Business Intelligence provider MicroStrategy announced that it will provide its business reports and dashboards on Amazon's Kindle DX reader. While many thought the Kindle was just about reading novels, think again.
For those of you who don't know anything about the Kindle, it's a simple platform for downloading and reading books provided by Amazon. However, with applications like this beginning to appear, it's now becoming a viable platform as well.
This makes sense for the business intelligence world since the ease-of-use of the Kindle, its built-in 3G connectivity, as well as its easy-to-read screen, makes it perfect for the executive on-the-go who needs business intelligence data delivered anywhere. The company already has an iPhone app to allow mobile access to reports and the dashboard, in case you were wondering.
What's significant about this application, and others like it that will soon appear, is the marriage of the mobile world with business intelligence which has been a long time in coming. Indeed, this could mean a resurgence of interest in business intelligence as a tool that has much more power in a phone or a Kindle, than it does on a laptop screen.
Core to the issues with business intelligence has been ease-of-use and accessibility. Thus use of mobile platforms addresses those issues. Watch out for many more business intelligence applications to appear on mobile devices in the very near future. Who did not see this coming?
Dave, Interesting stuff. Do you know if there will be drill-down capability back to the source via Amazon's Whispernet?