Business Intelligence on iPad

Gartner predicts that by 2013, 33% of business intelligence functionality will be consumed on mobile devices. And it seems Gartner's forecast is a bit too modest. BI going mobile quickly, and tablets are leading that movement.

They generate added value and immediate benefits to the users allowing data analysis on mobile devices, in particular iPad. The business intelligence applications have long been recognized by companies as an important business tools, but the iPad revolution and the explosion of mobile workers has made them strategic and critical.

Usually the Business Intelligence Mobile is provided as an add-on module to the standard applications in use. The leading provider of BI solutions have a version or module for the Mobile but you can also look for new applications on the store vendors.

To date, despite the high interest around this type of applications for the mobile, the limitations are still plentiful. For example, many applications allow the visualization of data, but not their handling.