R3 OLAP Connectivity

New Features Including OLAP-to-Relational Drill Through Provide Customers with One Complete Web BI Tool for OLAP Analysis

Yellowfin, today announced the availability of Yellowfin Release 3, the newest version of the leading query, reporting, and analysis tool for the web. Release 3 provides web access to all major relational and online analytical processing (OLAP) sources, intelligent navigation between OLAP and relational data, and additional query options.

Yellowfin enables customers to get more insight into their corporate data and leverage their investment in OLAP data sources.  All this through a single intuitive interface which significantly reduces the complexity of report creation no matter where the data is sourced from.

“As relational database vendors increasingly integrate OLAP into their products and operational BI becomes an organisational imperative, our customers need to include OLAP as a portion of their overall enterprise BI strategy,” said Glen Rabie, CEO of Yellowfin. “Historically, this has led to more work for end users who often need multiple tools, one to analyse summarised OLAP data and another to reconstruct the OLAP query in a relational environment, in order to get the full picture. This reconstruction is tedious and difficult, requiring skills that even power users lack, and puts a strain on information technology staff who are forced to install and maintain multiple front-end tools that often only access a portion of the overall data sources.”

Yellowfin now provides OLAP access, thus enabling organisations to better address the needs of users performing advanced analysis. By accessing both OLAP and relational sources interchangeably and providing OLAP-to-relational drill through, Yellowfin enables end users to dynamically work with all relevant corporate data in a way they understand, no matter where the information is stored. This erases the need for multiple front-end tools, easing the burden for end users and IT alike.

Yellowfin provides a web-based front end to Hyperion Essbase, IBM DB2 OLAP Server, Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services, Oracle OLAP and SAP BW. This gives users access to powerful OLAP capabilities such as true ranking, value filtering, sorting, sophisticated OLAP dimensional navigation and data selection, and synchronised views of drillable grids and charts.