Readable Reports for Mobile Devices Help Sales People who are on the go Access Readable Reports

In today's dynamic business environment it is essential to provide sales executives and management alike the immediate availability of business information, such as key performance indicators, balanced scorecards, and other business operations reports.

According to Forrester, 45 percent of companies are looking to deploy mobile business intelligence information to business managers from C-level executives to line managers. The timely delivery of this information to them, wherever they are and on whatever devices they have available, is critical to the successful operation of any company, in any market.

The challenge is that existing technologies do not support rapid delivery, real time reporting and the ability to easily view this business data on mobile devices. Typical approaches involving Web interfaces or "jeweler's lens" attachment viewers have proved inadequate for users and the cost and challenge of developing custom applications, has become prohibitive for most IT departments.

One company has come up with unique technology and the first business intelligence solution that provides a fast, low-cost way of distributing reports to mobile users. Webalo, Inc. recently introduced a beta version of its Webalo Mobile Dashboard service, which enables companies to easily deliver business intelligence such as key performance indicators, forecasts, scorecards and dashboards to their mobile workforce. Webalo delivers business intelligence reports to mobile devices such as BlackBerry, Pocket PC, Treo and other smart phones.

Here's how it works. Once a user has joined the Webalo Mobile Dashboard service, they quickly upload reports to the service, where the report content is formatted for easy viewing on mobile devices.

Administrators can easily configure their reports and choose which user groups will receive each report, as they have access to a dynamic Web-based interface for managing reports and their distribution. Reports are delivered immediately to mobile users in real-time.

Mobile users who receive the business intelligence on their mobile devices are alerted in real-time of new or updated reports. Reports are cached on the mobile device, making them available off-line, giving users access to reports on their mobile devices even if they are out of their mobile device's coverage range. To use the service, subscribers simply register on-line and pay a monthly fee for usage.

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 at http://md/webalo.com

By Kristin Gabriel, Marketing Communications

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Kristin Gabriel has worked within a wide range of industry categories including marketing communicaitons and writing within the entertainment, consumer products, high-tech, biotech and the computer industry. She is involved in all levels of management to implement search engine marketing, corporate communications, public relations, advertising campaigns, and major events.