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Sybase Partners with Yellowfin, Australian BI company

Sunday, 10 August 2008

Sybase Australia, a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure and mobile software, has entered into a sales alliance with Yellowfin to co-sell its market leading column-based database, Sybase® IQ, with Australian Business Intelligence software company,Yellowfin providing the front-end BI presentation layer and easy-to-use interface.

Sybase IQ is a highly optimised analytics server designed specifically to deliver faster results for mission-critical business intelligence, data warehouse and reporting solutions on any standard hardware and operating systems. Its column-based architecture works with diverse data – including unstructured data – and diverse data sources to deliver unsurpassed query performance at the lowest price available.

Yellowfin is a flexible 100 per cent Web-based solution for reporting and analytics, providing a full range of data access, presentation and information delivery capabilities. Yellowfin enables any individual comfortable using a web browser to quickly visualise data through the use of charting, trending, dashboards and alerts.

“This alliance is highly strategic for both Sybase and Yellowfin,” said Steve Dolan, Director Channels & Alliances in A/NZ for Sybase. “Using Yellowfin’s presentation layer as the front end of Sybase IQ provides organisations with an all-encompassing business intelligence solution to very quickly find and analyse valuable corporate information. In today’s rapidly changing business environments, information and performance management is an important competitive differentiator.”

The partnership has already resulted in a successful outcome with Yellowfin and Sybase IQ jointly implemented at Paymark, New Zealand’s leading payment transaction company. Transactional data and reports are now loaded and produced in real-time for Paymark’s executive team.

For Yellowfin’s Chief Executive Officer, Glen Rabie, the partnership with Sybase is testimony to its technology capabilities and business development goals.

“We have specifically focused on tailoring the Yellowfin solution for Sybase IQ to link an extremely fast analytics server to a BI solution that makes mass data deployment easy and cost-effective. Sybase retains the relationship with its corporate client base who now benefit from a more user friendly front-end interface whilst Yellowfin gains a much larger potential revenue pipeline with such a significant partner.This deal also confirms our belief that Yellowfin is worldclass product with enormous global potential,” Rabie said.

[Steve Bennett]

This is a technology play. They are a local company with global sales relationships with a number of other more well known technology companies.

As I understand it, they use the web to offer technology that links report content to GIS data, giving users the capability to deliver 'location-based' reporting via the likes of Google Maps, Heat Maps or other GIS applications. I think that the idea is to give you a GIS capability without having to implement a GIS system yourself. Sounds interesting to me.

Use of AJAX technologies results in a small end-user footprint and some very slick looking reports.

Their website is here.

[Jo Vincent]

Yellowfin Achieves BI Success with Asia Pacific Telcos

Business Intelligence software company, Yellowfin today announced its successful foray into the Asia Pacific telecommunications sector through its expanding partner network.

07 October, 2008

Business Intelligence software company, Yellowfin today announced its successful foray into the Asia Pacific telecommunications sector through its expanding partner network. Two organisations, InterAcct Solutions and Utilibill have selected the Yellowfin web-based Business Intelligence (BI) reporting application as the front end presentation layer for their customer business reporting solutions throughout Asia Pacific.

The Yellowfin BI solution has been designed to address the issues surrounding the processing and analysis of vast amounts of complex data typically encountered by telecommunications operators, in the easiest possible manner. Yellowfin is a flexible 100 per cent Web-based solution for reporting and analytics, providing a full range of data access, presentation and information delivery capabilities.

“Yellowfin’s focus is to support BI for the masses,” according to Glen Rabie, Chief Executive Officer for Yellowfin. “Here at Yellowfin we approach BI differently – our solution is not limited to specialists - anyone in an organisation who is comfortable using a web browser can benefit from it as it’s intuitive and easy to use.”

Continuing on from its success in the United States telecommunications market, Yellowfin is targeting the Asia Pacific telecommunications market to provide detailed reporting solutions for operators requiring assistance with reporting on everything from SMS, billing, mobile payments and global roaming.

Yellowfin is now working with a range of innovative organisations that have identified that an easy, flexible solution like Yellowfin is more efficient and economically beneficial than one large, complex and unwieldy BI solution.

“We believe that this will be a key driving factor in the growth of the telecommunications sector for Yellowfin. We project that this vertical market will become 25 percent of our overall revenue,” Rabie continued.

For InterAcct Solutions Group, the incorporation of the Yellowfin BI presentation layer into the organisation’s pre-paid customer care service for a major Australian telecommunications operator is crucial.

