Every time a new Gartner Magic Quadrant is published, I always have a flashback to the scene in the old Steve Martin movie “The Jerk” – when his character gets overly enthusiastic about seeing his name published in the new phonebook. As a software vendor, I think we sometimes look like this when the Gartner MQ is released, and everyone gets a little too excited.
Yellowfin 8.0.2 is now available and with it brings an assortment of enhancements and fixes. A major area of focus in this release (and for the rest of 2019) is overall performance within the analytics suite.
We’ve got a lot of customers in the healthcare space. It’s a really interesting space to be in from an analytics perspective because our customers are based across the world and have a wide variety of use cases - from financial administration all the way through to hospital performance and risk metrics.
It’s no secret that, despite the huge movement toward sustainable living, we just can’t live without some things being instant. One such crutch for students worldwide and most of Asia’s young adult population (also the entire American prison system) are the ubiquitous instant noodles. 100 billion servings are eaten every year. It’s convenience in a cup.
Recently I was in the US and people were just blown away when I told them about the success of our business in Japan. Our Japanese business grew nearly 40% last year and this year is shaping up to be great as well, but it’s not something that has happened overnight. The reality is that it’s tough to do business in Japan and it’s taken us over four years to get it right.
