Analyst firm, Gleanster, is Conducting Market Research for its annual Agile Business Intelligence Benchmark Report.

Fill out this 5 min. survey regarding your BI expectations and receive a complimentary copy of the survey findings and be entered into a drawing for a $100 Amazon gift card.  http://gleanster.limeask.com/54839/lang-en

The benchmark report will focus on BI best practices for enabling democratized and continuous data access, as well as increased agility – the ability to quickly and effectively analyze data to make better, faster business decisions.

The report will include a comparative vendor rankings section, based on four key dimensions: Ease of Deployment, Ease of Use, Features and Functionality, and Overall Value.

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The way that you get information directly affects the way that you use it or learn the things that you need to know. With so much out there to choose from in the world of business intelligence, you’ve got to put your business needs first. Look for simple, affordable information delivery systems that are focused on making things easier for your business. It’s really that simple. You can test drive BI software to see what your options are like. Don’t rule out free programs because free BI software is out there that can be effective. If you want better solutions, they’re waiting for you. Just get out there and get more from your information delivery and reporting tools, no matter what it takes.

When you’re investing in new software for your business, you always have to know what you’re getting into. With so many different products out there, it can be hard to narrow down the options. Fortunately, there are companies that allow you to test drive BI software before you buy. It gives you the chance to see exactly what you’re working with in a real-time application. Being able to implement this into your business will give you the chance to know exactly what you are looking at so that there’s no guesswork in choosing the best programs.

Take the time to create KPIs, or use your existing ones if you already have them in place, and put them into the system. Then, let the integrated tools and features show you exactly what you’re getting. You’ll be able to enjoy interactive visualization, which will put everything right out there where you can see it, make changes to forecast, and play with your data to get the best possible outcomes and learn where changes need to be made. It’s all about making your life easier and this software really does a great job of simplifying if you find the right products.

When you test drive BI software, you should have some experience with this process. You don’t have to be technically knowledgeable, at all, but a basic understanding of business intelligence will make it much easier for you to see what you are getting. You can’t utilize things like scorecards, KPIs, metrics, multi-tenant BI applications, and other tools if you have no idea what they are or how to use them, after all. You should explore all three areas of focus, including:

-Operational reporting, which allows you to get reports for daily operations and see how things are going in real time

-Forecasting, so that you can plan ahead and make the best decisions for your business

-Customer intelligence, which is going to be the basis of a lot of your marketing and business decisions because their opinions are what matter

Being able to test drive BI software gives you time to put it to the test and see what you can get out of it. You should never assume that you’re fine without these programs or that one will work just because of its reputation or ratings. Knowing that it will work is far more important, so make sure that you get a little experience with a product to guarantee that it will give your business the BI monitoring and analysis tools that it needs.

There are a lot of different tools out there to help you with things like metrics and BI. Trying to sort through them all and find the best solutions can often feel like a losing battle. However, if you take the time to explore the different products and how they can help, it will be easy to find what works. Yurbi is a free BI software solution that can give everyone the tools that they need for better business reporting. You should try it for yourself to see just what Yurbi can do for you. After all, it lets you test drive BI software and it’s free forever, making it easy for you to track your business intelligence without spending a fortune in the process. Plus, it’s simple, user-friendly, and designed for YOU.

Business intelligence is so much more than just a buzzword. There is a lot that’s going on in your business and you really need to know about it. With the right solutions, you can track and monitor things behind the scenes so that you are aware of what’s working, what isn’t, and where changes need to be made. Test drive BI software solutions so that you can get a glimpse of how things work for yourself and see what is going to fit your business best. With so much to choose from, it can be hard to narrow down your options any other way.

When you test drive BI software, you will get a firsthand look at exactly how programs work. You will get to see these solutions working in real time for your business and giving you the chance to get more out of your BI tracking and reporting than ever before. Information delivery is a critical part of your business and it’s going to be up to you to make sure that you give it your best so that you can get the right tools for the job.

An information delivery system should have some basic elements. These are what you want to look for when you test drive BI software. For starters, you need to make absolutely certain that you get a user-friendly dashboard. This is the place where you will do everything, so it needs to be simple to navigate and provide you with access to all of the tools that you need. Check out reporting tools like metrics and KPIs, as well as scorecards and other data access solutions. By taking a little time to test drive these products and see exactly what they offer, it will be easier for you to get what you deserve from your investment.

