To date mobile devices have largely been excluded from the business intelligence world because of their limitations and because of security concerns. That, according to Forrester Research, is about to change and the extension of BI to mobile devices will in due course change the nature of BI, it suggests.
Business Intelligence tools - software that transforms raw data into meaningful and useful information for business purposes - have long been widely used by corporations to aid in competitor and market analysis and planning. The use of mobile devices to access business intelligence tools is the subject of a Forrester research paper Market Overview: Mobile Business Intelligence, based on interviews with more than 30 vendor and user companies.