This section provides a tutorial on Yellowfin Stories and how to best use this feature.

Overview

With Yellowfin Stories, users can share and have a dialogue about their business metrics, and provide context and human narrative without the need for external tools, such as email, or third-party documents. Yellowfin Stories merges visual analysis with text, so you can perform long form analysis of your data, in a collaborative environment, by including reports, images, videos, with text. The simple UI enables you to tell a story, much as you would writing a blog post with ease.
 

Story Factors

This feature has many benefits that you utilize all within the Yellowfin BI platform.

• Long form analysis: You can go into detail to explain a change in your data to your readers.
• Human narrative: The analysts who understand data can create data stories to best interpret insights by providing context and human narratives. Instead of just seeing numbers and charts, you can find out the meaning behind them.
• Supported content: Besides text, additional artifacts, such as reports, images, videos are also supported in Yellowfin Stories. Unlike most external tools, you can easily embed live, interactive charts and reports into your data stories.
• Data governance: Ensures a data story is validated by providing complete transparency into its collaborators, as all the users who have collaborated on a Story are clearly displayed. Readers can be more confident in the legitimacy of a Story when they see that experts have contributed to it. Restricting contributions decrease the chances of data manipulation.
• Security: Yellowfin's security framework ensures that Story contributors and readers are managed and restricted.
• Auto saving: Stories are automatically saved as you create them, so there is no risk of losing data if you forget to save before exiting the system, or in case of a sudden system malfunction.
• Smooth storytelling: Users get a frictionless workflow, since there is no requirement to switch between tools that could cause delays or make the writer lose focus.
• Engaging readers: Stories gives readers a chance to provide feedback and engage with other users. 

Third-party add-on

An external third-party add-on that lets you embed reports from other BI vendors, such as Tableau, can also be used with Yellowfin Stories.

Limitations

Note that editing a Story is currently not supported in Internet Explorer.
 

Guide menu

• Story role functions
• The Story Builder module and its components
• How to create a new Story
• Include a Story title
• Add a header image
• Story authors and users
  • Add or remove collaborators
• Add, format and copy text to a Story
• Add reports, snapshots, bookmarks
  • Report display options
• Add an image
• Embed a video
• Dividers in a Story
• Publish a Story
• Share a Story
• Update a published Story
• Delete a Story
• Add content to Stories via Report module
• Story reader interactivity