Yellowfin Wiki: Getting Started for Developers Guide Now Available

Yellowfin is an embedded analytics solution with several features that can help improve the data preparation, reporting and analysis process for your end-users, and many configurations and customizations for your developers to achieve a seamless integration. With so many development scenarios, use cases and end-user requests unique to your business, however, we understand it can initially be a bit daunting to start your project. That is why we have created a new free guide, Getting Started for Developers, to provide your development team with a practical, step-by-step reference for working with Yellowfin, covering a wide range of programming scenarios and sample code to help kick-start your implementation.  

What is the Yellowfin Getting Started for Developers Guide?

The Yellowfin: Getting Started for Developers guide is the latest free resource published on the Yellowfin Wiki, a nexus of beginner’s guides, release notes and technical walkthroughs for all new customers who adopt Yellowfin and existing customers, helping you get the most out of your embedded BI deployment. This guide is designed for members of your development team working with Yellowfin to get direct guidance from Yellowfin’s architects on several aspects of the on-boarding process, including, but not limited to:

• Creating data sources for client organizations
• How to import initial content into Yellowfin
• Generating tokens for REST API
• Managing Yellowfin user licenses
• Performing data security (Single-Sign On) and user synchronization

  This developer-centric guide provides detailed descriptions of common development scenarios, as well as sample code in a variety of programming languages (Java, JavaScript, C#, PHP, Python, and Go) which have all been tested and reviewed by our technical team for your team, to help you navigate the process of embedding Yellowfin into your product and/or software stack.

What is the Yellowfin Wiki?

The Yellowfin Wiki is an extensive free resource that contains documentation of all Yellowfin functionality, processes and settings across all major Yellowfin releases, with Yellowfin 9.12 being the latest version. It is intended for Yellowfin customers and end-users whose technical teams may require hands-on guidance on specific configurations or features within the suite. If you have not already used the Yellowfin Wiki, we highly recommend bookmarking the Wikii and getting your development team to review the many free quick guides, tool kits and configuration walkthroughs on offer. Some of our recommended resources for all of our customers include:

• Getting Started with Yellowfin - A Quick Guide (Beginners)
• Developer Toolkit - Restyling, Integrating and Extending Yellowfin (Advanced)
• What’s New: Latest Release Notes for Yellowfin (All)

Of course, the Yellowfin Wiki isn’t the only free resource we provide to help your embedded BI implementation - we also have many other free resources to help you along your journey.

What other Yellowfin developer resources are there?

Complimenting our new Getting Started guide is our Github resource with Delphi source code examples and our infodoc for developers, Why and How to Embed Yellowfin. For a more visual-based demonstration, we have created a number of video walkthrough guides for your developers specifically, which you can preview below:  

  Ultimately, we create this free content to help all of our customers, whether you are an independent software vendor (ISV) or enterprise organization looking to get the most out of your Yellowfin investment, and we encourage you to utilize our resources and contact our team if you need additional assistance in extracting value from your new platform.