Self-hosted embedded BI should be given a long and hard look.
Let’s say a solution’s integrator, software vendor, or agency wants to embed white-label dashboards and reports. The information they use to build such dashboards and reports may originate from various sources, depending on their business.
They may have their internal database, but combining data from different Cloud-based API sources is a fairly frequent situation we encounter at 5000fish. Alternately, they may have designed their application so that they wish to report using their APIs rather than using a BI solution to report straight from their database layer.
The primary use for embedded BI tools like Yurbi is this. When a business wants to buy a BI tool, it must find a solution that works with the location of its data and how it wants to make it available to users. Self-hosted embedded BI solutions can be pretty helpful in this situation. Although there are cloud-based integrated BI suppliers (i.e., those who are not self-hosted) who offer the features, they all have drawbacks.
This guide will break down some key definitions and the benefits of using self-hosted embedded BI tools for API endpoint reporting.
Embedded BI is a tool’s ability to quickly and efficiently embed dashboards, visualizations, data, reports, and other information into your business’s existing software application.
By utilizing visualization, real-time analytics, and interactive reporting, BI solutions promote an improved user experience.
Embedded BI is anticipated to enable significant customization, to match the look and feel of the business application. This is commonly referred to as white label. The goal of white-label embedded analytics is simple– integrating third-party analytics functions into an existing application while also being white-labeled.
Cloud-Hosted and Self-Hosted BI have some noticeable differences. Cloud-Hosted BI eliminates the need for the business to purchase and maintain all of its servers and networks to operate the software because the hosted service provider is in charge of such duties.
Like the advantages of Software-as-a-Service software, Cloud-Hosted BI provides many advantages. Lack of owning and managing infrastructure is the largest one.
However, the trade-off to this benefit is the lack of control of a critical component of your business app. By integrating with a Cloud-Hosted embedded BI provider, a core component of your software is now dependent on 3rd party infrastructure management and additional data privacy and compliance concerns that a 3rd party vendor has access to your critical customer data.
There are some pretty glaring faults in cloud-hosted embedded BI solutions that make self-hosted solutions look significantly more attractive:
Businesses can address some of these issues by utilizing self-hosted or on-premise BI tools.
White labeling is creating goods and services, renaming them, and then using those names in advertising. Its goal is to boost customer loyalty and trust while reducing the time and resources required for creating and implementing new solutions.
Since the underlying software vendor manages all matters relating to software development and support, a white-label solution necessitates the least amount of upfront capital expenditure by a business looking, in this case, for embedded BI.
Once the business has given the product the appearance and feel of its brand, it may start selling the item on its own, bringing in money while splitting the commission with the service or technology supplier. For many businesses, having a white-label reporting solution is key to their company branding.
There are a few standard requirements that a solution vendor has while trying to extract data from multiple sources, databases, spreadsheets, and APIs:
All of that is challenging when the data is hidden behind an API. Therefore, a solution provider will essentially need to engage an API Developer to create a bespoke data warehouse, a custom application, or custom reports. This may be expensive and tiresome.
Luckily, Yurbi is a top-notch alternative.
Many of the problems with this use case are resolved by Yurbi’s self-hosted and on-premise white-label integrated dashboards and reporting solutions. Yurbi operates as follows:
Now that you have those database tables, you can create your customized reports and dashboards in Yurbi just like any other database. Without writing any code, it’s possible to combine data from different sources and do a lot more.
Let’s analyze some of the advantages of self-hosted on-premise BI products like Yurbi for firms that require reliable API endpoint reporting now that we have a better understanding of how such technology operates and how it is implemented.
With these benefits, you can be sure that using Yurbi and self-hosted embedded BI tools will give you more comfort than headaches in the long run.
Our support team at Yurbi is here to help your development team get the right APIs configured. We’re currently working on adding additional features and controls to Yurbi, such as API call optimizations and improved integration capabilities. We’re also working on adding additional support for non-JSON API response packages.
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