Business Intelligence on the iPhone

I keep hearing on the TV about the iPhones and the famous new quote “there’s an app for that”. When looking up articles, I came across this one title “Business Intelligence on the iPhone” by David Linthicum.

There is a new app out for the iPhone called RoamBi. It is currently available as a free download from the iPhone app store. It can provide tables, pie charts, and other types of graphical views. While mobile platforms have been able to access such information before, the new app is designed specifically to work with the iPhone, so it works faster and the format is better. RoamBi currently only supports SAP BusinessObjects and Salesforce.com as data sources. The article also states that SaaS-based services, such as third party development offers, will be launched later this year in addition to RoamBi.

Since the iPhone has become extremely popular because of all its advancements and available apps, offering a BI app will be beneficial to business people. They already use the phone for email, checking the internet, and other purposes. Now they can make even faster business decisions by being able to receive some important information while on the go. I don’t have an iPhone, but if anyone is interested in downloading the app and letting us know how it works, I would be interested. You can visit www.roambi.com to download spreadsheets, tables, files, reports, and any type of visual graph you prefer.

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