Mobile Business Intelligence Best Practice – Evolving BI
While we like to emphasize that mobile business intelligence needs an author-once, distribute everywhere approach, with flexible dashboards, there will sometimes be a great payoff in designing new views specifically for the mobile environment. When implementing your strategy, be sure to check if your existing dashboards are sufficient for your needs. Are they providing the right information that could be needed when a user is on the go and interactive with clients or colleagues?
Custom Dashboards In Mobile Business Intelligence
How about creating a special dashboard specifically for mobile users to use on-site with customers, which has all the necessary information on the customer account at their fingertips? Do some research: find out what the hardest part about being mobile is, ask what kind of information is the hardest to get, and how often then need it – and you could even shadow one person for a day and observe them in their regular routine. This method will give great insight into how your employees use mobile business intelligence.
The Social Interactivity In Mobile Business Intelligence
Because mobile business intelligence is a naturally social medium (as are the tablets they run on), it is a great move to take advantage of the social element. Think about it: a mobile business intelligence application will be used in meetings, customer premises and in operations centers. Tablets are easy to pass around and talk about. So take advantage of this with some great business intelligence applications, that can provide interactive filtering, sorting, panning, and zooming – all on live data during a meeting. How about allowing interactivity through commenting, so that no questions or comments are lost? The solution also has to be future proof- fast enough that it will keep up with the pace of discussion and with other newer technology.
Be sure that your mobile business intelligence has the capability to support all of your data security and authentication – when dealing with sensitive business intelligence this is paramount.
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