InterAcct Solutions Group has deployed the Yellowfin BI solution in ten of the major telecommunications networks in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and China. The Yellowfin solution will provide the presentation layer for a suite of secure but flexible mobile payment solutions available for all customer handsets.

“The complexity and quantity of data most telecommunications operators manage on a daily basis is astounding. The presentation of this information to many layers of management within an organisation is key. There is no point in presenting reams of tables with indecipherable information; it must be graphical, easy-to-read and of high quality. We achieve this through our relationship with Yellowfin,” outlined Chris Eyles, Group Chief Executive Officer, InterAcct Solutions Group.

In Australia, Utilibill has also incorporated the Yellowfin BI solution as its presentation layer for reporting for specific clients.

“With existing clients we have been able to streamline the presentation of a number of different billing applications into one business report. This has greatly increased the visibility of the business for both management and business owners and minimised any unnecessary development of internal applications. Yellowfin BI now collects the information for a wide range of uses within the organisation,” commented Igor Green, CEO, Utilibill.

Ends

About Yellowfin www.yellowfin.bi Yellowfin is passionate about making Business Intelligence easy. Its leading web-based BI solution can be easily integrated into any third-party application or delivered as a stand-alone enterprise platform. Yellowfin is an innovative and flexible solution for reporting and analytics, providing a full range of data access, presentation and information delivery capabilities.

About InterAcct Solutions Group www.iasgrp.com InterAcct Solutions Group is a specialist, business-to-business, Unstructured Supplementary Services Data (USSD) solutions provider. The company was founded in 2001 having developed proprietary technology that facilitates the deployment of applications and services that utilise the benefits of USSD technology. InterAcct Solutions Group is headquartered in Sydney and is assisting network operators; financial institutions and third-party content providers deploy wireless data services in Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand.

About Utilibill www.utilibill.com.au Utilibill Pty Ltd was incorporated in 2005 and now supplies services to over 100 Service Providers. Utilibill’s goal is to deliver software applications that are secure, reliable, predictable, user friendly and feature rich. Its systems base infrastructure has been built to provide its customers with increased efficiencies driven through modular design and automation of otherwise manual processes and procedures. Utilibill was built from ground up as a Telecommunications and Utility billing, rating, payment and provisioning system using today’s technologies.

For further information please contact: Glen Rabie Yellowfin 03 9642 2241 Shuna Boyd BoydPR 02 9418 8100

[fgeorge]

Rust Report 27 Nov 2009

Michael Lohmann has joined Australian BI specialist Yellowfin to develop the company's Asia/Pacific partner network. With more than 10 years' experience in IT and software, Lohmann was most recently senior director for Asia/Pacific at Embarcadero.

By Jessica Stanic on Wednesday, 2 December 2009

Business intelligence firm, Yellowfin, today announced the launch of its business intelligence application specifically designed for the iPhone.

Yellowfin for the iPhone allows business executives access to important corporate data on the go. The app has been designed to sharpen the focus on key performance indicators, and give Yellowfin clients a full range of functionality to explore relationships in data and deliver hundreds of reports to an organisation. The app also allows the user to drive action through proactive alerts and exception reporting.

Yellowfin CEO, Glen Rabie said business owners are increasingly using their smartphones for business where they want instant access to data without the fuss.

“Let’s be honest, as a business leader you do not have time to wade through a stack of reports on or offline. Instead you want to have your finger on the pulse of the enterprise. If this pulse quickens or slows outside of the norm you want to be able to take immediate action,” he said.

For more information, please visit Yellowfin - Making Business Intelligence Easy

Earlier this week Yellowfin launched v5.0 which now features an In-Memory database as the major feature addition, along with the capability of connecting to 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 year’s Gartner Summit. This is great news as Yellowfin 5.0 delivers on each of these features.

In case you missed the webinar a recording can now be viewed here; http://yellowfinteam.com/downloads/webinar.wmv

Yellowfin 5.0 is not only making Business Intelligence easy but fast as well. With Yellowfin’s in-memory database queries will be lighting fast, and the ability to deploy even faster. Three simple steps are all it takes to connect to your data source, map your meta-data and then visualize your data.

More information about 5.0 as well as a white paper on in-memory analytics can also be viewed from our website here; Yellowfin Information Collaboration

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Ingres and Yellowfin team for rapid reporting

By Stephen Withers
Tuesday, 05 April 2011 08:00

Database vendor Ingres and business intelligence specialist Yellowfin have teamed up for joint sales of VectorWise and Yellowfin as a complete, fast and easy to use enterprise reporting and analytics system.

