Yellowfin Reviews & Insights

Score8 out of 10

34 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Yellowfin are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Useful Storyboard, Timeline, and Collaborative tools: Users have found Yellowfin's Storyboard, Timeline, and Collaborative tools to be valuable in sharing data and insights across the organization. Several reviewers have mentioned that these features allow for effective communication and collaboration among team members.

Strong Operational and Executive Dashboards: The strong Operational and Executive Dashboards provided by Yellowfin have been appreciated by users. These dashboards reflect the business KPIs and can send out prompts based on rules. Many users have praised these dashboards for their ability to provide real-time insights into key metrics.

Dynamic reports and dashboards with locational intelligence functionality: Yellowfin's ability to create dynamic reports and dashboards with locational intelligence functionality has garnered positive feedback from users. This feature allows users to visualize data spatially, enabling them to gain deeper insights into geographic trends and patterns within their data.

Reviews

15 Reviews

Turn raw data into Actionable Insights

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

June 4, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

For Standard sales reporting that used to take up to two or three months to produce. When we adopted Yellowfin, we created the same reports in minutes. Yellowfin dashboards focused on revenue by segments and product clients help us make decisions around where to deploy our sales force

Pros

row-level security, meaning teams only see data they have permission to view.
user friendly interface which makes it easy for us to navigate and explore data effortlessly.
Dashboard making is effortless and allows you to view all data in real-time. It also allows multiple data sources to connect

Cons

Some reports are difficult to produce, it lags and hangs sometimes. Otherwise all features are good in this tool.
Integration with third-party tools is missing
The support team response is not proactive

Likelihood to Recommend

well suited for Visual stories through analytics and creating actionable insights.
not so wee suited when you have to work with large data sets. the tool hangs and freezes in such scenarios

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Embeddable and easy to use

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

April 9, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Yellowfin as our primary data visualisation solution, which is embedded into multiple internal and client facing systems to present data in a clean, simple and readable format.

Pros

Embeddability
Multiple data sources
Visualisation

Cons

Auto generated visuals could be improved
Exporting visuals could be improved
More interactive visuals would be nice to have

Likelihood to Recommend

It works very well as an all around visualisation tool at an very affordable price. Often under appreciated, it holds its own in the market in comparison to the more well know platforms, but really shines when used as an embedded solution within custom built applications.

Dominic Albrecht

Head of Analytics in Information Technology at Digital Planet (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

12 years of experience

Yellowfin Evaluation

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

April 4, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Yellowfin to display our analysis to customers. BI and analysis sides are very strong in Yellowfin. It's also user friendly so you can let your customer do flexible reports as they wish. AI guided NLQ and email broadcasting options adresses our business problems the most. Our scope is to set and display both BI and analysis merged and working as an automated system.

Pros

NLQ
Signals
ETL
View Structure
Data Type Conversions

Cons

User-friendlier chart edit interfaces
Scheduled ETL connection stability
Improved dashboard settings

Likelihood to Recommend

Yellowfin is well suited for scenarios where stong analysis plays a role. Scenarios like presenting or showing off dashboards to your customers, they might not got impressed.

Ekin Yildirim

Jr. Data Analyst in Information Technology at Signumtte (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Yellowfin would not deliver on their promise during the sales meetings.

Rating: 1 out of 10

April 21, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used Yellowfin to try to display device health and use data. We have multiple projects with differing analytics needs and we tried to apply the Yellowfin model to them.

Pros

Self Hosted Site
Login
Support Calls

Cons

Data looks really bad
It takes too many steps to get the data to show
Company does not help with startups that cannot find value with the tool.

Likelihood to Recommend

We signed a 3-year contract based on the great demos they provided presales. We also bought a 1-year onboarding service to help us get the data showing correctly. We spent 1 year trying to get the data to show correctly and decided after 1 year that it was not the right tool for us. We reached out to the team to see if they can adjust the contract since the tool did not meet our expectations after 1 year of trying. They would not budge from the contract. If you are thinking of buying into Yellowfin - BE VERY CAREFUL and make sure you vet out the solution before purchase - what they promise is not what gets delivered.

Verified User

Account Manager in Information Technology (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Yellowfin is the best platform to manage and analyze our data

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

April 11, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Yellowfin to perform our calculations and data in a more organized way in a modern and easy to use software for everyone. This tool is helping us to make better decisions in terms of data and analysis collected.

Pros

It allows trend analysis, real time analysis and predictive analysis, which helps us to know the market and making good decisions.
It also allows you to view all data in real time and benchmark results.
It has mobile access, which allows us to monitor the data collected at any time and place. And it has the drag and drop tool that few similar software have and is very useful.

Cons

Data extraction can be a bit slow, I don't know if it is due to my computer or a system problem.
The integration with google Analytics, was quite cumbersome, so much so that we required help from technical support.
If they could have the cloud based version of the program, that would be great, so my computer wouldn't carry so much weight.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Luis Alcalá

Senior Manager, HR Planning & Talent Management in Human Resources at TruGreen (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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Yellowfin, a not so flexible or as robust tool as other ones.

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

April 5, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used Yellowfin to create reports and panels with maps. Integrated Yellowfin with predictive analytical tools that are ideal for creating rich applications for end-users. Key features used are dashboards, predictive analytics, query, and reporting writing. We are using it to connect multiple data sources in it to help users effectively.