Today’s information delivery systems are designed to be less technical and more user-friendly, which is something that you can use to your advantage. You’ll never have to worry about intensive training or hiring IT professionals to help with BI software. You can simply test drive BI software for yourself before you buy it and make sure that it does what you need done. These solutions are helpful to your business, but they’re only as good as the user. Therefore, you have to make sure that you put them to work properly so that you can choose the perfect BI solutions for your business needs.

Expert led instruction to optimize your data’s potential

Have you been identified as a builder for your organization’s Yurbi reports and dashboards? Consider attending our Yurbi Advanced Builder Training to get you up and running your organization’s reports quickly and easily.

Consumers of your organization’s data want their reports in real-time and on-demand. With Yurbi Advanced Builder Training and we can show you how to meet those demands in half the time and half the cost. Instead of attending a traditional report builder training class that usually requires days away from the office and travel costs, our instructor-led training is available both in-person as well as online to meet any organization’s requirements.
Yurbi is easy to use, so why do I need training?

While Yurbi was designed for any non-technical business user to create reports with ease, the Advanced Builder Training will give you the power to unleash the unlimited potential within your data. Our unique train-the-trainer model is geared for the Yurbi administrator and power user; teaching these key team members the Yurbi fundamentals needed to train others within the organization with ease.

Advanced Builder Training Topics

• Yurbi Interface 101- Navigating the tool and dashboards. What’s behind the pretty face
• Introduction to Report Building- We cover the main report types, field trees, basic criteria, and saving your self-service library
• Charting the Data- Selecting the reports, adding date formulas and designing time charting
• Using Runtime Prompts- Introduction to the basic runtime prompt including skipping, cascading, and the results pane
• Aggregate Reports – Sums, totals, sub-totals, and percentages as well as top N style reports
• Report Formatting – Review of the grouping, sorting, field renaming, and other tips to make the best Yurbi reports possible
• Pivot Tables- Manipulating data through pivoting and using totals on rows and/or columns in your pivot. We cover charting pivot results including selective charting and executing pivot results as well as adding pivot results to the dashboard
• Drill Down Reports- Introduction to the drill down and drill anywhere functions. We will teach you about target reports, the drill down field, and source report definitions
• Linked Reports – We will show you how to leverage linked reports to build powerful real-time views from multiple data sources. If you only have a single Yurbi App, we show you how linked reports can help you create comparison reports
• Publishing Dashboards- Once the dashboards are defined and built, we will publish the dashboard including sharing and linking
• Yurbi Security- We will identify and define security groups and roles within Yurbi and cover the creation of App Shield security policies to ensure report viewers only see the information they should
• Report Scheduling – We explain the use of the scheduler and the options of timeframe, frequency, export format, and security features

Training Delivery Options

Yurbi Advanced Builder Training is designed to meet your budget. The training has been optimized to take approximately 6-hours and will have Yurbi administrators and power users building reports in a day. The training delivery options are tailored to meet your organization’s training needs via a live webinar or an on-site, in-person session.

• Single day 6-hour session
• Multi-day, two 3-hour sessions/three 2-hour sessions

Additional Training Details

• Electronic versions of training material will be provided to each attendee
• Maximum class size of 10 attendees ensures the optimal instructor-to-attendee ratio (in-person training only)
• Each attendee will require access to Yurbi via desktop or laptop (not provided)
• To ensure the most success from your training sessions, the class will need access to your Yurbi server and utilize your data/App. If, however, it is not available, we will provide a sample App that we can host.
• Travel expenses incurred are not included (in-person training only)

David Ferguson
Yurbi.com

5000fish introduces Yurbi Community Edition as a freemium offering to their powerful business intelligence (BI) Yurbi platform. 5000fish’s forward-thinking freemium approach alleviates user anxiety over investing in costly BI software.

