Oracle BI (OBIEE) has been a laggard in the Mobile BI space up until this point. They have provided only very basic abilities in terms of application design and interaction. It is exciting to see they have stepped up their game with the announcement of their new Oracle BI Mobile App Designer.

Recently I was at a client site discussing the impressive adoption rate of a Mobile BI project that had just gone into production compared to some previous similar projects that had not fared as well. As we white-boarded the particulars of each application’s adoption, we realized that the main difference was how each project had come to be in the first place.

We often work with clients to benchmark database performance during the vendor selection process and as a result have become experts at working with the various standardized testing data sets available to the public. Almost anyone who has been involved in a performance test is familiar with the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) test.