Mobile Business Intelligence grows in 2012 - Why?
Is the IPAD paying off for Business, Forrester says Yes
Forrester Research, reckons the hype has so far outweighed the substance. Mobile is much talked about but where’s the beef. The iPAD and Tablets are flowing faster and faster off the production lines. Boris Evelson, business intelligence (BI) analyst at Forrester, estimates that in run upto 2011 the main interest has been from the supply side of the BI Industry. Business Intelligence software vendors pushing the technology.
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The man from Forrester Research, He say "Yes" to Mobile BI
Now the success of the tablet, Forrester Research expects adoption rates of mobile BI to soar. "Tablets have screen sizes and touch screen interfaces that are perfect for most typical BI applications and data interactivity," said Evelson. "In the last few months, Forrester and some of the systems integrators such as MXI have seen an accelerating rate of client interest in mobile BI for their tablets."
Sweat in Tokyo Gym
Irish Life & Permanent, Ireland largest provider of Pensions, Life and investment products in the toughest ever market coniditions seek to enable their Sales Teams, Managers to meet customer sales opportunities demonstrating current portfolio value and new post crash investment markets. Airline Pilots and Crew are pushing out from the Terminal faster and reducing paperwork using mobile BI. An Argentinian Diary Company is iPADing the analytics on milk production, citing value, quality, buttermilk ratio’s to the farmers before end of day. Gyms in Tokyo are rolling out stats from fitness fans works outs in the Gyms social area. Stay for a Juice after the work out and see is the sweat and the Gym fee paying off.
So what will the next big success in mobile BI be? As usual it will be something unexpected.