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AI-Infused Apps and Products Provide Improvement Across the Enterprise

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January 12, 2026

Why Infuse New or Existing Software with Artificial Intelligence?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been in the mainstream for years with new advancements occurring every day. As the promise of AI evolves, businesses are undertaking new AI software development projects to support consumer products and internal business processes, and many companies are infusing AI into existing software products and apps to modernize and upgrade features and functionality, scalability and the quality of system interaction with human users.

Gartner predicts that by 2026, around a third (30%) of new applications will leverage AI.

‘By leveraging AI, businesses can tap into its numerous benefits and advantages, positioning themselves for continual success and growth.’

On the back-end, the benefits of AI development include improved speed of development and time to market. According to McKinsey research, Generative AI Accelerates Certain Coding Tasks By 35% To 45%.

Infusing AI allows you to incorporate the advantages and advanced technologies of the AI landscape into the enterprise to automate, predict and optimize and to improve business decisions and outcomes, as well as improve user adoption of intuitive tools and features.

Infusing AI into the environment also allows you to more quickly adapt and upgrade to accommodate changes to customer needs, business user needs and the competitive market. Development can be completed quickly and new, more sophisticated features can be added on a shorter cycle. You can develop faster and design and deliver software and applications to create dynamic end-user experiences.

There are real business benefits to adding AI into the mix! The data gathered and delivered by AI can provide real-time results. For example, a decision regarding loan approval should be based on currently available information and the transaction should be approved or denied using the most up-to-date information in order to protect the interests of the prospective client and the business. Interest rates and other variables can be calculated to provide the best outcomes. The system can detect and protect against fraud to ensure that insurance claims are valid and appropriate.

By infusing existing systems with artificial intelligence or building new systems to incorporate these capabilities, the business can mitigate risk, speed business processes and approvals and automate many redundant tasks, thereby improving team productivity, customer satisfaction and competitive advantage in the market.

Does an AI-Infused App or Software Product Benefit a Business and Its Customers?

By leveraging AI, businesses can tap into its numerous benefits and advantages, positioning themselves for continual success and growth. Benefits of AI-infused technologies include:

Competitive Advantage – Businesses can secure an edge over their competitors through the use of AI technologies that amplify productivity, decision-making processes, and consumer experiences.

Personalized User Experience – AI technology allows businesses to effortlessly examine consumer behavior and preferences, enabling the provision of products, recommendations, and services tailored to their precise needs.

Data-Driven Insights – AI-based solutions help businesses forecast business trends, identify patterns, and make informed decisions by analyzing vast amounts of data and extracting invaluable insights, paving the way for better planning.

Operational Efficiency – By automating repetitive tasks, streamlining workflows, and optimizing resource allocation, AI-driven software helps businesses simplify their operations, improve productivity, and reduce costs.

‘Infusing AI allows you to incorporate the advantages and advanced technologies of the AI landscape into the enterprise to automate, predict and optimize and to improve business decisions and outcomes, as well as improve user adoption of intuitive tools and features.’

Contact Us to find out how our Enterprise Software Services and Artificial Intelligence Development Services can support your business needs and ensure consistent, professional, skilled technology and knowledge. Explore our free White Paper: ‘What Is Artificial Intelligence Technology And How Can It Help My Business?’

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Smarten Support Portal Updates – December – 2025!

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December 30, 2025

We invite you to explore our latest knowledgebase articles and to join the Smarten user community on Smarten Support Portal.

If you have not registered yet, Click Here to obtain your login credentials.

Knowledgebase Articles

  1. Datasets & Cubes : Data Operations
  2. GeoMap : Workflow to create Default geomap
  3. Crosstab : Making use of Cell references

Predictive Use cases

  1. Assisted predictive modelling : Medical Cost Prediction Using Smarten Assisted Predictive Modelling
  2. Assisted predictive modelling : Hypothesis : One-Way Anova test using Smarten Augmented Analytics

Business Use Cases

  1. Business Scenarios : Calculating Pending Completion Months for an Ongoing Project
  2. Business Scenarios : Find out the frequency of repetition of dimension value combinations – e.g. frequency of combination of bread and butter from sales transactions

Manuals and Technical Guides

  1. Smarten User Manual SSDP
  2. Smarten Working with Sentiment Analysis
  3. Smarten Dashboard Design Best Practices

If you don’t find what you need in the Support Portal, we hope you will contact us with your questions, comments or suggestions. We are here to help and to support your business goals and success!

