What’s New in v16.1.70 for Self-Service & Embedded Analytics

TL; DR: Bold BI® v16.1.70 introduces a modernized dashboard design experience with next-generation widgets, dashboard-level expressions, and connectivity options, enhanced AI customization, stronger security controls, and platform-wide modernization through .NET 10 migration. 

Introduction 

We’re excited to announce the release of Bold BI v16.1.70, bringing a wide range of enhancements designed to improve dashboard creation, AI-powered analytics, platform performance, and enterprise administration.

This release introduces a modern dashboard design experience with next-generation widgets and dashboard-level expressions, expands connectivity through Data Hub enhancements, improves AI capabilities with customizable dashboard summaries and AI credit support, and strengthens the platform through security improvements and .NET 10 modernization.

Whether you’re building self-service analytics solutions or embedding analytics into customer-facing applications, Bold BI v16.1.70 helps teams create, manage, and scale analytics more efficiently.

Let’s explore what’s new in Bold BI v16.1.70.

AI enhancements

We’ve expanded AI capabilities to provide greater flexibility, personalization, and accessibility across analytics workflows.

Let’s take a look at the latest enhancements that make Bold BI AI more powerful and business friendly.

Customize AI dashboard summaries for your business

Every organization has its own terminology, KPIs, and reporting style. With custom dashboard summarization prompts, administrators can tailor how AI generates dashboard insights based on their specific business context.

By defining custom prompts, teams can ensure that summaries align with their business context, highlight the most relevant metrics, and deliver insights that are more meaningful to end users. This helps create a more consistent analytics experience while improving the quality, relevance, and usefulness of AI-generated summaries.

Why it matters: Custom prompts help organizations generate dashboard summaries that better reflect business priorities and reporting expectations.

Scale AI adoption with AI credit management

As AI usage grows across teams and departments, enterprises need a simple way to manage access to AI-powered capabilities. Bold BI v16.1.70 introduces AI credit management, enabling users to purchase and manage AI credits directly within the platform.

With this enhancement, organizations can view available credit balance, manage credit plans, and review transaction details from a centralized billing experience. This helps teams maintain better control over AI access, support continued usage of AI-powered features, and scale AI adoption with greater confidence.

Why it matters: Centralized AI credit management helps organizations monitor AI access, manage usage efficiently, and support scalable adoption of AI-powered analytics.

Improve natural language understanding with centralized synonym management

Business owners often refers to the same metric or process using different terms. For example, one team may use “Revenue” while another refers to it as “Sales” or “Income.”

With centralized synonym management, administrators can define and manage alternate business terms in a single location. This helps the AI Assistant better understand user intent, improves natural language query accuracy, and ensures users receive more relevant and consistent responses regardless of the terminology they use.

Why it matters: Centralized synonym management improves AI understanding and helps deliver more accurate, consistent responses across business teams.

Make complex data retrieval accessible through conversation

Accessing data from stored procedures traditionally requires technical knowledge and database expertise. Bold BI v16.1.70 simplifies this process by enabling conversational access to stored procedures.

Users can now interact with stored procedures using natural language, making advanced data retrieval more accessible to business users. This reduces dependency on technical teams and accelerates access to information.

Why it matters: Natural language access makes stored procedure data easier to explore and helps business users retrieve information without database expertise.

Right-to-left language support

Bold BI AI experiences now include right-to-left rendering support for layout direction, text rendering, and component alignment. This improves accessibility and delivers a more natural AI experience for users working with RTL languages.

Why it matters: RTL support provides a more intuitive and accessible experience for users who work with right-to-left languages.

Create AI experiences that match your brand

Organizations often want AI-powered experiences to feel like a natural extension of their analytics environment rather than a separate interface. With custom theming support for Bold BI AI, teams can align AI experiences with their organization’s branding and visual preferences.

