The iPad has sparked a move for companies to deploy business intelligence (BI) software on converged mobile devices and to take a step away from traditional desktop and laptop computers.
This is the view of MicroStrategy CEO and president Michael Saylor, who spoke during MicroStrategy World 2010, held in Cannes, France.
BI giant MicroStrategy has unveiled MicroStrategy Mobile, an application that leverages BI on the iPad, iPhone and BlackBerry devices.
MicroStrategy Mobile enables business users to extend graphs, grids, enterprise reports and information dashboards to the iPhone and iPad.
While the MicroStrategy Mobile solution has been available to the global market since September 2007 for the BlackBerry device, the application is now also available for rollout on the iPhone and iPad.
The BI company said the decision to gear itself towards deploying its mobile solution onto the iPad was spurred by the fact that businesses are turning to consumer Web 2.0 mobile devices that are always connected, to conduct business.
“This marks an exciting time in the history of the company, as well as the BI industry,” said Saylor. “MicroStrategy Mobile is our most significant product release in the history of the company. The mobile Internet is the next wave of information technology and will dwarf all previous waves of technology.”
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