Global Business Intelligence (BI) software vendor, Yellowfin, will make its late st release, Yellowfin 5.1, available from Friday 3 December. Melbourne, NSW, November 22, 2010 -- Global Business Intelligence (BI) software vendor, Yellowfin, will make its latest release, Yellowfin 5.1, available from F riday 3 December. Yellowfin’s new release – Yellowfin 5.1: Visualize, Socialize & Decide – will include new collaborative components to improve organization knowledge-sharing capabilit ies, and facilitate faster, more accurate decision-making. “Yellowfin 5.1 will harness the advantages of social media-style information shari ng to further Yellowfin’s reputation as the most user-friendly and end-user centri c BI tool on the market,” said Yellowfin CEO, Glen Rabie. Rabie stated that achieving Return on Investment from a BI tool relies on the ab ility of users to take action from their data, reports and analysis, and that Ye llowfin 5.1 supports this by providing users throughout an organization with a f ramework and medium to facilitate guided decisions, recorded outcomes and define d actions. “Yellowfin 5.1 provides a crucial bridge between insight and action,” said Rabie. “It assists all end-users, including the executive team, to make the best possible use of the information gleaned from data analysis by providing a platform to di scuss potential actions to be taken in response to that data analysis. We’ll be pu blicly releasing the details of these new features after our official launch eve nt on November 30.” Yellowfin 5.1 will be launched on November 30 in an exclusive series of webinars and made available for general use from Friday 3 December. What is Business Intelligence software? BI refers to a broad range of computer software applications and tools used to r eport, analyze and present data in a range of formats, to help businesses identi fy trends and opportunities, and support fundamental decision-making. About Yellowfin Yellowfin is a global BI software vendor headquartered and developed in Melbourn e, Australia. Yellowfin is an innovative and flexible 100 percent web-based repo rting and analytics solution. For further media information, interviews, images or product demonstration, plea se contact: Lachlan James, Communications Officer on +61 03 9090 0454, 0431 835 658 or lachl an.james@yellowfin.bi For regular updates and news follow Yellowfin on twitter (@YellowfinBI) or subsc ribe to our free e-newsletter. www.yellowfinbi.com Contact: Lachlan James Yellowfin Level 46, 360 Elizabeth street Melbourne, NSW +61 03 9090 0454 lachlan.james@yellowfin.bi http://www.yellowfinbi.com/