Staying on top of your business requires great organization and utilization of powerful business tools. While often overlooked, business intelligence applications are fundamental to improvement, and are a necessary tool for success. These tools are necessary as they allow you, through integration with your preexisting business structures, to analyze data, spot issues and resolve problems efficiently.
Today on AppStorm we’ve picked out seven of the best iPad business intelligence apps. Each application is free to download but requires subscription to a SaaS service in order to use it. Most offer free trials, giving you the option to try before you buy. Read on to find out more!
Zoho Reports
Zoho Reports is a simple-to use business intelligence software for iPad, allowing even those businesses that operate without an IT department to generate and share a wide range of reports. Zoho Reports adds clear visualizations to the mix, as well as a variety of collaboration features, making it one of the most powerful BI apps around.
Zoho Reports is an exquisitely designed application that enables you to view data in various different forms in order to make the visual representations more informative for specific individuals, making this a tempting choice for those looking for iPad business intelligence apps.
Pricing: From $50 per month
Sisense
Sisense is a particularly simple, insightful Big Data analysis tool. Great visualizations bring even global data to the fore, allowing you to relate and interpret customer behaviors and interactions with considerable ease. Sisense also facilitates drag-n-drop customization of the data presented. What’s more, regardless of how big your data needs, Sisense can handle it.
The iPad version of Sisense allows you to view and interact with your dashboards via the touchscreen, and quickly access all the information you need thanks to mobile-friendly folder navigation.
Pricing: Pricing available on request from Sisense.
Roambi Analytics
Roambi is another business intelligence platform designed to work seamlessly on mobile devices. Its aim is to deliver rich, engaging data experiences across devices, so that everyone can access the same pool of intelligence at the same time. Roambi Analytics can be hooked up to any data source and features alerting, trending, dashboards, and access controls.
Romabi’s iPad business intelligence software is fully optimized for the tablet device, making charts, graphs and reports incredibly pleasing. This is achieved through the excellent visual representations of data.
Pricing:Free price band available. $39/month per user for Business package.
Salesforce IQ
SalesforceIQ (previously known as RelateIQ) focuses on what really matters in the digital maze: the customer relationship. RelateIQ tracks sales actions and day-to-day interactions, reporting it all back to you so you can develop and nurture the relationships you and your sales team work so hard to build.
The SalesforceIQ iPad application not only allows you track sales reports but also makes you better informed when communicating. Through integration with your email inbox SalesforceIQ gives you the relevant data in order to incorporate reports into every piece of communication with your colleagues and clients.
Pricing: From $25 per user per month.
Decibel Insight
Decibel Insight provides a very detailed picture of your Web analytics. Decibel Insight shows you a remarkable “heatmap” of where your site visitor’s attention aims. With Decibel Insight, you can find out not only what pages work well for you customers, but also what specific content and images draw their attention. Now, that’s insightful!
Through Decibel’s application the developers promise to help you improve your user experience and in turn boost your website’s performance. Through their powerful ‘heatmaps’ on your iPad you are are able to establish customer trends in order to adapt to the market.
Pricing: Free package available. Enterprise package based on your needs.
BIME Analytics
BIME effectively turns the Web into what the company describes as “a data warehouse” for your company. With BIME, it’s easy to query data on demand. With BIME, the software itself gets out of the way of the data and what you’d like to do with it.
BIME was one of the first SaaS business apps to transfer over to the mobile platform, making its iPad app established and incredibly functional. In its newest version the whole interface has been redesigned with the aim of “simplicity and desirability” in mind.
Pricing: From $490 per month.
Klipfolio
Klipfolio offers a platform for creating and sharing real-time business dashboards. The software’s unique visualization environment allows users to create custom visualizations from different data mashups. For instance, a user could create a chart that integrates data pulled in from Google Analytics, Salesforce, and SQL databases to generate unique insights.
Klipfolio is a relatively new iPad application, this results in a basic layout with minimal functionality currently. What you can do is view your reports created on the web-based counterpart of the application.
Pricing: Starting at $24/month. Most popular pricing model $99/month.
So there you have some of my top choices of business intelligence software for iPad. Go visit our sister site GetApp to search and compare the best cloud-based business intelligence software. Let us know in the comments below your preferred business intelligence apps for iPad!
