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Choosing a Business Intelligence Architecture for Mobile Devices  

Written by Rado Kotorov, Ph.D, I personally think building BI architecture for mobile devices is the next in-thing for the BI industry, given the offlate surge of mobile devices and their adaptation of the web.

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A thin-client, active reporting paradigm based on Web 2.0 concepts improves efficiency, facilitates collaborative decision-making, and positively impacts the entire enterprise in a number of ways:

By minimizing the number of report requests sent to IT: users have the ability to access and manipulate the underlying data on their own

By reducing network traffic: data can be transformed again and again, without repeated connections, and reports can be manipulated while in disconnected mode

By simplifying distribution: sophisticated reports can be packaged and sent to anyone, including people outside the firewall

By expanding analysis; the easy to use interface encourages analysis by individuals not highly skilled with spreadsheets

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Written by Guru Kirthigavasan

February 7th, 2008 at 7:33 am

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