Release 2.5 Goes Live

Posted by: Yellowfin Team

Announcing the release of Yellowfin R2.5. 

 

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 R2.5 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:

  • Source Based Access Filter

 

Yellowfin has introduced an unparalleled security processes for BI applications – Access Filters.  Access filters provide a method for ensuring cell-level data security and complete report personalisation. Access filters relate a user to the source system that they are accessing and ensure that only relevant data is returned to them in a query.  For every data request additional filtering criteria is dynamically inserted into the query at run-time to restrict the result set to information that the user is permitted to access.
  • View & meta data builder

The most compelling change within this release is to the view and meta data builder. This allows non-developers to build far more complex and richer data views through a drag and drop interface..

  • LDAP & OEM Integration

As part of our commitment to building flexibility into Yellowfin we have enhanced our integration capability with LDAP and Active directories that allow you to provision not only users but groups from these applications – reducing the need for replication of administration functions in Yellowfin.

  • Customisable Analytic Functions

Analytic functionality is a core requirement for BI applications.  Yellowfin provides you with a set of standard functions out of the box but also allows you to develop your own to match your unique business needs.

 

Enhancements

  1. Drag and Drop Dashboard builder
  2. Improved Filtering – aggregated filters and user prompts
  3. Comments & Discussion Threads – improving information collaboration
  4. Inbox – enabling internal distribution of reports
  5. Improved 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.

 

 

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