Sneak Peek at Bold BI v8.1 Release for Embedded Analytics

Introduction

This is an exclusive sneak peek at Bold BI^® v8.1! This blog will explore the exciting new features and enhancements for Bold BI self-hosting and embedding! This release brings enhanced support for Windows, Docker, Linux, Kubernetes, and Azure platforms, ensuring seamless integration and deployment. We’re going to go over the highlights of this release that make this version a strong choice for developers and businesses alike!

New features and improvements

Server enhancements

• We have provided support to configure IP whitelisting to enhance the security of the Bold BI sites.

• We have introduced subcategory support to enable more efficient organization and management of your dashboards.
  

• We have included an option to enable the performance and query metrics dashboards.
• We have included support for data alert creation in an existing Schedule API.
• We have renamed Merge Data Source to Append Data Source and moved it under the New Data Sources category.

Designer enhancements

• We have provided support for a dynamic language translator.

• We have provided support for grouped AND/OR conditions in the URL filter.

Embedded BI enhancements

• JavaScript Embedding – Provided an API to enable the AI assistant feature in both the viewer and designer.
• We have provided support to navigate seamlessly between the viewer page and the designer page in the iframe embedding, facilitating smoother collaboration.

• We have added support for JavaScript embedding to retrieve the height and width from either the element itself or its parent element, and we have made the height and width API optional.

• We have added the types support for the dashboard options in the typescript.
• We have improved the performance of rendering multiple widgets in the JavaScript embedding.

Data source enhancements

• We have improved the performance of the REST data source workflow by initially transferring 10 pages of records, with the remaining data transferred during refresh.

• We have provided support for the pagination and dashboard parameters in the API to export raw data from the data sources.

• We have customized the default data source loading experience in the preview designer for large data sources.
• We have provided dashboard parameter and custom attribute support to the SSAS connector.

• We have provided incremental refresh support to the Twilio data source.

• We have provided support to include the current value in the relative date filter.

Bold data hub improvements

• We have provided support to YAML and Amazon DynamoDB connectors in the Bold Data Hub.

Conclusion

We are hope that these exciting features and enhancements in Bold BI^® v8.1 will elevate your data visualization experience. If you are not yet a Bold BI customer, try out these improvements by signing up for a free trial and take your analytics to the next level with this powerful release!

If you need assistance or have any questions, you can contact us via the Bold BI website, or if you have an account, log in to submit your question. Please feel free to post your feedback in the comments section to influence future improvements.