by Angela Guess

A recent press release states, “Global Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics software vendor, Yellowfin, has launched the first ever integrated and virtualized Data Preparation Module for analytics. Data preparation describes the process of transforming data into consistent formats suitable for exploration, analysis and report building. Yellowfin’s new Data Preparation Module was launched alongside the latest version of its BI platform, Yellowfin 7.3. Fully integrated into the metadata layer of Yellowfin’s BI platform, the new Data Preparation Module offers clients a unique method of integrating, managing and acting on more data in less time.”

The release goes on, “Yellowfin’s Data Preparation Module will enable organizations to easily model, profile, clean, shape, enrich, secure and publish all data desired for reporting and analytics in a single BI environment.  The Data Preparation Module will be included as part of a standard Yellowfin license at no additional cost… ‘With this release, Yellowfin has delivered another first for the BI and analytics software industry,’ said Yellowfin Co-founder and CEO, Glen Rabie. ‘Yellowfin’s virtualized Data Preparation Module uniquely addresses the cost, complexity, security and inefficiency issues encountered by typical approaches to data preparation.  No other vendor in the market is solving data preparation challenges in the same way as Yellowfin’.”

The release continues, “Yellowfin’s Data Preparation Module has been designed to overcome common challenges encountered when preparing data for analytics in three ways, by: Integrating data preparation processes directly into a single analytics environment; Offering comprehensive data profiling capabilities; Providing automated best practice metadata modeling functionality.”

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