GoodData vs. Yellowfin

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
GoodData
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
GoodData is an analytics platform used by organizations to deliver real-time, governed insights, embedded into products, customized for users, and integrated into any data environment. At the heart of GoodData is a universal semantic layer: a shared, code-defined model that maps raw data into consistent business concepts, metrics, and logic. Metrics are authored once and reused across every dashboard, app, or API, to ensure accuracy, governance, and trust wherever analytics are…N/A
Yellowfin
Score 8.0 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Yellowfin is a cloud-based business intelligence and dashboarding platform.N/A
Pricing
GoodDataYellowfin
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
GoodDataYellowfin
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
GoodDataYellowfin
Features
GoodDataYellowfin
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
7.9
Ratings
12% above category average
Yellowfin
6.1
Ratings
29% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports7.90 Ratings5.80 Ratings
Customizable dashboards8.70 Ratings6.20 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates7.00 Ratings6.40 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
7.7
Ratings
0% below category average
Yellowfin
6.6
Ratings
20% below category average
Drill-down analysis7.40 Ratings6.60 Ratings
Formatting capabilities7.00 Ratings7.10 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration7.30 Ratings6.50 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings6.30 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
7.2
Ratings
4% below category average
Yellowfin
5.8
Ratings
32% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.10 Ratings5.90 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization6.90 Ratings5.70 Ratings
Predictive Analytics6.60 Ratings5.80 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining7.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
8.0
Ratings
6% above category average
Yellowfin
6.2
Ratings
31% below category average
Multi-User Support (named login)8.30 Ratings6.30 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model7.90 Ratings6.50 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.00 Ratings6.30 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)7.70 Ratings5.90 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
8.1
Ratings
8% above category average
Yellowfin
6.1
Ratings
24% below category average
REST API8.30 Ratings6.10 Ratings
Javascript API8.00 Ratings5.40 Ratings
iFrames8.00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Java API00 Ratings6.30 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings6.50 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings6.50 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
-
Ratings
Yellowfin
5.9
Ratings
34% below category average
Publish to Web00 Ratings6.30 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings6.20 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings5.80 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings5.60 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings5.50 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
-
Ratings
Yellowfin
6.7
Ratings
16% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings6.20 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings6.30 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings6.20 Ratings
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User Ratings
GoodDataYellowfin
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
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6.2
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Likelihood to Renew
9.1
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Usability
7.9
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6.3
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Availability
7.0
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9.1
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Performance
8.0
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8.2
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Support Rating
8.7
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5.6
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In-Person Training
9.0
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9.1
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Online Training
8.0
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8.2
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Implementation Rating
9.0
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9.1
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Configurability
-
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8.2
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Ease of integration
7.2
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9.1
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Product Scalability
-
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8.2
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Vendor post-sale
-
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9.1
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Vendor pre-sale
-
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9.1
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User Testimonials
GoodDataYellowfin
Likelihood to Recommend
If you have consistently formatted data, that you want regular reports on, plus flexibility to let end users build their own reports, GoodData is perfect. Especially if your end users are less technical. If you want to be able to embed your reporting into your app, GoodData excels, though the start up process can be involved. If your data structure varies, it could be more challenging to integrate. It may also not be worth the integration if you have people who can already run their own SQL queries.
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We can recommend this software without hesitation, as it has the ability to generate reports and data analysis, as well as process the data automatically, which saves time. It is ideal for small and medium-sized companies that wish to improve their services in the business world
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Pros
  • GoodData helps in simplifying complex data into easy-to-understand visuals. We can create personalized dashboards & tailor them as per requirements. This data can be used from an executive level employee to a team lead employee in the business
  • GoodData is a very user friendly platform. The collaborative features simplify sharing and discussing reports among team members which promotes a culture of data-driven decision-making.
  • GoodData connects with various data sources and consolidate information from multiple platforms. This flexibility proves invaluable for businesses dealing with data spread across different systems as they can access large amount of data on a single platform.
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  • 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.
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Cons
  • would be nice to be able to add the same filter to a multi-tab dashboard once instead of having to do it for each tab; tedious and time consuming
  • Variable use is kind of clunky and would like to be able to hide/show easier
  • The newer insight based dashboard method does not have the flexibility classic does
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  • 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.
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Likelihood to Renew
Each client I have worked with and spoken too has renewed their GoodData subscription. I know of not one to date that has cancelled. The GoodData platform has a very high rate of renewal from the discussions I have had with their internal teams as well
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Usability
GoodData provided us with strong overall usability and provided us a platform for various business analytics. Its user-friendly and insightful reports and also the dashboards. Me and my team really appreciate the platform's ability to streamline decision-making processes. However, there is a learning curve during initial setup as I mentioned before. Continuous improvements in the onboarding could further enhance GoodData's usability as well.
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Yellowfin has large promises that did not meet our expectations after we got it installed. We tried to configure it but things did not go as planned. After 1 year of trying - we still cannot get it working. Be very careful when signing up with them - everything is not what it seems.
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Reliability and Availability
We are approximately one month since go-live. There has been one short outage.
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99.9% availability
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Performance
Performance on refreshing metrics works well.
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Support Rating
The fast and comprehensive responses we got from GoodData regarding the doubts we had experienced while starting to use the products and metrics were of great help in ensuring the metrics we were obtaining were accurate to what we wanted to know about our customers' experience and our product areas of opportunity.
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Anytime I needed a report, I ran into issues with this software. We used Yellowfin for a period of months, having switched from Salesforce. I found the reports were difficult to produce, and the data management was okay at best.
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In-Person Training
Petr was a rock star - patient, knowledgeable, clear and easy to work with.
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Yellowfin provides 3 levels of training to support consumers, business analytics, developers and Administrations :
  1. Yellowfin BI Training - Level 1 (Exploration)
  2. Yellowfin BI Training - Level 2 (Advanced)
  3. Yellowfin BI Training - Level 3(Expert)
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Online Training
GoodData implementation team was professional and courteous
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Web-based training for large audiences for Level 1 and Level 2 I would suggest
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Implementation Rating
Thorough, professional and on time.
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Design the data model and views for each dashboard is very important and it is the success factor Configuration of cluster for large implementation
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Alternatives Considered
GoodData comparing to other platform is very easy to use, customer support and on-boarding support. Set of features, speed of integration in our platform. Also great benefit for us was very competetive pricing.
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Yellowfin is no doubt, a stronger, more eloquent and polished tool compared to Microsoft's Power BI. The issue with our company specifically is that we are a big Microsoft shop, and pay for Power BI more or less in our bundle esp w/ O365. While the Yellowfin tool is a more sleek tool, the cost to our company is something that we have to weight against a negligible cost with Power BI.
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Scalability
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- Tested 500 con-current users in Linux platform with 4 cores systems - Tested with cloud based VM - Tested with 1000 reads per minutes
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Return on Investment
  • I personally pushed our management to get GoodData implemented, and there on we have been making much more profits than we ever did!
  • Last month we made a decision using the platform and withing a short span of time our ROI gets 7X.
  • We also made a marketing spend of $100,000 every quater using the insights and metrics, and we are really happy with the returs.
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  • made our org more data centric
  • Decisions are made based on data vs opinion
  • has created a single source of truth for the bulk of the organization
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