Announcing Release 3 of Yellowfin
Release 3 continues to emphasise Yellowfin’s commitment to delivering the very best in web based operational BI. This release is another large step in defining web based reporting capability.
Some of the major features in this release include:
- User Interface and Drag and Drop Design Changes
- Calculated Fields & Advanced Analytic Functions
- Exception Based Reporting
- OLAP and Lotus Notes Connectivity
- Integration and Embedding Improvements
We continue to enhance the User Interface to deliver greater functionality without additional complexity by focusing our efforts on how business users interact with the web. BI should not be rocket science and our commitment to reducing complexity is the driver for our interface design. The use of drag and drop functionality is one such example, this has been integrated into our dashboard builder and for chart placement and resizing.
Naturally users are demanding more from their reporting environments with version 3 you can now access the expression builder for creating calculations on the fly as well as building customised Advanced Analytic Functions that allow your users to manipulate data in a way that is relevant for your business and independent of the database from where your data is sourced.
A further refinement to our broadcast capability is the ability to defined exception based reporting. With the amount of information delivered to managers growing at an alarming pace you can limit the number of irrelevant reports they receive by only sending them if they meet certain criteria.
Writing reports may be easy, buts it’s tough if you cannot access all your organisational data. With Yellowfin you can now report from OLAP cubes as well as Lotus Notes / Domino data sources. Why build a data mart when you should be able to access all your data directly from the source for operational reports. Once again we have considered the end user to ensure that the process for building reports does not change based on the source of your data. After all your users should not have to learn a new interface for every data source that they access.
To meet the integration needs of operational BI Yellowfin continues to refine its security and embedding options. In release 3 we have added additional functionality to LDAP directory integration and made significant improvements to our Web Services providing you with a full SOA approach to integrating Yellowfin into your applications.
Coming Up
- BIRT integration
- Ajax to deliver an even better end user experience
- Multiple Source System Views