Yurbi: A New Paradigm In Business Intelligence

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1 Yurbi: A New Paradigm In Business Intelligence Published: 8 May 2012 The term Business Intelligence was coined in the late 1950 s and the way some software is designed, you would think that we were still living in that era. Simpler time, to be sure an era where people relied more on intuition than analytics, and most supply chains were local, not global. As the concept of Business Intelligence mature through the 70s and 80s, only big companies had the need to scrape their data for analytical information, and only big companies had the budget for the software needed to extract that information from their data stores. That was then and this is now there s a new paradigm of Business Intelligence emerging, driven by the needs of companies big and small to glean the information they need to make good decisions about their business. In the current era, every advantage counts. Companies and organizations are looking for better BI software. Not just better tools for data extraction and analysis, but easier evaluation, purchase, maintenance, and administration. Take Your Time Getting Acquainted: Easy Evaluations Enterprise BI vendors make it difficult to try their software. With time-limited demos, complicated installs, and forced registration, you ve got to beat the clock while tying up personnel resources and creating yet another login. With Yurbi we put the power of evaluation in your hands - download, install, kick the tires. Take your time. We ll be here to support you.

2 Yurbi Community is Free Forever. You can use our core technology for free, forever. We don t make you rush through a demo version of the software before it expires. We invite you to download Yurbi Community, connect it to your data, and build as many reports and dashboards as you need. You might only need the features in our free version, but if you need more, we make it easy to purchase additional power. Easy Installation. Whoever said enterprise software needed to be difficult to install hasn t tried Yurbi. Yurbi literally takes less than 5 seconds to install and you can run Yurbi exactly where you want to: on-premise server, a cloud site, or even on your desktop. Even better, there s not an archaic technical manual to sift through to make sure you have all the hooks in the right place. In addition to our concise online documentation, the Yurbi.tv site has brief instructional videos showing every step not only for Yurbi installations, but for Microsoft SQL Server, Internet Information Server, and also connecting to other data stores. Self-Service Trials & Evaluation. The best way to know if the software will be utilized is to put it into the hands of the people who are asking the questions. How many calls did we take last quarter? How much did we spend on fuel in the past year vs. the cost of our widgets? You shouldn t have to wait until you ve signed off on a contract and installed a large BI package, only to find that it s not as intuitive as you were promised. Once you ve installed Yurbi Community, you have the power to connect it to your production data, and even activate limited trials of any and all of our pre-built apps and features. The people who will be using it can be the people doing the testing, making sure that they are putting their hands on the functionality from the start. Full Service Customer Support. Nobody wants to be pressured to buy, and most people figure that since they don t want to talk to a salesperson that they will be cut off from support as well. Not with Yurbi. Just because you may not hear from our sales team doesn t mean we re not here to help. Our goal is to make you and your business successful. We offer our evaluation customers full support in addition to hosting our documentation and community forum online, which Yurbi employees monitor and respond to regularly. Page 2 of 5

3 A Better Way to Buy Business Intelligence Technology Large business intelligence packages are accompanied by a large sales team who are out to make sure you purchase every feature you need - and a few features you probably don t. One Forrester blog puts the bottom-up cost of one BI report from a large BI vendor at $1, The top-down estimates start at over $8,000 for *one* report! Our goal is to make our powerful BI software affordable to businesses of all sizes, so we have created 3 editions of Yurbi. Yurbi Community is free and perfect for small environments. Yurbi Team allows businesses to choose which advanced features they need and pay only for what they will use. Yurbi Enterprise is a complete package that allows access to the full capabilities that Yurbi can deliver. Start Small and Grow as Needed. Unlike other products that make you buy full software licenses upfront before you can even start implementation, Yurbi allows you to purchase just what you need to start. As the needs of your company change, you can evaluate the extended features of Yurbi easily. And when you ve decided what you need, it s just as easy to buy and implement additional licenses and features. Easy to Buy, Easy to Budget. Forrester Research created a special report in November 2011, noting that Many business intelligence (BI) vendors do not publish list prices. Some do not even provide list prices under NDA to their customers and prospects Other vendors charge you an arm and a leg up front and then hit you with costly maintenance charge each year thereafter. With Yurbi we provide transparent pricing a low cost of entry along with a set annual subscription price. The last thing you need is to be surprised with a jump in renewal rates, so to further help with budgeting concerns, we also guarantee your annual renewal cost will be locked in at your initial purchase rate for the next 4 years. New Features, No Reinstall. Unlocking features in Yurbi is as simple as buying a license and entering a license code. This means as your requirements grow, you won t have to reinstall Yurbi to move up in power. And if your needs decline in the following year, you only need to renew Yurbi for the number of licenses needed for the next 12 month term. Page 3 of 5

