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Yellowfin

Overview

What is Yellowfin?

Yellowfin is a cloud-based business intelligence and dashboarding platform.

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Embeddable and easy to use

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 9, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use Yellowfin as our primary data visualisation solution, which is embedded into multiple internal and client facing systems to present data in a clean, simple and readable...
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Dominic Albrecht
Manager - Information Technology
Head of Analytics
Digital Planet
Yellowfin12 years of experience

Yellowfin Evaluation

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 4, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use Yellowfin to display our analysis to customers. BI and analysis sides are very strong in Yellowfin. It's also user friendly so you can let your customer do flexible rep...
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Ekin Yildirim
Engineer - Information Technology
Jr. Data Analyst
Signumtte
Yellowfin2 years of experience

Yellowfin is the best platform to manage and analyze our data

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 11, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We are using Yellowfin to perform our calculations and data in a more organized way in a modern and easy to use software for everyone. This tool is helping us to make better d...
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Luis Alcalá
General Manager - Human Resources
Senior Manager, HR Planning & Talent Management
TruGreen
Yellowfin1 year of experience

Great alternative to Power BI, but at a cost.

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 4, 2022
IncentivizedVetted Review
Yellowfin was one of the many data visualization tools we had demo'd and currently resell to our customers. The use case for this product was to be able to use Yellowfin to id...
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Verified user
Strategist
Yellowfin2 years of experience

Not particularly good at anything

Rating: 3 out of 10
March 1, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Primarily as a post analytical visualization tool. Our team is about 8 people which include about 3 business side of users. Typically we give them the information to then get ...
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Joe Sae
Team Lead - Corporate
TA
UWM
Yellowfin1 year of experience
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Pricing

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Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.yellowfinbi.com/plans

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $250 per month
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Product Demos

Business Intelligence: Emerasoft presenta Yellowfin (29 novembre 2012)

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Yellowfin BI - iPhone demo 2

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Yellowfin Demo 05 02 2016, 12 34

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(22)Frozen Yellowfin Tuna w/ Stir Fry ala Mardie (Cooking Demo #22)

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SkillsForge YellowFin Business Intelligence Reporting Demo - Reports, charts and dashboards

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Demo of the BVS Yellowfin Wimax Test Receiver

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Features

BI Standard Reporting

Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.

7.8
Avg 8.2

Ad-hoc Reporting

Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.

8.6
Avg 8.0

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

8.8
Avg 8.3

Data Discovery and Visualization

Data Discovery and Visualization is the analysis of multiple data sources in a search for patterns and outliers and the ability to represent the data visually.

6.7
Avg 7.9

Access Control and Security

Access control means being able to determine who has access to which data.

8.1
Avg 8.5

Mobile Capabilities

Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.

7.3
Avg 7.9

Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding

APIs are a set of routines, protocols, and tools for used for embedding one application in another

7.8
Avg 7.8
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Product Details

What is Yellowfin?

Yellowfin is an analytics suite that combines action based dashboards with automated analysis and data storytelling.


By aiming to deliver the best analytical experience, Yellowfin provides users with 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.

  • 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

Yellowfin Features

BI Platform Features

  • Supported: Administration via Web Interface
  • Supported: Live Connection to External Data
  • Supported: Snapshot of External Data
  • Supported: In-memory data model
  • Supported: OLAP (Pre-processed cube representation)
  • Supported: ROLAP (SQL-layer querying)
  • Supported: Multi-Data Source Reporting (Blending)
  • Supported: Data warehouse / dictionary layer
  • Supported: ETL Capability
  • Supported: ETL Scheduler

