle this?