Sherwin Lake Adds Yellowfin Business Intelligence to Cloud Analytics Platform

Global Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics software vendor, Yellowfin, has
signed a reseller agreement with US BI, analytics, data integration and data war
ehouse consultancy, Sherwin Lake Group.
Chicago, Illinois, USA, November 20, 2015 -- The partnership agreement authorizes
the Chicago-based cloud analytics specialist to offer Yellowfins business-user-o
riented BI solution, and associated suite of professional services, to its curre
nt and future customers throughout the US.
Sherwin Lake Group will deliver Yellowfin as a standalone BI tool via the cloud,
as a fully managed and hosted Software as a Service (SaaS) solution, and as par
t of its Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering a multitenant cloud-based ana
lytics platform that bundles database (Redshift), ETL (Hadoop-based technologies
) and BI (Yellowfin) technology together on a subscription basis via Amazon Web
Services (AWS).
Sherwin Lake Group President, Kevin Remmert, said that Yellowfins ease-of-use, co
mbined with its product and licensing flexibility, were crucial determining fact
ors in the partnership decision.
At Sherwin Lake Group, we ve broken down IT barriers to success by solving analyt
ic problems on the cloud, said Remmert. Yellowfin technology proved to be the perf
ect fit for us within this cloud-based delivery model."
The future of Sherwin Lake Group is based on selling solutions that bundle analyt
ics consulting with technology on a month-to-month basis. Yellowfin accelerated
this future for us by listening to our goals and working with us to deliver the
technological and financial flexibility we needed. Not only does Yellowfin enabl
e Sherwin Lake Group and its clients to build world-class data visualization sol
utions quickly and affordably, Yellowfin has also proven to be the best in the i
ndustry at adapting and responding to both our partner and customer hosting requ
irements.
Sherwin Lake Group Co-Founder and CTO, David Kreiger, said that adding Yellowfin
to its suite of business analytics technologies enabled the consultancy to quic
kly deliver clients a complete end-to-end analytics platform.
Sherwin Lake Group provides collaborative petabyte-scale data integration, data w
arehousing and Business Intelligence services using emerging technologies and cl
oud platforms, said Kreiger. Thanks to Yellowfin, Sherwin Lake Group can now stand
up an end-to-end BI solution including Yellowfin and Redshift on AWS in under a
week, or allow customers to share Sherwin Lake Groups existing IaaS cloud environ
ment as a tenant in less than a day.
Yellowfin CEO, Glen Rabie, said that Yellowfin was pleased to help Sherwin Lake
Group make enterprise quality BI available to Americas mid market.
Traditionally, the cost and complexity of enterprise grade business analytics pro
grams has meant that world-class BI technologies were only accessible to large o
rganizations with deep pockets and significant internal data expertise, said Rabi
e. By combining best practices gained from implementing analytics projects for th
e Fortune 500 with Big Data technologies delivered via the cloud, Sherwin Lake G
roup is empowering organizations of all sizes to obtain immediate analytic insig
hts."
Yellowfin is proud to be working with Sherwin Lake Group to deliver best-of-breed
business analytics technology, at an appropriate scale and cost, to mid-market
firms throughout the US.

About Sherwin Lake Group:

Sherwin Lake Group is a privately held information technology consulting firm th
at provides consulting services on both project and subscription bases.
The company was formed in 2012 by Sherwin Partners Ltd as a practice to focus on
answering historically expensive Data Analytics questions cost-effectively usin
g emerging Business Intelligence (BI), Data Integration and Big Data technologie
s in the cloud.
Sherwin Lake Group is incorporated in the US state of Illinois. We operate out o
f our offices on Sherwin Ave. in Chicago. For more information, visit www.sherwi
nlakegroup.com
About Yellowfin:
Yellowfin is a global Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics software vendor p
assionate about making BI easy. Founded in 2003 in response to the complexity an
d costs associated with implementing and using traditional BI tools, Yellowfin i
s a highly intuitive 100 percent Web-based reporting and analytics solution. Yel
lowfin is a leader in mobile, collaborative and embedded BI as well as Location
Intelligence and data visualization.
Over 10,000 organizations, and more than one million end-users across 70 differe
nt countries, use Yellowfin every day. For more information, visit www.yellowfi
nbi.com
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In (Yellowfin Business Intelligence), YouTube (Yellowfin Team) or email pr@yello
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se contact:
Lachlan James, Yellowfin Global Communications Manager on +61 (0)3 8617 4954, +6
1 (0)431 835 658 or lachlan.james@yellowfin.bi
Contact:
Lachlan James
Yellowfin
Level 46, 360 Elizabeth Street
Melbourne, 3000, Victoria
+61 (0)3 8617 4954
lachlan.james@yellowfin.bi
http://www.yellowfinbi.com