Chapter 11. Creating Mobile Dashboards

In the last few decades, the usage of smart devices, such as mobile phones, tablets, and smart watches has increased dramatically. Now, the hardware of smart devices is powerful enough to handle all that we need it to. Indeed, we are now carrying smart devices with us all the time, that act like small, but powerful, computers. Here comes the idea of Mobile BI. We need to select the most important information for the BI end user to track on the go, using their smart devices.

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According to the Industrial Design Center (IDC: http://www.idc.com/), by 2017, 87 percent of all connected devices sold will be tablets and smartphones.

SAP BusinessObjects has different BI tools that handle different user requirements. ...

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