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What do you like best about Yellowfin BI?

The Yellowfin feature that led to the success of this project was the "View" - the business metadata layer that sits between the source data and the reports and dashboards.

The source data for this project had significant shortcomings which by itself made it difficult to meet the project's reporting requirements. The Yellowfin view functionality allowed my to apply and easily maintain frequently changing, complex business logic, and enhance the source system data with business rules that allowed for accurate prediction of future capability of the recruitment process.

The Yellowfin views also made it possible for me to present the complex data structure to the recruitment managers and analysts, and workforce planners in a business-friendly format so they could easily write their own ad hoc reports. The business users only required minimal training to become self-sufficient with Yellowfin for report writing and ad hoc data analysis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Yellowfin BI?

My main dislike with Yellowfin on this project was the some clumsy usability aspects of the View designer. Having said that Yellowfin were very receptive of feedback I provided on how to improve the usability of the view designer. Subsequent minor releases of Yellowfin incrementally improved the View designer. The release of version 7.3 presented a completely rewritten user interface for the view designer that it is now very easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Yellowfin is a great business intelligence and analytics platform. It's focus on usability for end-users and the analysts who support them is it greatest strength. I would consider it the best business intelligence and analytics platform I have used in my career.

In addition to having a great product Yellowfin is a great company to work with. They receptive to product feedback and almost always product improvement suggestions I have made have been implemented in future releases. I have even had a couple of cases where minor improvements were implemented in the monthly patch release following me making the suggestions. In my experience very few software vendors are that responsive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Yellowfin BI solving and how is that benefiting you?

I used Yellowfin to develop a set of reports and dashboards to track and predict the performance of the recruitment process a very large energy infrastructure project. The dashboards and reports allowed the recruitment managers and analysts, and workforce planners to accurately report on and predict the ability of the recruitment pipeline to meet the demanding and dynamic workforce requirements of the project.

Prior to the dashboards and reports being created the project's recruitment manager was unable to provide senior project stakeholders with reliable information about the ability of the recruitment pipeline to meet project's workforce demand. By the end of the project the recruitment manager was able to accurately report to senior project stakeholders the current ability of the recruitment pipeline to meet project demands. and predict with an accuracy of greater than 95% the ability of the recruitment pipeline to meet future project demands. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Yellowfin BI Overview

What is Yellowfin BI?

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 your users 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. Analytics for software companies Integrate and embed analytics with a difference into your app, your way * Replace legacy or home grown reporting tools * Embed a modern self-service analytics suite * Deliver an exceptional customer experience Analytics for enterprise Get more value from your data in new and innovative ways * Migrate from spreadsheets to a modern analytics platform * Replace legacy BI applications * Embed analytics into operational workflows Analytical Application Builders Leverage your domain expertise to create data products that delight * Create unique data driven applications * Close the loop on analytics * Deliver insights as a service

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Yellowfin helps clients solve problems with data and increase the performance of their business

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Why Yellowfin?
As a leader in embedded analytics, we enable you to:

Modernize
Shift from a legacy or homegrown reporting solution to a modern data and analytics suite that users will love.

Engage
Increase user adoption by providing the data experience users want to have - enable anyone to engage with and collaborate on data.

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Automate the monitoring of your business to identify critical changes to the business as they happen and notify users immediately.

Innovate
Combine the Yellowfin Suite with your data and domain experience to create new products and services and create new revenue streams.


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Yellowfin
Year Founded
2003
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Austin, Texas
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Its ease of use, customer support is prompt, abundance in features, ease of api to integrate and implementation.
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What do you like best about Yellowfin BI?

How daunting is it sitting with scattered spreadsheets, endless reports, and data all over the place, not really giving the insight that you want to deliver?

With Yellowfin BI being much more than just another industry tool, it proved to be the most efficient one as it gives so much better structured insight.The freedom to create and sometimes animate visualizations to provide business intelligence and data analytics is impeccable.

With integrated AI features, effortlessly getting real-time analytics as opposed to staring at numbers for hours to compile reports after makes BI developing a little bit easier

For me, Yellowfin has proven to be the most reliable and intelligent BI solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Yellowfin BI?

