SAP BusinessObjects Mobile (SAP BO Mobile)

2012

In December, 2012 the SAP AG company announced a release of the new version of mobile application of SAP BusinessObjects Mobile. In it there was a possibility of visualization, the analysis and sharing of business data of the company - using the simple configured representations in the protected environment developed especially for iPad.

"As a result of change of the social and technology environment the value of mobile tools of a business intelligence grows, - Howard Dresner, the top analyst of Dresner Advisory Services company told. - The recent research showed that employees who spend much time in business trips widely use mobile analytics - along with e-mail, an organizer and the calendar. We see that the mobile business intelligence passes from discharge of auxiliary tools into discharge obligatory".

Possibilities of the new version of SAP BusinessObjects Mobile are listed below.

• Interactive dashboards with broad functionality: support of a touch control of iPad (for example, scalings), providing general access and organization of joint work.
• All content connected with a business intelligence is provided in one mobile application - including content from SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards, SAP Crystal Reports and SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio.
• The highly productive and approved functions: means of processing of geospatial data, position fixes, annotations of the text (for example, drawing, truncation and blur of important numeric data). Besides, there is a possibility of independent and interactive operation and also integration into the platform of a business intelligence SAP BusinessObjects and the mobile platform of SAP.

"By 2013 33% of tools of a business intelligence of the company will be available on mobile devices. Transfer of tools of a business intelligence from desktop PCs on mobile Wednesday allows to create essentially new approach to business — Pieter Hendrikx, the director of a business intelligence of The Next View B.V company told. — Cooperation with SAP company and use of new release of the SAP solution BusinessObjects Mobile 4.4 will allow us to create the innovation mobile applications. With their help our clients will be able to provide flexibility of work of employees, is more effective to use investments into dashboards. SAP pays special attention to convenience of the user interface and more effective data visualization, and it fills me with enthusiasm".

Mobile application of SAP BusinessObjects Mobile became at the end of 2013 the first mobile application of SAP which reached an indicator in one million loadings on iTunes and Google Play. SAP BusinessObjects Mobile integrates in itself functions of several analytical and BI-applications of SAP, giving to users all chance for business "on the run". The application supports work with such means as offers of SAP Crystal Reports, reports of SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, the SAP BusinessObjects and SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio dashboards and also functions of a research and data visualization of SAP BusinessObjects Explorer and SAP Lumira.

2013: SAP BusinessObjects Mobile 5.0

The SAP AG company announced on July 19, 2013 a release of the new version of the application of SAP BusinessObjects Mobile. Mobile application can be loaded on the website iTunes.apple.com.

New version 5.0 included all functionality of mobile analytical applications from SAP company.

New opportunities are new tools

New mobile application of SAP BusinessObjects Mobile on the basis of SAP Mobile Platform gives the chance, interacting with the help of the SAP Jam social platform, to exercise voice actuation in the form of comments, to ask questions and to receive answers to them using the Exploration Views application on the mobile device working running the operating system iOS.

Key updates in version 5.0 SAP BusinessObjects Mobile

• access to numerous sources of analytical information using the only application including programs: SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, SAP BusinesObjects Explorer, SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio, SAP Crystal Reports, SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards, mobile application of SAP EPM Unwired and SAP Lumira Cloud platform.

• social interaction thanks to the SAP Jam platform as the instrument of cooperation and also support of SAP application of StreamWork selected by default.

• the simplified interface due to use of the new home screen and the toolbar, the improved navigation, possibilities of voice comments and also normal functionality of mobile devices iPhone and iPad.

• setup of a design and functions of the application of SAP BusinessObjects and also integration into the antivirus software from third-party producers and the SAP Mobile Platform platform.

The SAP company announced also a new packet of development tools, it is a part of SAP application of BusinessObjects Mobile and allows entrepreneurs to configure the mobile analytical applications depending on business requirements, safety rules, requirements to products and the strategy of mobility at the enterprise.