Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, January 30, 2014 -- Download the summary document containing the headline results for Yellowfin here: http://www.yellowfinbi.com/YFCommunityNews-Yellowfin-identified-as-a-standout-BI-solution-in-BARC-s-The-BI-Survey-13-154093

Yellowfin was ranked first for 11 Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) within the Enterprise Reporting Vendor Peer Group, which contained 10 products. Other products in this group comprised: Arcplan, Evidanza, IBM Cognos BI, Information Builders, Microsoft SSRS, MicroStrategy, Oracle BI Foundation Suite, SAP BO Web Intelligence and SAP BW.

BARC stated that the Enterprise Reporting Peer Group included vendors “better suited to more ambitious projects” which generally “take longer to implement”, and products capable of providing reporting in a “large scale enterprise situation”.

Vendors categorized in the Enterprise Reporting Peer Group were found to have the longest average implementation time, due to the complexity and size of deployments in which their products were typically involved.

By contrast, Yellowfin ranked first – both in its Enterprise Reporting Peer Group and compared to all 30 market-leading BI products examined in The BI Survey 13 – for project length.

“This result demonstrates Yellowfin’s ability to cater for the needs of complex enterprise-wide implementations,” said General Manager for EMEA at Yellowfin, Daniel Shaw-Dennis. “It also displays Yellowfin’s agility. Not only is Yellowfin easy to use, it’s also easy to deploy and scale, able to deliver results to even the largest of our clients quickly.”

Enterprise Reporting Vendor rankings

Yellowfin was the top ranked Enterprise Reporting Vendor in:

Project length: How long the product takes to implement
Proportion of employees: The percentage of employees that use the product
Chosen as standard: How often the product is chosen to standardize on by respondents in multi-product sites
User recommendation
Cloud BI
Mobile BI
Innovation: Combines the ‘Cloud BI’, ‘Collaboration’, ‘Mobile BI’ and ‘Advanced information design’ KPIs to measure the product’s level of innovation
Query performance
Performance satisfaction
Total Performance: A combination of the ‘Query performance’ and ‘Performance satisfaction’ KPIs
Vendor support: Measures user satisfaction with the level of vendor support provided for the product

Yellowfin was also identified as a leading Enterprise Reporting Vendor in:

Business benefits achieved
Goal achievement: The extent to which projects reach the goals initially set
Business achievement: The extent to which the product delivers business value and helps organizations achieve their goals
Competitive win rate: Based on the percentage of wins in competitive evaluations
Collaboration
Implementer support: Measures user satisfaction with the level of the implementer’s support for the product

Yellowfin was also ranked as a standout performer across many KPIs in the “Dashboard Vendor” and “Ad-hoc Analysis Vendor” Peer Groups.

The BI Survey is an annual worldwide study of BI software users produced by German-based analyst firm, BARC. A total of 3,149 respondents partook in The BI Survey 13.

About Yellowfin:
Yellowfin is a global Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics software vendor passionate about making BI easy. Yellowfin is headquartered and developed in Melbourne, Australia, offering a highly intuitive 100 percent Web-based reporting and analytics solution.

Founded in 2003 in response to the complexity and costs associated with implementing and using traditional BI tools, Yellowfin is a leader in mobile, collaborative and embeddable BI as well as Location Intelligence and data visualization. For more information, visit www.yellowfinbi.com

About BARC:
Business Application Research Center — BARC — is a leading independent software industry analyst delivering information to more than 1000 customers each year. For over ten years, BARC has specialized in core research areas including Data Management (DM), Business Intelligence (BI) and Enterprise Content Management (ECM).

About The BI Survey 13:
Now in its twelfth year of publication, The BI Survey is an annual report based on the world’s largest vendor-independent survey of Business Intelligence (BI) and Performance Management users. The BI Survey 13 attracted over 3000 responses. The BI Survey 13 uncovers the truth about why real-world organizations select BI products, how they use them, and with what success. It also compares the leading products on the market across a number of headline criteria, such as performance, scalability and vendor support.

For further media information, interviews, images or product demonstration, please contact:

Lachlan James, Communications Manager on +61 (0)3 8617 4954, +61 (0)431 835 658 or [email protected]

For regular updates and news, follow Yellowfin on Twitter (@YellowfinBI), LinkedIn (Yellowfin Business Intelligence) or email [email protected] to subscribe to Yellowfin’s free e-newsletter.

Contact:
Lachlan James
Yellowfin
Level 46, 360 Elizabeth Street
Melbourne 3000, Victoria, Australia
+61 0 3 8617 4954
[email protected]
http://www.yellowfinbi.com