Solutions for Mobile Reporting

Jumpstart Your Mobile BI Initiative

How organizations deliver and disseminate information is on the cusp of 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, know as smartphones Demands from both management and line-of-business employees to improve productivity by making better use of workers' time

For an increasingly mobile workforce, the value of instant access to information outweighs other inconveniences such as screen and keyboard size.

Information Builders has responded with unique, extensible solutions that:

• Are compliant with emerging mobile technology trends
• Have a low total cost of ownership (TCO), requiring no additional hardware
• Can be customized to meet end-user needs
• Leverage existing skills, making deployments quick and easy
• Will continue meeting 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 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 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 Dashboards can be distributed to a virtually unlimited number of concurrent users, on any device, both inside and outside the firewall.