Yellowfin a top ranked Dashboard Vendor in BARC’s The BI Survey 13

USA - English

• USA - English

(PRWEB) March 21, 2014 -- Download the summary document containing headline results for Yellowfin HERE: http://www.yellowfinbi.com/YFCommunityNews-Download-BARC-s-The-BI-Survey-13-157459

To read about Yellowfin’s overall performance in The BI Survey 13 GO HERE: http://www.yellowfinbi.com/YFCommunityNews-Yellowfin-identified-as-a-standout-BI-solution-in-BARC-s-The-BI-Survey-13-154093

Yellowfin was ranked first for 10 KPIs within the Dashboard Vendor Peer Group, which contained 11 products. Other products in this group comprised: Arcplan, BOARD, Dimensional Insight, Evidanza, Information Builders, Logi Analytics, MicroStrategy, Oracle BI Foundation Suite, QlikTech and Tableau.

BARC found that survey respondents from multi-product sites “seldom” chose products categorized in the Dashboard Vendor Peer Group as the “company standard”. Conversely, Yellowfin ranked first – both in its Dashboard Vendor Peer Group and compared to all 30 market-leading BI products examined in The BI Survey 13 – for product standardization.

“This result demonstrates the confidence that our clients have in the quality of our solution,” said General Manager for EMEA at Yellowfin, Daniel Shaw-Dennis. “It also illustrates that our customers are assured in the knowledge that Yellowfin delivers much more than intuitive and insightful dashboards. They know that Yellowfin has the breadth of features and functionality to meet their full range of reporting and analytics requirements – from the Data Discovery needs of end-users to the robust administrative capabilities demanded by enterprise IT.”
Dashboard Vendor rankings

Yellowfin was the top ranked Dashboard Vendor in:

• Proportion of employees: The percentage of employees that use the product
• Chosen as standard: How often the product is chosen to standardize on by respondents in multi-product sites
• User recommendation
• Cloud BI
• Mobile BI
• Innovation: Combines the ‘Cloud BI’, ‘Collaboration’, ‘Mobile BI’ and ‘Advanced information design’ KPIs to measure the product’s level of innovation
• Query performance
• Performance satisfaction
• Total performance: A combination of the ‘Query performance’ and ‘Performance satisfaction’ KPIs
• Project length: How long the product takes to implement

Yellowfin was also identified as a leading Dashboard Vendor in:

• Business benefits achieved
• Business achievement: The extent to which the product delivers business value and helps organizations achieve their goals
• Competitive win rate: Based on the percentage of wins in competitive evaluations
• Collaboration
• Vendor support: Measures user satisfaction with the level of vendor support provided for the product
• Implementer support: Measures user satisfaction with the level of the implementer’s support for the product

Yellowfin was also ranked as a standout performer across many KPIs in the “Enterprise Reporting Vendor” and “Ad-hoc Analysis Vendor” Peer Groups.

Of the 30 market-leading BI products examined in the latest version of The BI Survey, Yellowfin ranked first in nine of the study’s crucial assessment KPIs. Find out more HERE: http://www.yellowfinbi.com/YFCommunityNews-Yellowfin-identified-as-a-standout-BI-solution-in-BARC-s-The-BI-Survey-13-154093

The BI Survey is an annual worldwide study of BI software users produced by German-based analyst firm, BARC. A total of 3,149 respondents partook in The BI Survey 13.
Yellowfin in The BI Survey 12

Yellowfin’s high rating in The BI Survey 13 follows its outstanding performance in the previous year’s version of the report – The BI Survey 12, in which the vendor ranked first for 13 KPIs within the Dashboard Vendor Peer Group, and eight KPIs within the Small to Medium (SME) Projects Vendor Peer Group.
– END –
About Yellowfin

Yellowfin is a global Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics software vendor passionate about making BI easy. Founded in 2003 in response to the complexity and costs associated with implementing and using traditional BI tools, 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 http://www.yellowfinbi.com
About BARC

Business Application Research Center — BARC — is a leading independent software industry analyst delivering information to more than 1000 customers each year. For over ten years, BARC has specialized in core research areas including Data Management (DM), Business Intelligence (BI) and Enterprise Content Management (ECM).

In April 2011, BARC merged with Le Centre d’expertise des Progiciels (CXP), France’s largest business software analyst to form one group of companies. With more than 80 employees (40 analysts) and around 2000 operating companies as customers, the merger creates Europe’s largest enterprise software analyst firm with offices in Great Britain, France, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. CXP complements BARC’s expertise in software markets for BI, DM and ECM with its extensive knowledge of technology for IT Service Management, HR, ERP and CRM.
About The BI Survey 13

Now in its twelfth year of publication, The BI Survey is an annual report based on the world’s largest vendor-independent survey of Business Intelligence (BI) and Performance Management users. The BI Survey 13 attracted over 3000 responses. The BI Survey 13 uncovers the truth about why real-world organizations select BI products, how they use them, and with what success. It also compares the leading products on the market across a number of headline criteria, such as performance, scalability and vendor support.

The survey is published independently by BARC and, unlike many other surveys, it is not sponsored by any vendor. The questions are devised entirely by BARC’s BI analyst team. The BI Survey 13 enables the comparison of leading BI products across multiple criteria, in order to establish which tools are the best fit for particular organizations and industries. It also reveals the best practices that lead to the most successful BI projects, saving time and money in research hours and consulting fees.
About Peer Groups in The BI Survey 13

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.
For further media information, interviews, images or product demonstration, please contact:

Lachlan James, Communications Manager on +61 (0)3 8617 4954, +61 (0)431 835 658 or [email protected]

For regular updates and news, follow Yellowfin on Twitter (@YellowfinBI), LinkedIn (Yellowfin Business Intelligence) or email [email protected] to subscribe to Yellowfin’s free e-newsletter.

Lachlan James, Yellowfin, http://www.yellowfinbi.com, +61 386174954, [email protected]