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Yellowfin

Score8 out of 10

34 Reviews and Ratings

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What is Yellowfin?

Yellowfin is a cloud-based business intelligence and dashboarding platform.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Yellowfin has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 34 ratings of Yellowfin's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Formatting capabilities

    Ability to format output e.g. conditional formatting, lines, headers, footers.

    Category average: 8.1

  • Drill-down analysis

    Drill down analysis is the ability to get to a further level of detail by going deeper into the hierarchy.

    Category average: 8.4

  • Report sharing and collaboration

    Report sharing and collaboration is the ability to easily share reports with others.

    Category average: 8.5

Areas for Improvement

  • Report Delivery Scheduling

    Report Delivery Schedule is the ability to have reports delivered to a destination at a specific data and time.

    Category average: 8.4

  • Delivery to Remote Servers

    Ability to deliver reports to remote servers

    Category average: 8.2

  • Javascript API

    A Javascript API is a type of API

    Category average: 8.3

Reviews

What users are saying about Yellowfin.
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Turn raw data into Actionable Insights

Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (501-1000 employees employees)

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

Return on Investment

  • 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

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Alteryx Platform, Microsoft BI (MSBI) and Tableau Desktop

Yellowfin Evaluation

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

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

Return on Investment

  • Increase 50% efficiency in analysis
  • 5x faster BI solutions
  • Easy to use iframe in out application

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Tableau Desktop and Microsoft Power BI

Other Software Used

Microsoft Power BI

Embeddable and easy to use

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

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

Return on Investment

  • Allowed us to monetize our data environment
  • Improved data access and self service usage
  • Contributor to data pipeline and business improvement

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Tableau Desktop and Microsoft Power BI

Other Software Used

Acumatica, Azure Data Factory, Exasol

Yellowfin is the best platform to manage and analyze our data

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

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.

Return on Investment

  • This software has been of great help to our work team, because it clearly shows the graphs and data of the company and trends, which allows us to make strategies according to the data collected, for the benefit of the company and its sales. It is a software that was not difficult to use and in a short time we were at its full potential.

Usability

Not particularly good at anything

Incentivized
Joe Sae
TA in Corporate at UWM (501-1000 employees employees)

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

Return on Investment

  • Didn't really impact us in anyway
  • Found that the program is very meh

Alternatives Considered

Powerslide, Google Slides and Miro

Other Software Used

Powerslide, Google Slides, Miro

Usability

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