Mobile BI Study Update: Table of Contents

Hello Folks.

I am pleased to announce the our new Mobile BI Market Study Update Report has been officially released to enterprise licensees this afternoon!

Below is the table of contents:

Contents

Executive Summary ......................................................................................... 6

Introduction: .............................................................................................. 7

Method:..................................................................................................... 7

About Dresner Advisory Services:.................................................................... 7

Updated Study Demographics: ....................................................................... 9

Industries Represented: ................................................................................. 9

Figure 1 - Industries ...................................................................................... 9

Functions Represented: .................................................................................. 10

Figure 2 - Functions Represented .................................................................... 10

Size of Company: ........................................................................................... 11

Figure 3 - Sizes of Organizations .................................................................... 11

Geographies: ............................................................................................... 12

Figure 4 - Geographies .................................................................................. 12

Analysis of Findings: .................................................................................... 13

Table 1 - User Survey Questions .................................................................... 13

User Importance of Mobile Business Intelligence: .......................................... 14

Figure 5 - Importance of Mobile Business Intelligence 2010 vs. 2011 ............... 14

Mobile BI Platform - User Priorities: ................................................................ 15

Figure 6 – Changing Mobile Platform Priorities ................................................ 15

Mobile BI Platform - User Penetration and Plans ............................................... 16

Figure 7 - Mobile Platforms for Business Intelligence: Today through 2012 ..... 16

User Penetration of Mobile Business Intelligence: ................................................ 17

Figure 8 - Mobile BI User Penetration: Today through 2012 - June vs. December 2010 ......................... 17

Exclusive Mobile BI Usage by 2013: ..................................................................... 18

Figure 9 - Expected Exclusive Mobile BI Users by 2013 .................................... 18

Feature/Function Requirements............................................................................ 19

Figure 10 - Changing Requirements for Features and Functions ....................... 19

User roles to be automated ................................................................................. 20

Figure 11 - Roles Targeted for Mobile BI ........................................................... 20

Software as a Service and Mobile BI: .................................................................. 21

Figure 12 - SaaS vs. Enterprise as a Mobile Source .......................................... 21

Impact of Organization Size and Software as a Service for Mobile BI: ........... 22

Figure 13 - SaaS as a Mobile BI Source by Size of Organization ...................... 22

Device Data Storage and Mobile BI ....................................................................... 23

Figure 14 - Data Storage: Device vs. Server ......................................................... 23

Customer Profiles ..................................................................................................... 24

Customer Profile: Large National Retailer ............................................................ 24

Table 2 - Customer Profile: Large National Retailer ............................................ 25

Customer Profile: Governmental Agency: .............................................................. 27

Table 3 - Customer Profile: Governmental Agency: ............................................. 28

Updated Vendor Analysis and Rankings: ................................................................ 31

Table 4 - Vendor Survey Questions ......................................................................... 31

Vendor Importance of Mobile Business Intelligence: ............................................. 32

Figure 15 - Importance of Mobile BI: Vendors ....................................................... 32

BI Vendor Mobile Platform Priorities: ...................................................................... 33

Figure 16 - Changing Mobile Platform Priorities for BI Vendors .......................... 33

BI Vendor Mobile Platform Support and Plans: ...................................................... 34

Figure 17 - BI Vendor Mobile Platform Support and Plans ................................... 34

BI Vendor Mobile Platform Integration .................................................................... 35

Figure 18 - BI Vendor - Mobile Platform Integration Today ................................. 35

Figure 19 - BI Vendor – Planned Mobile Platform Integration in 12 Months ...... 36

BI Vendor Supported Features on Mobile Devices .................................................. 37

Figure 20 - BI Vendor Supported Features on Mobile Devices ............................. 37

Vendor Scoring ............................................................................................................. 38

Figure 21 - Mobile BI Vendor/Product Rankings .................................................... 38

Table 5 - Detailed Vendor Product Capabilities and Plans – Actuate, Arcplan, Birst ......................... 39

Table 6 - Detailed Vendor Product Capabilities and Plans – Dimensional Insight, Extended Results (PushBI), GoodData ......................................................................................... 40

Table 7 - Detailed Vendor Product Capabilities and Plans – IBM/Cognos, Information Builders, Jaspersoft ............................................................................................................ 41

Table 8 - Detailed Vendor Product Capabilities and Plans – MeLLmo (Roambi), Microsoft, MicroStrategy............................................................................................... 42

Table 9 - Detailed Vendor Product Capabilities and Plans – Oracle, Pentaho, QlikTech ....................... 43

Table 10 - Detailed Vendor Product Capabilities and Plans – SAP, SAS, Tableau .............................. 44

Table 11 - Detailed Vendor Product Capabilities and Plans – Tibco/Spotfire, Yellowfin ...................... 45

Conclusions and Recommendations: ............................................................ 46

Appendix – User Survey Instrument .......................................................... 47


Best,

Howard