Via its business intelligence platform, Yellowfin provides 100% web-based embeddable reporting and analytics. With partners across Europe, America and Asia, Yellowfin says it prides itself as being best of breed in embeddable BI. The vendor’s value proposition is that the ease of integration and use allows Yellowfin to add value to all of their partner’s applications by providing data access and visualisation to all users, not just IT personnel. Yellowfin has been designed from the ground up to be embedded into third party applications. Additionally, the vendor says through an SOA, Yellowfin can be tightly integrated into any application delivering ease of use and real-time data analysis, through ad-hoc reporting and real-time dashboards, to business users that need to make rapid decisions.
Yellowfin Features
BI Platform Features
- Administration via Web Interface
- Live Connection to External Data
- Snapshot of External Data
- In-memory data model
- OLAP (Pre-processed cube representation)
- ROLAP (SQL-layer querying)
- Multi-Data Source Reporting (Blending)
- Data warehouse / dictionary layer
Supported Data Sources Features
Data sources that can be consumed by the application.
- Text Files (CSV, etc)
- Oracle
- MS SQL Server
- IBM DB2
- Postgres
- MySQL
- ODBC
- Cloudera Hadoop
- Hortonworks Hadoop
- EMC Greenplum
- IBM Netezza
- HP Vertica
- ParAccel
- SAP Hana
- Teradata
- Sage 500
- Salesforce
- SAP
- Google Analytics
BI Standard Reporting Features
Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.
- Customizable dashboards
- Report Formatting Templates
Ad-hoc Reporting Features
Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.
- Drill-down analysis
- Formatting capabilities
- Predictive modeling
- Integration with R or other statistical packages
- Report sharing and collaboration
Report Output and Scheduling Features
Ability to schedule and manager report output.
- Publish to Web
- Publish to PDF
- Output Raw Supporting Data
- Report Versioning
- Report Delivery Scheduling
Data Discovery and Visualization Features
Data Discovery and Visualization is the analysis of multiple data sources in a search for pattern and outliers and the ability to represent the data visually.
- Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
- Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
- Predictive Analytics
- Integration with R or other statistical packages
Access Control and Security Features
Access control means being able to determine who has access to which data.
- Multi-User Support (named login)
- Role-Based Security Model
- Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
- Report-Level Access Control
- Table-Level Access Control (BI-layer)
- Field-Level Access Control (BI-layer)
Mobile Capabilities Features
Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.
- Dedicated iOS Application
- Dedicated Android Application
- Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile