How does Yellowfin BI & Analytics score on different parts?
In our study we looked in detail at the different products of Yellowfin software. We evaluated Yellowfin BI & Analytics on no less than 710 criteria. The figure below shows the scores (on a scale of 1-5) of Yellowfin Business Analytics, compared to key competitors. Please note that Passionned Group is 100% independent of the software vendors in our research. We are not a reseller, we do not make deals or have done business with the supplier. Among other things, we help and advise companies in the proper selection of BI tooling.
Figure 1: Strength-weakness analysis of the supplier Yellowfin BI & Analytics. A maximum of 100% can be obtained. Source: the BI & Analytics Guide 2023. Do you need more clarification about the design of our research? Click here to download this guide.
The Yellowfin analysis was conducted by tapping into a lot of public big data and from there it was scrutinized in detail. More than 5,008 documents have reviewed from Yellowfin in recent years. In this analysis both algorithms as a senior expert make their mark on establishing the final results.
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Yellowfin and their complete BI & Analytics product portfolio
The software company Yellowfin carries (a minimum of) 12 products in the realm of BI & Analytics. Based on relevance we list the products below:
What is Yellowfin Business Analytics?
Other names by which this software product is known: Yellowfin BI, Yellowfin Business Intelligence
We don’t reveal everything here but, in this paragraph, we portrait Yellowfin Business Analytics, including some of its features and any related products. This product group consists of Yellowfin Signals, Yellowfin Suite, Yellowfin Mobile BI, Yellowfin Dashboards, Yellowfin SAML Bridge, Yellowfin Data Discovery, Yellowfin Data Transformation, Yellowfin Data Preparation, Yellowfin Web Server, Yellowfin Data Science and Yellowfin Data Analysis. Yellowfin Business Analytics can be best characterized by the following features:
- business intelligence
- analytics
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What is Yellowfin Signals?
Under this heading, we provide a description of Yellowfin Signals, including some of its features and any related products. The product Yellowfin Signals can be characterized by the following functionalities:
- business intelligence
- analytics
- data discovery > analysis
- business intelligence > dashboards
- business intelligence > reporting
- data discovery > data storytelling
- BI infrastructure > Application Programming Interface
- data connectivity > Google Analytics
- BI infrastructure > embedded analytics
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What is Yellowfin Suite?
In this paragraph, we report the (main) characteristics of Yellowfin Suite, including some of its features and any related products. The product Yellowfin Suite can be defined by the following functionalities:
- business intelligence
- analytics
- business intelligence > dashboards
- business intelligence > reporting
- data discovery > analysis
- BI infrastructure > embedded analytics
- data discovery > data storytelling
- data discovery
- analytics > analytics platform
- data governance > data management > data preparation
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What is Yellowfin Mobile BI?
Other names by which this software product is known: Yellowfin Mobile App
We don’t reveal everything here but, in this paragraph, we give you insight in the key behaviors of Yellowfin Mobile BI, including some of its features and any related products. Yellowfin Mobile BI can be best characterized by the following features:
- business intelligence
- mobile business intelligence
- business intelligence > reporting
- data discovery > analysis
- mobile business intelligence > Android
- analytics
- BI infrastructure > operating systems > iOS
- data discovery > notifications
- business intelligence > dashboards
- data connectivity > native
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What is Yellowfin Dashboards?
We do not display here all the features but, in this paragraph, we provide a description of Yellowfin Dashboards, including some of its features and any related products. This product / group of products can be best defined by the following functionalities:
- business intelligence > dashboards
- business intelligence > reporting
- business intelligence
- analytics
- data discovery > analysis
- data discovery
- BI infrastructure > embedded analytics
- decision management > performance management > KPI
- artificial intelligence > natural language processing > natural language
- data discovery > data visualization
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What is Yellowfin SAML Bridge?
In this paragraph, we display the details of Yellowfin SAML Bridge, including some of its features and any related products. The product Yellowfin SAML Bridge can be best characterized by the following features:
- BI infrastructure > authentication > Security Assertion Markup Language
- BI infrastructure > operating systems > java
- BI infrastructure > authentication > LDAP
- BI infrastructure > authentication > Single Sign-On
- business intelligence > reporting
- BI infrastructure > authentication > active directory
- BI infrastructure > authentication > OKTA
- BI infrastructure > repository
- BI infrastructure > authentication
- data governance > data management > SQL
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What is Yellowfin Data Discovery?