This enhancement helps create a more consistent user experience, strengthens brand identity across analytics workflows, and improves user adoption by providing a familiar and cohesive interface.

Why it matters: Custom AI theming helps organizations deliver AI experiences that align with their brand identity and existing analytics environment.

Data Sources and Data Hub highlights

We’ve enhanced data connectivity, data preparation, and data management capabilities to support a wider range of analytics scenarios.

Let’s take a look at the latest improvements:

Reuse business logic with dashboard-level expressions

Dashboard-level Expressions allow users to create and manage calculated fields directly within a dashboard based on the selected data source. These expressions are stored at the dashboard level and can be reused across multiple widgets without modifying the underlying data source. Dashboard authors can also manage them without requiring data source edit permissions.

Why it matters: Dashboard authors can build reusable, dashboard-specific calculations while keeping shared data sources unchanged.

Design widgets faster with advanced data sampling

Working with large datasets during data source design can make data previews slower and less responsive.

Bold BI now includes enhanced Advanced Data Sampling capabilities that provide multiple sampling strategies to balance preview speed, query performance, and data accuracy.

• Fast: Applies the configured sampling limit independently to each table for the fastest preview experience.
• Balanced: Applies sampling limits while considering primary and secondary limits to provide a balance between performance and representative sample data.
• Accurate: Applies sampling after the final query is generated, providing a preview that more closely reflects actual query results.

Why it matters: Flexible sampling options help users design widgets more efficiently while maintaining an appropriate balance between performance and preview accuracy.

Optimize query performance with smart guardrails

Poorly optimized queries can impact dashboard responsiveness and place unnecessary load on database systems.

Bold BI now provides intelligent query alerts that identify potentially expensive queries involving large row counts, multiple joins, and missing filter conditions. These alerts help users identify performance risks early during dashboard design and data preparation.

Why it matters: Early query validation encourages better query design practices and helps deliver faster, more efficient analytics experiences.

Improve Presto performance with Extract Mode support

Querying large datasets directly from Presto for every dashboard request can affect performance and increase load on the source system.

The Presto connector now supports Extract Mode, allowing users to import, cache, and refresh data within Bold BI. By working with extracted data instead of querying Presto for every request, organizations can improve dashboard responsiveness while reducing dependency on live queries.

Why it matters: Extract Mode helps deliver faster dashboard performance and more efficient data retrieval when working with Presto-based analytics environments.

Strengthen Amazon Redshift data synchronization

Maintaining data consistency is critical when synchronizing data into analytics destinations.

Bold BI Data Hub now supports primary key configuration for Amazon Redshift destinations, allowing users to define and manage unique record identifiers during data synchronization workflows.

Why it matters: Primary key support helps improve data consistency, reduce duplicate records, and enhance synchronization reliability when working with Amazon Redshift.

Improve Star Rocks compatibility with MySQL protocol support

Reliable connectivity is essential when integrating analytics platforms with modern data destinations.

Bold BI has enhanced Star Rocks destination support by adopting the MySQL protocol for connectivity and data operations. This improves compatibility and simplifies integration with StarRocks environments.

Why it matters: MySQL protocol support streamlines StarRocks integration through improved compatibility, simplified configuration, and more reliable connectivity.

Designer and Server enhancements

This release introduces several enhancements to the dashboard design experience, helping users create, configure, and manage dashboards more efficiently.

Let’s explore the latest updates:

A dedicated Modern Widget Panel

As dashboard capabilities continue to evolve, users need a clear way to access modern visualization components. The designer now includes a dedicated Modern Widget Panel alongside the existing widget experience. The updated interface clearly differentiates Modern and Classic widgets.

Why it matters: The new panel makes it easier to discover and work with modern dashboard components.

New modern widgets

Modern dashboards often require more flexible visualization options. The Modern Widget Panel now includes Combo Chart, Tree Map, Proportional Chart, Combo Box Filter, Number Card, and KPI Card widgets.