URL: Smarten Customer and Partner Community
Email: support@Smarten.com

Original Post: Smarten Support Portal Updates – December – 2025!

Build Your Software Team (A Dream Team) At a Price You Can Afford

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December 24, 2025

Building a Software Team That Suits Your Needs

Imagine having the resources you need to satisfy your software development, support and maintenance needs? Imagine a universe where you don’t have to recruit, interview and house a software development team to fulfill your vision for a consumer or business application? What if you could have the right resources available at the right time without having to wait for your team (or an IT partner) to find the time to address your needs or ideas?

‘A Build Your Own Team approach assures that the business has the skills, knowledge, resources and access it needs to complete its project on a timely basis. This personalized approach is not simply a staffing, recruitment or shared workspace approach.’

CIO.com recently published research that outlines the primary reasons for project failure. Among the top reasons for failure, they list two primary factors relating to resources:

Not Enough Resources

Underestimating the resources and talent required to do the work and the amount of work required to complete the project.

Inexperienced Teams

Failure to provide experienced project managers and specific skills and talents required to complete the project.

Even if your business has a skilled in-house IT team, it is likely that they are already overwhelmed by existing projects, support, and maintenance of the existing infrastructure. Add to that the fact that new technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), and new platforms, frameworks, coding techniques, and other factors can make it nearly impossible to keep your staff trained and sustain the skills you need to address every requirements.

But when your business needs software and application development help, it is often difficult to find a service provider that will satisfy all business needs and do so in a timely, skilled fashion. If a business chooses the wrong service provider, it is likely to face one or more of the following issues:

  • Cookie-cutter solutions and teams that provide some, but not all, of the skills required to support business needs.
  • Delays in achieving milestones because the right resources are not available at the right time.
  • Inflexible team and resource availability to address changing or evolving requirements leads to uncertain results.
  • Out-of-date or incomplete skillsets.
  • The need to find, interview and select a vendor, sign contracts and establish relationships for each new project.
  • Resource instability. Changes and disruption in the team demand re-training, and result in lost resource skills and project knowledge.
  • Failure to protect Intellectual Property (IP), Data and User Privacy.

And even if you CAN find a vendor or partner with the right skills, many businesses report delays and gaps in the actual delivery of completed projects. A skilled developer may be pulled from your project to satisfy another client and, when it is time for that developer to work on your project, they may not be available. You may find that the vendor is unavailable on certain days or during certain hours because of time zone differences or project overload.

Build Your Software Team Without Investment and Get the Right Skills and Resources

A Build Your Own Team approach assures that the business has the skills, knowledge, resources and access it needs to complete its project on a timely basis. This personalized approach is not simply a staffing, recruitment or shared workspace approach. By combining experience in software development and project management, and a unique understanding of the software lifecycle, training and skills requirements, with a deep and broad network from which the partner can draw you are assured of the right skills, experience and talent – without delays or default.

‘When your business needs software and application development help, it is often difficult to find a service provider that will satisfy all business needs and do so in a timely, skilled fashion.’

Contact Us to find out how our software application development services and find out how you can Build Your Software Team to support YOUR needs and ensure consistent, professional, skilled technology and knowledge. Explore our free articles here: ‘Build Your Software Team For Cross-Platform Apps Project,’ and ‘Ensure Success And Engage A Software Partner To Build Your Own Team.’

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Case Study: Elegant MicroWeb Case Study – AI Image Recognition Technology Transforms Fire Safety Inspections and Compliance

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December 22, 2025

This U.S. company specializes in fire safety equipment maintenance and compliance management. Its mobile application product automates the process of fire safety inspections, allowing businesses to efficiently record and submit inspection reports to regulatory authorities, streamlining inspection workflows and ensuring consistent compliance for clients. This product is accessed through a subscription plan.