Henderson, NV (PRWEB) September 26, 2011

5000fish Inc., a leading provider of Business Intelligence (BI) software, today announced Yurbi Community Edition as a freemium product offering to its Yurbi platform. Yurbi is an enterprise BI platform that allows organizations to access, integrate, and deliver data from multiple systems securely to the users who need it; real-time and without requiring programming or database expertise. The result is providing decision-makers with the data they need, when they need it.

With the Yurbi Community Edition, any organization can download and immediately connect to their data to create an unlimited number of reports and dashboards. Yurbi Community Edition provides a robust BI solution that includes: intuitive report building, public view reports, a self-service library, security, one Yurbi AnyDB license, and one user license. Also included with the Community Edition is Yurbi’s unique dashboard feature, which allows users to combine data from web sources, media feeds, social networking sites and more.

“People keep asking us why we decided to go freemium with Yurbi,” says David Ferguson, President and CEO of 5000fish. “Our answer is easy. It just made sense to us to provide BI users free access to Yurbi so they could experience our powerful BI tool for themselves. Yurbi Community Edition can actually be useful and change the way small businesses and teams collaborate with data.”

With Yurbi Community Edition users can leverage the Yurbi platform to: create unlimited real-time metrics, KPIs, reports and dashboards from any database; embed an unlimited number of reports or dashboards in Microsoft® SharePoint or other web-based applications; and build an entire BI solution and deploy it in seconds. Because Yurbi Community Edition is a fully functional version of Yurbi, it provides access to the AnyDB technology, which can be connected to any SQL, Oracle, or ODBC data source.

“With Yurbi Community Edition, we set out to provide users with all the power of our Team and Enterprise Editions, but on a smaller scale,” says Brian Holesapple, Yurbi Senior Architect at 5000fish. “Quite frankly, unless you are part of the Yurbi development team, you would see no differences between the Community, Team, or Enterprise Editions because with all, you can leverage Yurbi’s complete BI platform of report building, self-service library, and dashboards.”

For organizations that are ready to unlock additional Yurbi Team or Enterprise Edition features, 5000fish launched the Yurbi Store at http://buy.yurbi.com. Users can visit the Yurbi Store to purchase affordable upgrades that allow deployment of reports to more users, automated report delivery, use of critical security features, and sharing of more reports to an unlimited audience.

“I could spend hours and days telling you about Yurbi and how it gives organizations the power to make data-informed decisions,” says David Ferguson. “But instead of listening to me 24 X 7, we are releasing our Yurbi Community Edition to let our product speak for itself.”

For more information and to download Yurbi Community Edition, visit http://download.yurbi.com/yurbi-community-edition/ or email info@yurbi.com.

About 5000fish, Inc.
5000fish, Inc., a Business Intelligence (BI) software company, creates innovative products for business users to make data-informed business decisions. Current products include: Yurbi, an enterprise BI platform that allows organizations to access, integrate, and deliver data from multiple systems securely to users who need it in real-time and without requiring programming or database expertise; Yurbi Connect, a drag and drop process to automate the integration of application data, both on-premise and cloud-based; and MailSync, an Outlook Plug-In that lets Help Desk Analysts interact with live data from their Help Desk systems in Microsoft Outlook. More information is available at http://www.5kfish.com.

All trademarks, trade names, service marks, and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies.

Media Relations Contact:
Piper Conrad
media@5kfish.com

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5000fish introduces Yurbi Linked Reports, making data merging faster and more powerful than the alternative.

Henderson, NV (PRWEB) September 13, 2011

5000fish, a leading provider of Business Intelligence (BI) software, today announced the addition of Linked Reports to its Yurbi platform. Yurbi Linked Reports makes data merging faster and more powerful for BI users. The addition of Yurbi Linked Reports strengthens the Yurbi product offerings, which empower users to get the information they need, when they need it. “With our Linked Reports feature, Yurbi takes report building to the next level,” says David Ferguson, President and CEO of 5000fish. “Gone are the days when your users had to spend hours or days cutting and pasting data from various databases to create a report. Gone are the days when you had to call your organization’s IT department and have them use their SQL coding knowledge to create a report for you. With Yurbi and our Linked Reports feature, we eliminate those barriers, making it accessible for the business user to make data-informed decisions.”

