“Gartner expects that 33 % of BI functionality will be consumed via mobile devices by 2013”

At first, mobile BI will largely consist of existing reports and dashboards ported to the mobile device, but by next year, Gartner predicts that organizations and vendors will develop mobile analytic applications for specific tasks or domains. Neil Chandler, research director at Gartner, says that by 2014, “the metamorphosis of BI from IT-owned and report-centric will be virtually complete for a large number of organizations. These organizations will change what types of BI and analytics they use. They will change how they procure them and where they procure them from, and they will modify how information feeds decision-making.”

The popularity of tablets also contributes to the adoption of BI in enterprises. Screen sizes, touch screen interfaces of tablets are perfect for most typical BI applications & data interactivity.

Few BI applications, apart from the standard ones like simple reports & analytics, which can be made available on mobile, are

• Social Intelligence that allow organizations to connect to data, insights, and people across & beyond the enterprise
• Smart reporting which do not have static reports but are interactive supporting additional analytics & visualization objects
• Contextual Discovery which can understand users’ behavior and automatically supply with data and insights contextually & also identify the cause of the issue.