Mobile BI Application List

Mobile BI Application (1)	Application Type	Mobile platforme	Language	Licens type
BeeEye	Mobile Client App	BlackBerryiOS	English	Server
BIRT Mobile, Actuate	Mobile Client App	BlackBerryiOS	English	Client
Cognos 8 Go! Mobile	Mobile Client App	BlackBerryWindows PhoneSymbian	English	Server
DataGlass	Mobile Client App	iOS	English, Bokmål, Norwegian, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish	Client
iTop, TARGIT	Mobile Client App	iOS	English, Bokmål, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish	Client
MicroStrategy	Mobile Client App	BlackBerryiOS	English, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish	Server
Mobile BI Server, DS Panel	Customized App	All	English	Server
Push BI	Customized AppMobile Client App	AndroidBlackBerryiOS Windows Phone	English	Server
QlikView	Mobile Client App	AndroidJava Mobile (J2ME)iOS	English	Server
Reboard	Mobile Client App	AndroidBlackBerryiOS	English	Server
Roambi	Mobile Client App	iOS	English	Server
SBO Explorer, Business Objects	Mobile Client App	AndroidiOS	English	Server
Sketch Reports	Mobile Client App	iOS	English	Client
Yellowfin	Mobile Client App	AndroidiOS	English, Japanese	Server

(1) Inspired by a Wikipedia article defining Mobile Business Intelligence (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_business_intelligence), I found it useful divide the applications into three different “Application Types”.

• Mobile Browser Rendered App Almost any mobile device enables Web-based, thin client, HTML-only BI applications. However, these apps are static and provide little data interactivity. Data is viewed just as it would be over a browser from a personal computer. Little additional effort is required to display data but mobile browsers can typically only support a small subset of the interactivity of a web browser.
• Customized App A step up from this approach is to render each (or all) reports and dashboards in device-specific format. In other words provide information specific to the screen size, optimize usage of screen real estate, and enable device-specific navigation controls. Examples of these include thumb wheel or thumb button for BlackBerry, up/down/left/right arrows for Palm, gestural manipulation for iPhone. This approach requires more effort than the previous but no additional software.
• Mobile Client App The most advanced, the client app provides full interactivity with the BI content viewed on the device. In addition, this approach provides periodic caching of data which can be viewed and analyzed even offline

If you know of a product that is not on my list or think that I’m missing/wrong about some characteristics, please let me know.

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