Corporate tablet alternatives to the iPad are now on the horizon. At Adobe MAX 2010, Mike Lazaridis demonstrated the features available through Adobe AIR on the BlackBerry PlayBook – including some SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (formerly Xcelsius) using the export-to-AIR functionality developed by the SAP BusinessObjects Innovation Center.
You can already access your SAP data on an iPad with BusinessObjects Explorer for iPhone/iPad, and existing SAP dashboards should work on any device that supports the latest version of Adobe Flash (such as the Google Nexus One Phone) – although there’s currently no support for multi-touch operations (soon available in Flash, but it will be a while before this is integrated into the SAP dashboards).
UPDATE: You can even “adapt” existing Xcelsius Dashboards for iPhone/iPod use, now that Apple has been forced to accept conversion tools. See this SAP Community Network post from Miguel Figueiredo