August 17, 2016
Reporting that keeps me informed for critical decision making.
Data Integration
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TrustRadius
Yellowfin is a cloud-based business intelligence and dashboarding platform.https://media.trustradius.com/product-logos/Cc/4A/0LSDWQRZM9UU.jpegYellowfinReporting that keeps me informed for critical decision making.2016-08-17T19:50:51.224ZThe Yellowfin BI solution was our preferred choice in our journey to source an ideal BI partner for our RUBIQ GRC (Governance, Risk & Compliance) solution. Yellowfin checked all the boxes for us in terms of flexibility and adaptability to our environment and requirements, in embedding capability and white labelling of the product to provide us with a seamless BI platform supporting our GRC suite of the RUBiQ modules for our end clients. Furthermore RUBiQ is a cloud GRC solution offering and Yellowfin adapted to meet our multi-tenant requirements within our cloud environment. Living as we do in an age of information, enabling access to validated and verified information for critical decision making is an absolute must in any decision maker’s tool kit. The problem is that often information is disbursed and siloed within most organisations, leaving a lot of gut feel and guess work to do on the part of the decision maker. On top of this, a great deal of information in organisations today, still ends up being manually compiled and distributed in Word documents and Excel spreadsheets, this can allow for personal opinions and alteration of information for the "innocent purpose of showing the good and softening the bad" when reporting to executives. Unfortunately decision makers need all the key critical information, as real time as possible, to formulate an accurate picture to take key actions to circumvent and prevent crisis related situations. The integration of Yellowfin with our RUBiQ GRC solution allows us to ensure that this does not occur and key decision makers get timely accurate, real time data to confidently make the right decisions to ensure ongoing business continuity, viability and sustainability and growth within their organisations.,Presentation of information for executive reporting.
Collaboration and action task assignment on pinpointed issues highlighted in reports and dashboards.
End client easy self - service reporting.,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.,10,,8,8Nicky DowningThe Yellowfin Pintl Strategy2016-08-15T19:03:13.794ZAs a business solutions company Virtualscape decided to standardise on Yellowfin as our reporting and dashboard solution. We embedded the product inside our own operations management software called Pintl which we sell to our clients in the African market. Our software is designed to assist clients to manage their business processes during the operational cycles with the aim of understanding operational needs and Yellowfin is used to report on as well a track KPA and KPI values for such processes. Pintl assists clients too achieve data input accuracy, improved efficiency with turn-around-times on back-end processes and well as simplifying execution of real world activities. Yellowfin is used to showcase performance and areas for improvement.,The Yellowfin user interface fits seamlessly into our own web software as it too is designed in the latest web technologies making it easy to use and easily accessible to our client base.
The Yellowfin user interface is intuitive and easy to use, elevating VSV clients from needing in-depth training on the product before true value can be realised.
The Yellowfin architecture supports the Pintl architecture 100% due to a similar design strategy and as such no real overhead is added to the Pintl system for the addition of the Yellowfin product nor does it add any additional IT overhead to be used.
The Yellowfin product is quick and simple to develop reports and dashboards in cutting turn-around-time at the VSV development team and when new/custom reports are required by VSV clients.,Initially the Yellowfin business model was difficult to align to the VSV model but through some simple negotiations a workable model was reach which made in commercial application viable
Some additional licensing models could also be of value as we do not use the product in a pure business intelligence only application.,10,QlikView,10,10Johan PietersenYellowfin as easy BI & Analytical tool for all kind of users of an organisation2016-03-03T19:53:47.716ZWe 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.,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,Predictive analytics features within Yellowfin tool.,9,Tableau Server, QlikView and Looker,Tableau Server, QlikView, Jaspersoft,10,10,15,3,Predictive analysis
Large volume of data processing and Report & Data Sharing
Self Service BI
Mobile BI implementation
Management reporting using Storyboards with collaboration & timeline,Order Forecasting: 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, Neural Network, and Time-Series Modeling using Yellowfin as data visualization and R for predictive analysis... Calling R functions within Yellowfin to achieve this.
Specialized Workforce Hiring Dashboard and KPI: A framework for candidate sourcing, selection, hiring, on-boarding and retention. The outcome of the framework is the availability dashboard and its associate reports to improve productivity, reduce risk and lower cost. The dashboard covers requisitions status, candidate timelines & hires.
Risk Population Analysis: Modeling the risk population, length of stay and predicting the risk of over stay (cost, doctors allocation, optimizing the bed-admission) for specific medical conditions using a decision tree or SVM models using Yellowfin & R integration.,Integration of Yellowfin with R
Integration of Yellowfin with UDF (user defined functions)
Unique Chart ; Data Visualization creation using DashXML and Web Services integration
API connectors with many CRM, ERP, Open Source platforms, Web-based applications etc.