As some features are easy to comprehend as a technical person, quite a number of advanced features on YellowFin will require a step-by-step guide on how to use the function so users can utilize all perks that come with YellowFin BI to provide desired reports, dashboards, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Yellowfin BI solving and how is that benefiting you?

Problem: Creations of manual reports

Solution: Yellowfin automates report creation and scheduling. Results are in real time and can even forecast data , which saves time from doing everything manualy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

KE
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What do you like best about Yellowfin BI?

Yellowfin BI has a comprehensive front-end, which makes it user-friendly. The documentation is easy to understand, and the quick link to the Yellowfin Wiki on newer versions make it especially convenient to quickly find out how to do something. It's easy to install, and convenient to use on a daily basis. Yellowfin provides for seamless integration into your application. The many elements on the dashboard builder allow for sleek designs that are not only beautiful, but functional and powerful through features like drilling, brushing, filtering, etc. The built-in code features such as Javascript charts and 'code-mode' on dashboards make it extremely powerful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Yellowfin BI?

Enhancements and bugs logged can be actioned sooner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Yellowfin BI solving and how is that benefiting you?

Yellowfin is amazing for data visualization and analysis. It is more than just a BI tool. The collaboration feature makes it easy and convenient for designers, developers and end-users to collaborate on projects. Yellowfin also helps to identify anomalies in data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Yellowfin BI?

Yellow Fin B.I. Tool is the most user friendly tool that can used to generate amble numbers of Reports.

-Not only that we can customize a Dashboard and link them together to see the current visiblity of all aspects of our business.

-It comes with a lot of standard reports and we can also modify / or create new custom reports according to our need.

-We can create filters to find particular information about any key element.

-Multiple tables/views can be linked without having a programmer do a job to connect the tables.

-All the reports can be shared and broadcasted to other users through email without even loggng in or having to open the software.

-The reports can be exported in the Excel , Word, PDF, CSV files etc.

-Overall the GUI and usability of this software is quite easy for the end users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Yellowfin BI?

When the reports are big and a lot of database, then it takes a lot of time to open. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Yellowfin BI solving and how is that benefiting you?

This tool is providing me to see current statistics of our Business.

Not only we have lots of different standard reports but we can modify/create more custom reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Yellowfin BI?

The best features of Yellowfin are: the amount of available connectors, management through views, and the ability to customize each part of the tool by allowing deep embedding. In addition, it's very easy to use and the creation of dashbord and report is very clear.

Also the installation and the implementation it's very straightforward Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Yellowfin BI?

NLQs are not entirely natural language-based and do not entirely allow a business user to do research on the data.

Also the pricing it's difficult to justify sometimes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Yellowfin BI solving and how is that benefiting you?

To have a simple BI that can be integrated with different tools both from the point of view of data collection and from the point of view of presenting the results Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

BM
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What do you like best about Yellowfin BI?

What i like about the tool is that it is designed in such a way that it is user-friendly, allowing our business users to explore data and create their reports and analysis. Another thing i like is that it includes a lot of features like signals that automatically monitor data for anomalies and critical changes. Also that you can embedd Yellowfin designs into other application Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Yellowfin BI?

Some other things don't seem to work nicely, like accessing yellowfin using the mobile app or mobile browser Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Yellowfin BI solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps consolidate data from various sources into a single platform.

It benefits me by By providing access to accurate and timely data insights Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

DT
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What do you like best about Yellowfin BI?

YF is easy to use for a person with average experience with BI tools and has a number of features such as report broadcasting and storyboards that make it especially interesting for users that need to keep close to their data but have limited time to access a laptop - users that are site managers on the field for example. The possibility to embed reports is great as it enriches our web dashboard and allows users to access most of their data directly from our application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Yellowfin BI?

Setting up reports is still relatively slow and issues like for example editing formulas in CASE statements should be made more simple and faster.

In truth we need to prepare reports for most of our users as they cannot by themselves use many basic functions like defining custom fields. Excel still makes it easier to apply formulas to values in creating new fields. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Yellowfin BI solving and how is that benefiting you?

YF allows for the users of our software (Aquanetix) to have the versatility that was offered by Excel but with a new level of reporting 'power'. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AZ
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What do you like best about Yellowfin BI?

