I came, I saw, iSAP

Author: Sabine Lackner, Business Intelligence Consultant

With iPhones and Blackberries being available to a vast majority of the Australian business world for a number of years now we have already been quietly adapting our behaviour and expectations. Think back to a few years ago – instant information was less accessible but today it is a given.

It’s been a couple of months now since the iPad has attacked the Australian market. It is definitely notable in your everyday life – have a look around on the bus, at the coffee shop and even at work. Whether it be the teenager checking his Facebook account, the child playing the latest release of Doodle Jump or the professional browsing through his emails- iPads are everywhere.

With over 3 million sales in Quarter 2 of 2010 alone I think it is safe to say that the release of the iPad has been a great success and the world is ready for change. Undoubtedly it has the potential to change the way we work.

Business Intelligence plays a very important role in this fast and technology-oriented world. It has been very handy for managers and other professionals having the ability of getting their daily reports emailed out to them and viewing them on their Smartphone as they productively wait to board their plane. The iPad is taking this experience to the next level – making it easier to read documents and effectively share information with other people. And let’s be honest viewing PDF files is still quite basic. Where it gets really exciting is when you are testing out the first iPad applications that claim to run your reports and even dashboards in real time.

We are still in our infancy and developers all around the world are busy coming up with bigger and greater applications.

SAP for iPads & iPhones is certainly following the trend of time, and SAP has started its own little community for iPhone and iPad enthusiasts:

Forum: http://forums.sdn.sap.com/forum.jspa?forumID=498

Wiki: https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/mobile/iPhone+and+iPad

Blogs: http://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/weblogs/topic/15

YouTube has already got some promising demos on the integration of SAP and iPads:
https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/mobile/iPad+demos

Extend’s BI Team will be demoing new iPad applications at the Mastering SAP BI Conference on 11^th October at the Sofitel Wentworth Sydney. Be sure to visit our booth to find out more about this exciting new technology!