Yellowfin’s architecture is unique in that it is a single integrated Business Intelligence application. This means that all of the Yellowfin functionality is available through a single unified interface. From report delivery, through to administration and integration services you will only ever interact with the one application. This reduces your training, deployment and administration costs.

Yellowfin has been developed for flexibility and performance from the ground up. The Yellowfin server is an Enterprise Java application that leverages open standards to ensure the best possible integration with windows, linux & unix databases and security systems.

1. The highly intuitive Yellowfin user interface is entirely web-based for administrators, report writers and end users.
2. Report and Dashboard creation is all point and click with wizards to guide you through the process. Business users can see all available data in business terms.
3. Advanced functionality such as complex formatting, multiple reports & graphs on the same page, drill down and through etc are all achieved without writing any code.

The Yellowfin server is based on the enterprise java industry-standard tomcat application server.

Out of the box the Yellowfin application server will support approximately 20 concurrent users on a single-processor server (eg. 2GHz with 1Gb RAM).

For larger installations, Yellowfin can be scaled either vertically (using larger servers) or horizontally (using load balancers and clustering). Yellowfin can be easily configured to run in a fault-tolerant cluster over several machines and behind dedicated web servers such as apache or IIS.

An out-of-the box installation of the Yellowfin server can be performed in less than an hour and will support a typical end user community of around 1,000 users.

Our experience has been that the identification and collation of the data to be reported on has been the critical/limiting factor in BI deployment time. Once this has been achieved, the Yellowfin platform can deliver results that re-define the BI benchmark for rapid delivery.

The reporting and dashboard development process is extremely quick and is generally measured in hours rather than days or weeks. Yellowfin has delivered a number of small to medium installations from planning through delivery & training in less than two weeks.