Pros

Characteristics that aid collaborative work, such as a communication function required for discussions between relevant parties based on various reports.
Fine-tune access privileges in a simple and clear manner.
Strong services expertise.

Cons

Program with an option for cloud.
Some issues during loading items and charts.
Some reports are difficult to produce, it lags and hangs sometimes.

Likelihood to Recommend

We use to solve our business analytical dashboarding and reporting needs. Yellowfin's dashboard helps us to share and communicate key performance indicator across our businesses like sales performance procurement analytics or financial results. We are using this to It transforms legacy BI solutions to a modern data and analytics suite.

Verified User

Team Lead in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

A great product to improve your data analysis workflow

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

March 8, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I used Yellowfin to help automate my analytics workflow at my company by making business analytics much easier and faster to process. This product helped me save a lot of time by doing the work that I used to do manually in a much quicker manner, requiring less knowledge as well overall.

Pros

Automating data analytics
Building dashboard
Preparing data for presentation

Cons

user interface
tutorial

Likelihood to Recommend

It is well suited for situations where lots of manual data processing is required since it is able to automate this process and make it a much easier experience for everyone involved in the process. It is not well suited for a complex and specific analysis of business data and information.

Verified User

Consultant in Finance and Accounting (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Great alternative to Power BI, but at a cost.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

March 4, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Yellowfin was one of the many data visualization tools we had demo'd and currently resell to our customers. The use case for this product was to be able to use Yellowfin to identify, quantify & present our data in a manner that was efficient, concise, and easy to digest. Yellowfin is a great software for business intelligence purposes.

Pros

Action based dashboard / home page
Quick, powerful tool to visualize data in an easy to digest format

Cons

Pretty expensive solution relative to Power BI

Likelihood to Recommend

I would say if your company is not a traditional Microsoft shop and does not have the capabilities of Power BI already.. And you can stomach the cost of Yellowfin for a BI tool, then it is a great fit. However.. For our company.. The issue is that we have access to BI and for a much smaller price point, can have most of the festures of Yellowfin.

Verified User

Strategist in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

Reseller

2 years of experience

Not particularly good at anything

Rating: 3 out of 10

Incentivized

March 1, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Primarily as a post analytical visualization tool. Our team is about 8 people which include about 3 business side of users. Typically we give them the information to then get ready for presentation and make look good for the sales pitch.It was great for the most part until they removed the ACL function

Pros

Visual
Very flexible
Great tool to reach general public

Cons

Bring back ACL function
More options for meta data
Needs better gauges

Likelihood to Recommend

Having a lot of trouble finding a good reason to use this program. There is a lot of other programs that do what this program does but better. I think the best scenario to use this is if you wanted to find a not so easy way to present big data

Joe Sae

TA in Corporate at UWM (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Reporting that keeps me informed for critical decision making.

Rating: 10 out of 10

August 17, 2016

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The Yellowfin BI solution was our preferred choice in our journey to source an ideal BI partner for our RUBIQ GRC (Governance, Risk & Compliance) solution. Yellowfin checked all the boxes for us in terms of flexibility and adaptability to our environment and requirements, in embedding capability and white labelling of the product to provide us with a seamless BI platform supporting our GRC suite of the RUBiQ modules for our end clients. Furthermore RUBiQ is a cloud GRC solution offering and Yellowfin adapted to meet our multi-tenant requirements within our cloud environment. Living as we do in an age of information, enabling access to validated and verified information for critical decision making is an absolute must in any decision maker’s tool kit. The problem is that often information is disbursed and siloed within most organisations, leaving a lot of gut feel and guess work to do on the part of the decision maker. On top of this, a great deal of information in organisations today, still ends up being manually compiled and distributed in Word documents and Excel spreadsheets, this can allow for personal opinions and alteration of information for the "innocent purpose of showing the good and softening the bad" when reporting to executives. Unfortunately decision makers need all the key critical information, as real time as possible, to formulate an accurate picture to take key actions to circumvent and prevent crisis related situations. The integration of Yellowfin with our RUBiQ GRC solution allows us to ensure that this does not occur and key decision makers get timely accurate, real time data to confidently make the right decisions to ensure ongoing business continuity, viability and sustainability and growth within their organisations.

Pros

Presentation of information for executive reporting.
Collaboration and action task assignment on pinpointed issues highlighted in reports and dashboards.
End client easy self - service reporting.

Cons

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

Other than those mentioned Yellowfin has worked well for the scope of what we need to report on for our end clients within the Governance, Risk and Compliance environment.

Nicky Downing

CEO in Corporate at Guideline BizTech (Pty) Ltd (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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Reporting that keeps me informed for critical decision making.

Rating: 10 out of 10

August 17, 2016

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

Presentation of information for executive reporting.
Collaboration and action task assignment on pinpointed issues highlighted in reports and dashboards.
End client easy self - service reporting.

Cons

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

Other than those mentioned Yellowfin has worked well for the scope of what we need to report on for our end clients within the Governance, Risk and Compliance environment.

Nicky Downing

CEO in Corporate at Guideline BizTech (Pty) Ltd (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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