Mobile BI

New Trends and Opportunities

Click to edit Master subtitle style Tomislav Bronzin CITUS d.o.o., Zagreb tbronzin@citus.hr Arian Stipi IN2 d.o.o., Zagreb arian.stipic@in2.hr

About Tomislav Bronzin

Microsoft Regional Director & MVP

Software Architect CITUS Ltd.

Consultant and trainer on .NET architecture and development, SQL Server http://www.citus.hr

INETA Europe Vice President, http://europe.ineta.org Recent projects: Protect@Work, m.mobilityday.com Speaker at:

Microsoft Conferences: Vizija, TechEd Europe, DevDays, DevReach, WinDays, Sinergija, NT

About Arian Stipic

ex Microsoft Regional Director

IT Strategy Consultant IN2 Ltd.

Consultant http://www.in2.hr

Projects: BI/MIS projects in Customs, Healthcare, Retail Speaker at:

Microsoft Conferences: Vizija, DevDays, WinDays, Mobility Day Conference

Agenda

Where we left off (a year ago) Back to basics Understanding users and devices Understanding tasks and data Mobile BI provider capabilities Choosing the right mobile BI architecture

Where We Left Off...

(1y ago)
Question asked: What is the importance of mobile BI for business operations and success of your company (%)

Howard Dresner, September, 2010

... the same analyst, only 6 months later ...

BI industry BI goes mobile!

Old news, but are we catching up? Wider audiences and applications Employees have to access real-time analytics using mobile devices Many users receive access to BI exclusively via mobile devices Device Data Storage and Mobile BI:

The need for security

Can you read this?

Mobile BI thrives to deliver: right data to the right people in the right format and on time

How about now?

Mobile BI thrives to deliver:

right data
to the

right people
in the

right format

It looks pretty simple, but how do we do that?

Back to basics
Question 1: Which

(the 3 key questions)

employees devices can benefit

types of using which

most from mobile BI

Question 2: Which BI tasks and make most sense in a mobile environment Question 3: these Is your mobile

data

BI

provider capable

of supporting

Q1: users and devices

Users

Devices

Q2: tasks and data

Here and now?

Do the tasks need to be addressed immediately? Is the information about the tasks easy to digest? Does the information lose value if it's not acted upon right away?

Small and intangible?

Short-term?

Q1 + Q2: Summary

Q3: provider capabilities

Assuming that you are the providers...

How many mobile applications your company developed? How many mobile BI ?

Mobile BI provider needs to cover...

Wide range of

technical expertise, not typically

found at one place

business and

Business expertise required

Instead of just

supporting
business process mobile BI is

extending
And

redefining
it!

Technical expertise required

Developing mobile BI solutions requires wide range of skills and technologies:

Traditional BI techniques like data

extraction, data cleansing and data preparation

tools for data visualization and analysis

Providing Ensuring

good user

Choosing the right architecture

Thin vs. Fat client: again!

Browser-based applications
o o o

Portability Data consistency Security

Native Mobile applications

o o o

Performance User experience Offline access

What about Microsoft?

Well...Im glad that you asked, but...

What was the last time when you heard Microsoft expert talking about Mobile BI?

Almost all ingredients are already there, but...

The
Mobile BI

BIG

Picture
Traditional BI Denali BI Platform SharePoint SQL Server Reporting Services SSIS OLAP Power Pivot Crescent Bing Services Cloud BI Windows Azure Platform SQL Azure Database SQL Azure Reporting Windows Azure DataMarket

Apple (IOS) Android Windows Phone

The
Mobile BI

BIG

Picture
Traditional BI Denali BI Platform SharePoint SQL Server Reporting Services SSIS OLAP Power Pivot Crescent Bing Services

& small devices

Cloud BI
Application Service Layer

Apple (IOS) Android Windows Phone

Windows Azure Platform SQL Azure Database SQL Azure Reporting Windows Azure DataMarket

MS Mobile BI Vision & Roadmap

Vision: Deliver highly interactive and immersive BI experiences across difference devices to all users wherever they are

1. HC Y12

2. HC Y12

Windows 8 Wave

Examples

DEMO
PushBI
DS Panel Office

Predictions, predictions... Mobile BI is becoming very important for all enterprises

Mobile Devices suitable for mobile BI are going to be

bigger, not

smaller

Extensive use of

GPS and further

improvements in infrastructure

speed

and

Data Push - waiting to be widely implemented Special types of

business models

(like

Thank you, now its your turn for...

Questions and answers

Tomislav Bronzin CITUS d.o.o., Zagreb tbronzin@citus.hr @tbronzin Arian Stipi IN2 d.o.o., Zagreb arian.stipic@in2.hr

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