I know a lot of organizations have really struggled in the current environment, but the last six months have actually been quite exciting for us at Yellowfin. We've achieved a lot and have built a fantastic strategy for the future. We have really focused in on our sales organization, hiring a new VP of Global Sales, Josh Read, and appointing new sales leadership in the regions as well.

In 2020, however, contining to rely just on dashboards for your BI needs isn't enough. Why? Data is growing exponentially - in both size and complexity - within every business today. Manually keeping track of performance and searching for insights has become difficult for many users, and it's fostered new expectations - to be able to do more with analytics - including making it faster and easier to keep on top of changes or opportunities.

For our Head of Product Design and Creative Director, Tony Prysten, design is always top of mind. In analytics platforms, good design plays an important role in how people understand and use data. Here Tony shares how Yellowfin has been created with designers and developers in mind.

Recently, we took another look at our Chicago crime dataset to see what was different in crime as a result of the COVID-19 lockdown and what we found was fascinating. This is a dataset provided by the City of Chicago that tracks any type of reported crime. We often use it to demonstrate the power of Yellowfin. The first thing we saw was that a lot of crime went down. This chart shows crime rates in Chicago over the past two years.

Comprehensive, comparative analysis of our data can be a highly time-consuming manual task for your users. But new-wave automation and machine learning (ML) tools makes monitoring, alerting and gleaning new insights a lot faster. One such example is Yellowfin Signals and the latest addition to its extensive algorithm library, called step change.

The way that people do business in Japan has radically changed as a result of COVID-19. Historically, the Japanese have been very much about face to face relationship selling where you establish relationships and build trust but now everything has to be done remotely or online. Like everyone else, the Japanese are really keen to keep doing business so they've actually embraced the remote way of doing things which has been quite interesting to watch and had some unexpected benefits.