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InetSoft Technology, an innovator in data mashup driven dashboard and reporting solutions, announced the release of Style Intelligence 11.1, a new version of its flagship business intelligence software for data mashups, dashboards and reporting. This latest point release features full support for mobile BI on Apple® iOS devices such as the iPhone® and iPad®
Tweet SOURCE: Silvon Software Business Intelligence solution provider Silvon Software, Inc. has partnered with retail consulting firm RPE (Retail Process Engineering) to bring a powerful,web-based business analysis software interface to retailers. Under the terms of the agreement, RPE will market Silvon’s Viewer interface for Performance Analysis by IDEAS, a client-server BI application for JDA Software […]
Tweet You don’t always get what you expect when you push a button on your Android smartphone. In fact, if you know all the right moves, you can get a lot more. Android uses a combination of touches, drags, double-touches, stabs, flicks and pinches to control what you see on your display. For example, a […]
A retail manufacturer wanted to replace a 3-ring, 4-inch thick binder carried by field sales reps with an iPhone app, recalls Quinton Alsbury, co-founder of Mellmo, maker of mobile BI app Roambi. But the manufacturer fell into a common trap: Creating a monster app that is virtually impossible for users to navigate on the iPhone’s 3.5-inch touchscreen.
Information Builders, an independent leader in business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced the release of WebFOCUS Mobile Data Collection, its solution for building wide-scale BI and data maintenance applications to the mobile platform
Tweet Amazon has found a way to give iPad users easy access to their Kindle books — and the Kindle Store — without having to give Apple a 30 percent cut of its revenue. Other content providers, including Walmart and textbook company Kno, are following suit. The trick? HTML5 Web apps with caching features that […]
MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that Sonic Automotive, Inc. (NYSE: SAH), a Fortune 500 company and one of the nation’s largest automotive retailers, has built and deployed a new Mobile Reporting App for the iPad and iPhone, using MicroStrategy Mobile.
With more than 28 million iPads sold since its initial release in April 2010, Apple has been the runaway leader in the tablet market – making it a top-choice platform for vendors offering mobile versions of business intelligence and analytics applications.
Market research firm VisionMobile has published a report that evaluates the openness of eight major open source software projects. The study — which was partly funded by the European Union — focuses largely on open governance, inclusiveness, transparency, and ease of access to source code. To quantify relative openness, the researchers established criteria and a numerical rating system with points
Device maker HTC Corporation has acquired mobile applications and web services firm Dashwire. Financial details were not disclosed, although The Wall Street Journal reports the deal is valued as high as $18.5 million. Dashwire will continue as a wholly owned HTC subsidiary.
drchrono, the company modernizing healthcare through a free Electronic Health Record (EHR) platform on the iPad, announced today that its free iPad app has received official government certification that will result in doctors receiving $44,000 in incentives when they use drchrono as an electronic medical records platform. The certification makes drchrono the first native EHR on the iPad to be certified for Meaningful Use.
Alibaba Cloud Computing (“AliCloud”), developer of advanced data-centric cloud computing services and a subsidiary of Alibaba Group, has unveiled its internally developed cloud-based mobile device operating system, “Aliyun OS.” The K-Touch Cloud-Smart Phone W700, the first mobile phone powered by the cloud OS, was also unveiled here today and will be introduced to the Chinese market at the end of July
Web Teks (site), a US based consulting and custom business technology provider worked alongside partner, Elcom (site, news), a global enterprise web content management provider, to deliver a 40 minute complimentary best-practice mobile enablement webinar.
The use of smartphones and tablet PCs by U.S. small to medium-size businesses—businesses with fewer than 1,000 employees—is experiencing tremendous growth, according to a report from IT analytics firm AMI-Partners. The company cited nearly 3.5 million U.S. SMBs that are currently using smartphones and 700,000 using tablet PCs.
While less than 30 percent of the potential users of organizations’ standard business intelligence (BI) tools actually use the technology, the consumerization of IT and the growing popularity of iPads and other smart devices might change the picture in Hong Kong, said Gartner Friday.
Tweet Android Honeycomb, the version of the mobile OS built specifically for tablet devices, was first rolled out many months ago. Several Honeycomb tablets are on store shelves. Yet the number of Android apps built specifically for Honeycomb remains relatively small compared to the tens of thousands of iPad apps Apple claims. What’s the holdup? […]
Tweet SOURCE: TMCnet.com Convertigo has introduced Convertigo Mobilizer, a mobile enterprise application integration platform that makes back-end application and data integration with mobile devices up to 90 percent more efficient in comparison to traditional point-to-point methods. Read More
Today businesses and employees expect to be able to choose from a variety of on premise and mobile applications in order to get their work done. Using TotalAgility web forms or via its integration with SharePoint, Dynamics CRM and Outlook, Singularity’s approach has always been agnostic, delivering BPM and Case Management participation where employees prefer to do their work.
Movement towards the mobile enterprise is gaining momentum based on the clear business value afforded by better leveraging today’s increasingly disconnected and on-the-go workforce.
More smartphones users are hungry for mobile connectivity today. What do they do with their devices when they go online? According to IDC’s latest survey, social networking and instant messaging emerged top in nearly all the countries surveyed, underscoring the importance of social media as a marketing channel.
Earlier this the year the leading mobile analytics solution was extended to fully support mobile operators’ business case through direct mobile network integration capabilities.
Tweet As mobile growth continues, an increasing number of companies are creating mobile applications and mobile formatted websites. Consumers’ use of mobile apps and websites, however, is hindered by the perception that mobile devices are less safe and secure than home computers. Consumers are hesitant to share personal and financial information with mobile websites and […]
Tweet As a growing number of enterprises consider a “bring your own” mobile device strategy, there is an increasing need for solutions that give end users access to corporate data while also providing assurance that corporate security and compliance guidelines will not be breached. According to new research from International Data Corporation (IDC), two distinct […]
Visa Inc., a global leader in payments, today announced that it is acquiring Fundamo, a leading platform provider of mobile financial services.
Video streaming has increasing appeal to enterprises, especially if it can be integrated with video conferencing systems. Technology exists to theoretically make such integration easy, but in practice there is a complex set of factors to consider.
Software AG, a provider of Business Process Excellence, recently revealed that the company has acquired the U.K.-based Metismo, which offers a highly flexible and multi-functional platform for the development and mobile device management of apps.
Jonathan Kaplan, the inventor of the Flip video camera, has come up with a new venture – THE MELT. People will be able to order their ‘perfect’ grill cheese via their smartphone.
KnowledgeTree, a provider of cloud-based document management solutions, today announced KnowledgeTree for Android Tablet and KnowledgeTree for Android Phone (http://landing.knowledgetree.com/knowledgetree-version-2-launch/). The new Android mobile applications, designed specifically for the mobile content and collaboration needs of mid-sized companies, help accountants, lawyers, and other business professionals organize, edit, synch and manage documents and processes from wherever they are.
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TEKsystems, the nation’s leading technology staffing and services company, today announced findings from its quarterly IT Executive Outlook survey, conducted in partnership with the Inavero Institute. Nearly half of IT executives surveyed report they are not confident in their Mobile Applications (49%) or Business Intelligence (47%) strategies.