Continue reading “Case Study: Elegant MicroWeb Case Study – AI Image Recognition Technology Transforms Fire Safety Inspections and Compliance”

Should I Choose Cloud-Based or On-Premises Business Intelligence?

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December 10, 2025

Choosing Between Cloud and On-Premises Augmented Analytics

Your business may be upgrading a business intelligence solution OR it may be considering the implementation of business intelligence (BI) for the first time. Either way, you will be faced with numerous decisions as you navigate the augmented analytics market and look for the right product and solution for your team and your organization.

Considerations include pricing, features, ease-of-use, data storage and data management location, and the capability of the solution to support upgrade and growth. When it comes to the technical foundation of the product and services, you will need to decide whether to choose a solution that resides on premises or one that is cloud-based.

Perhaps the most difficult aspect of this decision is advanced planning and anticipating the changing needs of the organization. If you are choosing an advanced analytics product, a business intelligence or augmented analytics solutions, you may wish to select a vendor that allows you to choose an on-premises OR cloud-based approach, with the flexibility to change your approach in the future WITHOUT having to change the software your team has adopted – the one they now understand and use on a daily basis.

On-Premises: Software is hosted onsite using enterprise hardware and infrastructure. Some businesses choose this option because they wish to retain control and provide assured security.

Cloud-Based: When a business chooses this option, it relies on third-party servers to support the software and data and accesses information via secured internet connections using cloud. This option provides a flexible, scalable approach and allows the enterprise to access software and features without the need for its own resources, IT support, and hardware expense.

Gartner Has Predicted that, ‘Demand for integration capabilities, agile work processes and composable architecture will drive continued shift to the cloud.’

On-Premises vs Cloud-Based BI Tools: Consider Your Enterprise Requirements

To choose the right solution, work with your IT partner, to consider:

  • Strategy for Business Growth
  • Industry, Government Security Compliance
  • Availability of and Access to Technical Experts
  • Ability to Easily Manage Data Sources, Data Access, etc.
  • Cost of Solution and Support and Maintenance
  • Performance, Scalability, Flexibility
  • Support for Upgrade, Future Needs, Digital Transformation (Dx)

Look for a flexible, low-code, no-code analytics platform with scalable technology infrastructure and architecture that offers on-premises, private cloud or public cloud implementation for Amazon, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and other options. Your IT consulting partner will help you decide on your approach based on data velocity, data sources and locations, data security and governance policies and your desired return on investment (ROI).

Contact Us to discuss your analytical needs and to find out more about Smarten Technology, Architecture And Infrastructure, and the process of choosing the right Analytics Solution for your business. Explore our White Paper: ‘Enabling Business Optimization And Expense Reduction Through The Use Of Augmented Analytics,’ and our free article, ‘How Does Low Code And No Code Development Support BI Tools?’

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Engage an IT Partner to Build a Personalized Software Team

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November 18, 2025

Build Your Own Software Team with Expert Skills and Experience

No matter the size of your business (large, medium or small), no matter the reach of your enterprise (local, regional or global), technology is a part of our life, a part of the day-to-day work of your team and a part of what feeds your strategy and goals.

Even if you are a part of a global, multi-million dollar organization, with a substantial IT team, it is difficult to source, hire and retain the right resources to staff all of your needs. From maintenance and support to deployment of new software solutions, to security, governance, data migration, management and reporting, there is often too much to do, too little time and too few resources.

…and when your team conceives of a new business software solution for consumers or for team members, or when you wish to integrate software solutions or upgrade tools and processes, your project team is likely to find its vision delayed behind a multitude of day-to-day needs and other projects that are languishing on the ‘to do’ list.

If you have recently decided to consider IT outsourcing for a project, or for ongoing needs, here are some interesting statistics to support this option:

  • IT outsourcing can preserve up to 40% of the organizational budget. (MSBU)
  • Hiring a third-party IT representative can speed up development cycles by 50%. (Number Analytics)
  • Business organizations experience a 30% shortage in tech talent related to cybersecurity and privacy. (Robert Half)
  • 93% of organizations anticipate entrusting aspects of cybersecurity to specialized service providers within the next two years. (Forbes)

Whether your business needs help with a new software project, or wishes to upgrade security standards, integrate existing solutions with new software, create a more comprehensive support and maintenance roadmap, or satisfy any other need, you can achieve these goals with dedicated assistance from an IT outsourcing expert.