This is a great tool. I love how it can spot patterns in our data that I might have missed. The way you can create stories with your data is very simple. Instead of just throwing charts at people, I can walk them through the numbers and build a real narrative around our data. The Stories feature has been a game-changer for our team discussions. It really helps everyone understand the context behind the numbers. Another fantastic feature is Yellowfin Presents, which lets me create templated presentations that update automatically when our data changes. No more exporting to PowerPoint and manually updating charts every month! I can quickly pull up any dashboard on my phone when I'm in meetings, which has saved me so many times. Plus, sharing dashboards with the team is super easy too. Oh, and being able to white-label everything makes it look like our own custom solution when we share it with clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Yellowfin BI?

Like any BI tool, there's a bit of a learning curve at first. The more advanced features take some time to discover and master, especially if you're new to data analytics tools. While the documentation could be more streamlined for finding specific complex answers, the support team more than makes up for it. They've been fantastic at quickly helping me whenever I had questions. Sometimes I spend a few extra clicks fine-tuning my visualizations to get them exactly right, but the end results are always worth it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Yellowfin BI solving and how is that benefiting you?

Yellowfin BI has really simplified our reporting process. Before, we spent hours manually pulling data from different sources and creating reports in Excel. it was a real headache and took up way too much time. Now, our dashboards update automatically and everyone gets the insights they need without the constant back-and-forth of emailing spreadsheets.

The automated insights have helped us spot trends we were missing before, especially in our sales patterns and customer behavior. This has directly improved our decision-making. We can react to changes much faster now. The mobile access means our team leads can check performance metrics whenever they need to, and the presentation features let us create professional-looking reports for stakeholders in minutes instead of hours.

Another big win has been the improved data security. Since everything stays within Yellowfin's environment and updates automatically, we don't have sensitive data floating around in various spreadsheets anymore. Plus, the single sign-on integration means we can control exactly who sees what. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

KS
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What do you like best about Yellowfin BI?

We have several different sources of data and before implementing Yellowfin's BI software, we had to report from each of those sources separately, and then consolidate the data in Excel. Now, Yellowfin consolidates the data for us and we're easily able to slice and dice from once source and provide a high level of analytics on demand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Yellowfin BI?

We use a feature to write reports out to an email in a pdf format; we're unable to choose an external file/folder, so we have to make copies and move them manually. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Yellowfin BI solving and how is that benefiting you?

Consolidating data sources, the ability to create analysis/reporting specific to segments of the business that are available to the executive team on demand, the ability to easily drill into rolled up data to pinpoint potential anomalies. Functionally, we've also been able to use Yellowfin to complete other functions that would have required other software licenses. For instance, Yellowfin automatically calculates our sales employees' commissions. Again, the biggest benefit is that we are able to avoid spending countless hours creating the same reporting each month because our reporting is now available on demand, we're able to easily identify positive (or negative) trends across different business lines, and we're able to hone in on anomalies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Yellowfin BI?

As a Yellowfin BI developer, what I like best about the Yellowfin is its versatility and the powerful API it offers for customization and integration. Yellowfin allows me to create tailored solutions for our clients by providing a wide range of configuration options and seamless integration with various data sources. Whether it's connecting to databases. Yellowfin's flexibility makes it easy to implement a variety of use cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Yellowfin BI?

while Yellowfin provides a good range of visualizations, some users sometimes feel limited by the built-in chart options. Although there is the ability to create custom visualizations, the process can be time-consuming and may not offer the same level of ease as other BI tools with more out-of-the-box options Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Yellowfin BI solving and how is that benefiting you?

Yellowfin help us help our clients make more informed decisions by providing them with the tools to easily analyze, visualize, and collaborate on their data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

VA
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What do you like best about Yellowfin BI?

Its ease of use, customer support is prompt, abundance in features, ease of api to integrate and implementation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Yellowfin BI?

The UI with 9.x is good but can be improved, i.e., more sleak and trendy (colors). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Yellowfin BI solving and how is that benefiting you?

The reports we create are helping management to take strategic decisions related to IT infrastructure.

The report helps in security compliance etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.