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The mobile devices have welcomed the advent of business intelligence and management of information with aplomb. The applications of BI are seen naturally fitting the smart phones and tablet computers. All the managers and executives are seen spending most of their work time far away from the office environment and desks. These people are mostly travelling or driving from one place to the other for the purpose of work. This necessitates that the mobile dashboards are capable of providing them the vital information needed while on the move. The need of mobile BI for retrieving the vital data to take decision on the spot and monitoring the process of operations and reviewing the mobile dashboard is the requirement of the times. The advent of mobile business intelligence has addressed a major complaint against the information management and analytics of traditional business concerns which has been going on for many years. The traditional methods were not capable of consuming, charting and overloading the data. However, with the latest mobile dashboards, this task has been made easy. The devices have correctly adopted the applications of mobile BI. This is when the devices are small to carry and are large enough for being effective. This huge success of mobile devices such as iPads and iPhones for gelling with the apps of mobile BI has left many of the experts surprised. Various corporate houses are seen leveraging the mobile dashboards of iPads, iPhones and other Android devices for improving the productivity through data-rich, business-driven mobile business intelligence applications which are capable for transforming the way in which the mobile executives consume the data and make informed decisions aiding the business. The mobile dashboard applications have become a need of the hour with the sophistication and rich graphics which make the consumption of information easy and on demand. This has further fuelled the adoption of mobile BI technology. The business world is seen moving from shrink for fitting methods to take the legacy of business applications and are simply seen downsizing these methods for the small yet effective mobile dashboard. The information availed of on the mobile dashboards is usually obtained from the data warehouse or mart and in inclusive of the detailed data and summary which is loaded on weekly or daily basis. However, if the mobile dashboards track the activity of operations, then the information is either available from real time information warehouses or from the operational systems through queries obtained in real time. The most important and attractive feature of mobile dashboards in relation to mobile BI is that the domains such as retail, travel and some others who have huge focus on consumers now have the ability of integrating the maps and cameras into the circle of BI.
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