Your management team and IT professionals may believe that IT outsourcing is undependable and expensive but, the right IT partner can provide flexible, dedicated resources to fulfill your requirements and you can Build Your Own Software Development team to quickly and easily complete your project.

If you are contemplating a new software solution, you can build a team with the skills to design a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and prototype and test features to avoid missteps and market mistakes.

Minimum Viable Products (MVP) Produces Better Business Start-Up Results

If you have an idea for a business solution, you can work with a dedicated team and dependable resources to develop requirements, obtain management, IT and user feedback and design, develop and create a solution using the right technology, frameworks and platforms.

Every resource assigned to your project will be curated to provide the right skills, experience and knowledge. Your team will not fight for the attention of assigned team members but rather will work with this assigned team and enjoy assured availability.

Your enterprise will enjoy:

  • Timely Project Delivery
  • Cost-Effective Solutions
  • Proven Expertise
  • Team of Skilled, Highly-Trained Developers
  • Efficient Project Management
  • Application Outcomes Aligned with Use Cases and Objectives
  • Solutions and Services That Meet Industry and Government Standards
  • Cutting Edge Expertise in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Low-Code, No-Code (LCNC) Platforms, Advanced Analytics etc.

This approach provides resources to  maintain, support, enhance and upgrade software, migrate data into new environments, support and enhance existing applications, and your team has total control to assign work tasks and manage day-to-day team activities for the offshore software team.

If your business is struggling to keep up with technology evolution and software development and integration, Contact Us to discuss your needs and to explore how your business can Build A Dedicated Software Team to satisfy all of your needs.

Original Post: Engage an IT Partner to Build a Personalized Software Team!

Augmented Analytics Can Support a Large User Base

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November 7, 2025

Support Your Large Business User Base with the RIGHT BI Tools

According To Finance Online, Allied Market Research reports that small and medium businesses are driving enterprise use of analytics, but World Data Science Initiative reports that 80% of global companies are investing in data analytics, thereby revealing analytics growth across, small, medium and large enterprises.

For your large enterprise, data analytics can and will be a definitive issue impacting your business and market growth. Choosing the right solution to support data democratization and improved data literacy across the enterprise will ensure that your team can create, share, collaborate and report on data, make recommendations and suggestions based on fact, and use data-driven metrics to ensure that strategies and operational decisions are relevant, accurate and effective.

‘While many large organizations are daunted by the idea of implementing analytics across the organizations, it is completely feasible to plan for an deploy this software and to modify business processes to build on fact-based decisions.’

Today’s self-serve augmented analytics and modern business intelligence solutions are designed to support users across the enterprise, and a solution that is built on the right technology platforms, will enable rapid implementation and user adoption and requires very little training or transition time. Auto-suggestions and recommendations allow users to work on their own, no matter their skill levels.

To support a large user base, you will want to select an augmented analytics solution designed with a low-code, no-code, artificial intelligence and machine learning environment to ensure scalability and seamless, responsive, mobile access.

Contrary to Some Opinions, a Large Enterprise with Many Users CAN Adopt Augmented Analytics

Your team can untangle quality and maintenance issues, refine customer targeting and marketing optimization, make appropriate financial investment decisions, and even use external data to analyze trends and patterns and make forecasts and predications.

Real-time data management lets users connect to data sources in real time, and compiles data for fast performance to deliver real time analytics. Cached data management caches data and performs pre-aggregation and other computations for superior performance and analytics, and refreshes data from data sources at a defined frequency.

Your enterprise can choose on-premises or private or public cloud-based data management to access the analytics solution from any business location around the world, or for remote workers or those working on the road, in hotels or airports.

‘For your large enterprise, data analytics can and will be a definitive issue impacting your business and market growth. Choose the right solution to support data democratization and improved data literacy and use data-driven metrics to ensure that strategies and operational decisions are relevant, accurate and effective.’

