Oracle BI Mobile for Android
At the risk of outing myself as an Android fanboy, I was glad that the wait for a BI Mobile App for my smart phone is over. After serving customers with a favor for pomaceous devices for quite a while , Oracle has recently published Oracle BI Mobile for Android on Google Play. Of course, I couldn't resist and try it out myself. In the following I'd like to describe my findings. Installation and Public Demo As with all smartphone apps, installing the software is nice and easy. Once launched, you find a predefined "Public Demo" connection which allows you to inspect various example dashboards and mobile applications. Indeed, the new BI Mobile Apps can be accessed simply by opening them from the catalog. Here is a screenshot from one of the sample dashboards (Galaxy Nexus): Browse and Search Tapping the left menu icon allows you to browse recently opened items, list the favorites or use the BI catalog. In addition, there is a central search box which also supports the...