Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL) has released the BI Mobile App Designer, a design tool to create analytical applications for use on multiple mobile devices. With this product, Oracle extends the capabilities of the Oracle BI Mobile solution to provide with real-time insights to users while on the go.
The tool has a browser-based, drag-and-drop design interface which enables business users to combine data, text, images, visual graphs, and tables from multiple sources to create mobile analytical apps. Without installing anything, developers can create mobile analytical applications.
The tool has a web-based mobile simulator, and can scan a QR code to run an application. Multiple users can also collaborate and share apps via an App Library where users can subscribe and receive automatic updates.
The apps created using the tool run using HTML5 on iOS, Android, and Windows Mobile smartphones and tablets. Automatic rendering for differing screen sizes allow users to follow a write once, run anywhere model.
"Purpose-built mobile analytical apps greatly expand the opportunities for companies to deploy analytics broadly to everyone," said Paul Rodwick, vice president of product management, Oracle.
