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Overview

Yellowfin is a leading Business intelligence Software vendor. With more than 1,000,000 users globally - Yellowfin is the...

Category Leaders

Microsoft Power BI converts data into rich interactive visualizations, utilizing business analytics tools to share dashboard-based...

  • Platforms supported
  • Web-based
  • iPhone app
  • Android app
  • Windows Phone app
  • Typical customers
  • Freelancers
  • Small businesses
  • Mid size businesses
  • Large enterprises
  • Customer support
  • Phone
  • Online
  • Knowledge base
  • Video tutorials
  • Platforms supported
  • Web-based
  • iPhone app
  • Android app
  • Windows Phone app
  • Typical customers
  • Freelancers
  • Small businesses
  • Mid size businesses
  • Large enterprises
  • Customer support
  • Phone
  • Online
  • Knowledge base
  • Video tutorials

Video & Screenshots

Pricing

Starting from

19

/user

Per month

  • Free trial available
  • Credit cardless trial
  • Free account
  • Subscription based

Starting from

10

/user

Per month

  • Free trial available
  • Credit cardless trial
  • Free account
  • Subscription based

User reviews

4.6

20

5

4

3

2

1

14

5

0

1

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  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
94%
would recommend this app

4.6

1.7K

5

4

3

2

1

1K

555

67

8

4

  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
98%
would recommend this app

Pros

Easy to setup (<4 hours), very cost effective for multiple users, easy to connect to any database, great online training and tools to get up to speed, and easy to create reports/tabs/dashboards.
It is also excellent that clients do not require in-depth training. The integration capacity of Yellowfin with Big Data is excellent.
Ease of use, with compromising functionality, for administrator as well as users. For us, strong security and multitenancy is important.

Pros

It's an incredible programming for examination. I love the perception highlights since it transform drilling information into fun outlines or diagrams.
The ability to filter to the specific metric we are interested in is an amazing feature.
It is a good data analytics and visualization software and its ability to import data from multiples sources is a great feature.

Cons

While the lack of cloud services and coding to customize are minor issues, we do not have much to complain about. It’s very user-friendly and we have easily been able to teach others how to use it.
I really liked Yellowfin BI, no big problems using it so far.

Cons

Could be frustrating to use when first starting as it would give you an error message but provide no specifics on what is wrong or directions to fix it.
I find it a bit frustrating when presented with a visualisation that doesn't represent the particular angle on the data I am looking for.
Had to take some training courses and even at that it was still confusing.
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  • Last review9 months ago
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  • Last review9 days ago

