Mobile

The last in the series discusses about the landscape of the mobile BI and key product offerings from major players. There are 2 types of mobile BI players 1. Major BI players These are the big guns who are typically slow in bringing their solution to market. They are focused on tightly integrating their offering with their […]

In this blog article, we look at the state of things with higher education mobile app ecosystem within the Sungard/Ellucian Banner digital campus family and how it will define the choices for the education institutes that rely on its services. The Banner by Ellucian product powers many higher education institutes throughout the world. Services such […]

The guys over at the Spark Blog seem to be on a roll lately with a number of nice posts.  I especially like Amit Malhotra’s post on Mobile App best practices.  Lots of companies are creating apps for the mobile web, android, iOS, Windows, and other platforms.  Most aren’t even worried about putting them on […]

It is no secret that the current mobile revolution is primarily consumer driven. iOS and Android devices made inroads in the consumer market first and consequently enterprises felt the push from their employees. However, the enterprise mobile apps present a huge opportunity to learn from the consumer app experience by focusing on making employees more […]

Let’s face it – getting an Ad-Hoc build to a client of their super-cool-new-app-in-progress can often be time intensive and cumbersome. While the advent of wireless distribution certainly was a huge improvement over having your client download the .ipa file, import it into iTunes, and physically sync their device via USB to get the application […]

Recently, David Hemphill and I gave a presentation at the Minnesota Government Information Technology Symposium on the issues that enterprises face when attempting to tie mobile applications (either consumer-facing or internal to the organization) to their existing service infrastructure. Enterprises are looking to extend access to corporate data through a mobile device, quite often looking […]

In a recent webcast, Amir Nathoo of Trigger.io and Tim Anglade of Apigee examined the tradeoffs of building HTML5 versus native mobile apps. It was a good overview and introduction to what is HTML5 based hybrid apps all about. Towards the end of the webinar, there was a discussion around the controversies surrounding such a hybrid approach. […]

This is part 2 of the 3 part series on Mobile BI trends and implementation strategy. Last post discussed the mobile implementation strategies for organizations. This one shifts focus to the current trends in mobile BI. The next post would focus on the current landscape and key product capabilities. The below diagram describes the hype […]

IBM recently released the 2012 edition of their annual Tech Trends Report. The 2012 Tech Trends Report is based on a survey of more than 1,200 professionals who make technology decisions for their organizations (22 percent IT managers, 53 percent IT practitioners and 25 percent business professionals). The respondents come from 16 different industries and […]

Yesterday, Google announced through their official blog site that they were offering to their Business, Education and Government customers, a private app store called the Google Play Private Channel.  Up till now, if you wanted to publish/host a corporate App Store where you published business-specific apps to internal employees (such as a business intelligence tool […]

Over the years Microsoft has had a few directions/suggestions for users to take if they want a mobile experience with Microsoft Dynamics CRM. I want to give an update on the latest so that users know what options are available. As the latest release from Microsoft is available later this month the mobile vision may […]

I would like to start with a quote from the late Steve Jobs “Many of the touch, content-interaction, and collaboration features that make tablets and smartphones so appealing for consumer use could also revolutionize the experience of BI, particularly for nontechnical users.” Mobile BI has been in the wild for almost 3 years and few […]