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For more on business intelligence, see Intelligent Enterprise.Devices like the iPhone will slash mobile BI query speeds as long as the underlying BI architectures don’t get in the way. So says MicroStrategy Chief Operating Officer Sanju Bansal, a 20-year company veteran who has more than a few bold things to say about performance, analytics, dashboards and the competition.

InformationWeek: MicroStrategy highlighted mobile BI during its January users’ conference, but we haven’t noticed much uptake for related products. Do you know something we don’t?Sanju Bansal: I agree that the current state BI mobility is a yawner. When you look at the current tools, including our own, they tend to present simple graphs and grids.

But after studying what’s happening with smart phones, it’s clear that Apple, with the iPhone, is picking up momentum and market share pretty aggressively. Apple has shipped about 70 million iPhone and iTouch devices, and they will probably ship another 50 million units this year.

Within two years, there will be more than 200 million devices in the market that run that operating system and browser stack.

What makes these smart phone devices interesting but that is not well understood is that the impedance to queries is dramatically lower.

Not only do they know where you are because they have built-in GPS capabilities, they also have built-in cameras and other sensors. If you’re a manager in a retail store, for example, the device already knows where you are and you can take a picture of the barcode on any item with the camera; with barcode lookup services, the device knows what the item is within about half a second.

Before, if you wanted to look up the sales or inventory of a product, you had to look up and enter the product name or code and you had to enter your location. The challenge is going to be performance, because people don’t want to wait much longer than about two seconds for query results.

The dirty secret in BI is that performance is still a problem. In most corporate environments, query response times are anywhere from 20 to 45 seconds. That’s obviously way too long for a mobile device.

Couple of questions about VBScripting... first, I have a script that performs a server hardware inventory; currently I have an input box prompt for the user to provide servername and the script runs fine. But when I go to compile it, I get errors "declaration expected." How can I build the prompt for the servername variable into the compiled script? -Second: how to create a single script that calls three or four other scripts? I'm pretty much a newbie to VBScripting and I'm learning on the fly so please forgive anything I've called by the wrong name, etc. I will be glad to post snips of my scripts if that helps. Most of them came straight from the Microsoft scripting center! :) Thanks!
by lwcomputing @ September 25, 2006 6:05 pm
You need to declare every variable you want to use. You really should ask this question on a different site - this site is not very good for interaction. For example, you can post all your code, but if I don't check back, I'll never know that you did. Couple of sites I use include www.experts-exchange.com and www.tek-tips.com - these sites notify anyone participating in the question with an email whenever someone posts, so your problem can actually be solved in a timely manner.
I have a friend who has been showing classic signs of abusing prescription narcotics. Her and I used to be very close, we lost touch for a while and about a year and a half ago I was involved in a motor vehicle accident that left me with ruptured/torn discs. I am currently being prescribed oxycodone 15 mg and only take them when needed. When my friend found out that I was prescribed those she began to only come around to ask me for pills. I of course didn't give her any because I am being treated through a pain center, and you can get called in for random pills counts and if you are short you can get released from the program. I informed her of this but she stayed persistent, trying to give me $30 for just one and begging and pleading for me to give her some. She would get agitated and stop talking to me for a little while when I stayed stern on not giving her anything. She swears she has all of these different problems but all of her tests that her PCP has done has been negative and even he stopped giving her pain pills since he doesn't feel that she is in enough pain to warrant taking them. He put her on anti inflammatory pills and muscle relaxers. She will not take those, she will go up to the local hospital and be seen in the ER just to get a script of pain pills. She recently went to her OB/GYN and said that she was still having pain from her episiotomy and her OB/GYN of course prescribed her another month worth of pills. When you confront her about her so called pain she becomes defensive and will not speak about it. She just down right refuses to listen to anything you have to say. She swears her doctor is wrong and that there is something that is wrong with her but she has been seen by one of the better doctors in this area so I trust his opinion. I am stuck between a rock and a hard place, I want to help her as a friend but since she won't listen to me and swears she doesn't have a problem and is in legit pain she brushes me off. I know her and her mother are super close and I have been thinking about going to her mother to tell her that her daughter needs help. This girl is in her second marriage with two kids, and one step kid and used to have so much going for her and has now starting to lose everything because she spends her time looking for pills. I saved all the text messages on my phone where she begs me to sell her one of my pills and where I told her that I wouldn't do it and then she gets mad about it. Should I tell her mother about this and show her the proof and let her mother intervene and get her some help? Or would you just let her learn the hard way?
by Razor's Edge @ January 15, 2010 6:15 pm
She also has an addiction problem. It is not your responsibility to provided her with any kind of prescription meds. She is not your friend when she continues to ask you to do something illegal such as provide her with narcotics. The fact that she begs you for the pills indicates an addiction. The fact that she goes from provider to provider for pills indicate addiction. You must be true to yourself, and you should not be "shamed" into playing her game. You are not stuck, you must be assertive and say no. It may be difficult, but you cannot be an accessory to an illegal activity. Her behavior is that of an addict. You may want to tell her that directly. If she decides not to be your friend so be it. Friends do not put friends in harms way.

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