TL;DR: Bold BI® v16.1.90 introduces Anthropic Claude BYOK support, smarter AI-generated insights with currency-aware formatting, faster dashboard rendering, enhanced dashboard navigation, expanded duration formatting options, stronger Keycloak authentication support, and numerous reliability, performance, and usability improvements across the platform.
Introduction
We're excited to announce Bold BI v16.1.90, a release focused on giving organizations greater flexibility in AI adoption, improving dashboard performance, and delivering a more streamlined analytics experience. This release introduces Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) support for Anthropic Claude models, allowing organizations to securely integrate Claude using their own API credentials. In addition, AI-powered analytics are now more reliable with enhanced summary generation and currency-aware insight formatting that improves the readability of financial data.
We've also enhanced the dashboard experience with improved navigation, faster rendering performance, expanded duration formatting options, and stronger authentication support through Keycloak OpenID enhancements.
Alongside these updates, numerous improvements and bug fixes across Designer, Data Sources, Data Hub, Server, and IDP modules help create a more stable, scalable, and dependable analytics platform.
Whether you're building self-service analytics solutions or embedding analytics into customer-facing applications, Bold BI v16.1.90 helps teams create, manage, and consume analytics more efficiently. Let's take a closer look at what's new.
AI Enhancements
We're continuing to expand AI flexibility and model choice, giving organizations greater control over how AI is integrated into analytics workflows.
Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) Support for Anthropic Claude Models
Every organization has unique requirements for AI adoption, security, governance, and compliance. To provide more flexibility, Bold BI now extends its Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) capability to support Anthropic Claude models.
With this enhancement, users can configure and access Claude models using their own Anthropic API credentials directly within Bold BI. Organizations retain full ownership of API usage, billing, and governance policies while taking advantage of Anthropic's AI capabilities.
By expanding support beyond existing AI providers, Bold BI enables organizations to choose the models that best fit their business goals while maintaining compliance with internal security and data governance standards.
Why it matters: Teams can choose the AI provider that best aligns with their security, governance, and operational requirements without sacrificing control over API usage or costs.
Improvements
This release includes enhancements designed to improve AI-generated insights, dashboard accessibility, performance, and authentication reliability.
Smarter Currency Formatting for AI-Generated Insights
Financial insights are most useful when they are easy to understand. Previously, monetary values generated by AI could appear without consistent currency formatting, making financial analysis more difficult, especially in environments that work with multiple currencies.
Bold BI now introduces currency-aware formatting for AI-generated insights. Monetary values are automatically displayed using the appropriate currency symbols and standardized number formats, creating more consistent and readable AI-generated narratives and summaries.
Whether analyzing revenue, costs, profits, or other financial metrics, users can interpret results more quickly and confidently.
Why it matters: Financial figures are easier to read and validate, enabling users to focus on decision-making instead of interpreting data formats
Enhanced Dashboard Navigation Experience
Finding frequently used dashboards is now faster and more intuitive.
The Dashboard Listing page has been enhanced with:
- Recent Dashboards for quick access to recently viewed content.
- Favorite Dashboards for keeping important dashboards readily available.
- Compact and Card view options within Quick Access.
- Improved Category Tree alignment.
- Child dashboard counts displayed within parent categories.
These enhancements make it easier to browse and manage large dashboard collections while reducing the time required to locate critical analytics resources.
Why it matters: Users can spend less time searching for dashboards and more time focusing on analysis and decision-making.
Faster Dashboard Rendering Performance
Dashboard responsiveness plays a critical role in the analytics experience. To improve loading performance, Bold BI now optimizes dashboard rendering by intelligently grouping widgets that share the same data source.
This approach reduces redundant data retrieval requests and allows shared-source widgets to be processed more efficiently during dashboard loading.
Why it matters: Fewer duplicate data requests lead to faster dashboard rendering, particularly for dashboards containing many widgets connected to the same source.
Extended Duration Format Support
The Duration Format feature has been expanded to support customizable fixed-duration formats, including Year-Month-Day representations.
This enhancement provides dashboard authors with greater flexibility when displaying time-based metrics such as project timelines, service durations, employee tenure, and other elapsed-time measurements.
Why it matters: Organizations can present duration-based metrics in formats that better match reporting requirements and business expectations.
Keycloak SSO Token Storage Support for OpenID Provider
Organizations that use Keycloak for authentication can now benefit from enhanced token storage support within OpenID-based single sign-on workflows.
This improvement strengthens session management and authentication reliability, helping users experience smoother sign-in and sign-out processes while improving the stability of identity management integrations.
