State-of-the-art Mobile Business Intelligence - A study based on evaluating three BI vendors

Abstract

Mobile BI has become popular in today’s business since technology and devices have evolved to make mobile BI cost-efficient and it is accepted as one of the most promising software areas in the near future. In this paper we introduce the-state-of-the-art mobile business intelligence (BI). It is a qualitative study that gives an insight of three BI vendors and their future adaptations. Quality attributes are used as a software quality metric to make the assessment as to whether quality requirements defined in this study are being met and going to be met in the close future. We aimed to create an overall picture of the quality requirements of mobile BI by exposing its challenges, and evaluate the upcoming improvements in mobile devices to understand future state of the mobile BI. Findings from the study demonstrate that quality requirements of mobile BI defined in this study are essential to satisfy the needs of customers. BI vendors examined in this study develop similar solutions to adapt their system to those requirements and achieve desired combination of those requirements.