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		Open house on home-buyer browsing habits Melbourne-based business intelligence vendor Yellowfin has struck a deal with Real Estate Australia to provide over 9000 real estate agents access to click-stream data from advertising served on the realestate.com.au site.
		Logistics: Swings & roundabouts Logistics is getting smarter thanks to data warehousing and business intelligence. "RFID will deliver an explosion of data" that will lead to "telco styles level of data", predicts Glen Rabie, CEO of Yellowfin, a business Intelligence solution provider.
		Yellowfin latest release delivers on Gartner’s emerging technology vision This release is significant, in that it incorporates features that will enable rapid deployment and analysis such as in-memory analysis and Excel spreadsheets as a data source. The release of Yellowfin 5.0 is perfectly timed, with Gartner listing In-memory analytics, Columnar databases, Interactive visualization reports, Mobile BI applications, and Data mash-ups as the must-haves on all IT executive shopping lists at this years Gartner Summit. This is great news as Yellowfin 5.0 delivers on each of these features.
		Yellowfin turbo charges BI performance in milestone release Leading web-based BI provider, Yellowfin, will unveil their milestone release in May 2010. This release includes significant enhancements including an integrated in-memory database that turbo charges analysis, providing even greater insight and rapid deployment, requiring minimal IT involvement.
		USA firm selects leading BI provider for its integrated Location Intelligence eSite, Inc. today announced Yellowfin as the successful web based Business Intelligence vendor to provide them with integrated Location Intelligence. Yellowfin will be integrated into eSite Tools, a customized software toolkit to provide added reporting and analysis.
		Marvels on your mobile Yellowfin For iPhone (free) By Yellowfin This app allows Yellowfin Business Intelligence clients to connect to the browser-based service on the go. It has been downloaded 10,000 times by users who can track KPIs, write and view reports and drill down into the enterprise's BI data. The company will release BlackBerry and Android versions within 12 months.
		Businesses trading BlackBerry for iPhone We’ve certainly seen a massive uptake of the iPhone by the enterprise. Executives just want it and are telling the IT people to just make it work. There are cases where all executives have iPhones and the rest of the staff have Blackberries. Slowly it filters down
		Spatial Analysis – it is just what inbound marketing needs Since using Yellowfin for its Call Tracker solution, Jet’s customers have the ability to query the “where” as well as the “what” and the “when” from the call data collected, providing them with a distinct competitive advantage and a tangible way to track and measure the ROI of any marketing campaign and channel.
		Yellowfin launches its Business Intelligence application for the iPhone Unlike the majority of BI applications for the iPhone, which simply use the browser as a delivery mechanism, Yellowfin for the iPhone is a native application, which makes full use of the iPhone’s functionality to deliver Yellowfin’s renowned industry leading, ease of use and analytic capabilities. “What’s different about the Yellowfin application compared to other BI apps is that we understand that the Business intelligence needs of a Mobile worker are different from that of an analyst sitting at their PC.” says Yellowfin CEO, Glen Rabie, “They are not using their phone with its tiny screen to do advanced analytics, rather they want instant access to data without the fuss. This is why we have completely redesigned the user interface and navigation to meet the needs of the Mobile worker.”
		Yellowfin dives into Partnership with Techwave in the Philippines Leading Business intelligence (BI) firm, Yellowfin, today announced details of its exclusive distribution partnership with Techwave. The new alliance will see Techwave offer the Australian-developed BI solution to corporate and government clients as well as develop a larger reseller and partner community within the Philippines.
		Too much ink and poor dashboard design In a recent article in Computerworld, Monash University lecturer, Peter O’Donnell said he thinks BI solutions are too sexy, contributing to low utilisation rates. "A lot of the tools are very sexy. You can do 3D pie charts and donut charts; in theoretical terms it is known as the data to ink ratio. If you have embellishments and 3D effects you are using a lot of ink for only a small amount of data," he said. This he said makes it difficult for your average user to understand the reports generated out of the BI tool.
		Yellowfin CEO discusses BI and the role of Open Source The nature of the Business Intelligence industry is changing. Major acquisitions of the past few years have seen most of the traditional players rolled into the mega vendors, and now we are staring to see the emergence of alternative solutions. One of these is Open Source. In this Q&A we talk to Yellowfin CEO Glen Rabie about the business Intelligence industry and his take on the open source players.
		Yellowfin 4.1 Delivers Interactive Business Intelligence & GIS mashup capability Yellowfin the leader in easy to use Business Intelligence today announced the immediate availability of Yellowfin 4.1 with enhanced GIS functionality. Unlike the majority of BI applications which integrated 3rd party Geographic Information System applications to provide spatial analysis, Yellowfin 4.1 delivers a fully integrated GIS capability tightly meshed with Yellowfin’s renowned industry leading ease of use and analytic capabilities. More than just static maps Yellowfin 4.1 provides users with a high degree of GIS functionality all within a standard reporting and dashboard environment.
		How Business Intelligence and GIS are becoming more integrated. Most people may think of geographic information systems (GIS) simply as Google maps or the navigation system for their car, but GIS tools do a lot more than help people get from A to B. Businesses are adding a spatial dimension to data to help make critical decisions in this tough economy.
		Yellowfin Releases 4.1 Yellowfin customers benefit from enhanced dashboards, iPhone BI and visualisation capabilities and over 80 new features.
		Yellowfin scales to the heights of the cloud Business intelligence (BI) firm Yellowfin has launched a new version of its flagship Yellowfin product with enhanced capability for cloud deployments.
		Coffee Chat with Yellowfin Business Intelligence, CEO Glen Rabie According to Rabie, just like its love of coffee, Melbourne is the centre of development for Business Intelligence applications.
		Its time for rapid BI deployments Companies without BI capabilities need to act quickly, since without it they will be very exposed in the coming months and years
		Yellowfin recognised among 25 rising companies that CIO’s must know about. MIS Magazine has recognised Yellowfin Business Intelligence as a rising star with inclusion in its strategic 100 list for 2008.
		Location Intelligence and the role of BI Applications Now, with location intelligence, managers can get their own answers and revise their search and presentation criteria repeatedly, They can start with a map, drill through to other data sources and reports for more detail, select certain records from a table (for instance, sales revenue by product line within a state or territory) and create a new colour-coded map (this is known as bidirectional integration). They can also choose to receive email or SMS alerts if a value goes outside a predefined range.

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Last Updated: 3 August 2010