Having just got back from the MicroStrategy World Conference in beautiful Cannes, I thought I would cover what was announced this week at the event.  CEO Michael Saylor launching MicroStrategy Mobile for iPhone, iPad and Blackberry describing it as "the most significant launch in MicroStrategy history".  In his opening keynote he talked about mobile as "the 5th major wave of computing" starting with mainframe, then mini-computers, then personal computers, desktop internet and now mobile internet.  Their vision here is a good one - BI all the time, everywhere and for everyone. Mobile device access to BI has been around for a while in some offerings but I was impressed with the work MicroStrategy have put into the mobile user interface on touch sensitive 'gesture' devices like Apple iPhones and iPads.   They have taken advantage of the full set of Apple gestures and also added BI specific gestures including Drill down and Page By.  They have also released an Objective C software development kit (SDK) for MicroStrategy Mobile.  This allows developers to build custom widgets and embed them in the MicroStrategy Mobile application or embed MicroStrategy Mobile in your own application.

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