Solutions for Mobile Reporting
Jump-Start Your Mobile BI Initiative
Methods for delivering and disseminating information have entered a new era. Converging to create a viral environment primed for the rapid adoption of mobile computing are several technological, sociological, and economic factors, including:
- Interchangeable browser interfaces on mobile devices and laptop computers
- Widespread adoption of multifunctional mobile devices, such as smartphones
- Demands from both management and line-of-business employees to improve productivity by making better use of workers' time
Information Builders has responded with unique, extensible solutions that:
- Comply with emerging mobile technology trends
- Require no additional hardware and have a low total cost of ownership (TCO)
- Meet end-user customization requirements
- Leverage existing skills, making deployments quick and easy
- Meet business intelligence (BI) and reporting requirements, even as devices and browsers change
BI Without Barriers
WebFOCUS Mobile Favorites – Information Builders' BI and reporting solution for mobile devices – reuses report design and distribution technologies already in place in your enterprise. Also, existing content is made available across computers and devices. Mobile Favorites is perfect for organizations averse to undue technology risks and sensitive to users' preferences.
Mobile Favorites has a pure browser-based (thin-client) architecture that relies entirely on web technologies to deliver mobile applications. This enables organizations to rapidly expand the number of applications and content available on mobile devices without changing their underlying infrastructure.
Portable Analytics
Making static reports, alerts, and other business indicators available on a mobile device is a giant step forward in productivity, but decisions are rarely made based on this information alone. To realize the full potential of a mobile BI solution, users need the ability to perform analytics.
WebFOCUS Active Technology reports – actionable reports that include data and interactive capabilities bound together in a single file – enable this type of analysis. Reports are delivered to mobile devices with supporting data and relevant content in a self-contained HTML file that can be manipulated into diverse permutations. Users can perform analysis – in both connected and disconnected modes – and forward their findings without any network or device constraints.
Dashboards for Everyone
As the amount of mobile BI content increases, users need a concise view of their data. For desktop computing, dashboards emerged as the best way for managers to get a quick, high-level view of their data to identify important relationships and uncover trends. But the current privileges-based model for access to these portals has stopped them from being widely distributed and limits deployment to mobile devices.
Enabled for mobile devices, WebFOCUS Active Technology dashboards combat this obstacle and provide a way for all users to benefit from an improved perspective. By showing relationships and associated measures in a single, self-contained, prepackaged file, organizations no longer need to work within a privileged-access paradigm. Active Technology dashboards can be distributed to a virtually unlimited number of concurrent users, on any device, both inside and outside the firewall.
