SAP(NYSE) has announced the latest version of the SAP BusinessObjects Mobile mobile app. The new release allows users to visualize, explore, collaborate from within the app and share business performance through personalized and simple views in a secure environment designed natively for iPad.
“Mobile business intelligence, through both societal and technological changes, has become mainstreamed,” said Howard Dresner, Chief Research Officer, Dresner Advisory Services.
“Recent research has identified mobile BI as a significant priority for business users on the go, second only to email and personal information systems, such as contacts and calendars.
Additionally, we are seeing the significance of access to BI on mobile devices continue to grow into a market where it is becoming not just a nice to have, but a need to have,” Howard added.
The new version of SAP BusinessObjects Mobile includes features like consistent functionality, including geo-spatial and location analytics, text annotation, such as draw, crop or blurring of sensitive numbers, as well as online and offline use and integration with the SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform and SAP Mobile Platform. In addition, it has highly interactive dashboard capabilities, including native iPad gestures, such as the ability to pinch, zoom, share and collaborate.
“By 2013, 33 per cent of a company’s BI functionality will be available on handheld devices. This transition from the confinement of having BI delivered on a desktop to the freedom of having access to analytics on mobile devices is a fundamental shift in the way business is being conducted,” said Pieter Hendrikx, BI Practice Manager, The Next View B.V.
