2023 in Review: How Bold BI Empowered Businesses

Joshua Otieno Owuor
Bold BI
Published in
6 min readDec 20, 2023
2023 in Review: How Bold BI Empowered Businesses

The year is coming to an end! Globally, inflation has remained a significant source of concern for businesses. With that in mind, we at Bold BI have been working hard to improve our services and products to provide more value for our users.

In this blog, I will cover the key updates, features, and resources for Bold BI in 2023:

  • Syncfusion recognition in 2023.
  • Bold BI’s top features working for you in 2023.
  • Top 5 dashboard examples with the most traffic gained in 2023.
  • Top 5 videos with the most views in 2023.
  • Top 5 Bold BI blogs with the most traffic gained in 2023.

Syncfusion recognition in 2023

This year, Syncfusion and Bold BI have thrived in the industry, receiving recognition from various professional and industry groups for their products. These accolades include:

Click the previous items to learn more about how we earned them.

Bold BI top features of 2023 working for you

Easy download and upload

Bold BI’s download and upload features allow you to download dashboards for offline viewing and sharing, and upload data sources or dashboard files for seamless collaboration. This functionality enhances productivity by enabling quick dissemination of insights and easy integration of work from different team members. You can read this blog to learn more.

Data source connector for Google Analytics 4

Bold BI’s data source connector for Google Analytics 4 allows you to fetch and visualize analytics data directly within Bold BI dashboards. This connector simplifies the process of tracking website and app performance, offering interactive reporting features that help uncover insights and trends.

Azure Data Explorer integration for live data connections

Bold BI’s Azure Data Explorer integration allows you to connect directly to Azure Data Explorer data in real time. The integration optimizes analytics with real-time insights and removes manual data updates, enhancing business efficiency and productivity.

Azure Databricks connectivity via ODBC

Bold BI’s Azure Databricks connectivity via ODBC allows you to connect your dashboard to live Azure Databricks data for real-time insights. By leveraging ODBC, you can easily fetch and visualize large datasets stored in Databricks, facilitating data-driven decision-making.

Rockset live connector support for Windows, Linux, and Azure On-Premises Deployments

Bold BI’s Rockset live connector allows you to seamlessly integrate real-time data from a Rockset database into Bold BI dashboards. It supports multiple platforms, including Windows, Linux, and Azure On-Premises, enhancing business flexibility for diverse BI strategies.

Enhanced JavaScript embedding: Support for multiple widgets in a single Instance

Bold BI’s enhanced JavaScript embedding feature allows users to embed multiple dashboard widgets within a single web application instance. This capability enables seamless integration of various data visualizations and analytical widgets into custom webpages, providing a cohesive and interactive user experience. You can check this blog for more details.

We added much more to Bold BI in 2023 than we could fit in this blog. You can check our release page to find a complete rundown of everything that could serve your business needs.

Top 5 sample dashboards in 2023

Finance dashboards

Bold BI’s finance dashboards consolidate and display key financial metrics and performance indicators in an interactive and easy-to-understand interface. They help organizations monitor financial health; track revenue, expenses, and profits; and forecast trends to make informed decisions. With Bold BI, users can gain deep insight into their company’s finances. Here are all of our sample finance dashboards, demonstrating their flexibility:

Education dashboards

Bold BI’s education dashboards aggregate and display key metrics like student performance, enrollment rates, faculty data, and financial statistics, helping administrators and educators monitor trends and improve academic and operational outcomes. With Bold BI, users can gain deep insight into their educational institutions. Here are our sample dashboards showcasing their use in educational contexts:

HR dashboards

Bold BI’s HR dashboards aggregate and display key human resources metrics such as employee turnover, recruitment status, demographics, performance, and benefits, allowing for data-driven decision-making and effective personnel management. With Bold BI, users can gain insight into their HR department’s operations. Here is our collection of HR-specific dashboards:

Construction dashboards

Bold BI’s construction dashboards allow managers and stakeholders to track and analyze KPIs such as project progress, budget, timelines, resource allocation, and safety metrics, all in real-time to make informed decisions and improve operational efficiency. With Bold BI, users can gain insight into construction projects quickly and easily. Here are our sample dashboards for the industry:

Healthcare dashboards

Bold BI’s healthcare dashboards enable visual tracking and analysis of key healthcare metrics like patient admissions, bed occupancy, costs, readmissions, and staff performance to enhance decision-making and patient care. With Bold BI, users can gain insight into facility operations and patient outcomes. Here are all of our sample dashboards for healthcare:

For more examples to inspire you and unleash your creativity, explore the rest of our sample dashboards. We’ve got dashboards for a variety of industries, departments, and data analytics scenarios.

Top 5 Bold BI videos of 2023

We strive to ensure our videos are more than just visually appealing-we want them to be constructive. The following videos were our most watched in 2023:

  1. How to Embed a Bold BI Dashboard in an Angular Application: This video guides you through how to embed a Bold BI dashboard in an Angular application using the Bold BI Embed SDK.
  2. Display Dashboards Anywhere — Bold BI Embedded: This video explains how Bold BI is useful and effective for displaying analytics for users’ business-tracking and embedding applications.
  3. Getting Started with Embedded BI — Bold BI Tutorial for Beginners: This video is a detailed beginner’s guide to embedding with Bold BI.
  4. How to Embed a Bold BI Dashboard in an ASP.NET MVC Application: This video provides a step-by-step explanation of the embedding process for Bold BI dashboards in an ASP.NET MVC application using the Bold BI Embed SDK.
  5. How to Configure the Pie Chart Widget in a Dashboard: This video shows how to configure the pie chart widget in a dashboard.

To learn more about using Bold BI, check our YouTube channel.

Top 5 Bold BI blogs of 2023

1. Build a ServiceNow Incident Management Monitoring Dashboard in a Minute

This blog helps you build a ServiceNow incident management monitoring dashboard super fast. Gain instant insights, improve response times, and keep your IT operations running smoothly.

2. 7 Unique Features of Pivot Table

This blog showcases seven hidden gems of the pivot table, features you may not know about that will revolutionize your data exploration.

3. 10 Great Business Intelligence Dashboard Examples

This blog presents 10 examples of BI dashboards from different sectors, highlighting their diverse applications in marketing, production, and customer management contexts.

4. Data Visualization: Importance and Benefits

This blog examines the significance of data visualization, detailing its advantages for clear communication and uncovering data insights with engaging examples and analysis.

5. 15 KPI Dashboards Your Application Should Have Embedded

This blog dives deep into 15 essential KPI dashboards that have applications across a variety of industries.

For more explorations of Bold BI and how its features can elevate your business, visit our blog page.

Looking ahead to 2024

In conclusion, the top Bold BI features and resources of 2023 are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the powerful, transformative tools that Bold BI puts into your hands.

We’re hard at work on next year’s features and can’t wait to share them with you.

Originally published at https://www.boldbi.com on December 20, 2023.

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Joshua Otieno Owuor
Bold BI
Writer for

Technical writer and content reviewer at Syncfusion.