Yellowfin Business Intelligence Review

Yellowfin
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Yellowfin
2003
Melbourne, Australia
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Private
29,000+
Cloud, On-Premise
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Yellowfin At A Glance

Good: Yellowfin Signals that provides automated analysis to the user based on data patterns and outliers, Yellowfin Data Storytelling that combines data reports into one narrative, five components that can be used individually or all together.
Bad: Does not include financial forecasting or profit analysis.
Bottom Line: Yellowfin Analytics Suite offers automated analysis, storytelling and collaboration.

Product Overview

Yellowfin is the only analytics suite that successfully combines action-based dashboards with industry-leading automated analysis and data storytelling. By delivering the best analytical experience, Yellowfin provides the user with unique ways to engage with and act on their data, and addresses the needs of data analysts, business users, customers and developers who want to build, deploy or use amazing analytical experiences.

The Analytics Suite consists of five components that can be used either individually or all together. They are:

  • Yellowfin Signals
  • Yellowfin Data Storytelling
  • Yellowfin Dashboards
  • Yellowfin Data Discovery
  • Yellowfin Data Prep

Details on each component is in our Features section below.

We also want to mention that Yellowfin offers an embedded analytics product for companies that want to have BI functionality within their own applications. The product includes interactive dashboards, customizable multi-tenant architecture, ability to add company logo and colors, and ad-hoc analysis.

Features

Yellowfin Signals – Yellowfin Signals applies machine-assisted automation to monitor live data continuously in the background. It looks beyond the dashboard, searching for anomalies and data outliers that indicate something is different. Its alerts are automated and delivered as changes happen. Yellowfin Signals keep business leaders informed and provide an early-warning system for analysts, helping them to deliver insights to the business, much faster.

Yellowfin Data Storytelling – Yellowfin Data Storytelling enable users to create compelling long-form analysis that provide context to the numbers. Within a blog-like format, users can add live or static reports, embed external media (such as images or videos), and write their narrative to explain the story within the data – and a create common and consistent understanding across the organization. It is also the first-ever cross-vendor storytelling product that lets you easily embed reports from multiple dashboard vendors, such as Tableau and Qlik, to create fully formed stories. With Yellowfin Data Storytelling, businesses can create common and consistent understanding across the organization.

Yellowfin Data Prep – Users can connect to a range of data sources, such as relational databases, Hadoop, NoSQL, spreadsheets and Web APIs. Data is merged and transformed so it’s accessible by any analytics tool.

Yellowfin Data Discovery – In Yellowfin Data Discovery, users can analyze data using spreadsheets, database or web applications. The Assisted Insights feature uses machine-learning algorithms for automatic answers faster, which saves users the headache of manually combing through the data. Insights can then be published and shared with Dashboards, Stories and Storyboards.

Yellowfin Dashboards – With Yellowfin Dashboards, users can track key performance indicators (KPIs) in real time. It also includes the Assisted Insights feature for finding faster answers.

Target Market

Yellowfin’s BI platform is aimed at many different industries (healthcare, media, finance, etc), as well as specific roles and functions within the company (marketing, sales, HR, etc). It create many benefits to specific target markets. For example, software companies can integrate Yellowfin into their app, which replaces legacy reporting tools, embeds a modern self-service suite and deliver an exceptional customer experience.

We’ve listed some of Yellowfin’s customers below.

  • ANZ Bank
  • Honda
  • BMC
  • Coca-Cola
  • Commonwealth Bank of Australia
  • Jetstar
  • Kodak
  • NHS
  • Yum Brands
  • Xerox

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Implementation/Integration

Users can expect deployment within hours or days, not weeks or months. Yellowfin offers a yearly per user or per server enterprise licensing subscription model, which includes software, maintenance, support and upgrades.

Customer Service & Support

Yellowfin offers training on its platform through Yellowfin University. There are also onsite or instructor-led online courses which covers three levels of training over three individual days: Yellowfin Content Creator Fundamentals (Level I), Yellowfin Content Creator Advanced (Level II) and Yellowfin Administration + Signals (Level III).

Yellowfin offers various support mechanisms, such as an online wiki, a customer support center and community that includes access to a documentation section as well as an online forum. Users can also contact Yellowfin directly for help.

Pricing

Yellowfin provides pricing strategies based on named user, server and user tier. For its embedded analytics products that’s geared toward software companies, pricing is based on an aligned utility model (price per unit), server core and a revenue share model.

Specific pricing is not publicly available, so please contact Yellowfin for a quote.

Shortcomings

Yellowfin does not include financial planning or profit analysis functionality.

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About

Yellowfin is a global BI and analytics software vendor that successfully combines action based dashboards, automated business monitoring, data storytelling and collaboration into a single platform. It’s recognized as an innovator by the world’s leading analyst firms. More than 29,000 organizations and over 3 million end-users across 75 countries use Yellowfin every day.

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on 2016-07-26 06:44:59

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