Key features

  • Total features96
  • AI/Machine Learning
  • API
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Activity Tracking
  • Ad hoc Analysis
  • Ad hoc Query
  • Ad hoc Reporting
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Application Development
  • Audit Management
  • Benchmarking
  • Big Data Analytics
  • Charting
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Customizable Branding
  • Customizable Dashboard
  • Customizable Reports
  • Customizable Templates
  • Customization
  • Dashboard
  • Dashboard Creation
  • Data Aggregation
  • Data Analysis Tools
  • Data Blending
  • Data Capture and Transfer
  • Data Cleansing
  • Data Connectors
  • Data Discovery
  • Data Extraction
  • Data Import/Export
  • Data Integration
  • Data Management
  • Data Mapping
  • Data Synchronization
  • Data Transformation
  • Data Visualization
  • Drag & Drop
  • ETL
  • Financial Reporting
  • Financing Management
  • Forecasting
  • Functions/Calculations
  • Geographic Maps
  • Goal Setting/Tracking
  • High Volume Processing
  • Historical Reporting
  • Integration into Third Party Applications
  • Interactive Elements
  • Interactive Reports
  • KPI Monitoring
  • Key Performance Indicators
  • Marketing Reports
  • Metadata Management
  • Mobile Access
  • Mobile Dashboards
  • Mobile Reporting
  • Multi-User Collaboration
  • Multiple Data Sources
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Natural Language Search
  • OLAP
  • Performance Metrics
  • Predictive Analytics
  • Private Dashboards
  • Profitability Analysis
  • Progress Tracking
  • Public Dashboards
  • Publishing/Sharing
  • Real-Time Analytics
  • Real-Time Data
  • Real-Time Monitoring
  • Real-Time Notifications
  • Real-Time Reporting
  • Real-Time Updates
  • Relational Display
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Role-Based Permissions
  • SSL Security
  • Sales Reports
  • Scheduled/Automated Reports
  • Scorecards
  • Search/Filter
  • Secure Data Storage
  • Self Service Data Preparation
  • Self-service Analytics
  • Single Page View
  • Single Sign On
  • Strategic Planning
  • Streaming Analytics
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Trend Analysis
  • Trend/Problem Indicators
  • Visual Analytics
  • Visual Discovery
  • Visual Workflow Management
  • Widgets
  • Workflow Management
  • Total features36
  • AI/Machine Learning
  • API
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Activity Tracking
  • Ad hoc Analysis
  • Ad hoc Query
  • Ad hoc Reporting
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Application Development
  • Audit Management
  • Benchmarking
  • Big Data Analytics
  • Charting
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Customizable Branding
  • Customizable Dashboard
  • Customizable Reports
  • Customizable Templates
  • Customization
  • Dashboard
  • Dashboard Creation
  • Data Aggregation
  • Data Analysis Tools
  • Data Blending
  • Data Capture and Transfer
  • Data Cleansing
  • Data Connectors
  • Data Discovery
  • Data Extraction
  • Data Import/Export
  • Data Integration
  • Data Management
  • Data Mapping
  • Data Synchronization
  • Data Transformation
  • Data Visualization
  • Drag & Drop
  • ETL
  • Financial Reporting
  • Financing Management
  • Forecasting
  • Functions/Calculations
  • Geographic Maps
  • Goal Setting/Tracking
  • High Volume Processing
  • Historical Reporting
  • Integration into Third Party Applications
  • Interactive Elements
  • Interactive Reports
  • KPI Monitoring
  • Key Performance Indicators
  • Marketing Reports
  • Metadata Management
  • Mobile Access
  • Mobile Dashboards
  • Mobile Reporting
  • Multi-User Collaboration
  • Multiple Data Sources
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Natural Language Search
  • OLAP
  • Performance Metrics
  • Predictive Analytics
  • Private Dashboards
  • Profitability Analysis
  • Progress Tracking
  • Public Dashboards
  • Publishing/Sharing
  • Real-Time Analytics
  • Real-Time Data
  • Real-Time Monitoring
  • Real-Time Notifications
  • Real-Time Reporting
  • Real-Time Updates
  • Relational Display
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Role-Based Permissions
  • SSL Security
  • Sales Reports
  • Scheduled/Automated Reports
  • Scorecards
  • Search/Filter
  • Secure Data Storage
  • Self Service Data Preparation
  • Self-service Analytics
  • Single Page View
  • Single Sign On
  • Strategic Planning
  • Streaming Analytics
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Trend Analysis
  • Trend/Problem Indicators
  • Visual Analytics
  • Visual Discovery
  • Visual Workflow Management
  • Widgets
  • Workflow Management

Integrations

  • Total integrations25
  • Amazon Redshift
  • Google Ads
  • Google Analytics 360
  • Google Sheets
  • HubSpot CRM
  • Mailchimp
  • Meta for Business
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Power BI
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • Salesforce Sales Cloud
  • Shopify
  • Slack
  • Snowflake
  • Stripe
  • Tableau
  • Twitter/X
  • Xero
  • Zapier
  • Total integrations575
  • Amazon Redshift
  • Google Ads
  • Google Analytics 360
  • Google Sheets
  • HubSpot CRM
  • Mailchimp
  • Meta for Business
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Power BI
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • Salesforce Sales Cloud
  • Shopify
  • Slack
  • Snowflake
  • Stripe
  • Tableau
  • Twitter/X
  • Xero
  • Zapier

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youssef g.

