The emergence of the extended enterprise has changed the
dynamics of business information delivery to the point where firms
are demanding to extend the value of existing Business Intelligence
(BI) investments to provide actionable information to a distributed
or mobile user community.
Delivering this information to a mobile workforce via the new
generation of
mobile computing devices is becoming a requirement of the
mobile workforce accruing to a new report by Aberdeen Research. The
analyst believes that mobile BI can indeed fulfil the goal of
establishing pervasive BI throughout organisations.
Trying to establish some reference points for the value of
delivering BI to an increasingly mobile computing-enabled
workforce, Aberdeen says that 56% of
‘
best-in-class’ companies characterise their BI implementation as
being wide-spread throughout the company or pervasive.
Aberdeen believes that best-in-class companies are more apt to
be have users of BI and more likely to achieve pervasive use of BI
throughout their firms.
In addition, 54% of such firms say that over half of the reports
they create within their internal BI applications are re-used for
delivery to mobile BI and users 83% of such firms say that they are
able to deliver business information to mobile users within the
same day that business events take place.
Aberdeen suggests that pervasiveness of BI is part-driven by
companies who address the information requirements of their growing
base of mobile users. To understand the challenges surrounding
the delivery of business intelligence capabilities to mobile
workers, Aberdeen advises firms to first identify the
characteristics within their organisations.
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