Supported Data Sources Features

  • Supported: MS Excel Workbooks
  • Supported: Text Files (CSV, etc)
  • Supported: Oracle
  • Supported: MS SQL Server
  • Supported: IBM DB2
  • Supported: Postgres
  • Supported: MySQL
  • Supported: ODBC
  • Supported: Cloudera Hadoop
  • Supported: Hortonworks Hadoop
  • Supported: EMC Greenplum
  • Supported: IBM Netezza
  • Supported: HP Vertica
  • Supported: ParAccel
  • Supported: SAP Hana
  • Supported: Teradata
  • Supported: Sage 500
  • Supported: Salesforce
  • Supported: SAP
  • Supported: Google Analytics

BI Standard Reporting Features

  • Supported: Pixel Perfect reports
  • Supported: Customizable dashboards
  • Supported: Report Formatting Templates

Ad-hoc Reporting Features

  • Supported: Drill-down analysis
  • Supported: Formatting capabilities
  • Supported: Predictive modeling
  • Supported: Integration with R or other statistical packages
  • Supported: Report sharing and collaboration

Report Output and Scheduling Features

  • Supported: Publish to Web
  • Supported: Publish to PDF
  • Supported: Output Raw Supporting Data
  • Supported: Report Versioning
  • Supported: Report Delivery Scheduling
  • Supported: Delivery to Remote Servers

Data Discovery and Visualization Features

  • Supported: Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
  • Supported: Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
  • Supported: Predictive Analytics
  • Supported: Support for Machine Learning models
  • Supported: Integration with R or other statistical packages

Access Control and Security Features

  • Supported: Multi-User Support (named login)
  • Supported: Role-Based Security Model
  • Supported: Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
  • Supported: Report-Level Access Control
  • Supported: Table-Level Access Control (BI-layer)
  • Supported: Field-Level Access Control (BI-layer)
  • Supported: Single Sign-On (SSO)

Mobile Capabilities Features

  • Supported: Responsive Design for Web Access
  • Supported: Mobile Application
  • Supported: Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding Features

  • Supported: REST API
  • Supported: Javascript API
  • Supported: iFrames
  • Supported: Java API
  • Supported: Themeable User Interface (UI)
  • Supported: Customizable Platform (Open Source)

Yellowfin Screenshots

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Yellowfin Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Mobile Web
Supported CountriesAll
Supported LanguagesJapanese, English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Thai, Chinese

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Frequently Asked Questions

Yellowfin is a cloud-based business intelligence and dashboarding platform.

Yellowfin starts at $250.

Tableau Server, QlikView, and Tableau Desktop are common alternatives for Yellowfin.

Reviewers rate Report Versioning and Single Sign-On (SSO) highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of Yellowfin are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).

Yellowfin Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)5%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)80%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)15%
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Comparisons

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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Embeddable and easy to use

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
April 09, 2025
DA
Dominic Albrecht
Head of Analytics
Digital Planet (Logistics & Supply Chain, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Yellowfin
12 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Yellowfin as our primary data visualisation solution, which is embedded into multiple internal and client facing systems to present data in a clean, simple and readable format.
Pros
  • Embeddability
  • Multiple data sources
  • Visualisation
Cons
  • Auto generated visuals could be improved
  • Exporting visuals could be improved
  • More interactive visuals would be nice to have
Likelihood to Recommend
It works very well as an all around visualisation tool at an very affordable price. Often under appreciated, it holds its own in the market in comparison to the more well know platforms, but really shines when used as an embedded solution within custom built applications.

Self Service BI in Higher Education with Yellowfin BI: Easy to use, develop and administrate

