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 expanded data connectivity, along with enhanced AI customization, stronger security controls, and platform-wide modernization with .NET 10.

Introduction 

We’re excited to announce the release of Bold BI v16.1.70, a major update focused on helping teams build modern analytics experiences faster while improving scalability, performance, governance, and AI-driven insights.

This release introduces a completely refreshed dashboard design experience with modern widgets and expanded data connectivity, enhances AI-powered analytics with customizable prompts and AI credit management, and strengthens enterprise readiness through platform modernization and security improvements.

Whether you’re building self-service analytics for internal users or embedding analytics into customer-facing applications, Bold BI v16.1.70 improves the analytics experience for your users.

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

AI enhancements

We’ve expanded AI capabilities to provide greater control, personalization, and accessibility for users across different regions and use cases.

Customize AI dashboard summaries for your business

Every organization has its own terminology, KPIs, and reporting style. With custom dashboard summarization prompts, administrators can now tailor how AI generates dashboard insights.

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

Scale AI adoption with AI credit management

As AI usage grows across teams and departments, enterprises need better visibility and control over consumption. Bold BI v16.1.70 introduces AI credit management that allows teams to purchase, monitor, and manage AI credits directly within the platform.

This enhancement provides greater governance over AI-powered features, helps teams track usage more effectively, and enables enterprises to scale AI initiatives confidently while maintaining operational control.

Improve natural language understanding with centralized synonym management

Business users often refer 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.

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.

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.

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.

Data Sources and Data Hub highlights

We’ve expanded connectivity and data preparation capabilities to support modern analytics workloads.

Reuse business logic with dashboard-level expressions

Organizations often use the same calculations for multiple visualizations, making dashboard maintenance time-consuming and prone to inconsistencies. With dashboard-level expressions, users can now create reusable calculations once and leverage them in multiple widgets within a dashboard. This approach helps ensure consistent business metrics, reduces repetitive configuration work, and makes dashboard updates easier to manage as reporting requirements evolve.

Improve large-scale data extraction with enhanced Presto support

Bold BI v16.1.70 enhances the Presto data source with advanced extract mode capabilities, additional configuration parameters, and support for multi-value dashboard parameters within stored procedures.

These improvements provide greater control over data retrieval processes and make it easier to support complex reporting scenarios and enterprise-scale analytics workloads.

Accelerate dashboard development with advanced data sampling

Building dashboards against large datasets can slow down the design process. To address this challenge, Bold BI now supports advanced data sampling in design mode.

By working with representative sample data during dashboard creation, teams can model, validate, and refine visualizations more efficiently while minimizing the overhead associated with processing large volumes of data during development.

Optimize query performance with smart guardrails

Poorly optimized queries can significantly impact dashboard performance and database resources. Bold BI v16.1.70 introduces smart query guardrails that proactively identify potentially expensive queries involving large numbers of rows, multiple joins, and missing filter conditions.

These intelligent alerts help users detect performance risks early, encourage better query design practices, and support faster, more efficient analytics experiences.

Expand connectivity across modern architectures

As organizations adopt cloud, hybrid, and distributed data environments, connectivity flexibility becomes increasingly important. The Bold Data Hub has expanded its ecosystem support with connectivity for Presto and Trino.

These additions allow businesses to connect, manage, and process data more effectively across diverse infrastructure environments while supporting modern data engineering workflows.

Strengthen data reliability with enhanced destination support

Bold BI v16.1.70 also includes important improvements to Bold Data Hub destinations and synchronization workflows.

The Amazon Redshift destination now supports primary key configuration, helping organizations maintain better data consistency and more reliable synchronization processes.

The StarRocks destination has been updated to use the MySQL protocol, improving compatibility with existing systems, simplifying configuration, and providing a more seamless integration experience for teams using StarRocks within their analytics ecosystem.

Designer and Server enhancements

This release delivers significant improvements to both dashboard design and platform management. With a refreshed dashboard-authoring experience, enhanced usability features, and new server-side capabilities, organizations can create analytics faster while simplifying administration and operations.

A new modern panel for next-generation dashboard design

Bold BI now features a dedicated modern panel within the dashboard designer, providing a centralized space for next-generation widgets while preserving access to classic widgets.

This modernized approach makes it easier for users to discover new visualization capabilities, adopt modern dashboard components at their own pace, and transition smoothly without disrupting existing dashboards. By clearly separating classic and modern experiences, organizations can modernize their analytics environment while maintaining backward compatibility.

Better visibility into dashboard loading and rendering

With widget-rendering progress indicators, dashboard authors and viewers can now track widget loading statuses in real time. These visual indicators provide greater transparency into rendering progress, helping users identify loading stages and improving the overall dashboard experience.

Find dashboard settings instantly with property search

As dashboards become more sophisticated, locating specific configuration options can become time-consuming. To simplify dashboard customization, Bold BI v16.1.70 introduces property search within the dashboard designer.

Users can quickly search for dashboard and widget settings instead of manually navigating through multiple configuration panels. This enhancement reduces setup time, improves productivity, and makes the design experience more efficient for both new and experienced dashboard authors.

Build richer dashboards with next-generation widgets

The widget collection continues to expand with new next-generation widgets, including:

• Combo Chart
• Tree Map
• Proportional Chart
• Combo Box
• KPI Card
• Number Card

These modern visualizations help organizations present data more effectively, support richer storytelling, and improve user interactions. Whether visualizing hierarchical data, comparing multiple metrics, or enhancing filtering experiences, these widgets provide greater flexibility for creating engaging dashboards.

Simplify large-scale data source management

Managing data refresh operations across numerous data sources can be challenging in enterprise analytics environments. To help administrators automate these processes more efficiently, Bold BI v16.1.70 introduces bulk data source refresh APIs.

Instead of refreshing data sources individually, organizations can now trigger refresh operations at scale through APIs. This reduces administrative effort, improves operational efficiency, and helps ensure analytics environments remain up-to-date with minimal manual intervention.

Common

Modernized architecture with .NET 10 upgrade

Bold BI has been upgraded from .NET 8 to .NET 10 to deliver a faster, more secure, and future-ready analytics platform. This modernization helps organizations improve performance, strengthen platform reliability, and stay aligned with the latest Microsoft technology advancements.

Improve cloud scalability with dedicated Azure Blob Storage support

Bold BI v16.1.70 adds support for dedicated Azure Blob Storage, enabling application files and attachments to be stored in a separate Azure Blob container.

This gives organizations more scalable and isolated storage for cloud deployments, simplifies storage management, and improves readiness for enterprise-scale analytics environments.

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 server, designer, data source, Bold Data Hub, AI, IDP, and embedding modules.

• Reliability: Improved platform stability through fixes related to authentication, data processing, dashboard rendering, filtering, exports, data extraction, and upgrade workflows.
• Performance: Enhanced dashboard loading, query execution, data retrieval, widget rendering, connection management, and pipeline processing to deliver a smoother analytics experience.
• Compatibility: Addressed issues with multiple databases, connectors, cloud environments, and embedded analytics scenarios to ensure more consistent behavior across deployments.
• Security: Strengthened application protection through fixes and hardening related to API rate limiting, CSRF protection, input sanitization, authorization token handling, dependency vulnerabilities, and security scan findings

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.

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