Announcing Yellowfin 2.4

Announcing the release of Yellowfin R2.4.  The changes in this release significantly enhance our BI and Information Collaboration capability.

The needs of business users continues to drive our development philosophy and with R2.4 Yellowfin delivers even greater business advantage through easy to use yet powerful Business Intelligence tools.

Major Innovations

 

The major innovations in this release which continue to set Yellowfin apart from our competitors include:

  • Report Archival


The most compelling change within this release is report archival.  This allows users not only to save their report definition but to save copies of the data as well – allowing them to view previous instances of the report.  No scripting, no background tasks – all managed through the Yellowfin interface.


  • View Constraints


One of the major issues in delivering BI authoring capability to users is ensuring that the publish reports which contain accurate data.  With Yellowfin’s constraint process organisations can place rules on data elements to ensure that only a correct combination can be used.


  • Jasper Integration


Whilst Yellowfin uses a page design concept for report authoring Jasper XML allows users to author banded reports similar to Crystal and ideal for production style reporting such as invoices.  By integration Jasper XML into Yellowfin users can publish and manage Jasper reports through the Yellowfin platform.  Find out more about Jasper

 

 

Enhancements

 

  1. Improved Calculated Columns within the View Builder

  2. Improved Charting – formatting, drill through and meter charts.

  3. Report Caching – improving the performance of report delivery

  4. Grouped Variables – create brackets such as age bands etc

  5. Web Services - access reports from 3rd part applications


Download an evaluation copy today.

 

 

About Yellowfin

 




Yellowfin is a web based reporting tool specifically designed to provide business users with rapid access to organisational data for ad hoc and periodic analysis and reporting.

Sophisticated analysis and reporting functions which are normally limited to IT developers in competitor products, through coding and scripting, are available to all business report writers through the intuitive to use report writing wizard.

Managers are empowered to respond quickly to reporting requirements and explore organisational information assisting them to improve performance.  This can be done on an as needs basis without the need for IT intervention.

Unlike traditional tools Yellowfin supports wider distribution across the organisation through lower cost, 100% web deployment and through a minimal end user learning curve.