Yellowfin Customer Reviews 2026 | Business Intelligence & Analytics

Yellowfin

Composite Score

7.1 /10

CX Score

7.2 /10

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What is Yellowfin?

The Yellowfin Analytics Platform is an enterprise analytics platform that enables organizations to extract transformational value from their data. The Platform combines action-based dashboards, automated data discovery, and data storytelling into a single, integrated, seamless platform.

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Awards & Recognition

Yellowfin won the following awards in the Business Intelligence & Analytics - Enterprise category

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2 Top Rated Capabilities

12 Top Rated Features

2024

Service Experience

2023

0 Top Rated Capabilities

3 Top Rated Features

2023

Yellowfin Ratings

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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

82 Likeliness to Recommend

3
Since last award

92 Plan to Renew

3
Since last award

88 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

5
Since last award

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+83 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Yellowfin?

3% Negative

2% Neutral

95% Positive

Pros

Respectful
Enables Productivity
Acts with Integrity
Continually Improving Product

Cons

Vendor's Interest First
Less Caring
Inhibits Innovation

Feature Ratings

Average 95

Collaboration

Dashboard

Real-Time Visualization

Spatial Analysis

Metadata Management

Mobile

Data Connectors and Data Mashup

BI Platform Administration

Advanced Analytics and Data Science

BI Security

Self Service and Ad Hoc Capabilities

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 71

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Implementation

Quality of Features

Business Value Created

Breadth of Features

Ease of Customization

Vendor Support

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of IT Administration

Availability and Quality of Training

Usability and Intuitiveness

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Yellowfin Reviews

Eric H.

Role: Finance
Industry: Insurance
Involvement: End User of Application

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Submitted Aug 2023

Cost effective and quite capable

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Yellowfin from other similar products?

Fair pricing for a large feature set in comparison to others. We can create a tabular format, cross tab, and charts.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The breadth of report development features is massive. The graphical UI is easy to use and allows for advance configuration of Cubes.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Management of the system was slow to understand initially and I have had a few headaches with upgrading the environments.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Very cost effective and flexible in creating reports and embedding them into your applications.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Johan B.

Role: Finance
Industry: Media
Involvement: End User of Application

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Submitted Jul 2023

Cost effective tool

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Yellowfin from other similar products?

It has excellent report development tools and we are getting insightful analysis very quickly.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It’s very easy to connect to multiple data sources and it has an easy to use interface.

What do you dislike most about this product?

While this program is rather bug-free, we did have a few issues loading charts.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

The program was easy to setup and use and it was also very affordable.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Abhishek V.

Role: Sales Marketing
Industry: Food and Beverage
Involvement: End User of Application

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Submitted Mar 2023

User-friendly data visualization

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Yellowfin from other similar products?

Yellowfin has a drag-and-drop feature and it allows us to share reports and dashboards with our team members as well as externally. Its versatility extends to being able to connect with most databases.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

From analyzing consumer behavior and sales forecasting to real-time process monitoring, the analyzing, planning, and reporting processes provided by Yellowfin are way more efficient and accurate.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Yellowfin has evolved into an end-to-end analytics platform that is able to compete with the new BI tools available today. It has a sophisticated AI.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Any employee without technical expertise, even interns, can access and analyze data necessary for their respective teams using Yellowfin.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

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Awards & Recognition

Yellowfin Ratings

82 Likeliness to Recommend

3 Since last award

92 Plan to Renew

3 Since last award

88 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

5 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+83 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Yellowfin?

Pros

Cons

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Collaboration Includes ability to view, share and direct work between co-workers in real or near real-time.

Dashboard Includes alerts and notifications, KPIs, visual analytics, and interactive features.

Real-Time Visualization Ability to analyze and visualize data as soon as it becomes available via data-streaming pipelines.

Spatial Analysis Ability to natively visualize and analyze spatial data out of the box tied to postcode, zipcode or spacial co-ordinates.

Metadata Management A metadata layer makes reporting easy and eliminates the need for coding and SQL, allowing users to see and access information in simple business language.

Mobile Ability to support multiple devices, OSes and platforms using mobile optimized, HTML-based web access and/or native applications.

Data Connectors and Data Mashup Connect to, merge and clean data from multiple diverse data sources.

BI Platform Administration Centralized console to manage BI portal administration. Management metrics and reports on usage, resource utilization, security, and other activities.

Advanced Analytics and Data Science Techniques including predictive, data and text mining, machine learning, forecasting, what-if analysis, sentiment analysis etc.

BI Security Data access control management, including access permissions management, user authentication and enforcement of access permissions via technology.

Self Service and Ad Hoc Capabilities Selected user groups are able to interact with BI data, slice and dice, and find answers on their own.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

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Business Intelligence & Analytics - Midmarket

Yellowfin Reviews

Eric H.

Cost effective and quite capable

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Johan B.

Cost effective tool

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Abhishek V.

User-friendly data visualization

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

3
Since last award

3
Since last award

5
Since last award

Feature Ratings

Collaboration

Dashboard

Real-Time Visualization

Spatial Analysis

Metadata Management

Mobile

Data Connectors and Data Mashup

BI Platform Administration

Advanced Analytics and Data Science

BI Security

Self Service and Ad Hoc Capabilities

Vendor Capability Ratings

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Implementation

Quality of Features

Business Value Created

Breadth of Features

Ease of Customization

Vendor Support

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of IT Administration

Availability and Quality of Training

Usability and Intuitiveness