Today, I came across an iPhone/iPad app for SAP BusinessObjects Explorer. It's available for free in iTunes. I decided to give it a shot on my iPhone and ended up liking it :).
It's just 1.9 MB in size and fast to launch unlike some of the other iPhone apps. It is preconfigured with three sample data sets being pulled from the SAP's demo server.
Please note that you will need an internet connection as there is no data available off-line on this app.
Now, let me take you through a series of screenshots to demonstrate how this app works.
Now, let me take you through a series of screenshots to demonstrate how this app works.
Selecting one of the sample data sets.
A bar graph showing revenue by year.
In the above screenshot, following 5 options are available.
Option 1 - Tabular view
Option 2 - Top "n" records
Option 3 - Chart type (Vertical & horizontal bar charts, Radar chart, Pie chart, Line chart, Surface chart, Cloud chart and treemap chart.)
Option 4 - Add favorites
Option 5 - Email feature
A pie chart for revenue bye year and sending the same over an e-mail.
E-mail page.
Filtering the data only for years 2004, 2005 and 2006.
Pie chart only for years 2004, 2005 and 2006.
Drill down on year 2006 to get numbers by the quarters.
Revenue by quarter after drill down.
Search feature - Free text search on the data sets.
In addition, it can also fetch data sets/visualization from SAP BI OnDemand. I have my free Personal Edition account on http://bi.ondemand.com as mentioned in my earlier post. I pointed the app to my account and was able to download the data sets and visualization on the iPhone.
My sample data sets from BI OnDemand account.
Bar chart
Cloud chart.
The missing feature - support for portrait mode. I think it should have been standard for BI apps.
However, I think it's a great step by SAP towards its journey to On-Device. As iPhone is increasingly adopted in the enterprises and Sybase now in SAP's kitty, we can expect more such apps from SAP.