4 IT Organizations Love Yurbi: Easy Operations and Maintenance As mentioned above, your initial BI software and deployment costs are just the tip of the iceberg. Included in those costs are highly paid senior developers for gathering user requirements and creating the reports, and that s before you factor in the cost of engineers to support your BI tool. If you still don t have enough resources to get the reports into your users hands, they will eventually get frustrated and just find another way to get information, meaning all those costs are wasted. As an antidote to counteract out-ofcontrol costs, Yurbi has some great features to help reduce operations expenses. Centralized Architecture. We built Yurbi from the ground up to make administration easy. For example, other BI software hard-codes data security into each report, which means that each report is unique and each report must be touched if user or data access needs change, leading to a lot of unnecessary busy work. With Yurbi s App Shield security feature, administrators can control user access to information from one place. When a report (or dashboard, or schedule) is created, access to data is granted or denied on the group level, not the report level, drastically cutting down administration time and simplifying administration in general. By making security strong and easy to implement, your employees are free to explore your data safely, letting your IT and Information Security departments rest easy. One-Click Upgrades. We frequently add new features and functionality to Yurbi. By creating a one-click upgrade process, we make it easy for you to stay up-todate with the latest version. Yurbi Update checks for updates behind the scenes, downloading and preparing product updates or hot fixes automatically. Yurbi then notifies the administrator that an update is ready, allowing for convenient scheduling of maintenance. Relevant Reports. One aspect of BI administration is keeping the data presentation relevant. When constructing dashboards and reports, it can be easy to create more and more, losing track of older, broken, or unused definitions and dashboards. Yurbi administrators can run reports and dashboards and quickly spot which reports are not being used. Old reports can then be archived or deleted, eliminating the clutter and letting your employees focus on getting the most out of your company s data. Page 4 of 5

5 BI on BI. While Yurbi enables your employees to get at the data needed to make sound, informed decisions, we ve also given administrators complete visibility on how people are using that info and can control access to the data for security purposes. Yurbi collects usage information on a wide variety of actions in the software, making it easy for administrators to examine the overall business intelligence usage and know exactly who is doing what and when. If you want to know if someone exports a report and s it to a non-business account, Yurbi can flag it and send you a notification when it happens - or even prevent that from happening. Vendor Integration. One major downfall of large BI installations is that you have to rework your data to fit their systems which can sometimes mean migrating your own data stores to their storage systems. We have designed Yurbi to work with your existing frameworks and workflows by creating a collection of Premium Apps for major vendor applications such as CA Service Desk, BMC Remedy, ServiceNow, and others. By providing plug-and-play functionality, users of our Premium Apps can be installed and running reports in less than 30 minutes. In conclusion, it s easy to see how Yurbi is helping to create a new paradigm in business intelligence. We make it easy for you to try our software for free. Once installed, we provide clear upgrade paths to more functionality. Report data and dashboards are accessed by your employees who need it, when they need it. Security is applied from a top-down perspective. Yurbi is centrally administered and maintained, lifting the burden from your IT department. Shouldn t that be the purpose of business intelligence software? Removing the barriers to your data so that you re able to make better decisions with the knowledge and insight you derive from that data. Download and install Yurbi Community today, for free, to see how Yurbi helps your business turn data into decisions while saving you time and money. Page 5 of 5