Glen Rabie, Chief Executive Officer of Yellowfin said, “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 visualisations that enable people anywhere in an organisation 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,” said 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: geographic information system (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 have 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.” Said Larry Manire, chief technical officer of eSite.

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