Flexible and useful tool that meets many visualization/analytic needs
May 16, 2016

Flexible and useful tool that meets many visualization/analytic needs

Phil Serfaty | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Yellowfin

Yellowfin came as a package within our audit analytics suite (ACL), which was being used as a post-analytics visualization tool. It was used exclusively by our audit team with 5 developers and ~15 business users. The tool was great for the time we used it, however ACL went away from using Yellowfin and decided to do most of the visualization with their in-house tool. Overall, the Yellowfin tool didn't catch-on the way it had intended and was somewhat limited because of the learning curve for SQL and developing.

Pros

  • Yellowfin has great visualizations and has been designed well for the business user to be able to simply navigate without issue.
  • The tool is very flexible to use allowing multiple data sources to connect.
  • They have done a good job in researching the market to understand and position their tool for a great core audience -- the tool was great for us at the time.

Cons

  • The tool was somewhat clunky to use at times (specifically the mapping functionality).
  • Could use some tips from Tableau to understand the "Apple" like design and simplicity of developing.
  • Should have worked closer with the supporting vendor as the tool did not feel seamless in how it operated with ACL and their data/analytics tools at the time.
  • Yellowfin was a tool that completed the task we initially asked it to do, however upon further research, we rated other tools to be more capable and user friendly. With a little improvement Yellowfin could continue rising into a great analytics tool.
Our reporting group uses Tableau extensively and compared to Yellowfin, Tableau is much easier to use (partially because more time was invested in setting it up properly, but also the design and features).
It is less appropriate when you need to produce a visualization quickly as it is slow to develop (compared to Tableau or Excel). However, some of this was because of the way we had our systems connected to Yellowfin (and the way the data was organized).

Yellowfin Feature Ratings

BI Platform ()
Not Rated
Supported Data Sources ()
Not Rated
5.5
Customizable dashboards
6
Report Formatting Templates
5
5.7
Drill-down analysis
6
Formatting capabilities
5
Report sharing and collaboration
6
6.7
Publish to Web
7
Publish to PDF
7
Report Delivery Scheduling
6
1.3
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
2
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
1
Predictive Analytics
1
4.3
Multi-User Support (named login)
5
Role-Based Security Model
4
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
4
Mobile Capabilities ()
Not Rated
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding ()
Not Rated

Comments

  • Tom Campbell | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Tom Campbell
    (Vendor Representative) commented 8 years ago
    Hi Phil, Thank you for your review of Yellowfin. We're really pleased the tool was great for you while you were using it. As you rightly point out, it's important how your data is structured underneath Yellowfin, as with any BI tool it is the presentation layer to your data. When companies such as ACL embed Yellowfin into their application, they choose which analytical features they want to have available, so it is sometimes possible that some of the features you would find useful may have not been available to you. Yellowfin also recently launched it's latest version 7.2, which includes some significant improvements to the layout and design that make creating and sharing easier than ever before. Thanks again for your review and good luck with your BI journey. Tom Campbell EMEA Marketing Manager Yellowfin
  • Samir Kumar Sahoo | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Samir Kumar Sahoo
    commented 8 years ago
    Hi Phil, Thank you for your review of Yellowfin. I reviewed your comments on Yellowfin BI tool and I can educate you on the features/functionality you have mentioned... Can we have a call on Skype ? I will respond each of your comments with answers and the strength of Yellowfin. I am sure you have never used & tested Yellowfin extensively with the features and functionality you are talking about. My skype ID - samirsahooaptus and available anytime for a discussion on these comments Hope to receive a positive response Samir Kumar Sahoo Aptus Data Labs

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