South African Adapt IT ties up with Yellowfin BI vendor

South Africa based services provider, Adapt IT, has signed a reseller agreement with global business intelligence and analytics software vendor, Yellowfin. Under the guidelines of the partnership, Adapt IT will sell Yellowfin’s BI platform, and associated suite of professional services, to its current and future clients throughout South Africa.

With over 14 years’ experience in providing complete and integrated BI solutions to its clients, Adapt IT has formed strategic partnerships with technology and business software providers. Adapt IT Senior Executive for Business Solutions, Leon Breedt, said that Adapt IT partnered with Yellowfin in order to enhance its technology portfolio by offering its clients a world-class BI solution.

“Together with our strategic technology partners, we have cemented a reputation and become a trusted advisor to South Africa’s leading businesses across a wide range of industries. In an ever-changing and increasingly competitive global business environment, it has never been more important for organisations to have information that allows them to optimise processes, identify risks and drive decision-making. BI as a strategic tool is thus a critical element of any successful business.”

Yellowfin, a recognised international leader in BI, has been measured among the world’s elite BI vendors by leading analyst firms. Created with a focus on user experience and the development of easy-to-use Web-based interfaces, Yellowfin was designed from the ground up to make BI easy, said Yellowfin South Africa Marketing and Sales Director, Gustav Piater.

“We pride ourselves on working closely with our partners and clients to better understand their needs in a shifting technology landscape,” said Piater. “The ease of business we enable is matched only by the ease-of-use that is the foundation of Yellowfin’s BI solution. This is borne out by the fact that Yellowfin has over two million end-users and more than ten thousand clients in over 70 countries.”

Yellowfin is a global business intelligence and analytics software vendor passionate about making BI easy. Founded in 2003 in response to the complexity and costs associated with implementing and using traditional BI tools, Yellowfin is a highly intuitive 100% web-based reporting and analytics solution. Yellowfin is a leader in mobile, collaborative and embedded BI, as well as Location Intelligence and data visualisation.

Adapt IT is an information technology services and specialised solutions provider, delivering IT solutions to manufacturing, financial services, education and energy organisations in over 38 countries worldwide. Headquartered in South Africa, Adapt IT operates strategically through its regional divisions located in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban and Cape Town as well as Gaborone, Botswana.