Yellowfin Business Intelligence Ranks a Top Performing Dashboard and Reporting BI Solution in BARC's The BI Survey 2014

KETCHUM, Idaho, Oct. 16, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Global Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics software provider, Yellowfin, has been named a top "Dashboard" and "Ad-hoc reporting" vendor in many categories in the Business Applications Research Center's (BARC) The BI Survey 14 – the world's largest annual survey of BI end-users.

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"Results from The BI Survey 14 demonstrate Yellowfin's breadth of innovative world-class product features and ability to deliver an incredibly intuitive experience for BI consumers," said Yellowfin's General Manager for EMEA, Daniel Shaw-Dennis.  "This feedback not only emphasizes the quality and uniqueness of Yellowfin's BI platform, it also highlights our ability to deliver customer value by assisting our clients, big or small, to achieve their BI goals."

Yellowfin ranked first for four KPIs – and was identified as a leader for an additional 12 KPIs – within the Dashboard Vendor Peer Group, which contained 15 products.  Other products in this group included: Arcplan, BOARD, Dimensional Insight, Dundas, Entrinsik, Evidanza, IBM Cognos BI, Information Builders, MicroStrategy, Oracle BI Foundation Suite, Pyramid Analytics, Qlik, Tableau and Tibco.

Yellowfin was also a top ranked BI solution in three KPIs, and pinpointed as a leading BI product in a further 13 KPIs, within the Ad-hoc Reporting Vendor Peer Group.  Aside from Yellowfin, 18 other BI tools were categorized in the Ad-hoc Reporting Vendor Peer Group.

"Yellowfin's imaginative approach to the BI market has seen it develop distinguishing consumer-oriented features – particularly in regards to Mobile BI, Cloud BI, Collaborative BI, Data Discovery and visualization," said Founder and CEO of BARC, Dr. Carsten Bange. "These features support high levels of end-user adoption and customer satisfaction. Yellowfin's modern look and feel makes it easy for business users to independently create reports and dashboards. Its flexible deployment options and user support result in high levels of user recommendation and help customers reach their BI goals fast.

"Often viewed as a disruptive player in the BI and analytics market, its users clearly see Yellowfin as a leader in innovation in dashboarding and ad-hoc reporting. Its scalability and 100 percent Web-based architecture make implementation quick and easy, while its notable ease-of-use is capable of supporting mass enterprise-wide adoption."

Dashboard Vendor rankings

Yellowfin was the top ranked Dashboard Vendor in:

• Price-to-value perception
• Cloud BI
• Mobile BI
• Innovation

A history of innovation and customer satisfaction

Yellowfin has been recognized as the top ranked Dashboard Vendor over the past three iterations of The BI Survey in: Cloud BI, Mobile BI and Innovation.  Yellowfin also achieved the top ranking in the Ad-hoc Reporting Vendor Peer Group, over the past three versions of the study, for: Cloud BI and Innovation.

The BI Survey 14 also acknowledged Yellowfin as a "consistently outstanding Ad-hoc Reporting Vendor in Collaboration," with leading scores for this innovative KPI over the past three years.

"Yellowfin's continued commitment towards product innovation and quality, in conjunction with a focus on delivering customer value and support, is reflected in Yellowfin's outstanding performances in BARC's The BI Survey over the past three years," said Shaw-Dennis.

The BI Survey is an annual worldwide study of BI software users produced by BARC.  A total of 3,224 people responded to The BI Survey 14. Thirty-four BI products were included in the final report.

About Yellowfin

Yellowfin is a global Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics software vendor passionate about making BI easy. Founded in 2003, Yellowfin is a highly intuitive 100 percent Web-based reporting and analytics solution. Yellowfin is a leader in mobile, collaborative and embeddable BI as well as Location Intelligence and data visualization. For more information, visit www.yellowfinbi.com

About BARC

BARC is an enterprise software industry analyst delivering product evaluations, conferences, market research and consulting to over 1,000 customers each year. Along with CXP and Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC), BARC forms part of the CXP Group - the leading European IT research and consulting firm with 140 staff in eight countries.

About The BI Survey 14

Now in its thirteenth year of publication, The BI Survey is an annual report based on the world's largest vendor-independent survey of BI and Performance Management users. The BI Survey 14 attracted over 3000 responses. The BI Survey 14 uncovers the truth about why real-world organizations select BI products, how they use them, and with what success.

About Peer Groups in the BI Survey 14

Vendors in BARC's The BI Survey are segmented into different Peer Groups based on how survey respondents – end-users with first hand experience using vendor products and services – reportedly utilize vendor solutions.

Peer Groups are used to ensure similar products are compared against each other both in fairness to the vendor and for the benefit of the customer. The groups are essential to allow fair and useful comparisons of products that are likely to compete.

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