Businesses of all sizes have incorporated business intelligence – the techniques and software used to transform an organization’s raw data into useful information – into successful strategic planning for decades. Now there’s a new player in town – business intelligence – and it’s sweeping the world. Forrester Research puts it this way…
…The advent of smartphones and tablets has changed the dynamics of what mobility means in a business context. Whether it's executives or field engineers, knowledge workers or hospital staff, there is an increasing realization that extending business intelligence applications to mobile devices can transform entire business processes as well as individuals' work patterns.
What Mobile Business Intelligence Means to an Organization
Recent research suggests that 24 percent of businesses currently use or are in the process of adding mobile BI applications, while 37 percent are considering mobile BI in the near future. They understand that decision-making is not the responsibility of only a few select employees in organizations. The entire team makes decisions daily whether they’re in the field closing sales deals, traveling out of town on business, or moving product around a distribution center.
Mobile BI enables organizations to:
Whether you focus on a single group or implement it corporate-wide, mobile BI means connecting users anywhere around the world through mobile technology. No matter where you are, you can grab network patch status, server capacity, sales pipeline, and service team response times to gain a complete view of your customers.
Ultimately, today’s workers need access to critical business information at a moment’s notice. As Boris Evelson, a principal analyst at Forrester Research, writes, “Information workers can no longer wait to make decisions until they get back to the office – that may be too late.” Sounds like it’s time for business intelligence to go mobile.