5 Must-Have Mobile BI Features

The use of mobile business intelligence (BI) as a framework to enable faster, better-informed decision making continues to expand as the technology advances and more users become mobile ready. Whether you’re planning a project for a business app or developing a strategy, it’s critical to gauge your mobile BI app’s readiness for a complete mobile user experience.

Here are five must-have features that are critical to delivering a complete mobile BI experience.

Interview: Big Data Trends

What are some of the key database trends?

First, the movement to in-memory platforms, as evidenced by everybody trying to catch up with SAP HANA. IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft are all adding in-memory options on top of their existing databases.

Second…

Predictive? It’s the Future

It doesn’t take a fortune teller to realize that predictive analytics is the future…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By Timo Elliott, from: http://timoelliott.com/blog/2014/03/cartoon-predictive-its-the-future.html

The Fan Experience Matters: Overview

The desire to deliver a world-class fan experience may not be found in data, but a world-class fan experience almost always starts with decisions born out of data.

There are two schools of thought in sports and entertainment. One holds that winning rids all sins. This may be true to a degree. Winning is one measurement that counts most insports. The other says that fan experience is the ultimate measure of success, especially in the absence of a championship.

Fan experience matters because it is the fire that ignites fan engagement!

But what does “fan experience” really mean?

Mobile BI Design Framework: Real Estate

Just as the saying goes “There are three things that matter in property: location, location, location,” the screen on a mobile device is the most valuable design property. The limited amount of space still remains as one of the biggest challenges in designing for mobile devices. Maximizing the user interface for both consumption and interaction is critical to the design of an effective mobile business intelligence (BI) asset.

Here are several pointers that will help you make the best use of this valuable mobile property.

Everyday BI: Introduction

Business intelligence (BI) is everywhere. It’s more accessible. It’s mobile. It’s in the cloud. It runs in real time. It’s part of “Big Data” and small data. Simply put, BI surfaces, in one shape or another, in a tangled, twisted, and integrated way everywhere in our everyday lives. In this new series, I want to take a…

Collaborative BI

Even in their most optimistic moments, business and IT executives will confess that there are two things that consistently undermine their confidence in their organization’s ability to execute a business strategy: - Not having access to all the relevant facts needed to make the right decision, and - By the time the organization actually can execute that…