While many large organizations are daunted by the idea of implementing analytics across the organizations, it is completely feasible to plan for an deploy this software and to modify business processes to build on fact-based decisions. Work with your IT partner to plan a reasonable roll-out and address cultural concerns, and to budget for and implement an affordable, dependable analytics solutions across the enterprise. No matter how many business users your business has, you CAN adopt and leverage self-serve augmented analytics to support your business, improve competitive advantage and gain crucial insight into data for planning, problem-solving and identification of trends, patterns, issues and opportunities.

Ensure appropriate Technology, skills and knowledge, Cutting-Edge Features and an advanced approach to Augmented Analytics And Business Intelligence. Contact Us to find out more about the Smarten suite of products. Explore our free white paper: ‘Enabling Business Optimization And Expense Reduction Through The Use Of Augmented Analytics.’

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Start-Up Businesses Can Leverage Minimum Viable Products

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November 6, 2025

Is a Minimum Viable Product Good for My Start-Up?

Typically, the start-up and entrepreneur organization does not lack great ideas or innovation, but they often DO lack the budget and the resources to affordably and quickly bring their vision to life and to select the right technology to support their business ideas. Engaging an expert IT consulting partner can help the start-up expand resources without hiring and housing its own team, and it can add expertise and knowledge to get the job done.

When engaging an IT partner, the start-up organization must choose a software development team that understands the start-up culture and has experience helping this type of enterprise to thrive in today’s digitally advanced world by offering custom software and services. Choose a partner that has experience working with Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) to speed your market entry and ensure that you avoid missteps and expensive mistakes.

‘MVP products are designed with just enough features to test concepts and idea and allow early users to provide feedback that will then be incorporated into the final, comprehensive product development project.’

Gartner defines a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) product as, ‘A minimum viable product (MVP) is the release of a new product (or a major new feature) that is used to validate customer needs and demands prior to developing a more fully featured product. To reduce development time and effort, an MVP includes only the minimum capabilities required to be a viable customer solution.’

Start-ups have the capacity to revolutionize the industry because of their innovative outlook. However, digital growth, stability, and keeping up-to-date on the latest market trends are of paramount importance and can be challenging.

MVP development and MVP agile development are perfect for the start-up environment looking for an investor and for beta users who are tasked to pursue a concept or idea.

Minimum Viable Products Are the Secret Weapon for Start-Up Businesses

MVP products are designed with just enough features to test concepts and idea and allow early users to provide feedback that will then be incorporated into the final, comprehensive product development project. This is a cost-effective way to engage prospective investors and/or to gather feedback on a product, and assure product-market fit and it allows the start-up business to avoid a lengthy, costly product development process that may result in failure, or that may include features or functionality customers do not want, or may leave gaps in functionality that are important to customers and clients.

When considering an IT consulting partner, choose a partner with experience in Minimum Viable Products (MVP) – a partner that understands and has worked with start-up businesses and can support your enterprise with affordable, effective services. Your partner should be skilled in a wide spectrum of technologies, domains, and proven delivery models to cater to your specific requirements to create trailblazing software, seamlessly utilize data analytics, and provide talented developers to support your needs as your grow.

‘MVP development and MVP agile development are perfect for the start-up environment looking for an investor and for beta users who are tasked to pursue a concept or idea.’

Contact Us to find out how our software application development services and our Minimum Viable Product (MVP) Services can help your Start-Up Business gain traction and enter the market quickly and dependably.  Explore our free articles here: ‘Ensure Start-Up Success With Expert MVP And App Development.’

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Smarten Support Portal Updates – October – 2025!

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October 31, 2025

We invite you to explore our latest knowledgebase articles and to join the Smarten user community on Smarten Support Portal.

If you have not registered yet, Click Here to obtain your login credentials.