Yurbi Linked Reports makes data merging easy and powerful via a Yurbi App. Yurbi Apps are the essential application needed for organizations to connect to any data source and display their data in an easy and understandable manner. Yurbi Apps do this by pulling information from data sources and then translating the data into usable reports and dashboards. Users benefit from a single, repeatable reporting process regardless of the data source. The result is providing decision makers with the data they need, when they need it.

Yurbi has already proven to be a leader in BI security and this comprehensive security model is maintained in the Linked Reports feature. “Like our other features, Linked Reports are 100% web-based and 100% secure,” says Dennis Wark, Development Lead for Yurbi. “Even across multiple data sources, each time a user runs a report or uses the dashboard, they are only provided with the information they should have. So, there are no worries about users seeing data they are not authorized to see.” Yurbi’s 100% web-based platform gives business users the flexibility to access Linked Reports from anywhere within the company, even from mobile devices.

5000fish firmly believes that the Yurbi Linked Reports feature will prove vital for businesses and organizations that need to build queries and reports easily and quickly from a variety of data sources. “We are confident that our Yurbi product and our Linked Reports feature are game changers for the BI space,” says David Ferguson. “With businesses looking for ways to increase their organization’s productivity and reduce costs, we know that our Yurbi product, and this Linked Reports feature, will serve as major BI tools in helping businesses achieve these goals.”

Additional information about Yurbi Linked Reports in action is available at http://www.yurbi.com or via email at info(at)yurbi(dot)com.

About 5000fish, Inc.

5000fish, Inc., a Business Intelligence (BI) software company, creates innovative products for business users to make data-informed business decisions. Current products include: Yurbi, an enterprise BI platform that allows organizations to access, integrate, and deliver data from multiple systems securely to users who need it in real-time and without requiring programming or database expertise; Yurbi Connect, a drag-and-drop process to automate the integration of application data, both on-premise and cloud-based; and MailSync, an Outlook Plug-In that lets Help Desk Analysts interact with live data from their Help Desk systems in Microsoft Outlook. More information is available at http://www.5kfish.com.

All trademarks, trade names, service marks, and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies.

Media Relations Contact:
Piper Conrad media(at)5kfish(dot)com

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While you may be meeting Yurbi for the first time, BMC® and Yurbi are old friends. Yurbi App for BMC ITSM is specifically designed to work with the solutions you use
everyday to provide more holistic view of the data in those applications as well as data across your enterprise.

Please stick around and explore our sites and if you are intersted in how Yurbi can save your organization considerable time and cost while at the same time empowering your enterprise to do more with it’s ITSM data, please contact us and request a live demo. Once you see Yurbi, you’ll wonder how you lived without it.

For those who are wondering what all this talk about BMC is about, go take a look at Yurbi’s Showcase on the BMC Communities website, don’t worry, the great thing about being a BI 2.0 Platform, all the amazing stuff we can do for BMC ITSM, we can do for your application, both vendor and custom systems. Give us a holler and learn how.

We are excited about our current effort to convert customers on the OakTree Navigator solution to the Yurbi platform. This switch is being provided at no additional charge to existing Navigator customers who are current on maintenance. Read all about it at http://www.yurbi.com/navigator.php.

With Yurbi, Navigator customers will experience the same ease of reporting as before, but now in a 100% Web-based environment and with robust mashboard, collaboration, and security features. Most importantly, Yurbi has the ability to provide ease of reporting on any database, not just CA Technologies solutions. Yurbi includes pre-built business intelligence apps for major vendors such as HP, CA Technologies, BMC, LanDesk, with more on the way. It also provides a method for customers or partners to build their own Business Intelligence App for their custom databases or other vendor solutions.

Once built, Yurbi bridges the gap between business users and intelligent data. It weaves together all of the powerful reporting and analytical capabilities of traditional BI, but takes out the coding jargon – so that people can actually use it themselves. An intuitive analytics and reporting solution, Yurbi gives business users access and control over the data they need to make day-to-day decisions.

I am happy to welcome Navigator customers to the blog and to Yurbi. I hope you’ll visit frequently for the latest information on the product and on the BI market in general. Thank you for your support over the years and I hope you enjoy the new functionality of the Yurbi solution.