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2023 was a year of significant developments in the fields of business intelligence (BI) and analytics. With a 50% rise in overall adoption of self-service BI solutions, continued focus on data governance and data security, and ever-evolving integration of automation and artificial intelligence (AI) in analytics, many businesses have transformed their use of data considerably.

In our previous How to Design a Dashboard in Yellowfin: Part One article, we covered the the fundamental considerations to take when preparing your dataset, creating a concrete design and selecting the best types of data visualizations to represent dashboard data.

A Custom Function is a feature in Yellowfin calculated fields that can be used to define a calculation in advance and use that formula by simply specifying arguments. Using Custom Functions, you can define calculations that cannot be created in calculated fields, or define frequently used calculations to save time when creating calculated fields.

With updates to our browser user interface (UI), Stories, report navigation and more, Yellowfin 9.10 is an update that further enhances your users' analytics experience. 9.10 brings significant updates. Browse Page UI has received a sleek makeover, simplifying navigation for reports, dashboards, and presentations, catering to both new and experienced users.

Designing a dashboard comprises many different considerations. Whether it's the business-user, data expert or business unit building the dashboard, our team aims to create a guide that will be useful for everyone who wants to (or needs to) create a dashboard, but is having some troubles figuring out how to do it. In this latest series of blogs, the Yellowfin Japan team takes the lead in introducing the process of creating a new dashboard in Yellowfin.

Assisted Insights is a powerful tool built-in the Yellowfin embedded analytics suite that provides organizations with automated and intuitive insights derived from their data. Using automation and machine learning capabilities, Yellowfin Assisted Insights helps users to uncover hidden patterns, trends, and correlations in their data, enabling them to make better informed and data-driven business decisions.

In this blog series, Yellowfin Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Brad Scarff breaks down some of the coolest and most unique features of the Yellowfin embedded analytics suite. What if you could automate the delivery of reports on set schedules? What if you could create save states of all your report filters and drill-downs? Yellowfin allows just that.

Multi-tenancy is almost a prerequisite to provide a secure environment for each of your customers when using business intelligence (BI) tools embedded in external services. Although it is possible to control the access rights by granting individual access to user accounts without separating tenants, it is obvious that the management will become more complicated as the number of customers grows. In a previous blog, we covered what multi-tenancy means in the context of embedded analytics.

In today's data-driven era, businesses increasingly rely on business intelligence (BI) and embedded analytics solutions to integrate data analysis into their application workflows and help more people gain valuable insights for data-driven decision-making. But with such an important, long-term business objective comes the requirement of comparing tools to get the best value.