Ingres' Melbourne office overlooks the Melbourne Grand Prix circuit in Albert Park, so the company followed the lead of the the Grand Prix's 'ultimate speed comparison' handicap race between a C63 Mercedes, a V8 Supercar and a Formula 1 car.

While the 55 second headstart for the Mercedes and 24 seconds for the V8 saw all three vehicles cross the finishing line in short order, it turned out that the database shootout needed a bigger handicap.

An unspecified commercial database ("we can't actually say what it is because of the contract [which forbids the publication of comparative performance]," said John Ryan, Asia Pacific marketing manager at Ingres Australia) was given a 55 second handicap against Ingres VectorWise running the same query on the same data on identical hardware. VectorWise returned the result in less than one second, whereas 'brand X' took well over three minutes.

The test involved a 12GB database containing 72 million rows, based on the data from the DBT3 benchmark.

Jason Leonidas, vice president, Asia Pacific sales and services, explained that most DBMSes are generic and require a lot of tuning to suit any particular workload, whereas VectorWise is designed for excellent performance on ad hoc queries. It show that "what you should be using [in those situations] is a purpose-built database," ie VectorWise.

VectorWise promises rapid 'slicing and dicing'.

It allows rapid 'slicing and dicing' without having to prepare cubes, indexes, aggregations or other concepts usually associated with business intelligence (BI), he told iTWire. Those tasks involve skilled staff and take time, and rely on knowing what questions will be asked.

But with VectorWise, "the power is in the ability to do this without all the infrastructure" and the advance planning.

Melbourne-based Yellowfin's BI software has been certified on VectorWise, and the products will be sold together as a complete enterprise reporting and analytics solution. The bottleneck with BI is usually the capacity to massage and explore the data, Yellowfin CEO and co-founder Glen Rabie told iTWire. "VectorWise compresses the delivery cycle," he said.

Since Yellowfin's product addresses the interface issues and allows users to build reports very quickly, "this combination [Yellowfin and VectorWise] is ideal for them," he said. "Most business people don't have a very clear idea of the questions they want to ask," but with Yellowfin and VectorWise they can ask questions as they arise without worrying if the preparation has been done. If the organisation's strategy changes, the relevant reports can be quickly obtained.

Mr Rabie said Yellowfin was able to deliver 192 different reports in just six weeks to a client that had budgeted for the job to take one year. Another instance saw the creation of four dashboards and a couple of dozen reports in three days. For comparison, the the 2010 TDWI (The Data Warehousing Institute) BI Benchmark Report found that it took an average of 6.6 weeks to build one complex report or dashboard.

Users have been conditioned by Google searches to expect quick responses to queries, and organisations are increasingly looking to replace canned reporting with user-driven ad hoc and on-demand reporting. Yellowfin and VectorWise make this possible without the need for a data warehouse. In particular, the Japanese market is "very excited" about what the combination of Yellowfin and VectorWise can do, claimed Mr Rabie. "The joint value proposition is so important."

Performance is known to be an important criterion when choosing a BI system. Mr Ryan pointed to BI Survey 8 (compiled by BI vendor Board) that showed it was the highest ranked criterion from a business-benefits perspective.

Although a data warehouse is not required, it is still necessary to copy data from the production (transaction-oriented) database into a VectorWise database, but this can be done automatically and in near real-time, Mr Leonidas explained. It is not possible to get the performance required for both transaction processing and BI from one DBMS, he said.

Users of conventional BI products have found it can take as much as three days to build a cube, he claimed, and the typical IT approach of throwing additional hardware at a problem does not work in this situation: doubling the hardware does not halve processing time.

Like VectorWise, Yellowfin is "a clean, fresh architecture" that is lightweight and fast. "If the customer has the issue [the need for rapid ad hoc query processing], they will see the value [in the products]," he said.

Existing VectorWise uses include financial institutions in North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region, and they are all seeing performance improvements in the range of 50 to 100 times, said Mr Leonidas. "It's the biggest step change... that's ever occurred."

VectorWise recently set a new record (by a huge margin) for the TPC-H benchmark for 100GB of data.

Yellowfin is a business Intelligence suite built on the foundation of
J2EE, incorporating, BIRT, Jasper, Spring, JFreeChart. The JAVA core makes Yellowfin a powerful, flexible and robust solution for database reporting.

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