Chapter 10. Mobile BI for Users

In this chapter, we will cover:

  • Answering prompts in reports or documents
  • Sorting, drilling, and paging
  • Adding notes and sharing
  • When things go wrong

Introduction

Your company has given you a brand new iPad and the IT department has loaded a BI tool in it, so what's next? Install Angry Birds I suppose. I mean, after that.

How do we tap our way through hundreds of seemingly identical dashboards and reports, what is the best way to answer to a 10 thousands elements prompt, and do I have to swipe 800 times to reach to the end of the list? We'll try to answer that.

Note

The first time I borrowed my colleague's iPad, the icons on the home screen were trembling. A most welcome answer from Google directed me to the article How ...

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