Yellowfin Identified as a Standout BI Solution in BARC's The BI Survey 12
Global Business Intelligence (BI) developer, Yellowfin, has been identified as a leading "Dashboard vendor" and "Small to Medium Projects vendor" in the Business Applications Research Center's (BARC).
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"Yellowfin's commanding performance in BARC's The BI Survey 12 - the world's largest and must revered annual study of global BI software users - clearly demonstrates our inspired approach to BI," said Yellowfin CEO, Glen Rabie. "This unrivaled result proves the ability of our product to exceed peer performance in critical product and service metrics, and deliver the breadth of world-class features that modern BI users demand, while surpassing their expectations."

Yellowfin was ranked first for 13 criteria within the Dashboard vendor Peer Group, which contained eight vendors beside Yellowfin. Other vendors in this group comprised: Arcplan, BOARD, Decisyon, Dimensional Insight, Information Builders, MicroStrategy, Oracle OBIEE and QlikTech.

Yellowfin was ranked first in eight criteria within the Small to Medium (SME) Projects vendor Peer Group, which contained 18 vendors. Other vendors in this group comprised: Bissantz, BOARD, Cognos TM1 (IBM), Cubeware, Cyberscience, Decisyon, Dimensional Insight, Evidanza, Infor, Jedox, Microsoft SSAS, Microsoft SSRS, Pentaho, Phocas, QlikTech, Tableau and TARGIT.

"Survey outcomes show that Yellowfin is a highly agile and intuitive BI solution, which enables customers to achieve expected business benefits and reach BI project goals in relatively short timeframes," said Melanie Mack, head of market research at BARC. "Yellowfin's pervasive BI features make it easy to use and deploy, facilitating swift business user independence, and resulting in remarkably high penetration rates throughout its client organizations.

"Yellowfin also performs very well in growly important feature - function areas, such as cloud and Mobile BI, making it a highly innovative and recommended product."

The BI Survey is an annual worldwide study of BI software users produced by BARC.

About Yellowfin:
Yellowfin is a global Business Intelligence (BI) 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).

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Lachlan James, Communications Manager on +61 03 9090 0454, 0431 835 658 or lachlan.james@yellowfin.bi

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Contact:
Lachlan James
Yellowfin
Level 46, 360 Elizabeth Street
Melbourne 3000, VIC
+61 0 3 9090 0454
lachlan.james@yellowfin.bi
http://www.yellowfinbi.com

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