Mobile BINew Trends and Opportunities

Tomislav BronzinCITUS d.o.o., Zagreb

tbronzin@citus.hrArian Stipić

IN2 d.o.o., Zagrebarian.stipic@in2.hr

About Tomislav BronzinMicrosoft 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 Konferenca, Mobility Day Conference

• Contact: tomislav.bronzin@citus.hr, @tbronzin

About Arian Stipicex 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

• Contact: arian.stipic@in2.hr

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 What about Microsoft? The BIG picture DEMO Q & A

Where We Left Off... (1y ago)

Howard Dresner, September, 2010

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

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

Mobile BI will transform 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• Mobile BI is the new platform for BI itself

Howard Dresner, February 17, 2011

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 theright format

andon time”

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

Back to basics (the 3 key questions)

Question 1: Which types of employees using which devices can benefit most

from mobile BI

Question 2: Which BI tasks and data make most sense in a mobile environment

Question 3: Is your mobile BI provider capable of supporting these

BI tasks

Q1: users and devices

Users

Devices

Q2: tasks and data

Here and now? Do the tasks need to be addressed

immediately?Small and intangible?

Is the information about the tasks easy to digest?

Short-term? Does the information lose value if it's not acted

upon right away?

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 business and technical

expertise, not typically found at one place

Business expertise required

„Instead of justsupporting

business process mobile BI isextending

Andredefining

it!”

Technical expertise requiredDeveloping mobile BI solutions requires wide range of skills and technologies:

Traditional BI techniques like data extraction, data cleansing and data preparation

Providing tools for data visualization and analysis

Ensuring good user experience Understanding variety of mobile

platforms

Choosing the right architecture

„Thin” vs. „Fat” client: again! Browser-based applications

o Portabilityo Data consistencyo Security

Native Mobile applicationso Performanceo User experienceo Offline access

Hybrid solutions

What about Microsoft?Well...I’m 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... Is there anyting in the platform that could represent the „Mobile BI”?

„Denali” is releasing the new BI platform, but... Is there „Mobile BI”?

Someone will probably say that they are working on it, but...

Is Windows 8 (and Windows Phone) mobile BI platform?

Well, then...what is a solution? Let’s take a look at the BIG PICTURE

The BIG Picture

Mobile BI

• Apple (IOS)• Android• Windows

Phone

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

The BIG Picture & small devices

Mobile BI

• Apple (IOS)• Android• Windows

Phone

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

ApplicationServiceLayer

MS Mobile BI Vision & Roadmap• Vision: Deliver highly interactive and immersive BI experiences across

difference devices to all users wherever they are

Web based solutions run across

all platforms

Touch-based data exploration and

visualization

Immersive experience of the

Microsoft BI platform on

Windows 8 slates

1. HC Y12 2. HC Y12 Windows 8 Wave

Examples

DEMOPushBIDS 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 speed and infrastructure

Data “Push” - waiting to be widely implemented Special types of business models (like

RIM & KINDLE) for global data-transfer

Questionsand

answers

Thank you, now it’s your turn for...

Tomislav BronzinCITUS d.o.o., Zagreb

tbronzin@citus.hr@tbronzin

Arian StipićIN2 d.o.o., Zagrebarian.stipic@in2.hr