Why it matters: Additional widget options in the dashboard designer provide greater flexibility when designing modern dashboards.

Find settings faster with property search

As dashboards become more sophisticated, locating specific settings can take time. A new property search bar allows users to quickly find widget and dashboard properties within the designer experience.

Why it matters: Property search makes it easier to navigate configuration options and manage dashboard settings.

Improved dashboard performance

Dashboard responsiveness plays a critical role in delivering a smooth analytics experience. Bold BI includes enhancements to dashboard parameter processing, filtering workflows, data retrieval, and concurrent user handling.

Why it matters: These improvements help deliver better dashboard responsiveness, scalability, and overall performance.

Manage default authentication settings with APIs

Bold BI Server now provides APIs to retrieve and update default authentication settings in tenant sites. Administrators can use these APIs to manage default authentication configurations more efficiently instead of relying only on manual setup.

Why it matters: API-based authentication management helps simplify administration and makes it easier to maintain default authentication settings across tenant sites.

IDP highlights

We’ve introduced several improvements to authentication, configuration management, and deployment administration.

Here are the key improvements:

Enhanced JWT embedding support

Embedded analytics deployments often require flexible authentication approaches. JWT embedding now supports both GET and POST requests through a unified implementation, providing additional flexibility for embedded analytics integrations.

Why it matters: Expanded JWT support simplifies authentication workflows for embedded analytics applications.

Database-based configuration management

Managing application settings across environments can become increasingly complex as deployments grow. Bold BI now supports storing and managing application configuration settings directly from the database.

Why it matters: Centralized configuration management simplifies administration and application maintenance.

Dedicated cloud storage support

Organizations often require flexible storage options for application content and attachments. Bold BI now supports dedicated Azure Blob Storage and Amazon S3 Storage containers for application content and attachments.

Why it matters: Additional storage options provide greater flexibility for deployment and storage management.

Other bug fixes and minor improvements

Along with the major features and enhancements, Bold BI v16.1.70 includes numerous bug fixes, stability improvements, and performance optimizations across AI, Server, Data Sources, Designer, Data Hub, Embedding, and IDP modules.

• Reliability: Improved platform stability through fixes related to dashboard rendering, data processing, filtering, exports, data extraction, authentication workflows, storage integrations, upgrade processes, and tenant configuration management.
• Performance: Enhanced dashboard loading, query execution, data retrieval, widget rendering, connection pooling, concurrent processing, data preview operations, and pipeline execution to deliver a smoother analytics experience.
• Compatibility: Addressed issues across SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, ClickHouse, Amazon Redshift, HubSpot, Azure Blob Storage, Amazon S3, Cloudflare Cache, and embedded analytics environments to ensure more consistent behavior across deployments.
• Security: Strengthened application protection through API rate limiting, CSRF protection, token exposure prevention, AI chat input sanitization, dependency vulnerability remediation, encryption enhancements, and security hardening improvements across the platform.

Explore Bold BI v16.1.70 with advanced AI, faster performance, flexible embedding, and scalable workflows to power smarter analytics experiences.

Real-time use cases enabled by Bold BI v16.1

The Bold BI v16.1.70 release was designed to solve real analytics challenges across dashboard creation, AI adoption, data management, and embedded analytics. Here’s how the new features translate into practical business value.

Conclusion

Bold BI® v16.1.70 delivers meaningful improvements across dashboard design, AI-powered analytics, connectivity, administration, and platform modernization.

From customizable AI summaries and dashboard-level expressions to modern widgets, expanded Data Hub connectivity, enhanced embedding support, and .NET 10 adoption, this release helps organizations build and manage analytics solutions more effectively.

Ready to explore what’s new? Download Bold BI v16.1.70 today or start a free trial to experience the latest enhancements in self-service and embedded analytics. For a complete list of features, improvements, and fixes included in this release, visit our release history page. If you have any questions or need assistance, our support team is always here to help.