International Business Intelligence (BI) software vendor, Yellowfin,
will release the latest version of its BI solution – Yellowfin 6.1 –
in late May 2012.

Yellowfin 6: Making Business Intelligence and data analysis even
easier

Yellowfin’s current version – Yellowfin 6: Making Business
Intelligence and data analysis even easier – is focused on making its
renowned BI solution even easier and more consumable for an
increasingly diverse range of users. The release focused on enabling
non-technical business users with the ability to perform sophisticated
data analysis and report building functions.

The release achieved this through:

A new native application for the iPad that delivers consumer-
oriented mobile reporting and analytics
An upgraded User Interface (UI) for improved navigation and better
user experience
Better and more intuitive data analysis
A new in-app ‘inbox’ to improve information sharing
Dashboard syndication

For further details on Yellowfin 6’s new features:

Watch a recording of the official Webinar launch
http://www.yellowfinbi.com/YFCommuni...cording-109739
Visit Yellowfin’s latest release page
http://www.yellowfinbi.com/YFCommuni...owfin-6-109821
Download a copy of the official Release Notes
http://www.yellowfinbi.com/YFCommuni...owfin-6-109821
Whatch a video overview of Yellowfin 6
http://www.yellowfinbi.com/YFNews-Ye...-easier-109829


Yellowfin: Strategic direction

Yellowfin CEO, Glen Rabie, said Yellowfin had worked diligently to
earn the right to lay legitimate claim to being the world’s easiest to
use, manage, integrate and embed BI solution. Rabie also noted that
independent recognition over the past six to 12 months had played a
significant role in Yellowfin’s growing reputation as a market-leading
provider of Mobile BI, Collaborative BI, Location Intelligence (LI)
and data visualization. Rabie said that Yellowfin’s established core
product values would remain the focus for 6.1.

“Yellowfin is a new-age BI vendor on the rise and our solution now
reflects that,” said Rabie. “Recent independent research has
continued to validated the internal belief we have in our product, and
alignment with Wayne Eckerson’s soon-to-be-released research report
into Collaborative BI will further strength our credibility in the
market.”

Indeed over the past several months, Yellowfin’s key product strengths
have been recognized via a number of notable reports and awards.

Mobile BI

Dresner Advisory Services’ (DAS) latest global Mobile Business
Intelligence Market Study again recognized Yellowfin as a leader in
Mobile BI, awarding the vendor the second highest score the second
consecutive year. Rabie noted that the result “confirms that our
consumer-oriented and collaborative approach to Mobile BI is a winning
strategy”. Gartner’s most recent Who’s Who of Mobile BI report also
acknowledges Yellowfin’s mobile capabilities, praising the vendor for
its ability to “deliver native applications for iOS and Android
tablets and smartphones out of the box with no additional cost for
existing users.”

Location Intelligence

Late last year, Yellowfin was announced the Ventana Research 2011
Leadership Award Winner for LI. The awards recognized the Yellowfin
and Macquarie University BI implementation as the best 2010/11
worldwide example of LI and the most likely to produce significant
business value heading into 2012.

Easy-to-use BI

Further, DAS’ newest Wisdom of Crowds Business Intelligence Market
Study put Yellowfin amongst the world’s elite BI vendors, with the
global study scoring the vendor particularly strongly on critical ease-
of-use criteria, including ease of administration, overall usability,
ease of installation and third-party integration.

Ventana’s Menninger on Yellowfin: Intuitive, collaborative, mobile

And, Ventana Research’s esteemed analyst and Research Director, David
Menninger, responded to the launch of Yellowfin 6 by stating that: “If
you are looking for a user-friendly tool with collaborative and mobile
capabilities that I refer to as the next generation of BI software,
take a look at Yellowfin”.

Rabie stated that Yellowfin 6.1 would further the firm’s position as
“a BI vendor responding to the consumerization of BI and enterprise IT
at large.” He said that Yellowfin would continue to meet these goals
by “continuing to deliver world-class reporting and analytics in
highly consumable formats that users actually love. Dresner’s latest
wisdom of crowds study is clear evidence of that, as 100 percent of
survey respondents said that they would recommend Yellowfin to
others.”

Yellowfin 6.1: Continuing to build BI solution that business and IT
love

“Our first goal when developing Yellowfin is to build a solution that
people love to use,” said Rabie. “So that includes developing
Yellowfin’s User Interface, but also a product that people can engage
with at an emotional level – a product that users love to interact
with, and that IT love to manage.”

Yellowfin 6.1: Ease-of-use will remain key in the face of the
consumerization of BI

“We believe, and research indicates, that if you have a BI tool that
is easy-to-use and derive knowledge from, user adoption rates will
rise,” said Rabie. “Having higher user adoption leads to a higher
Return on Investment.

“Ease-of-use surpassed product functionality in Gartner’s 2011 and
2012 Magic Quadrant for BI surveys as the number one purchasing
criteria for any BI solution. This really does emphasize the shift
away from the developer-centric type of BI deployments. Business
users are having an increasingly large say in BI purchase decisions,
as organizations begin to realize the benefits of widespread BI
deployments – deployments far beyond the IT department.”

Yellowfin 6.1: The major developments

Having explained the philosophy and direction underpinning Yellowfin’s
ongoing and iterative product development, Rabie provided a window
into the notable specific additions and enhancements set to
characterize Yellowfin 6.1. Major talking points include:

A new native application for the iPhone – to compliment Yellowfin’s
new iPad application – that will deliver consumer-oriented mobile
reporting and analytics

* Enhanced mapping capabilities via the ability to apply geometry data
to Google maps
* Multilingual displays – users logging in from different countries
will have the ability to read reports in different languages
* A sleeker UI for streamlined navigation as well as easier
collaboration and report sharing
* New log-in protocols and functionality to bolster security
* Enhanced report building features – achieved via series selection
and filter improvements – for faster hassle-free report writing

Yellowfin 6.1 is due for release at the end of May 2012.