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5 things that will shape the BI industry in 2020

Looking forward to 2020, there are five things I think we’ll see happen more. We’ve seen a ton of consolidation this year and we’ll see more next year. There are about 75 front-end vendors in the BI space and the reality is that they can’t all survive in the market as it is today. Salesforce purchased Tableau recently and a lot of smaller vendors have already been bought.

Introducing Yellowfin Present

With businesses becoming more data-led, there's now an expectation that you will use numbers when talking about strategy and the state of your business. The context you give to data is far more valuable than the data itself, so we’re letting you build data stories when you're working with numbers. This is possible in our next release through Yellowfin Present.

How to deliver data stories with context with Yellowfin Present

With businesses becoming more data-led, there's now an expectation that you will use numbers when talking about strategy and the state of your business. You can’t do that by just looking at a dashboard because they don’t provide any context to the data. You may see that revenue has gone up but it doesn’t tell you what’s happening in the business or how different parts are performing.

The Yellowfin product roadmap into 2020

The last 12 months have been tremendous for Yellowfin. We’ve introduced Signals, Stories, a new dashboard build, mobile app and many new improvements to the platform. There is no one else in the market that brings together all of these types of products and it means we’re diverging from our competitors. Our competitors think far more about the analytical experience, while we care about the data consumer and build products for them.

Yellowfin 9: Our new developer platform

Seek, one of our customers, came to us with a laundry list of functionality that their developers wanted. Like many enterprises, they have their own developers who are asked to deliver a design for their UX team and they need and environment where they can do that. They didn’t want us to worry about the UI, they just wanted the ability to code what they wanted directly into the Yellowfin dashboard environment so this was the catalyst for Yellowfin 9, which is our developer platform.