Yellowfin Business Intelligence


Yellowfin is a global business intelligence, analytics, dashboard and reporting software vendor. It develops and markets a suite of products that are used to transform, access, analyse and report on data held in common business data stores including spreadsheets, Web APIs and databases.

History

Yellowfin was founded in Melbourne, Australia in 2003 by IT and business intelligence industry veterans.
The company released its first product, a ROLAP browser-based web application for a SAAS software vendor in 2004. This resulted in an early specialization in providing both embedded reporting capabilities to software companies as well as support for the complexities of multi-tenancy hosted environments.
The product is based on an open server architecture and was developed in Java. The design provided the basis for subsequent releases to introduce additional levels of functionality. Amongst these were the development of an integrated location intelligence module, a social media layer, and a responsive mobile BI platform. Further innovations include the pioneering of Storyboard, a Collaboration module, and Content Canvas for free-form visualizations.
In 2017, Yellowfin launched 7.4 with its first AI/ML capabilities for Augmented Analytics using machine-assisted insights, data science integration and ETL capabilities.
In October 2018, with the launch of Yellowfin 8 and the introduction of two additional products – Yellowfin Stories and Yellowfin Signals – the company changed its approach, releasing the platform as a suite of five packaged products. Yellowfin Signals is continuing development in the augmented analytics space, enabling a machine automated analytics product, while Stories added story telling capabilities. The signals capability uses automated mathematical analysis of data to generate personalized alerts of interesting changes. In Q3 2019, Yellowfin launched a new paradigm in mobile device consumption of data.
In April 2020, Yellowfin release the 9.X stream of its Business Intelligence suite; a change that shifted their position in the market from niche to visionary in the Gartner assessment for the 2020 Magic Quadrant.
Due to the early association with other software vendors, Yellowfin has continued to specialize in the embedded business intelligence market providing its solution as a white label product. The company's primary business model is growth via channel sales through resellers, software partners as well as industry alliances such as Sybase.
As a result of these partnerships Yellowfin has over 3 million end users and 27,000 clients in over 75 countries. The software is used across a broad range of industries including financial services, retail, telecommunications, logistics, professional services and government.

