Introducing Yellowfin Business Intelligence
The focus of my company up to now has been consulting with Cognos Business Intelligence software. However, I am looking to expand my entrepreneurial horizons, and to that end, I am currently working on a partnership with Yellowfin, an upstart BI software developer based in Melbourne, Australia. Their flagship product, Yellowfin BI, emphasizes usability and making business intelligence easy: easy to configure, easy to administer and most of all, easy to use. (More about their design philosophy can be read here.) I believe that the time has come for this type of product in the BI market for the following reasons:
- Compared to most enterprise software packages, the UI is sublime.
- 100% web based, with a zero footprint web browser client.
- It is built on open source technology with open standards.
- No hand coding of SQL is required.
- A rapid deployment is not only possible, but it can be expected.
In short, Yellowfin is simple, secure and scalable. All of this adds up to a faster path to business value.
Yellowfin is simple, secure and scalable.
What I see is the greatest advantage of Yellowfin is the shift from the traditional BI project thinking. Traditionally, this entails an attempt to build an all encompassing data warehouse, followed by countless hours of meta-data and report development. The pitfalls are plenty in this approach. Yellowfin BI is not a panacea, but the software lends itself to a more agile approach to BI development. While it is robust enough for an enterprise deployment, it is ideal for the SMB or an isolated division of a larger organization that is not well served by the central IT department.
Yellowfin has been successful in the Asia-Pacific region but the company is only beginning to make a splash (pun intended) in North America. It has been selling well as a front end for Sybase IQ, and Yellowfin is currently expanding the partnership with Sybase globally. Historically, the Sybase BI partner of choice has been Microstrategy, but I expect that it is only a matter of time before Yellowfin gains the upper hand here.
If you interested in learning more about Yellowfin, please contact me, especially if you are in Canada and you are searching for a simple, secure and scalable BI solution.
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