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Pros
"The solution can read and write 500 different types of outputs.""It stands out for its ability to work across different platforms, support mainframe data, offer cloud integration, automate report scheduling, and provide a robust scripting language.""I would rate the scalability a ten out of ten. It's highly scalable and can handle significant data volumes.""The most valuable feature is building ad hoc reports."

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"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.""It is able to create information dashboards for various users' throughout.""It is a central source of up-to-date data and information."

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"The challenge lies not in what the tool can do but in how you use it and understand the data.""The solution can be improved by adding more automated options for reporting.""If there were to be any improvements right now, their documentation needs to get in sync with their product.""When it comes to customer support, we don't always reach the right person. Sometimes, we get junior-level reps who aren't as knowledgeable as we are."

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

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  • "I would rate the pricing a five out of ten, with ten being expensive."
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    WebFOCUS
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    Overview

    WebFOCUS is a strategic enterprise business intelligence (BI) and analytics platform that enables any executive, manager, analyst, employee, partner, or customer to execute smarter business from trusted data. The platform includes cutting-edge capabilities that provide organizations with everything they need to turn data into insight, and insight into impact.

    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.
    Sample Customers
    Ace Hardware, AutoZone, Fred Hutch, MasterCard, OFS Brands, PostFinance, Real D, Yellow Pages, ABC Financial, AcuSport, BBVA, Babcock
    NCS, Universitat Konstanz, AT&T, PG&E, SingTel, InternetStores
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Government62%
    Insurance Company15%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Logistics Company8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm20%
    Computer Software Company10%
    Government9%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company27%
    Government11%
    Financial Services Firm7%
    Insurance Company6%
    Company Size
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    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise67%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise75%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business35%
    Midsize Enterprise20%
    Large Enterprise45%
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    Information Builders WebFOCUS is ranked 10th in Embedded BI with 18 reviews while Yellowfin is ranked 13th in Embedded BI. Information Builders WebFOCUS is rated 8.8, while Yellowfin is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Information Builders WebFOCUS writes "A flexible mainframe product with unique file features and a rock solid scheduling feature". 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". Information Builders WebFOCUS is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, Alteryx and Databricks, whereas Yellowfin is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Apache Superset, 9 Spokes, Tableau and SAP Crystal Reports.

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