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 Posted by YellowFin Announcements on 08/21/06 01:21 
FYI: Notice to all SQLserver based users on YF2.5 or less.... 
 
Release 3 continues to emphasise Yellowfin's Reporting'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.
 
  
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