In this part, we describe Yellowfin Data Discovery, including some of its features and any related products. This product can be best defined by the following functionalities:
- business intelligence > reporting
- data discovery
- business intelligence > dashboards
- data governance > data management > SQL
- data discovery > analysis
- data discovery > data visualization > sparklines
- business intelligence
- data discovery > time series
- business intelligence > reporting > conditional formatting
- business intelligence > reporting > freeform SQL
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What is Yellowfin Data Transformation?
In this section, we describe Yellowfin Data Transformation, including some of its features and any related products. This product / group of products can be defined by the following features:
- data governance > data management > data transformations
- business intelligence > reporting
- business intelligence > dashboards
- data governance > data management > SQL
- BI
- business intelligence > reports
- business intelligence
- decision management > performance management > KPI
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What is Yellowfin Data Preparation?
In this section, we portrait Yellowfin Data Preparation, including some of its features and any related products. This product / group of products can be characterized by the following features:
- data governance > data management > data preparation
- analytics
- BI
- data discovery > analysis
- business intelligence
- artificial intelligence > data science
- analytics > advanced analytics
- business intelligence > report
- data integration
- business intelligence > reports
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What is Yellowfin Web Server?
Under this heading, we provide a description of Yellowfin Web Server, including some of its features and any related products. This product / group of products can be best defined by the following features:
- business intelligence > reporting
- BI infrastructure > web server
- BI infrastructure > authentication > Security Assertion Markup Language
- business intelligence
- BI infrastructure > operating systems > java
- BI infrastructure > operating systems
- BI infrastructure > web server > IIS
- data integration > data warehouse
- BI infrastructure > operating systems > Linux
- data connectivity > XML
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What is Yellowfin Data Science?
In this paragraph, we describe Yellowfin Data Science, including some of its features and any related products. This product / group of products can be best characterized by the following features:
- artificial intelligence > data science
- artificial intelligence > R
- business intelligence > reporting
- artificial intelligence
- data governance > data management > data transformations
- analytics > advanced analytics > PMML
- data discovery > analysis
- business intelligence
- analytics > advanced analytics
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What is Yellowfin Data Analysis?
In this section, we give you insight in the key behaviors of Yellowfin Data Analysis, including some of its features and any related products. The product Yellowfin Data Analysis can be best defined by the following properties:
- business intelligence
- data discovery > analysis
- analytics
- business intelligence > dashboards
- data discovery > data storytelling
- data discovery
- business intelligence > reporting
- analytics > analytics platform
- data discovery > data visualization
- BI infrastructure > embedded analytics
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Recent innovations of Yellowfin Business Analytics-tools and the version history
Over time, Yellowfin has seen a positive evolution in terms of BI & Analytics functionality and support for operating systems, cloud platforms and connectivity. The latest innovations are in the areas of artificial intelligence > R > R integration, data discovery > data visualization > radar charts and > combo chart.
We reviewed Yellowfin’s most current versions of the total product range. Below you can see the structure of the history of the different versions of the various BI & Analytics products of Yellowfin:
- Yellowfin BI: 7.3 6.0
- Yellowfin Business Analytics: 54 9.8.1.1 9.8.1 9.7 9.1 8.0.1 8.0 7.2 6.2
Behind each product are the version numbers, the most recent versions are mentioned first.
What are the licensing costs of Yellowfin Signals, Yellowfin Suite and Yellowfin Mobile BI?
In many cases, it can be difficult to determine the licensing costs of Yellowfin BI & Analytics because it depends on the country, the number of users (and/or the number of cores if you want to run it on a server), the connectors to data sources, and at what point in the year you request a quote. If you do this a few weeks before the end of Yellowfin’s fiscal quarter, you may be in for a decent discount. In addition, nowadays it is recommended running the software in the cloud, you only pay for the actual use. The purchase cost of Yellowfin Signals, Yellowfin Suite and Yellowfin Mobile BI may not be the largest cost item, but maintenance and support do show up in your budget every year.
What makes Yellowfin BI & Analytics innovative
In our study, we see that Yellowfin in the field of BI & Analytics software has a number of specific features and thus differentiates itself from the competition. This makes Yellowfin Business Analytics more or less unique: white-label analytics, natural language search, set analysis, self-service data discovery and mobile business intelligence.
