Yellowfin Reviews

Dominic A.Head Of Analytics

4.5

Yellowfin is a fantastic BI tool for visualisation, self service reporting, embedding that has evolved so much, and continues to, in the 10 years that I have been a customer, user and administrator Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anthony U.Senior Solution Consultant

4.0

The drag and drop report builder is easy to work with. The interface is easy to work with, and is intuitive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hans E.Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)

1.5

It's pretty easy to use, visually it looks good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Marketing and AdvertisingSmall-Business(50 or fewer emp.)

0.5

Yellowfin editing and dashboard building is extremely cumbersom. You need to be extrememly well versed in their platform to get started and bring anything to life. There's virtually no in between from getting started to power user. If you want anything production ready you need to be an expert, or leverage an outside firm to support you from start to finish. The team that can support you is also a single agency located in Australia. They are helpful, but have limited resources to support all Yellowfin customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and ServicesSmall-Business(50 or fewer emp.)

1.5

The actual use of Yellowfin has been much more challenging than we thought. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hans E.Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)

1.5

There's absolutely no improvements to the core functionality, there are requests that have been up for over 10 years and have been requested dozens if not hundreds of times and they ignore it, instead they add bells and whistles nobody uses or cares about and that barely work. The support is a nightmare, the job of the tech support seems to be for people to leave them alone, they ask for 10 zoom meetings and for the logs over and over for something that doesn't warrant it, when it's broken in whatever system or configuration you run it, after you go through the hoops of the multiple zoom meetings and submitting logs over and over again it doesn't get any better, because then they just never get back to you or they get back to you several months later asking everything from scratch. The worst is that the application goes progressively slower the longer you use it, going from milliseconds of opening a view or just the browse page to 10+ seconds, and although we've complained about it and have asked for solutions for years, from various different contacts, there has been 0 help. Something is rotten with the configurational database of Yellowfin, there are a lot of inefficient nested queries and missing indexes and as soon as it gets under a heavier load (multiple people creating, updating, deleting, copying reports, editing views etc) the performance goes out of the window. You can't rely on something if the browse page takes 10 seconds to open alone, and there's absolutely no solutions/suggestions provided, we were ready to try anything, switching OS, db engine, whatever, but nothing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anthony A.Gambling & Casinos

5.0

Overall it's a great product for casino business use.

Anonymous ReviewerInformation Technology and Services

5.0

Yellowfin changes the way we do business. Yellowfin changes the way we do things internally Soooooooooo much information, the way we want to view it Easy to set up new views, at a mouse click Heaps of options that really help us manage our business now and going forward

Oliver Elijah L.Information Services

5.0

The VSV team develops reports and dashboards quickly, simply and dynamically. Yellowfin has an easy to use and intuitive user interface (clients do not need deep training). We managed to create reports and panels with maps thanks to location intelligence. In addition, the integration of Yellowfin with predictive analytical tools and Big Data processing such as R, UDF, Spark are ideal for creating rich applications for end users. Yellowfin allows the connection of multiple data sources.

Erik L.Financial Services

2.0

No Comments

Aakanksha A.Oil & Energy

4.0

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

Randy T.Computer Software

4.0

No Comments

Verified UserProject Manager

10.0

Yellowfin BI provides web-based access to data from all performance areas of the university. For example, the portal can be used to retrieve aggregated numbers about students (bachelor, master and doctoral), publications, and external funding. Furthermore, it can create detailed reports that provide a structured overview of contract durations, project budgets and available positions. The system aims to efficiently complete internal and external reporting requirements (e.g. monitoring reports for study and teaching, the delivery of rankings, reports for donors) and to reduce the growing workload for reporting tasks. The availability and usability of the data supports internal and external decision-making, controlling, and the management by university employees. This will significantly strengthen the strategic management of the university on all levels. The portal is available to all employees of the university as self-service BI.
Ease of use due to a clear and good structured user interface Easy to administrate and to develop new BI content even for personnel without IT background Powerful features for collaboration and sharing (social BI) Very helpful documentation (wiki), support portal and monthly webinar series

Verified UserProgram Manager

10.0

Our company produces IT applications that are sold to health and social care organisations across the UK. Yellowfin is used as a BI user tool in conjunction with multiple Business Intelligence products. It provides very simple, easy to use and effective business intelligence tool with the aim of providing additional understanding on large scale healthcare data.
Ease of use Simple highly visual dashboards and reports Web based, so zero footprint Cost effective

Verified UserConsultant

10.0

I used Yellowfin to help automate my analytics workflow at my company by making business analytics much easier and faster to process. This product helped me save a lot of time by doing the work that I used to do manually in a much quicker manner, requiring less knowledge as well overall.
Automating data analytics Building dashboard Preparing data for presentation

Verified UserAccount Manager

1.0

We used Yellowfin to try to display device health and use data. We have multiple projects with differing analytics needs and we tried to apply the Yellowfin model to them.
Data looks really bad It takes too many steps to get the data to show Company does not help with startups that cannot find value with the tool.

Joe SaeTA

3.0

Primarily as a post analytical visualization tool. Our team is about 8 people which include about 3 business side of users. Typically we give them the information to then get ready for presentation and make look good for the sales pitch.It was great for the most part until they removed the ACL function
Bring back ACL function More options for meta data Needs better gauges

Phil SerfatySenior Analyst, Supply Chain Finance

5.0

Yellowfin came as a package within our audit analytics suite (ACL), which was being used as a post-analytics visualization tool. It was used exclusively by our audit team with 5 developers and ~15 business users. The tool was great for the time we used it, however ACL went away from using Yellowfin and decided to do most of the visualization with their in-house tool. Overall, the Yellowfin tool didn't catch-on the way it had intended and was somewhat limited because of the learning curve for SQL and developing.
The tool was somewhat clunky to use at times (specifically the mapping functionality). Could use some tips from Tableau to understand the "Apple" like design and simplicity of developing. Should have worked closer with the supporting vendor as the tool did not feel seamless in how it operated with ACL and their data/analytics tools at the time. Yellowfin was a tool that completed the task we initially asked it to do, however upon further research, we rated other tools to be more capable and user friendly. With a little improvement Yellowfin could continue rising into a great analytics tool.

Tom N.Cofounder and Partner

5.0

Overall: 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.

Oliver Elijah L.Verified LinkedIn UserSenior Operations Manager

5.0

Overall: The VSV team develops reports and dashboards quickly, simply and dynamically. Yellowfin has an easy to use and intuitive user interface (clients do not need deep training). We managed to create reports and panels with maps thanks to location intelligence. In addition, the integration of Yellowfin with predictive analytical tools and Big Data processing such as R, UDF, Spark are ideal for creating rich applications for end users. Yellowfin allows the connection of multiple data sources.

James D.CEO

5.0

Overall: We really like using Yellowfin. While the lack of cloud services and coding to customize are minor issues, we do not have much to complain about. Its very user-friendly and we have easily been able to teach others how to use it. The fact that the program is useable on both Mac and PC makes it a great option. The program is certainly worth the cost.

Krissy G.Verified LinkedIn UserSolutions Specialist

4.0

Overall: We did not end up implementing this live for our clients but it was a nice software and if our client base was smaller or our software data scheme less complex we would have used this. There was not anything wrong really just was not the correct software for our company.

Erik L.Project Manager

2.0

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

Andrea J.Director of Customer Success

5.0

"Even if you're a new user, it couldn't be easier"