Why it matters: Organizations running Keycloak-based SSO deployments can deliver more reliable authentication experiences and reduce session-related issues.
Other Bug Fixes and Minor Improvements
In addition to the major enhancements, Bold BI v16.1.90 includes numerous fixes and optimizations across AI, Designer, Data Sources, Data Hub, Server, and IDP modules
Reliability: Improved platform stability through fixes related to:
- AI-generated visualizations, dashboard summary generation, and widget insight generation.
- Dashboard filtering, chart rendering, and widget configurations.
- Dashboard migration, Excel exports, and data previews.
- Group management, authentication workflows, and Data Hub connectivity.
Performance: Enhanced dashboard loading and data retrieval through:
- Dashboard rendering optimizations.
- Elasticsearch connector improvements, including API optimizations, retry mechanisms, and query metrics processing.
Compatibility: Addressed issues across:
- PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Trino, and Microsoft SQL Server.
- Azure Active Directory, OpenID providers, and Keycloak integrations.
- Data Hub Web Connectors, cloud deployments, and dashboard migration scenarios.
Usability: Improved the dashboard authoring and viewing experience through fixes related to:
- Column Charts, Period-over-Period widgets, and Pie and Doughnut charts.
- Date Pickers, Range Sliders, Number Cards, Pivot Grids, and Tab Widgets.
- Modern Widget Panel components, calculated expressions, map interactions, and dashboard filtering workflows.
Real-World Use Cases Enabled by Bold BI v16.1.90
The Bold BI v16.1.90 release focuses on helping organizations improve AI flexibility, dashboard usability, analytics performance, and enterprise authentication. Here's how these enhancements translate into real business value.
Adopt AI While Maintaining Control Over Provider Credentials
- Challenge: Organizations want to adopt AI-powered analytics without giving up ownership of API credentials, usage policies, and governance controls.
- Bold BI solution: Anthropic Claude BYOK support enables teams to connect and use Claude models with their own Anthropic API credentials.
- Business impact: Organizations gain greater flexibility in AI provider selection while maintaining control over compliance, billing, security, and governance policies.
Improve Understanding of Financial Insights
- Challenge: Inconsistent presentation of currency values can make AI-generated financial insights difficult to interpret.
- Bold BI solution: Currency-aware formatting automatically applies appropriate symbols and standardized formatting to AI-generated monetary values.
- Business impact: Users can understand financial metrics more quickly and make decisions with greater confidence.
Help Users Find Dashboards Faster
- Challenge: Large analytics environments can make dashboard discovery time-consuming.
- Bold BI solution: Recent Dashboards, Favorite Dashboards, enhanced Quick Access options, and improved Category Tree navigation simplify dashboard browsing.
- Business impact: Users can reach important business insights faster, improving productivity and reducing navigation overhead.
Accelerate Analytics Experiences for Large Dashboards
- Challenge: Dashboards containing multiple widgets can experience longer load times when data is retrieved repeatedly from the same source.
- Bold BI solution: Intelligent widget grouping reduces redundant data retrieval operations during dashboard rendering.
- Impact: Faster dashboard loading improves user experience and helps organizations deliver responsive analytics at scale.
Simplify Analytics for Duration-Based Metrics
- Challenge: Organizations often need flexible ways to represent project timelines, service durations, employee tenure, and other time-based measures.
- Bold BI solution: Enhanced Duration Format support introduces customizable formats, including Year-Month-Day representations.
- Impact: Teams can present duration-based data in a format that aligns with business reporting requirements and improves readability.
Strengthen Enterprise Authentication Workflows
- Challenge: Large organizations require reliable authentication and seamless single sign-on experiences across analytics deployments.
- Bold BI solution: Keycloak OpenID token storage enhancements, Azure AD synchronization fixes, OpenID logout improvements, and user-management stability updates strengthen authentication workflows.
- Impact: Administrators can reduce authentication-related issues while providing users with a more reliable and secure sign-in experience.
Conclusion
Bold BI® v16.1.90 delivers meaningful improvements across AI-powered analytics, dashboard performance, navigation, authentication, and platform reliability. From Anthropic Claude BYOK support and currency-aware AI insights to enhanced dashboard navigation, faster dashboard rendering, advanced duration formatting, and improved Keycloak authentication support, this release helps organizations build, manage, and consume analytics more effectively.
Ready to explore what's new? Existing customers can download Bold BI v16.1.90 today and new users can start a free 30-day 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, contact our support team for help.
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