Item: Yellowfin
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our 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.

Pros and Cons

Ease of use
Simple highly visual dashboards and reports
Web based, so zero footprint
Cost effective

Needs better meters / gauges

Alternatives Considered

QlikView, Tableau Server and Panorama Necto

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).

Other Software Used

Microsoft SQL Server

Likelihood to Recommend

Yellowfin works very well layered over an existing data warehouse and used to visualise data. We already had an extensive data warehouse solution which has grown over many years. It provides a cutting edge user interface to enable very easy access and use of the data. The view based metadata layer in particular is a big strength. Yellowfin only has CSV data imports so do not expect it to solve any traditional ETL issues.

Yellowfin and healthcare data

Overall Satisfaction with Yellowfin

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros and Cons

Alternatives Considered

Other Software Used

Likelihood to Recommend

Yellowfin Feature Ratings