Knowledgebase Articles

  1. Crosstab : Spot the Gross Sales highlighters
  2. Data Sources : Improve data extraction performance from database data source
  3. Datasets & Cubes : Manage columns while creating dataset

Predictive Use cases

  1. Assisted predictive modelling : Classification : Customer Churn model using Smarten Assisted Predictive Modelling
  2. Assisted predictive modelling : Hypothesis : Independent Sample T-test Using Smarten Augmented Analytics

Forum Topics

  1. Embedded / API Integration : How to rebuild cubes/ datasets through API call ?
  2. Graphs : Global Variable : How can I plot the dynamic graph based on measure selected from the list of measures

Manuals and Technical Guides

  1. Smarten Concept Manual BI
  2. Smarten Concept Manual SmartenInsight
  3. Smarten Working with Multitenancy

If you don’t find what you need in the Support Portal, we hope you will contact us with your questions, comments or suggestions. We are here to help and to support your business goals and success!

URL: Smarten Customer and Partner Community
Email: support@Smarten.com

Original Post: Smarten Support Portal Updates – October – 2025!

Mobile BI Supports User Access and Adoption and Improves Results

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October 15, 2025

Why Adopt Mobile BI? Data Access and Data Democratization

The global business environment has changed dramatically. With employees working remotely, and even in other countries, it is mandatory to provide technology and tools your team can use to complete tasks and, hopefully, to add value to the organization on a daily basis.

If you have not yet adopted a business intelligence or augmented analytics solution, it is wise to consider one now. Your competitors are already implementing these solutions! If you HAVE adopted a BI tool or self-serve analytics solution, but you have yet to provide your team with mobile business intelligence, it is past time to consider this addition because your competitors area already implementing THESE solutions as well!

‘Out-of-the-Box Mobile BI can provide natural language search analytics, clickless analytics for quick, easy analysis, key performance indicators, dashboards and reports, dynamic charts and graphs, and intuitive visualizations, with self-serve features that are suitable for every user.’

According to Market Research Future studies, ‘The Business Intelligence market segmentation, based on Technology, includes Mobile BI, Cloud BI, and Social BI…’ This market is…’is expected to grow and expand during the projected timeframe as it will help businesses make data-driven decisions, boosting the overall market growth.’ This study estimates that the business intelligence market will grow from USD 33.12B in 2024 to USD 78.42B in 2032.

The reason for that growth is simple. Businesses, large and small, are discovering the value of fact-based decision-making, and the wise business owner, executive or manager understands that their competition is actively involved in improving productivity (to do more with less), in improving customer satisfaction (with targeted products and services), in decreasing re-work and increasing collaboration, and above all in increasing the data literacy of its team through data democratization, easy access to crucial data and improved user adoption of technology.

Access Data From Anywhere with Next Gen Mobile BI Tools for Business Users

But the old methods of BI tool installation can no longer support strategic goals. Your team may be spread across countries, regions or cities. They may work in the field. They may be meeting with a client or a supplier. Any or all of these scenarios require mobile tools that provide your team with the information they need to make the right decision, to review historical data or transactions and work with others to create a pricing strategy, check on stock, understand customer buying behavior etc.

If you truly wish to make your team more productive and effective, it is crucial to give them access to data and the information they need to do their job, no matter where they are working (in the office or remotely). Easy-to-use, self-service tools ensure user adoption and can move your team members toward a Citizen Data Scientist role, with advanced analytics that is intuitive, interactive and flexible.

Out-of-the-Box Mobile BI can provide natural language search analytics (NLP), clickless analytics for quick, easy analysis, key performance indicators (KPIs) for metrics and results, dashboards and reports, dynamic charts and graphs, and intuitive visualizations, all designed for ease-of-use with self-serve features that are suitable for every user.

With these tools, your users can easily find and analyze information, working from anywhere, at any time of the day. They will not have to guess at information, or carry copies of old reports that are no longer relevant.

‘If you have adopted a BI tool or self-serve analytics solution, but you have yet to provide your team with mobile business intelligence, it is past time to consider this addition because your competitors area already implementing these solutions.’

If you want to support your business user team and provide a foundation for BI tools that will better serve your team and your customers, explore Smarten Mobile BI benefits and features, with powerful functionality and access for your business users including out-of-the-box Mobile BI and advanced analytics for every team member. For more information on Mobile BI and Augmented Analytics, read our article, ‘Mobile BI Business Use Provides Real Advantages,’ and take a moment to watch and listen to this informative webinar, ‘Smarten Mobile BI.’

Original Post : Mobile BI Supports User Access and Adoption and Improves Results!