Organizations can no longer ignore the expanding role of mobile devices in the business environment. Gartner predicts that by 2016, 40 percent of the global workforce will be mobile and, by 2018, 70 percent of mobile workers will use tablets or tabletlike devices. The research firm expects 20...
Ad hoc reporting tools offer businesses the promise of increased efficiency through better operational understanding. With the ability to monitor business data in real time, organizations can improve decision making, responsiveness and work processes. Ironically, getting interactive reporting...
Business intelligence reporting has undergone a revolution in recent years with the arrival of self-service BI software. Self-service BI puts data analysis tools directly in the hands of business users, enabling organizations to leverage their corporate information for decision making with...
When it comes to explaining information, particularly complex numerical data, there are few approaches more powerful than telling a story visually. As a result, professionals in all fields want the ability to create graphs and other visualizations that can communicate the story of their data.
Ad hoc reporting tools are designed to put real-time, in-depth data analysis capabilities in the hands of end users throughout an organization. Such solutions need to provide a wide range of functionality for employees administrative features and business users who want intuitive report...