Yellowfin

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Yellowfin
Score 7.7 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Yellowfin is a cloud-based business intelligence and dashboarding platform.
$250
per month
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Yellowfin
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Yellowfin
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Yellowfin
Considered Both Products
Yellowfin
Chose Yellowfin
Yellow Fin platform is browser agnostic and is accessible from desktops as well as mobile devices. It is very simple and fast, it is integrated with Big Data, clients do not require a great training. It just works. But it’s easier to have things on the cloud, especially if you …
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Yellowfin is much improved over this product, making the process much more simple and faster.
Chose Yellowfin
Yellowfin is no doubt, a stronger, more eloquent and polished tool compared to Microsoft's Power BI. The issue with our company specifically is that we are a big Microsoft shop, and pay for Power BI more or less in our bundle esp w/ O365. While the Yellowfin tool is a more …
Chose Yellowfin
I feel like it is not as good as powerslides, basically does the same thing but not as well. The team basically found that it was using up more time and wasn't as easy to figure out as Powerslide. We ended up switching programs after a while and still looking for a much better …
Chose Yellowfin
The Yellowfin product technologies are superior and offers more flexibility in application. The Yellowfin product can be used in several different areas such a report engine over and above being a solid business intelligence tool. It further needs significant IT overhead to be …
Chose Yellowfin
We ran a full procurement project to select Yellowfin and started with a long list of over 20 BI products. Key reasons for choice were ease of use, visual looks, product integrations and cost (both licence purchase and development of content).
Chose Yellowfin
Yellowfin BI has a strong focus on a clear structured and easy to use user interface. Furthermore, the licence model was adequate for a BI system with a lot of end users.
Chose Yellowfin
Our reporting group uses Tableau extensively and compared to Yellowfin, Tableau is much easier to use (partially because more time was invested in setting it up properly, but also the design and features).
Chose Yellowfin
My selection of Yellowfin based on following criteria for the Indian market:

  • Availability in Linux platform to process high volume of transaction with CAL (concurrent user access license) model to use multiple server with high concurrent users
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Yellowfin
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Yellowfin
6.2
12 Ratings
28% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports5.85 Ratings
Customizable dashboards6.212 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates6.511 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Yellowfin
6.7
12 Ratings
19% below category average
Drill-down analysis6.711 Ratings
Formatting capabilities7.112 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages6.38 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration6.511 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Yellowfin
5.9
11 Ratings
34% below category average
Publish to Web6.411 Ratings
Publish to PDF6.211 Ratings
Report Versioning5.89 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling5.711 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers5.55 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Yellowfin
5.9
12 Ratings
31% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)6.012 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization5.812 Ratings
Predictive Analytics5.810 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Yellowfin
6.3
11 Ratings
31% below category average
Multi-User Support (named login)6.311 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model6.510 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)6.410 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)5.94 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Yellowfin
6.7
8 Ratings
18% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access6.25 Ratings
Mobile Application6.48 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile6.28 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Yellowfin
6.2
5 Ratings
24% below category average
REST API6.15 Ratings
Javascript API5.45 Ratings
iFrames6.05 Ratings
Java API6.35 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)6.55 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)6.55 Ratings
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User Ratings
Yellowfin
Likelihood to Recommend
6.3
(12 ratings)
Usability
6.4
(7 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(1 ratings)
Performance
8.2
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
5.7
(7 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.1
(1 ratings)
Online Training
8.2
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.1
(1 ratings)
Configurability
8.2
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.1
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.2
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Yellowfin
Likelihood to Recommend
Yellowfin
We can recommend this software without hesitation, as it has the ability to generate reports and data analysis, as well as process the data automatically, which saves time. It is ideal for small and medium-sized companies that wish to improve their services in the business world
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Pros
Yellowfin
  • Yellowfin’s Storyboard, Timeline and Collaborative tools make it easy to share data and insights across an organisation.
  • Strong Operational and Executive Dashboards that reflect the business KPIs and can send out prompts to people within the business based on rules.
  • Yellowfin makes it incredibly easy to create dynamic reports and dashboards which incorporate maps through locational intelligence functionality.
  • Yellowfin is a single license and all access is via a web browser making it perfect for both on-premise and cloud deployment. Mobile apps are also available.
  • User roles and source filtering allows Admin/IT to offer different functions/views by user group/role.
  • Mobile BI applications to support any device ..
  • API connectors ( YF 7.2 on the way in Mar16 ) for a range of third-party Web-based applications, data sources, Enterprises CRM/ERP apps & open data platform apps, including Salesforce, Google Analytics, Twitter, Youtube , Zoho CRM, XE.com & more coming to make endusers to integrate their applications for better benefits
  • Yellowfin Integration with Predictive analytical and Big Data processing tools like R, UDF, Spark to build rich applications for end users
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Cons
Yellowfin
  • The ability to predefine a colour for a specific graph as a selection option dynamically.
  • The ability to customise the label of a chart, especially with respect to performance related reporting graphs we need an increase in dynamic charting options to meet our more specialised requirements.
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Usability
Yellowfin
As mentioned previously, if a newer company is looking for a strong, polished BI tool, Yellowfin would be a great software vendor to consider. Unfortunately, the high cost might be a barrier to these newer companies who dont have any legacy software/agreements such as an EA agreement with Microsoft.
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Reliability and Availability
Yellowfin
99.9% availability
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Support Rating
Yellowfin
They have good support in what they provide. But what they provide is not what is promised. I would stay with them if I can. Be very careful before signing up with them. They are not what they seem in the sales pitches. Be very careful and make sure you test and test before you sign up.
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In-Person Training
Yellowfin
Yellowfin provides 3 levels of training to support consumers, business analytics, developers and Administrations :
  1. Yellowfin BI Training - Level 1 (Exploration)
  2. Yellowfin BI Training - Level 2 (Advanced)
  3. Yellowfin BI Training - Level 3(Expert)
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Online Training
Yellowfin
Web-based training for large audiences for Level 1 and Level 2 I would suggest
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Implementation Rating
Yellowfin
Design the data model and views for each dashboard is very important and it is the success factor Configuration of cluster for large implementation
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Alternatives Considered
Yellowfin
Yellow Fin platform is browser agnostic and is accessible from desktops as well as mobile devices. It is very simple and fast, it is integrated with Big Data, clients do not require a great training. It just works. But it’s easier to have things on the cloud, especially if you need to use different computers. Yellow Fin lacks the cloud feature.
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Scalability
Yellowfin
- Tested 500 con-current users in Linux platform with 4 cores systems - Tested with cloud based VM - Tested with 1000 reads per minutes
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Return on Investment
Yellowfin
  • Yellowfin gives us a BI tool that is incredibly sleek, which leads our data to be clean, concise, and in an "easy-to-digest" format.
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