Understanding the new view of traditional BI

Dashboards and charts on desktop. Senior executives should have a desktop in front of them for analysis or they used to carry prints.

Mobile BI is deploying onto mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers.

Dashboards n charts n all will be deployed onto mobile devices like smart phones, iPads, etc.

Traditional BI Mobile BI

• In usage since long time

• Renders on Browsers(mostly)

• Portable if laptop is provided but not handy.

• Targeted for Analysts who sit at one place and analyse the trends.

• Also for Senior management to make some critical decisions.

• Emerging Trend in BI

• Renders on Browsers optimized for Mobile devices as well as rendered as inbuilt apps(Native apps)

• Handy and Easy to use

• Targeted Use cases: • Going green – Paper free

• Store level manager managing diff

stores using inbuilt GPS.

• Dynamic data writing to database will allow you to access dynamic real time dashboard.

Technology

Gadgets

Client Requirements Mobility of executives

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeS4m11GYWQ

Browser based apps

Native Apps ◦ Proprietary Apps

◦ Client Apps

Browser based apps ◦ No need of rework for each platform.

◦ HTML5+Sharepoint

Native apps Rich UX

Faster Performance via device-based caching.

Location Awareness (inbuilt GPS)

Client apps Personalized for clients.

Eg: App for Unilever which might support all connect projects.

Mobile BI Application vs. Mobile BI Reporting

Mobile BI Application Mobile BI Reporting

• BI designed to meet a mobile

reporting need

• Existing BI ported to a mobile device

• Aggregated data • Detail level data

• Small data sets • Large data sets

• Reports designed for a specific

enterprise standard device

• Mobile device not considered (tablet

vs. phone)

• Reporting solution designed for

enterprise standard OS

• End user Mobile OS not considered

• Real or near real time information • Daily, Weekly, Monthly reports

Ease of Use and User Experience

Market Share of Apple iPad and iPhone

Usage by Executives

Client Affordability

Explore the Apps which support Sharepoint Ex: PushBI

Explore the ways of integrating and porting Sharepoint report onto iPad

Using Sharepoint with HTML5 to find any better solutions of UI.

Explore more about Device-based caching.

See for the optimization techniques available based on memory management that Apple architecture uses.

See how the current practices can be ported to the mobile devices to speed up the process.

Explore the mobile versions of corresponding software available

Find the differences in implementation and share the knowledge among each other to build our skills in Mobile BI

Since Qlikview is taking a browser based approach, we need to explore the ways of developing dashboards for mobiles.

It would be an additional skill to see how the rendering is being managed across different screens, platforms and devices

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