{"id":12031,"date":"2009-05-22T16:14:53","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T15:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/?p=799"},"modified":"2009-05-22T16:14:53","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T15:14:53","slug":"the-next-xcelsius-roambi-provides-businessobjects-bi-for-the-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/the-next-xcelsius-roambi-provides-businessobjects-bi-for-the-iphone.html","title":{"rendered":"The Next Xcelsius? RoamBI Provides BusinessObjects BI for the iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The original creator of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sap.com\/solutions\/sapbusinessobjects\/sme\/xcelsius\/index.epx\">SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius<\/a> has done it again. Santiago Becerra founded Infommersion in 2002 and the company developed Xcelsius, which provided a intuitive and interactive dashboard interface for excel spreadsheets, using Adobe Flash technology. Donald MacCormick and others quickly spotted the potential for corporate data sources, and Infommersion was purchased by Business Objects in 2005, and Xcelsius quickly became an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sap.com\/solutions\/sapbusinessobjects\/large\/intelligenceplatform\/bi\/dashboard-visualization\/xcelsius-enterprise\/index.epx\">integral part of the BusinessObjects enterprise platform<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Santiago\u2019s new company is called Mellmo, and it recently launched a beautiful BI front-end for the iPhone called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roambi.com\/\">RoamBI<\/a>. The dynamic visualizations were designed from the ground up to make the most of the mobile environment and maximize use of the iPhone\u2019s small screen size, allowing you to access, analyze, and share data from just about anywhere.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/cardex.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/cardex-thumb.jpg?resize=225%2C434&#038;ssl=1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"434\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/microbar.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px initial initial;\" title=\"microBar\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/microbar-thumb.jpg?resize=225%2C434&#038;ssl=1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"microBar\" width=\"225\" height=\"434\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/pie.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/pie-thumb.jpg?resize=225%2C434&#038;ssl=1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"434\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RoamBI does a great job of showing off the interface, with an interactive demo embedded directly into their home page, and a nice overview video:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0[flv:http:\/\/assets.roambi.com\/videos\/features\/iphoneOverview.flv 690 520]<\/p>\n<p>Just like Xcelsius, you can use it RoamBI directly with your own Excel spreadsheets by uploading them to RoamBI.com, and this time around, Santiago has included corporate data sources from the beginning, with access to Salesforce.com, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sap.com\/solutions\/sapbusinessobjects\/sme\/reporting\/crystalreports\/index.epx\">SAP Crystal Reports<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sap.com\/solutions\/sapbusinessobjects\/large\/intelligenceplatform\/bi\/qra\/web_intelligence\/index.epx\">SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence documents<\/a> (using the Enteprise version).<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s early days, and the interface looks almost too good to be true, but the feedback from users of the application on the Apple App Store is bordering on the euphoric (the only complaints have been about trying to figure out how to do some things \u2013 which is presumably easy to fix with a bit more documentation).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cMost Amazing UI. This App is amazing. Beautiful UI, pie chart is awesome, I can see analyze data visually. Keep up the good work.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cTalk about the Killer App!!. Can I just say WOW!! this tool is insanely functional, beautifully designed UI, easy &amp; intuitive to use, and miraculously it seems to work work and work without flaws! I\u2019m an exec producer in the film industry and think this app will make a huge impact\u2026\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cVisualization fun at your fingertips!\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWOW! RoamBI it is an Amazing application. I can\u2019t believe how good the application is. I love it. I really like the pie chart and the viewer of the bar chart. My favorite chart type is the Catalyst. Good Job\u2026.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Like <a href=\"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/a-new-data-architecture-for-faster-better-bi-sap-businessobjects-explorer.html\">SAP BusinessObjects Explorer<\/a>, RoamBI is part of a new generation of BI front ends that require little or no training, yet still let the users \u201croam\u201d freely through data with a minimum of setup, using data from \u201cthe cloud\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>So maybe the only question that remains is \u201chow long before Santiago gets acquired again?!\u201d. If you\u2019d like more information, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.b-eye-network.com\/blogs\/rogers\/\">Shawn Rogers<\/a> has written a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.b-eye-network.com\/blogs\/rogers\/archives\/2009\/05\/ipopping_busine.php\">great post on B-eye.com<\/a> about the launch, and you can download the application yourself <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roambi.com\/getroambi\">here<\/a> (link opens in iTunes).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santiago Becerra, the creator of the Xcelsius technology, has founded a new company and launched a new BI front end for the iPhone called RoamBI, than can easily access Excel, BusinessObjects, and Salesforce.com data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[204,213,304,636,743,892,911],"class_list":["post-12031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bi-20","tag-business-intelligence","tag-businessobjects","tag-crystal-reports","tag-iphone","tag-mobile","tag-roambi","tag-sap"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/cardex-thumb-1.jpg?fit=230%2C434&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3X9RF-383","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}