Yellowfin integrates Storyboard with new mobile BI iPad app

Johannesburg, 10 Oct 2013

Global business intelligence (BI) and analytics software vendor, Yellowfin, has launched a new version of its native iPad application for mobile BI, which incorporates Storyboard - its interactive PowerPoint-like presentation and collaboration module for BI content.

The application has also been restyled in line with Apple's recent iOS 7 update, offering a sleeker and smoother user experience. A new Browse Page enables users to search, find and interact with BI content - including reports, dashboards and Storyboards - faster.

To watch a brief overview video of Yellowfin's new iPad application, delivered by CEO Glen Rabie, go here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORmjVS8toR0&feature=youtu.be.

"Yellowfin's new iPad app builds on our consumer-oriented approach to BI, as well as our commitment to deliver clients the most immersive and collaborative user experience possible," said Rabie. "By adding Yellowfin's Storyboard functionality, users are able to integrate fully interactive BI content with a familiar presentation format, enabling people of any business background to easily share and benefit from data-based insights anywhere, any time.

"Yellowfin's new iPad app for mobile BI brings report interaction, market-leading ease-of-use and information collaboration together, within a single application, to change the way people use mobile BI by shifting the focus from technology to people."

Condensing the complexity of business intelligence

The iPad application is available for free download from Apple's App Store and comes as part of a standard Yellowfin licence.

This latest application replaces Yellowfin's previous native iPad application - released in November 2011 - and complements the recent addition of Yellowfin's hybrid HTML 5 application for Android devices, which was released in April this year. The new iPad app also retains all the features and functionality introduced in the previous version.

Yellowfin offers customers the ability to receive mobile analytics out-of-the-box, on any device or platform, at no additional cost, via native applications for the iPhone, iPad, hybrid HTML 5 application for Android devices or Web-browsers.

Storyboard was made publicly available, as a component of the core Yellowfin application, in December 2012.

Yellowfin: An industry leading mobile BI solution

The release of Yellowfin's latest mobile application reaffirms the vendor as a first-choice provider of mobile BI, capping an impressive 24 months in which:

* Dresner Advisory Services identified Yellowfin as a leading mobile BI solution in its latest (2012) Mobile Business Intelligence Market Study, which ranked and compared the world's foremost mobile BI providers
* The Business Applications Research Center's (BARC's) The BI Survey 12 - the world's largest end-user BI study - identified Yellowfin as a top dashboard vendor in mobile BI
* Analyst firm Ovum acknowledged Yellowfin as a top mobile BI vendor "leading the charge with feature-packed yet functional mobile solutions" in its report Solutions Guide: Mobile Business Intelligence
* Yellowfin was recognised in Gartner's latest Who's Who in Mobile BI report
* Enterprise IT media outlet, softwareadvice.com, ranked Yellowfin's iPad application for mobile BI among the best designs in the world

For more on Yellowfin's mobile BI capabilities, go here: http://www.yellowfinbi.com/YFWebsite-Mobile-Business-Intelligence-24436.

Storyboard

The Yellowfin Storyboard is a revolutionary new approach to business intelligence (BI) and business communications, and is set to rewrite the way people consume and act on their data. The platform represents a significant addition to Yellowfin's renowned collaborative capabilities, firmly cementing Yellowfin's position as a leader in collaborative BI.

Yellowfin's Storyboard is a fully integrated and interactive PowerPoint-like presentation and collaboration module for BI content, which redefines the information paradigm for communicating and acting on data.

Storyboard's presentation-oriented user interface (UI) enables the fact-based insight gleaned from BI to be naturally incorporated into organisational decision-making processes, while empowering a wider array of people from non-data-centric backgrounds to share and benefit from BI.

Storyboard is fully integrated into the core Yellowfin application, and comes as part of a standard Yellowfin licence. Users access Storyboard by logging into their Yellowfin instance via the browser and navigating to the Storyboard tab on the Yellowfin UI.

By blending BI with a comprehensive presentation platform, Storyboard enables users to integrate fully interactive data-rich presentations into their natural decision-making processes, to generate an analytics culture, realise a better return on investment (ROI) and drive real, fact-based action.

For further information, and to download the Storyboard Fact Sheet, go here: http://www.yellowfinbi.com/YFCommunityNews-Yellowfin-launches-Storyboard-redefines-information-delivery-paradigm-for-BI-122371.

Yellowfin South Africa

Yellowfin is a recognised leader in business intelligence, having been measured among the world's elite BI vendors by leading analyst firms and outscoring vendors such as SAS Institute, Microstrategy, Oracle, IBM Cognos, Microsoft and SAP Business Objects in independent research. Created with a focus on the user experience and the development of easy-to-use Web-based interfaces, Yellowfin makes business intelligence easy.

Yellowfin South Africa is the official distributor of the full range of Yellowfin products in sub-Saharan Africa, leveraging its local knowledge to provide clients with tailor-made business intelligence solutions. Working closely with clients to better understand their needs and the shifting technology landscape, Yellowfin South Africa offers world-leading mobile BI, collaborative BI and location intelligence solutions.

The catalyst for the creation of Yellowfin was years spent working with, and being frustrated by, the cost and complexity of traditional BI tools. With extensive field experience in delivering BI to real people, Yellowfin has a deep understanding of the everyday problems faced by businesses, and now boasts more than one million end-users and tens of thousands of clients in more than 50 countries.

Your complete business intelligence platform. From data to dashboards, Yellowfin delivers an amazing collaborative BI experience.

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