Gartner predicts that 30% of all BI will be consumed on mobile devices by 2013.  With the amount of interest in mobile BI and those kinds of bold predictions you would think it would be easy to understand the options available.  It is not.  There are a lot of things to consider when deciding what mobile BI tool and operating system fits for your organization:

A few months ago I attended a presentation at MicroStrategy which focused on their Mobile product.  The class highlighted how information can be presented on iPhones and iPads in very useful and flexible ways, but one section of the presentation really sparked my interest.  It showed the usage growth of the various technologies as they become current: 

If these figures are to be believed, and I suspect they’re pretty close, then the evolution is continuing and rapidly expanding towards less expensive, more portable and easy to use devices.  For our discussion, let’s assume that Mobile Internet computing consists of phones (iPhone, Android, Blackberry, etc.) and tablets (iPad almost exclusively at this time).