Business Intelligence On Your iPad - Hey, I Can See It Now

BI vendors such as MeLLmo and QlikTech already provided software to show charts and graphs on smartphone screens, but the iPad's larger screen makes it a more viable mobile platform for BI.

"Business intelligence vendors are getting better at delivering charts, graphs, and other data visualizations that are actually legible on smart phones. But there's nothing like screen real estate when you need to drill down on reports, slice and dice data, and display rich dashboards. Thus, it should be no surprise that BI vendors are quickly adopting Apple's hot new iPad tablet device.

New mobile BI apps with native iPad support were introduced by both MeLLmo and QlikTech at this week's Gartner's Business Intelligence Summit in Las Vegas. MicroStrategy previously announced iPad support on April 2, and SAS this week announced it will support the device by this fall."