“The new application brings Yellowfin’s support for Android devices into line with its industry acclaimed and award-winning support for Apple’s iOS platform,” said Yellowfin CEO, Glen Rabie. “Yellowfin for Android now integrates Yellowfin’s renowned ease-of-use and collaborative capabilities to deliver a Mobile BI application based on the intuitive, interactive and collaborative principles underpinning the world’s foremost social media platforms and applications.”
The application is available for free download from the Android Marketplace and complements Yellowfin’s native applications for iPad and iPhone, released in November 2011 and April 2012 respectively.
Features and functionality
Yellowfin’s new Android application supports device multi-touch interface, and includes all the ease-of-use and interactivity now synonymous with the vendor’s mobile offerings.
A completely restyled User Interface (UI) mirrors Yellowfin’s current apps for iOS, enabling users to view all their dashboard tabs and favorites at a glance, Interact with reports, toggle between chart and table mode with a single swipe. A dropdown inbox allows users to control all information delivery, access and dissemination from one central location. The new UI also makes knowledge sharing easier, allowing users to comment on, annotate and email reports – to incite action – with a few simple touches.
Users can subscribe to and save ‘favorite’ reports, filter results, drill down and through reports, sort data and set alerts. The new application also embraces Yellowfin’s author once, consumer anywhere approach – any reports created via the browser are immediately ready for mobile distribution. Customers gain the benefits of Mobile BI immediately.
Enriched analytical capabilities include the ability to apply series selection and section reports. Series selection allows users to dynamically change the metric or metrics that are being displayed on a chart, enabling easier interpretation of charts that are crowded or have different scales. Section reports allow users to split-up a report into multiple sections, making it easier to compare categorical information and identify trends.
Yellowfin: Responding to the ‘consumerization’ of BI
Rabie said that the new application would deliver a compelling mobile reporting and analytics experience by embracing the ‘consumerizaiton’ of BI and enterprise IT at large.
“Above all else, we want to offer business people a genuinely enjoyable, collaborative user experience – so the application has been designed with a consumer mentality front-of-mind,” said Yellowfin CEO, Glen Rabie. “We’ve looked at how people like to use leisure-oriented mobile applications, interact and share content on popular social media platforms, and replicated that experience in a business environment. As with Yellowfin’s applications for iOS, we wanted to ensure that customers accessing BI from Android-based mobile devices could also engage with their BI content, and each other, in an immersive and enjoyable fashion.”
Yellowfin’s Android app to help boost lackluster BI adoption rates
Industry experts agree that the growing popularity of user-friendly Mobile BI applications may provide an antidote to persistently poor BI user adoption rates. BI user adoption rates are estimated to sit anywhere between eight and 24 percent of potential users.
Analyst firm Nucleus Research predicated that increased Mobile BI usage during 2013 would see BI adoption rates double worldwide this year.
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 18 months in which:
DAS identified Yellowfin as a leading Mobile BI solution in its latest Mobile Business Intelligence Market Study, which ranked and compared the world’s foremost Mobile BI providers
The Business Applications Research Center’s (BARC) 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 recognized in Gartner’s latest Who’s Who in Mobile BI report
Yellowfin offers customers the ability to receive mobile analytics out-of-the-box, on any device or platform, via native applications for the iPhone, iPad and Android platforms, Web-browser or HTML 5 integration.
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.
