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Top 5 Reasons to Implement Contextual Analytics

Once, dashboards and reports were limited to being embedded into our apps as standalone modules - essentially, as separately accessed product features. This limitation sometimes meant analytics is forgotten by users, and more often than not, underutilized in its potential. Today, contextual analytics makes it possible to embed analytics directly into the core workflow of your software.

Chartio and Xplenty: Business Intelligence for Smart Companies

We're living in a data-driven age. In every sector, we've seen new companies emerge, executing lightning-fast strategies based on sophisticated analytics. These data mavericks have disrupted and sometimes even devoured their more traditional rivals. To stay afloat, you need a state-of-the-art data infrastructure. That means having the right platforms, the right data pipelines, and the right analytics engines. But when you have all that data, what do you actually do with it?

If Dashboards Are Dead, Why Are We Embedding Them?

For decades, the analytics/BI community has suffered from low user adoption (~30%). Dashboards and fancy visualizations have only proven to be the starting point of the analytics journey, not the endpoint. We are living in a world that demands far greater agility than a fixed layer of information or KPI can provide. Poor user adoption is the result when the analytics system fails to support the users full journey: from data – to insight – to action.

Dashboards vs automated business monitoring: What's the difference?

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.

Yellowfin: the embedded BI platform of choice for dashboard designers

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.

Mini Charts - Another Way To Visualize Your Data

Have you ever felt that, by looking at just numbers, that you are probably missing out on the bigger picture? That’s, of course, why we have visualizations – to form patterns out of those numbers that we can then interpret, as well as glean insights from and deepen our understanding of what the data reveals. Now, what if we bring numbers and visualizations together in a table, one way to explore those numbers and find hidden gems of meaning? Let’s have a look at mini charts!