Mobile Business Intelligence



Mobile Business Intelligence

Problem/Issue

Mobile business intelligence is becoming a leading trend within the BI market. Over the past several years solution providers have placed a lot of effort into developing interactive mobile applications that can be used by decision makers on the road. Although it has been a slow road to broad adoption, mobile BI is finally starting to make inroads into the general business intelligence marketplace. Mobile BI represents a single trend within business intelligence.

This paper looks at some of the trends related to mobile business intelligence expansion and adoption as well as how BI vendors are meeting end user needs. In addition, the cross over between vendor offerings and the adoption of BI on tablets will be discussed. Finally, considerations based on trends will be examined to help organizations identify how they can apply mobile BI.

Documentation and Analysis

Mobile BI Market Expansion

The business intelligence market has been slowly expanding to include mobile adoption for some time. After years of access to PDF reports followed by the availability of interactive dashboards and parameterized reports, businesses are now looking to deploy mobile BI as a key element of their business intelligence environment. This means that mobile offerings have finally reached the point where they can meet the diverse needs of BI users in terms of interaction and ease of use. BI applications also help sales team to represent how the services of the company can be useful to achieve targets. Moreover, it will be useful in supply chain management to form a distribution strategy for retailers and manufacturers. Several models can be proposed through mobile BI for product lifecycle management and information technology chain operations.

How Vendors are Delivering Mobile BI

With vendor focus shifting towards mobile BI offerings that meet business needs and offer high levels of interactivity, self-service models ...