A recent Gartner survey of 1,400 chief information officers said they are planning to increase their budgets for business intelligence (BI) technology by 4.8 percent this year.

Yet delivering this business intelligence to dispersed key employees has been challenging. Although mobile devices have made it easier for users to communicate in real-time, until now there was no way to view complex data without powering up a laptop. Fortunately, business intelligence can be delivered in real time to frontline employees using the Webalo Mobile Dashboard.

The Webalo Mobile Dashboard is a new and easy way to distribute critical business intelligence reports to mobile users in a highly usable and actionable form - making information and application functionality available to employees when and where they need it. The Webalo Mobile Dashboard is a web based on-demand service- providing real-time delivery of business intelligence reports to mobile devices.

Webalo designed the Webalo Mobile Dashboard for anyone that needs real time information to make quick business decisions. Using the web based interface, Webalo Mobile Dashboard users can easily format complex data from formats such as Excel spreadsheets, and deliver it to mobile devices such as BlackBerry, Treo, PocketPC, and other smart phones.

The company has been Beta testing their new Mobile Dashboard for the last three months. The Webalo Mobile Dashboard Beta program is currently open to mobile application developers, business intelligence administrators, and other parties interested in the rapid deployment of business intelligence to mobile devices.

Those interested in the Webalo Mobile Dashboard beta program can participate for free at http://md.webalo.com

One Webalo Beta tester, an IT professional with Cox Communications said, "I like the fact that the Mobile Dashboard conveys our current data quickly. And it's easy to use. In our organization, many of the marketing department's decisions are based on the very latest and current customer data. Being able to access this kind of business intelligence right before an important meeting, will go a long way to making better business decisions, faster."

This year's Las Vegas CTIA Wireless 2006 conference in April showcased a number of initiatives promising to expand the wireless frontier by addressing how convergence and technology is enabling the industry to grow while providing consumers with more low-cost options for wireless devices, content and services.

The backbone of the Mobile Dashboard is the Webalo User Proxy, patent pending technology that is the key to very rapid and flexible deployment of applications to users, developed over the last six years.

Now, as more executives require business intelligence to be available outside of an organization, the greater need there is for new types of user interfaces like Webalo's Mobile Dashboard.

Webalo provides the missing link between users and Web-based applications - a User Proxy Server that delivers the full business value of the application to users automatically, regardless of the end user device, effectively "putting the user" in charge. More information about Webalo, Inc. is available athttp://www.webalo.com.

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Kristin Gabriel is a marketing communications professional based in Los Angeles, California.