Thinking Radically: Interview with Transpara's Michael Saucier & Robert Hylton

Technology Evaluation Centers Blog - September 27, 2011
It appears that many organizations are rapidly adopting mobile business intelligence (BI), and the technology promises to become a natural component of every BI application in the near future. And this has only been made possible by the hard work of number of software companies over the past several years in establishing the foundation, changing mindsets, and applying new mobile-based techniques to the BI space.

One such company is Transpara, a provider of a product called Visual KPI, a software application that enables organizations to monitor and manage dashboards, alerts, and analytics using mobile devices. In this interview of the Thinking Radically series, we speak with Michael Saucier, chief executive officer (CEO) of Transpara and Robert Hylton, vice president (VP) of Transpara. Take a minute to read both Mr. Saucier’s and Mr. Hylton’s thoughts on their product Visual KPI in particular and on the mobile BI space in general.  Read more...

The Missing Analytic: Location Intelligence

BeyeNetwork - September 19, 2011
Imagine this: an operations manager at an oil refinery will soon be able to walk around a facility and view alerts based on his proximity to under-performing processing units. His mobile device shows a map that depicts the operating performance of all processing units based on his current location. This enables him to view and troubleshoot problems first-hand rather than being tethered to a remote control room.  Read more...

Is Wireless Ready for Bioprocess Monitoring... and Control?

PharmaManufacturing.com - July 9, 2011
Today, companies such as Transpara and DASGIP are offering solutions that place all of your critical bioprocess data, complete with alarms and trending, in near real-time on your smart device. An example of pushing the envelope today would be Genentech in South San Francisco, which has deployed the Transpara solution.

One senior engineer at Genentech has told me, “I was at the base camp of Mt. Everest, and with my Blackberry, I was able to check the pH of one of my bioreactors.”  More...

Visual KPI Version 4 - Press Release Coverage

Thursday, June 24, 2011

Transpara released Visual KPI version 4, a major new update to our mobile monitoring, mobile BI, analytics and alerting software.  Below are a few of the news outlets and blogs that posted articles about the new software: 

• Dashboard Insight
• Gadgets & Technology News
• Information Management
• Shareholders Foundation
• Microsoft News
• SAP News
• World Market Media
• Digital Journal
• All About Blackberry
• SFGate
• The iPad Slate
• Smart-Grid News
• Consumer Electronics Net
• Automation News
• Automation.com
• Fixed Mobile Convergence 
• The Coolest iPhone Web Applications
• Control Global

New Product News - Visual KPI 4.0

Information Management - June 23, 2011
Visual KPI 4.0 includes new features such as reorganization of views and scorecards into collapsible groups, pre-defined and ad hoc monitoring of values, enhanced context and guidance URL links, connections to more data sources, and a new user interface. More...

Engaging Your Business Networks

Managing Automation - June 1, 2011
Most companies’ enterprise systems don’t foster genuine interaction with their partners or customers. Analyst Julie Fraser offers mobile BI as a forward-thinking example of how to change that. More...  

Mobile BI and the Coming Enterprise App Backlash

Dashboard Insight - June 1, 2011
The popularity of mobile apps and app marketplaces like the iTunes App Store and Android Marketplace have developers swooning and consumers in a frenzy for the latest download. On the business side, especially medium to large enterprises, there is demand from users but storm clouds are brewing for those who have to manage devices, users, applications, and most importantly security. Mobile dashboards and BI are quickly becoming one of the first technologies to get caught in this crossfire.  More...

The Who and What of Mobile BI

Wayne's World Blog on the BeyeNETWORK, April 27, 2011
Robert Hylton, vice president at Transpara, a mobile BI vendor, offers three criteria for evaluating the types of tasks that make sense for mobile BI: 1. Here and now? 2. Small and intangible? 3. Perishable? Asking the above three questions at the outset of a project can help clarify what BI applications make sense to deploy on a mobile platform. "Many decision makers are surprised once they go through this process," says Hylton.  More...

Architecting for Mobile BI: Browser or App?

Wayne Eckerson on the BeyeNETWORK - April 21, 2011
During the past year, every BI vendor has had an intense, internal debate about which mobile BI architecture to adopt. Some vendors, such as MicroStrategy and Mellmo (makers of Roambi), believe that users will demand feature-rich, device-specific mobile applications, while others, such as Transpara and QlikTech, are betting that browser-based mobile applications will eventually steal the day.  More...

BI Hits the Road III: Two Niche Vendors Considered

Technology Evaluation Center Blog - April 19, 2011
Jorge Garcia of TEC covers the emerging Mobile BI market by comparing Roambi with Transpara Visual KPI. "Visual KPI is a product to take into account when organizations need a platform able to work with multiple types of mobile devices already in place as well as to connect to several types of business software applications."  More...