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04 May 2011
Oracle has released an update to its Business Intelligence (BI) platform that supports the iPad and iPhone in another sign of the growing popularity of Apple products in the enterprise.
BI 11.1.1.5 allows users to set up workflows on the Apple devices, and adds support for unified relational OLAP and multidimensional OLAP content and information from Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database, Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services and SAP Business Information Warehouse.
"These new Oracle BI product releases build on the success of Oracle BI 11g and provide a wide range of new capabilities that extend intelligence to the iPad and iPhone, offer more powerful visualisation, interactivity, performance and scalability features to their ERP and CRM applications, and optimise customer interactions and decisions in real time," said Paul Rodwick, vice president of product management for Oracle BI.
The new release also includes Oracle Real-Time Decisions Release 3.1, with an improved decision manager, and Applications Release 7.9.6.3, which has an improved user interface and dashboard settings designed to secure any data displayed on endpoint devices.
Such improvements could be vital, according to Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT.
"We're seeing numerous discussions among enterprises about discomforts they are having in trusting corporate data security to the iPad and iPhone," he told V3.co.uk.
"There's also the ability of Apple's hardware to handle this. The iPhone is underpowered compared to desktop systems, so a lot of the success of this will depend on what features are available, and where the processing happens. Doing the heavy work on the back end is the only way this would be workable."
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Mobile BI now unavoidable
This announcement from Oracle and the ongoing proliferation of smartphones and tablets certainly supports the Aberdeen Group’s 2010 study, which claimed that by mid-2011 50% of enterprises will likely be using some form of mobile BI. The challenge for enterprises, like with any nascent technology, is how to get to grips with it in an efficient manner and avoid teething problems. They should be looking to render reports within a web-browser, using HTML formatting that’s visually strong, both on computer monitors and mobile devices, as well as facilitating the creation of custom BI apps aimed at specific devices. They should also be looking to support some level of report and analysis interactivity and feature well-designed security infrastructures that protect and withhold sensitive data from unauthorized mobile users. Only if organisations get to grips with these initial steps now will they be able to fully take advantage of the opportunities offered by mobile BI.
Posted by: Tom Cahill, Jaspersoft 05 May 2011