What’s new in Yellowfin 9.16
Experience the next wave of business intelligence. Yellowfin 9.16 lets you create instant data stories with AI, backed by across-the-board enhancements to security and connectivity.
New Feature Highlights
AI-powered Assisted Insights
Yellowfin 9.16 turns charts into compelling narratives with a single click. Our Tell Me About My Data feature uses the AI model you trust (Azure, Gemini, Claude, or OpenAI) to effortlessly build confident, data-driven stories that persuade and impress.
Smarter Data Storytelling
The power of Tell Me About My Data is now fully integrated into Yellowfin Stories. Quickly add AI-generated summaries and charts into your data story with just a few clicks. It’s the easiest way to build compelling, contextual narratives that turn numbers into action.
Security You Can Trust
Confidence in your data starts with confidence in your platform. In 9.16, we introduced Automated Tomcat Upgrades to simplify maintenance and harden security without manual effort. This ensures your analytics environment is always secure and reliable, so you can explore and share insights with complete peace of mind.
Yellowfin 9.16 Overview
Check out the latest enhancements and see them in action.
Tell Me About My Data
Click a report or chart and get AI-assisted insights instantly.
New AI Model Options
Connect to the most popular AI vendors and external models.
Story Assistant
Turn numbers into action with instantly integrated narratives.
Automated Tomcat Upgrades
Automatically ensure your deployment runs on the latest version.
More Data Connectivity Options
Connect to ClickHouse, StarRocks and SnowFlake using public/private key authentication.
AI Usage Auditing
Track token usage by connection and drill down to individual requests to manage costs and audit activity.
Multi-Tenant AI
Define unique AI model connections for each client organization, enabling a secure, bring-your-own-model approach.
Advanced Chart & Report Control
Improve report efficiency with database-level sorting and customize charts with new color, tooltip, and filtering options.
Dynamic File Naming
Use filter placeholders to automatically create descriptive, unique filenames for your exports and broadcasts.
Extended JS API
Give developers more control over the export process for embedded content with new JavaScript API arguments.
AI NLQ
Type in natural language, get automatic AI guidance
Stronger Data Security
New and improved login and installer process for better data security
Admin Improvements
Additional configurations for administrators to control larger deployments
Expanded Customization
More styling options for reports, charts, icons, and comparisons
REST API Enhancements
Automate and extend your
custom embedded apps
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Enhanced Report Builder
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experience for your report
building with Yellowfin
Guided NLQ
A simple way for anyone to ask
the hard questions
New Advanced
Functions
Transform results with
predefined calculations
Enhanced Append
Data in SubQueries
Data federation just got easier
New Variance
Analysis Type
More options for variance calculations
Non-Auto Chart Improvements
Do more with your charts
Enhanced Waterfall Chart
New options for your waterfall charts
Guided NLQ in Stories
Ask questions directly within Stories
Report Access Improvements in Stories
Jump into any analysis in data storytelling
Guided NLQ on Dashboards and Presentations
Ask questions on the data
you’re looking at
Save to PDF
Improvements
Improved PDF rendering for Presentations
Improved View
Builder Access
Prepare your data faster
Enhanced JWT Authentication
Applying cryptography best practice
Enhanced REST API
Tailor your report consumption experience
Yellowfin Mobile App Improvements
Every report and chart in your pocket
Support for
ClickHouse DBMS
Analyze more data
Command-line
Configuration Tool
Deploying applications just got easier
Dynamic Entry
Options for SSO
More control over every unique
user session
Silent Installer
Improvements
New options for automated deployments
Support for Amazon
Simple Email Service
Send email securely, globally,
and at scale
Custom Templates for Broadcast Filenames
Comply with the most stringent naming conventions
Enhanced JS API
Create your embedded
experience
Let’s look under the hood
Tell Me About My Data
We're bringing the power of generative AI directly to your data with our new feature: Tell Me About My Data. Just click the magnifying glass on any chart, and our secure, in-built machine learning analyzes your data locally. Your detailed data never leaves your instance. It then sends only high-level summaries to your chosen LLM to generate plain-English narratives and suggest new charts, turning raw data into an actionable story in a single click.
Story Assistant
Your data stories just got smarter. We’ve integrated Tell Me About My Data directly into Yellowfin Stories, letting you weave AI-generated insights into your narratives with ease.
While building your story, just click the magnifying glass icon on any chart or report. The insights will pop up right in the builder, ready for you to review. See something you like? Click ‘Insert Into Story,’ and the AI-generated text and charts instantly become part of your narrative.
Automated Tomcat Upgrades
Manual security patching is a thing of the past. The Yellowfin 9.16 platform updater now includes an option to automatically upgrade your core Apache Tomcat component, eliminating a time-consuming manual task and ensuring your deployment stays current with critical security patches.
New Data Connectivity
As the modern data stack evolves, so does Yellowfin. We have now officially certified the high-performance ClickHouse and StarRocks databases as reporting sources, alongside adding more secure public/private key authentication for Snowflake.
Advanced Report Performance Control
Take report performance into your own hands. You can now push sorting operations directly to your database using an ORDER BY clause, a powerful option that can dramatically improve the efficiency of reports running on large datasets.
AI NLQ
We have further refined our natural language query capability with AI NLQ, a new toggleable mode within Yellowfin’s Guided NLQ feature that allows any user to type any question into the question bar without the need to follow syntax rules, or to know the names of the columns containing the data they need. Now, AI will automatically generate the correct Guided NLQ syntax, and deliver more accurate, best practice answers, the results of which can be quickly shared across Dashboards, Stories, and Presentations. Users can also click the Suggested Questions button to get a list of helpful prompts which, when selected, will auto-generate a properly structured data query on behalf of the user, and deliver them instant answers.
Enhanced REST API
The REST API library has been enhanced with new endpoints for report activities including report listing, sharing, favouriting, creating and displaying report comments, and report metadata. This provides developers a higher degree of control over embedded report activities in their applications.
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