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July 26, 2009

Yellowfin customers benefit from enhanced dashboards, iPhone BI and visualisation capabilities and over 80 new features.

Yellowfin, leading web-based Business Intelligence software providers, today announced the release of Yellowfin 4.1, the next generation of the Yellowfin product suite.

With more than 80 new features, Yellowfin helps organisations see and understand their data better than ever. New dashboard and visualization capabilities, along with federated queries and a host of improvements to spatial BI, make 4.1 ideal for rapid BI deployments. Yellowfin 4.1 is available for download at http://www.yellowfinbi.com

Glen Rabie, CEO of Yellowfin says, “Yellowfin continues to strive to make business intelligence easy. 4.1 is another step in that journey. We have made a significant amount of usability and functional enhancements that make Yellowfin the leader in web based BI software.”

Yellowfin now offers unparalleled capabilities to create analytic dashboards and interactive visualizations that enable people anywhere in an organization to track and explore their most important metrics. Dashboards are now more intuitive, while at the same time providing a greater level of analytic capability.

“The recent changes to our dashboards are being driven by an increased demand for highly interactive dashboards that allow users to explore their data intuitively. The days of static dashboards are long gone, users expect to be able to slice and dice and drill into data effortlessly. 4.1 sets the benchmark in terms of flexibility and usability for creating different styles of tabs – but best of all they are fun to use and quickly deliver insight to the user,” says Glen Rabie.

The growing trend of Mobile BI is supported through the release of both a native iPhone application, and a generic mobile interface, that provide full featured delivery of both dashboards and reports to a mobile workforce.

Unlike most BI applications for the iPhone that just post static reports on a mobile screen, which may be marginally helpful but creates a tremendously frustrating user experience, Yellowfin for the iPhone provides the opportunity to interact with the data. This allows mobile users to access to the specific answers they need.

Federated Queries will enable users to query more than one data source at a time and combine the results in memory into a single report and /or table. This enhancement allows you to treat all your data sources as one virtual database and access them as a single query – enabling you to focus on building reports, not joining data sources.

The latest release delivers a wide range of improvements to Spatial BI including: GIS layering and enabling Web Map Service (WMS) layers on GIS reports. Multiple condition ranges enable users to divide a range of results into several smaller subsets and display them clearly on the one chart.

eSite is one of the first of Yellowfin’s partners to benefit from the enhanced GIS capabilities. “In my career I’ve used 12 or 13 different database/reporting systems…and I have to say that the elegance and practicality of the Yellowfin 4.1 design, and being totally web based, is just awesome compared to those systems.” Says Larry Manire, CTO of eSite.

More than 80 New Features

Yellowfin 4.1 has over 80 new features. Additional capabilities include:
• Additional charting and visualisations - Z charts, funnel charts and more.
• Improved Report List manager
• Filter Parameter caching for enhanced usability
• Additional administrative and configuration options
• Additional clustering support for improved scalability

About Yellowfin

www.yellowfin.bi

Yellowfin is passionate about making Business Intelligence easy. Recently recognised among 25 rising companies that CIO’s must know about, Yellowfin is a leading web-based BI solution can be easily integrated into any third-party application or delivered as a stand-alone enterprise platform. Yellowfin is an innovative and flexible solution for reporting and analytics, providing a full range of data access, presentation and information delivery capabilities.

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July 5, 2009

Yellowfin Business Intelligence scales to the heights of the cloud

Business intelligence (BI) firm Yellowfin has launched a new version of its flagship Yellowfin product with enhanced capability for cloud deployments.

Jul 06, 2009 – Business intelligence (BI) firm Yellowfin has launched a new version of its flagship Yellowfin product with enhanced capability for cloud deployments.

Whilst Yellowfin, with it 100% browser based interface, has always been able to be deployed via the cloud, Yellowfin 4.1 offers enhanced scalability with improved clustering administration allowing for far larger and complex deployments. For example by using Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud web service as the backbone.

Glen rabie, CEO of Yellowfin says “Popular applications for cloud deployment include software-as-a-service applications such as CRM, expense management, human resources, and Web analytics. But now we’re seeing a sudden burst of activity around business intelligence. This makes sense, since BI software shares characteristics with the aforementioned apps that make it right for cloud computing.”

"Cloud deployments address the problem of long and complex deployments. With Yellowfin’s browser based graphical configuration environment we are able to host the entire solution in the cloud. So other than making a connection to the company's business systems, there is very little burden on the IT staff or their budget," Rabie says.

The benefits of deploying Yellowfin in the cloud have been proven by Base2, who use Yellowfin to track real time performance metrics for field management services. "In the past you had to buy and manage physical servers to deploy Yellowfin, but now you can have Yellowfin running within 15 minutes," said Arthur Marinis of Base2 a Yellowfin partner.
Apart from faster time-to-value, Maris noted that the on-demand model allows Base2’s customers to scale capacity on the fly, and reduce IT infrastructure costs.

Ron Dovich, a Yellowfin partner based in Austin Texas noted that “We choose to run Yellowfin inside of Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud platform because our client does not own any hardware or have any in-house expertise for building out and managing the required infrastructure.”

Yellowfin has no plans to offer a SAAS BI application directly to end users. “What we offer is the capability for our partners and OEM partners to develop their own products and services in the cloud using Yellowfin,” says Rabie. The value in Yellowfin is that clients and partners have the flexibility to choose either cloud or traditional in house deployments. "While some BI vendors only work in the cloud, we believe it is important for our customers that we support the two," he said.

About Yellowfin

www.yellowfinbi.com

Yellowfin is passionate about making Business Intelligence easy. Recently recognised among 25 rising companies that CIO’s must know about, Yellowfin is a leading web-based BI solution can be easily integrated into any third-party application or delivered as a stand-alone enterprise platform. Yellowfin is an innovative and flexible solution for reporting and analytics, providing a full range of data access, presentation and information delivery capabilities.

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