Rating: 10 out of 10
July 05, 2016
Verified User
Project Manager in Other
Higher Education Company, 1001-5000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Yellowfin
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Yellowfin BI provides web-based access to data from all performance areas of the university. For example, the portal can be used to retrieve aggregated numbers about students (bachelor, master and doctoral), publications, and external funding. Furthermore, it can create detailed reports that provide a structured overview of contract durations, project budgets and available positions. The system aims to efficiently complete internal and external reporting requirements (e.g. monitoring reports for study and teaching, the delivery of rankings, reports for donors) and to reduce the growing workload for reporting tasks. The availability and usability of the data supports internal and external decision-making, controlling, and the management by university employees. This will significantly strengthen the strategic management of the university on all levels. The portal is available to all employees of the university as self-service BI.
Pros
  • Ease of use due to a clear and good structured user interface
  • Easy to administrate and to develop new BI content even for personnel without IT background
  • Powerful features for collaboration and sharing (social BI)
  • Very helpful documentation (wiki), support portal and monthly webinar series
Cons
  • More options to include meta data (column description, data annotation, report annotation) for BI self service end users
  • The compliance to the International Business Communication Standards (IBCS) is currently not possible
Likelihood to Recommend
Yellowfin BI is well suited within a self service BI scenario for many end users as well as for BI projects with only limited IT staff resources (department driven BI). It is also well suited whenever the ease of use and a clear user interface is necessary.

Yellowfin as easy BI & Analytical tool for all kind of users of an organisation

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 14, 2016
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are re-seller, consulting and system integrator of Yellowfin BI application for our esteem customers. We have implemented many customer business use cases and also use in our own organisation across departments :

Here are some business problems we have addressed for our customers:

  • A framework for candidate sourcing, selection, hiring, on-boarding and retention for a large blue collar employee hiring company. The outcome of the framework is the availability dashboards and its associate reports to improve productivity, reduce risk and lower cost. The dashboard covers requisitions status, candidates timelines & hires.
  • Order Forecasting model - To prepare a 15-day rolling forecasting mechanism that will forecast the month-on-month and Y-o-Y sales orders for TS business in terms of product lines. An accuracy of ~90% is achieved using ARIMA modelling. This is achieved using Yellowfin and "R" integration.
  • Evaluating massive amounts of historical and real-time sensor data across assets in operations to optimize “my maintenance” (predictive ) schedules and real-time executive dashboards with accuracy of data for large boiler room solutions.
Pros
  • 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
Cons
  • Predictive analytics features within Yellowfin tool.
Likelihood to Recommend
Yellowfin is well suited for:

  • All type of organisations from small, medium to large enterprises applications
  • All type of users in an organisations - Business users , Analysts and consumers
  • Large clustering installation with high volume of transaction under Linux platform with high number of concurrent users
  • Low budget customer engagements

A great product to improve your data analysis workflow

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
March 08, 2022
Verified User
Consultant in Finance and Accounting
Management Consulting Company, 11-50 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Yellowfin
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I used Yellowfin to help automate my analytics workflow at my company by making business analytics much easier and faster to process. This product helped me save a lot of time by doing the work that I used to do manually in a much quicker manner, requiring less knowledge as well overall.
Pros
  • Automating data analytics
  • Building dashboard
  • Preparing data for presentation
Cons
  • user interface
  • tutorial
Likelihood to Recommend
It is well suited for situations where lots of manual data processing is required since it is able to automate this process and make it a much easier experience for everyone involved in the process. It is not well suited for a complex and specific analysis of business data and information.

Yellowfin is the best platform to manage and analyze our data

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
April 11, 2022
LA
Luis Alcalá
Senior Manager, HR Planning & Talent Management
TruGreen (Consumer Services, 5001-10,000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Yellowfin
1 year of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are using Yellowfin to perform our calculations and data in a more organized way in a modern and easy to use software for everyone. This tool is helping us to make better decisions in terms of data and analysis collected.
Pros
  • It allows trend analysis, real time analysis and predictive analysis, which helps us to know the market and making good decisions.
  • It also allows you to view all data in real time and benchmark results.
  • It has mobile access, which allows us to monitor the data collected at any time and place. And it has the drag and drop tool that few similar software have and is very useful.
Cons
  • Data extraction can be a bit slow, I don't know if it is due to my computer or a system problem.
  • The integration with google Analytics, was quite cumbersome, so much so that we required help from technical support.
  • If they could have the cloud based version of the program, that would be great, so my computer wouldn't carry so much weight.
Likelihood to Recommend
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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