The advantages and disadvantages of Yellowfin Business Analytics
Figure 29: Tag cloud of the developed and less developed aspects of Yellowfin BI & Analytics
Below we listed all the advantages and disadvantages of Yellowfin BI & Analytics, Yellowfin Signals, Yellowfin Suite and Yellowfin Mobile BI, et cetera. There is momentum, because: Yellowfin may be working with partners to building on features that meet specific customer needs at this time (such as support for Python, SDK, web services, Impala, data management, streaming, Esri, IBM Db2, tiles and OData). Or a certain feature is not (yet) (well) documented.
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1. Yellowfin Business Intelligence
The company has a good rating in our study on the section ‘Business Intelligence’, given that they score 57% on this, compared to other vendors. We used the following selection criteria: reporting, dashboards, business intelligence platform and business process monitoring. In doing so, we assessed the following five products: Yellowfin Suite, Yellowfin Data Analysis, Yellowfin Dashboards, Yellowfin Business Analytics and Yellowfin Data Discovery. In total, we examined 73 features within this discipline. Would you like to delve further into the topic ‘Business Intelligence’? Then download here our BI & Analytics Guide.
2. Yellowfin Self-service BI
The company has a good performance in our current BI & Analytics survey of the theme ‘Self-service BI’. The company scores 56% on this topic, compared to other vendors. The following criteria were used: self-service data preparation, self-service reporting, self-service analysis, self-service data analytics, self-service data visualization, self-service data exploration and self-service analytics platform. In total, we examined 14 selection criteria within this main theme. Would you like to become more proficient in the topic ‘Self-service BI’? Then download here our BI & Analytics Study 2023.
3. Yellowfin Mobile Business Intelligence
Yellowfin has a good score in our independent BI & Analytics survey on the subject ‘Mobile Business Intelligence’. The score amounts to 55%, relative to other vendors. We considered the following factors: Android, iPhone, push notification, mobile analytics and mobile push notifications. In doing so, we assessed the following products: Yellowfin Mobile BI. In total, we examined 10 aspects in this category. Would you like to go into more depth with the topic ‘Mobile Business Intelligence’? Then download here our BI & Analytics Study.
4. Yellowfin BI Infrastructure
The company has a moderate rating in our 100% vendor-independent BI & Analytics survey on the section ‘BI Infrastructure’, given that they score 36% on this, relative to other vendors. The following criteria were used: embedded analytics and scalability. In total, we examined 162 features within this discipline. Are you planning to specialize further in the topic ‘BI Infrastructure’? Then download here our BI & Analytics Guide 2023.
5. Yellowfin Data Discovery
The company has a moderate score in our current BI & Analytics survey on the section ‘Data Discovery’. The score amounts to 34%, relative to other vendors. The following criteria were used: analysis, data visualization and data storytelling. In doing so, we analyzed the following four products: Yellowfin Suite, Yellowfin Dashboards, Yellowfin Data Discovery and Yellowfin Signals. In total, we examined 400 aspects in this category. Would you like to go into more depth with the topic ‘Data Discovery’? Then download here our BI & Analytics Guide 2023.
6. Yellowfin Performance Optimization
The vendor Yellowfin has a moderate score in our objective BI & Analytics survey of the theme ‘Performance Optimization’. The score amounts to 31%, compared to other vendors. We looked at the following criteria, among others: in-memory, caching, parallel processing, data pipelines, quantum computing and cache settings. In total, we examined 29 features within this discipline. Would you like to learn more about the topic ‘Performance Optimization’? Then download here our BI & Analytics Study 2023.
7. Yellowfin Data Governance
Yellowfin has a poor score in our independent BI & Analytics survey of the theme ‘Data Governance’ with a score of 28%, relative to other vendors. We used the following selection criteria: data management, data encryption, data lineage and data acquisition layer. In total, we examined 91 criteria in this category. Would you like to learn more about the topic ‘Data Governance’? Then download here our BI & Analytics Guide 2023.
8. Yellowfin Data Connectivity
The company has a poor score in our independent BI & Analytics survey on the section ‘Data Connectivity’. The company scores 25% on this topic, compared to other vendors. We looked at the following criteria, among others: XML and Salesforce. In total, we examined 91 criteria in this category. Would you like to learn more about the topic ‘Data Connectivity’? Then download here our BI & Analytics Guide 2023.
