Marketplace Announcment: "Yellowfin Reporting" Version 3 rollout

Release 3 continues to emphasise Yellowfin's commitment to delivering
the very best in web based operational BI. This release is another
large step in defining web based reporting capability.

Some of the major features in this release include:

* User Interface and Drag and Drop Design Changes
* Calculated Fields & Advanced Analytic Functions
* Exception Based Reporting
* OLAP and Lotus Notes Connectivity
* Integration and Embedding Improvements

We continue to enhance the User Interface to deliver greater
functionality without additional complexity by focusing our efforts on
how business users interact with the web. BI should not be rocket
science and our commitment to reducing complexity is the driver for our
interface design. The use of drag and drop functionality is one such
example, this has been integrated into our dashboard builder and for
chart placement and resizing.

Naturally users are demanding more from their reporting environments
with version 3 you can now access the expression builder for creating
calculations on the fly as well as building customised Advanced
Analytic Functions that allow your users to manipulate data in a way
that is relevant for your business and independent of the database from
where your data is sourced.

A further refinement to our broadcast capability is the ability to
defined exception based reporting. With the amount of information
delivered to managers growing at an alarming pace you can limit the
number of irrelevant reports they receive by only sending them if they
meet certain criteria.

Writing reports may be easy, buts it's tough if you cannot access all
your organisational data. With Yellowfin you can now report from OLAP
cubes as well as Lotus Notes / Domino data sources. Why build a data
mart when you should be able to access all your data directly from the
source for operational reports. Once again we have considered the end
user to ensure that the process for building reports does not change
based on the source of your data. After all your users should not have
to learn a new interface for every data source that they access.

To meet the integration needs of operational BI Yellowfin continues to
refine its security and embedding options. In release 3 we have added
additional functionality to LDAP directory integration and made
significant improvements to our Web Services providing you with a full
SOA approach to integrating Yellowfin into your applications.