ISV integrations with many pre-build models,Yes,Price
Product Features
Product Usability
Product Reputation
Prior Experience with the Product
Vendor Reputation
Existing Relationship with the Vendor
Positive Sales Experience with the Vendor
Analyst Reports
Third-party Reviews,My evaluation would be on:
Large number of concurrent users testing1000 report distribution per minute using multicast Connecting to Hadoop, Spark, UDF and a large number of connectors to open data platform, CRM, ERP applications,Implemented in-house,Yes,Change management was a small part of the implementation and was well-handled,Web Services for custom development,10,Online training
In-person training
Self-taught,10,9,Yes - easy to learn with help of Wiki , Training Website and Sufficient documents and online company sponsored training available for users..
Very user flexible and online help .,9,NA,No - we have not done any customization to the interface,Yes - we have added extensive custom code,NA,No,9,To support a specific client request for a large E-commerce company in India. The client requirement was to support 500 concurrent users in clustering mode with unlimited named users to access the reports. Starting from setup/configuration to testing, the concurrent users were supported by the support team.,Installation, configuration and IT administration
Developing dashboards, reports and views
Report distribution, broadcasting and sharing
Mobile BI development,Integration with open source platforms - but these are on the way on 7.2 release on March 2016,Yes,9,9,10,9,Integration with R for predictive analytics
Integration with UDF ( User defined functions)
Integration with Spark processing for large data volume processing
Integration with any social media
Integration with many other connectors like SRC, ERP, HR , Marketing type of applications,Zoho CRM
Sugar CRM
Salesforce
XE
Workday
SAP,File import/export
Single Signon
API (e.g. SOAP or REST)
Javascript widgets
ETL tools
AppExchange or similar marketplace,10,Extend a minimum of 10 open data platforms and free softwares,10,10,- POC development
- Con-current user connection license model
- Trial period,- Choose the con-current user testing during POC period
- Process large volume of datasets,Yes,Large number of connectors
Design and Architecture of Reporting env
Analytical functions additions
More organised dashboards
Improvement of server performance,Predictive analytics features within Yellowfin
NLP & Mining functionality
Integration with SAS, rapidminer, R within yellowfin,No,NoSamir Kumar SahooFlexible and useful tool that meets many visualization/analytic needs2016-05-16T15:06:38.604ZYellowfin came as a package within our audit analytics suite (ACL), which was being used as a post-analytics visualization tool. It was used exclusively by our audit team with 5 developers and ~15 business users. The tool was great for the time we used it, however ACL went away from using Yellowfin and decided to do most of the visualization with their in-house tool. Overall, the Yellowfin tool didn't catch-on the way it had intended and was somewhat limited because of the learning curve for SQL and developing.,Yellowfin has great visualizations and has been designed well for the business user to be able to simply navigate without issue.
The tool is very flexible to use allowing multiple data sources to connect.
They have done a good job in researching the market to understand and position their tool for a great core audience -- the tool was great for us at the time.,The tool was somewhat clunky to use at times (specifically the mapping functionality).
Could use some tips from Tableau to understand the "Apple" like design and simplicity of developing.
Should have worked closer with the supporting vendor as the tool did not feel seamless in how it operated with ACL and their data/analytics tools at the time.
Yellowfin was a tool that completed the task we initially asked it to do, however upon further research, we rated other tools to be more capable and user friendly. With a little improvement Yellowfin could continue rising into a great analytics tool.,5,Tableau,Tableau Server, Microsoft SQL Server, SAP Business Objects, SAP Business Warehouse,6,6Phil SerfatyYellowfin and healthcare data2016-08-02T21:46:33.401ZOur company produces IT applications that are sold to health and social care organisations across the UK. Yellowfin is used as a BI user tool in conjunction with multiple Business Intelligence products. It provides very simple, easy to use and effective business intelligence tool with the aim of providing additional understanding on large scale healthcare data.,Ease of use
Simple highly visual dashboards and reports
Web based, so zero footprint
Cost effective,Needs better meters / gauges,10,QlikView, Tableau Server and Panorama Necto,Microsoft SQL Server,9,9Verified UserSelf Service BI in Higher Education with Yellowfin BI: Easy to use, develop and administrate2016-07-05T15:27:54.337ZYellowfin 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.,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,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,10,Tableau Server, Pentaho and TARGIT,PostgreSQL,10,10Verified User
Windows, Linux, Mac
Yellowfin
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