Computer Software, self-employed

Used weekly for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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Yellowfin

Yellowfin BI Review

Reviewed 2 years ago

As a business, yellowfin has helped make the best decisions based on our data.

Pros

Yellowfin is a great BI software with an easy-to-use UI that anyone can use, it makes reporting, analytics and data visualization much easier.

Cons

I really liked Yellowfin BI, no big problems using it so far.

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Aakanksha A.

Oil & Energy, 1,001-5,000 employees

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  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend6/10

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Yellowfin

Simple and smart

Reviewed 3 years ago

It is very easy and simple to use and is a great tool

Pros

It is pretty easy to use and is quite user-friendly. It's very easy to connect multiple data sources in it and this helps the user tremendously

Cons

The colour and schematics could be a little more and this would help the visualisation aspect of the BI

PD
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Paul D.

Computer Software, 1-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

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  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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Yellowfin

Happy with Yellowfin

Reviewed 8 years ago

I have been using Yellowfin for our customers to use on our cloud project management platform (PieMatrix). I spent a good deal of time looking at other BI options. The reason I chose Yellowfin was 1) their user interface and customer end experience is very clean and modern, which reflects well with our PieMatrix "Pie" project tool, 2) the Yellowfin price value was much higher than any other BI tool...

Pros

- Clean user interface - Easier to use than other tools - Supportive Yellowfin team - Great multi-tenancy structure for auto propagating new reports across different data source Yellowfin users

Cons

- It took us a while to install and get the system working, but once it got set up properly, everything has been smooth. - Yellowfin doesn't have a cloud offering. Their product needs to be installed.

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Erik L.

Financial Services,

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  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend3/10

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Yellowfin

Yellowfin was not as flexible or as robust as other options.

Reviewed 8 years ago
Pros

The simplicity of the interface was a plus, but unfortunately that simplicity went through to the backend. It didn't have the robust features and support that Salesforce did, and I feel it didn't manage multiple data sources as well as DOMO did. I feel that if you want to completely control your reports and have a BI dedicated team build reports where no one else can, it might be a solution for you.

Cons

Anytime I needed a report, I ran into issues with this software. We used yellowfin for a period of months, having switched from Salesforce. I found the reports were difficult to produce, and the data management was okay at best. We later switched to DOMO which was a breath of fresh air, as far as it comes to ease of use and data management.

Vendor response

Thanks for the review, Erik! Customer feedback is the main engine of Yellowfin’s innovation. With that said, we’re extremely bummed about your negative experience with Yellowfin and are regretful that we couldn’t work with our Partner that was handling your account in a more effective manner. For what it’s worth, our newest version 7.2 tackles the issues you bring up. If anything changes for you in regards to your current BI platform, we’d love to show you the newest version of Yellowfin and win you back! Cheers - Yellowfin.

TN
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Tom N.

Philanthropy, 1-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

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  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Yellowfin

Yellowfin continues to Delight

Reviewed 8 years ago

We are a small company bringing data visualization to a market that is data rich, yet unsavvy about the insights it can offer. After much research and trial, we landed on Yellowfin two years ago as the best choice for us. There is not a problem or situation we have run into yet that Yellowfin could not address; especially with the assistance of the US based support team. Yellowfin worked with us closely to understand our business and fashioned an arrangement that met our needs nicely. We introduced Yellowfin to our development partner and after the proof of concept work they raved it was easier to use and integrated more effectively than other BI tools they work with, which include the other leaders in the industry. We recommend it regularly to others.

Pros

Ease of use, with compromising functionality, for administrator as well as users. For us, strong security and multitenancy is important. Data visualization option variety and capabilities. We use the alerts, multiple drilling options, raster mapping, heat map as well as normal visuals. Collaboration and connection features as we are creating a learning environment for our constituents. Customization options within the back end as well as embedding front end. Web based and mobile platforms. Story telling capability. Efficiently and effectively handle 1000's of users.

Cons

For us, none yet. As our data warehouse grows, we may add another tool for very heavy data mining.