9. Yellowfin Analytics
Yellowfin has a poor score in our objective BI & Analytics survey on the subject ‘Analytics’ with a score of 25%, compared to other vendors. We looked at the following criteria, among others: analytics platform and cloud analytics. In doing so, we looked at the following five products: Yellowfin Suite, Yellowfin Data Science, Yellowfin Data Analysis, Yellowfin Dashboards and Yellowfin Mobile BI. In total, we examined 130 criteria in this category. Would you like to go into more depth with the topic ‘Analytics’? Then download here our BI & Analytics Guide.
10. Yellowfin Real-time Analytics
Yellowfin has a poor performance in our 100% vendor-independent BI & Analytics survey on the subject ‘Real-time Analytics’ with a score of 25%, compared to other vendors. We looked at the following criteria, among others: real-time and real-time data. In total, we examined 19 features within this discipline. Are you excited about the topic ‘Real-time Analytics’? Then download here our BI & Analytics Guide 2023.
11. Yellowfin Artificial Intelligence
Yellowfin has a poor performance in our study on the subject ‘Artificial Intelligence’ with a score of 22%, compared to other vendors. We looked at the following criteria, among others: machine learning, data science, Python, data mining, natural language processing, linear regression and business rules. In doing so, we analyzed the following products: Yellowfin Data Science. In total, we examined 164 criteria within this section. Would you like to go into more depth with the topic ‘Artificial Intelligence’? Then download here our BI & Analytics Guide 2023.
12. Yellowfin Decision Management
Yellowfin has a poor rating in our 100% vendor-independent BI & Analytics survey on the section ‘Decision Management’ with a score of 19%, compared to other vendors. We considered the following factors: performance management, decision support, decision-making platform, decision optimization, decision intelligence, decision flow and design decisions. In total, we examined 30 features within this discipline. Would you like to learn more about the topic ‘Decision Management’? Then download here our BI & Analytics Guide 2023. Or take a deep dive in the following content:
13. Yellowfin Big Data
Yellowfin has a poor score in our objective BI & Analytics survey on the subject ‘Big Data’, given that they score 18% on this, compared to other vendors. We considered the following factors: big data analytics, complex data and data lakes. In total, we examined 59 criteria in this category. Would you like to go into more depth with the topic ‘Big Data’? Then download here our BI & Analytics Guide.
14. Yellowfin Multidimensional Models
The vendor Yellowfin has a poor score in our 100% vendor-independent BI & Analytics survey of the theme ‘Multidimensional Models’, given that they score 16% on this, relative to other vendors. We considered the following factors: OLAP, ROLAP, MOLAP and tabular data models. In total, we examined 14 features within this discipline. Are you excited about the topic ‘Multidimensional Models’? Then download here our BI & Analytics Study 2023.
15. Yellowfin Data Integration
The vendor Yellowfin has a poor score in our independent BI & Analytics survey of the theme ‘Data Integration’, given that they score 15% on this, compared to other vendors. We looked at the following criteria, among others: data warehousing, data virtualization, data wrangling, cross-database joins and Extract-Transform-Load. In doing so, we analyzed the following products: Yellowfin Data Preparation. In total, we examined 76 criteria within this section. Would you like to learn more about the topic ‘Data Integration’? Then download here our BI & Analytics Guide.
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In which sectors is Yellowfin BI & Analytics most active?
In our recently updated, independent BI & Analytics research on, we also looked at which industries a supplier is doing business. These are the industries where Yellowfin has the largest footprint: automotive, banking, hospitality, manufacturing, public sector, universities and utilities.
Yellowfin software is most used by…
The BI & Analytics software from Yellowfin is most often mentioned in combination with the following functions: data analysts, data scientists and marketers.
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Courses and training Yellowfin BI & Analytics
The specialists of Passionned Group organize various courses in the field of BI & Analytics but can also provide specific Yellowfin training, for example as incompany. Then think about the following software: Yellowfin Signals, Yellowfin Suite and Yellowfin Mobile BI. Of course, such training is framed with the ideas of the intelligent, data-driven organization.
Final Verdict: Yellowfin Business Analytics scores reasonably well
Yellowfin has a minimal product portfolio with which it scores reasonably well in our BI & Analytics survey. Yellowfin BI & Analytics innovates (approximately) at an average rate of more than 15 features per year, is active (for now) in many different sectors, and specializing in business intelligence.
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