Corporate Achievements

February 2020: Gartner recognizes Yellowfin as a visionary in their Business Intelligence Magic Quadrant
April 2019: EMA Recognizes Yellowfin as ‘a leader in the use of AI’ for Business Intelligence
February 2019: Yellowfin Named in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms for sixth consecutive year
December 2018: Yellowfin Placed Top in Nucleus Research Analytics Value Matrix 2018
November 2018: Yellowfin Receives Top Rankings in World’s Largest Business Intelligence Survey
September 2018: Yellowfin recognized in Database Trends and Applications magazine's annual DBTA 100: The Companies That Matter Most in Data
May 2018: Yellowfin ranked among Top 5 analytics platforms across 15 Gartner Critical Capabilities for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms, 2018
March 2018: Yellowfin positioned in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and analytics platforms for fifth consecutive year
March 2018: Capterra again names Yellowfin amongst world's 10 most popular Business Intelligence and analytics solutions
January 2018: Yellowfin takes top position in Quark's list of the 54 best Business Intelligence tools
October 2017: BARC's The BI Survey 17 places Yellowfin first for Project Length, Project Success, and Business Value
April 2017: Yellowfin recognized as a Challenger in BARC's 2016 Score Business Intelligence report
April 2017: Info-Tech Research Group recognizes Yellowfin as Mid-Market Business Intelligence Champion, “best in class” for collaboration, and Enterprise BI Leader
February 2017: Yellowfin again positioned in Gartner's Magic Quadrant
February 2017: Docurated review names Yellowfin the best of the world's top BI tools
December 2016: Yellowfin ranked first for delivering BI projects within budget in BARC's The BI Survey 16
October 2016: Yellowfin top ranked for Usability in Ventana Research's 2016 Mobile BI Value Index
October 2016: Yellowfin named a leader in fourth consecutive Nucleus Research Value Matrix for Business Intelligence & Analytics
October 2016: Yellowfin “consistently top-ranked” for Innovation, Collaborative BI and ease-of-use: BARC's The BI Survey 16
July 2016: Blue Hill Research: Yellowfin ‘extends leadership’ in enterprise BI with Yellowfin 7.2
June 2016: Yellowfin named in Database Trends and Applications annual DBTA 100 for fourth consecutive year
April 2016: Yellowfin places first in Docurated list of 50 best BI tools for the second time
February 2016: Yellowfin positioned in 2016 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms for third consecutive year
October 2015: Yellowfin a top mid-sized deployments BI solution in BARC's The BI Survey 15
August 2016: Yellowfin a Leader in second consecutive Nucleus Value Matrix for Business Intelligence & Analytics
June 2015: Yellowfin named in Database Trends and Applications annual DBTA 100 for 2015
May 2015: Computerworld UK names Yellowfin among top Mobile BI apps
February 2015: Yellowfin rises in Gartner's Magic Quadrant
December 2014: Yellowfin announces launch of Japanese subsidiary
December 2014: Capterra names Yellowfin among top 20 Business Intelligence solutions
November 2014: Yellowfin named as a leader in Nucleus Value Matrix for Business Intelligence & Analytics
November 2014: BARC's The BI Survey 14: Yellowfin named top ranked dashboard vendor in Mobile BI, and recognized as the world's most innovative BI solution in ‘Dashboard’ and ‘Ad-hoc Reporting’ vendor peer groups.
November 2014: Technology Advice names Yellowfin one of world's best BI dashboard interfaces
September 2014: US Institute for Advancement of Trade & Commerce awards Yellowfin the 2014 Australian Excellence Award for the BI industry
July 2014: Docurated review of 50 BI tools ranks Yellowfin first
June 2014: Yellowfin named in Database Trends and Applications Magazine's top 100 list for the second consecutive year
February 2014: Yellowfin debuts in Gartner's Magic Quadrant
January 2014: Yellowfin identified as a 'Hot Vendor' in Ventana Research's 2014 Mobile BI Value Index
January 2014: Yellowfin lauded for usability in 2014 Nucleus Value Matrix for Business Intelligence & Analytics
January 2014: Yellowfin named a Champion in Info-Tech Research Group's 2014 mid market Business Intelligence report
December 2013: Yellowfin named a 2014 DBTA Trend Setting Product
November 2013: Yellowfin recognized as a top performing Enterprise, Dashboard and Ad-hoc analysis vendor in BARC's The BI Survey 13
November 2013: Yellowfin ranked first in Dresner Advisory Services' 2013 Wisdom of Crowds Business Intelligence Survey - a comparison of the world's foremost BI providers
2012: Yellowfin recognized as one of Australia's ‘coolest’ businesses; named as a finalist in Anthill Magazine's 2012 Cool Company Awards.
2012: Yellowfin ranked first in Dresner Advisory Services' 2012 Wisdom of Crowds Business Intelligence Survey - a comparison of the world's foremost BI providers
2012: BARC's The BI Survey 12 identifies Yellowfin as a leading "Dashboard vendor" and "Small to Medium Projects vendor".
2012: Yellowfin claims a Stevie® Award for its BI solution in the Business Applications category at the 10th Annual International Business Awards
2012: Yellowfin and client Macquarie University receive two awards for Location Intelligence at the sixth annual Ventana Research Leadership Awards
2012: Yellowfin's Mobile BI application for iPhone and iPad named as one of Australia's 100 most innovative products in Anthill Magazine's ‘SMART 100’ index
2011: Yellowfin achieves equal second highest score for second year running in Dresner Advisory Services’ Mobile Business Intelligence Market Study
2011: Yellowfin client, Macquarie University, wins the People's Choice Award at the inaugural 2011 Excellence in Business Intelligence Awards