Business intelligence (BI) on the iPad will change the way organisations think about analysis and could spell the end of traditional BI.
This is according to QlikView SA managing director, Davide Hanaan, who spoke at the QlikView Qonnections conference held recently at the Forum in Bryanston.
“BlackBerry and iPad are changing the way we are working and redefining the role of the PC. Mobile BI is a technology that will change the way BI is done in the past,” said Hanaan.
Hanaan explained that new technologies in the IT industry, such as the iPad, faster processors and increased storage capacity are spurring the evolution of BI into a reality where businesses will conduct BI without reports and OLAP cubes.
“Organisations need to move beyond just giving information to people. Business decision-makers need insight from their data in order to make better business decisions. Gone are the days of executives analysing thousands of reports,” Hanaan said.
He explains that businesses need to shift their focus from data to people. “We are serving people not data.
“There is s strong belief out there that analytics cannot be supported until there is an enterprise data warehouse with a metadata repository, and a comprehensive data model that represents a single version of the truth.
He says what businesses really require is BI that is completely different and flexible, to be able to build a structure starting from anywhere, and where it can be used straight away and providing immediate answers to business problems.
Earlier this year, MicroStrategy unveiled its BI solution for the iPad during the MicroStrategy World 2010 conference held in Cannes, France.
The company revealed that the iPad will change the way traditional BI is viewed, and will enable companies to save 75% on hardware and software licensing costs by switching their devices from a desktop PC to an iPad.
Global research firm Gartner says BI was found to be a priority for SA CIOs has called the iPad a 'market-disrupting device'.
The firm states media tablets are poised for strong growth with worldwide end-user sales projected to total 5.8 million units in 2011, up 181% from 2010, and surpass 208 million units in 2014.
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