Flexible and useful tool that meets many visualization/analytic needs
May 16, 2016
Flexible and useful tool that meets many visualization/analytic needs
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Yellowfin
Yellowfin 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.