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We performed a comparison between Google Data Studio and Yellowfin based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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"The company dashboard is useful because we could share it via a link as a reminder for everyone to check it weekly. We observed the progress of our portfolio from last week to the current week, allowing us to compare revenues.""Valuable features include advanced integrated analysis and easy implementation.""I find it favorable regarding speed of development, ease of building, and flexibility.""The ability to design complex data models and equations.""The ability to integrate with a great variety of data sources.""The solution is free so that is a good feature.""This has improved our organization by allowing people to see their data and develop visualizations themselves.""Data Studio integrates seamlessly with other Google products, and we can use it with other APIs if we like."

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"It is a central source of up-to-date data and information.""It is able to create information dashboards for various users' throughout.""It reduces time to reproduce reports, provides easy access to organisational data, and has the ability to generate a wide range of reports and analysis."

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"There are issues with integration and I encountered limits and warnings, especially with my pivot table size.""Panels are not as easy to use as other data extraction UIs.""It's not yet a replacement for a complete BI tool.""When you physically install a product on one machine instead of the cloud, you have a better visibility, best icon quality, etc.. It's more of an issue with how we are adapting to the transition. We are still in the early moments of using this tool, and we need to go deeper to discover some improvements.""Other tools might be worth considering if you need more advanced features or support for a larger user base.""Stability and scalability an be improved for a full ten.""The tool should come up with data modeling layer features that are present in other products like Power BI.""There is a significant degree of sophistication required to compete with Tableau or Cognos."

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"It needs more presentation/charting capabilities and integration with GIS."

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  • "The tool is free."
  • "The solution is free but the Google Looker is expensive."
  • "The cost is quite affordable based on feature analysis."
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    Overview

    Google Data Studio (beta) turns your data into informative dashboards and reports that are easy to read, easy to share, and fully customizable. Dashboarding allows you to tell great data stories to support better business decisions.

    Yellowfin offers a business intelligence (BI) platform that allows users to interact with big data in a variety of ways. Yellowfin works to provide big data access to companies of all sizes, from small business to billion-dollar enterprises. It is designed for providing data quickly and allowing users to filter for specific results, maximizing gain from big data. Yellowfin has a variety of dashboards so the user can filter, drill to detail, and have data analysis in the same browser. The data can also be easily shared with others via email, wiki embed, and reports. There is a mobile app as well, which works automatically with the desktop dashboards to allow users to access their data on the go, and alerts can be set up to notify a user via email or push to a mobile device if the data is indicating a critical event taking place. Yellowfin also can map data to locations, providing not only the what of data, but also the where. Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust provides its community in England with mental health and community care services. Using Yellowfin's mobile business intelligence capabilities to deliver reporting and analytics to approximately 6000 clinicians, Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust was able to greatly improve the quality of its patient care. Yellowfin allowed the Trust to access and share independent data from mobile devices as well as create a Balanced Scoreboard to quickly gather and report information on the company's performance to its executives, management, and directors.
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    Genesys, Shueisha
    NCS, Universitat Konstanz, AT&T, PG&E, SingTel, InternetStores
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company16%
    Manufacturing Company10%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Educational Organization7%
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    Computer Software Company27%
    Government9%
    Financial Services Firm8%
    Insurance Company6%
    Company Size
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    Small Business38%
    Midsize Enterprise25%
    Large Enterprise38%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business24%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise61%
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    Small Business36%
    Midsize Enterprise21%
    Large Enterprise44%
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    Google Data Studio is ranked 13th in Reporting with 8 reviews while Yellowfin is ranked 31st in Reporting. Google Data Studio is rated 7.6, while Yellowfin is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Google Data Studio writes "The cloud environment makes it easier to use large volumes of data and collaborate with coworkers". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Yellowfin writes "Very scalable design and easy to implement. It can reside alongside more complex enterprise systems". Google Data Studio is most compared with Amazon QuickSight, Tableau, Looker, Microsoft Power BI and QlikView, whereas Yellowfin is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Apache Superset, 9 Spokes and Tableau.

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