Roambi (discontinued)

it's a very good product to create board pack reports. we did the same and some operational data presentation at the department key user's mobile.

delivered the existing key user webi reports on roambi.

used cardex base graphical reports for regional and sector wise sectioning presentation.

some sap mobile BI challenges are solved by ROAMBI & Its very advanced with iPADs comparing with other analytical mobile apps

cardex type of presentation is already innovated in roambi in 2012, even iOS safari browser idea was created from this cardex style

blink view is only available for sap and ms sql

roambi publisher is very user-friendly and understandable for non technical person as well

Can be used off-line

Quite stable

Nice graphic interface and visualization

Performance

Data source development

Integration with more data sources

Report templates that are easy to learn, use, update and maintain.

Great looking reports that stay up-to-date with what Apple is producing. When Apple rolled out the new look and feel to their iOS7 release, Roambi created a brand new set of reports within two weeks to go along with the iOS7 changes.

Seamless integration with our existing BI environment, SAP Business Objects XI, 3.1. This drastically reduced the time from purchase to client-ready roll out from months to weeks.

These reports were designed specifically for mobile devices, however a frequent request that we are unable to fulfill is that clients would like to share the complete functionality of these reports with someone via an internet-based report. We can take a screenshot that can be put into a presentation, we can e-mail a link to the report to view on another iOS device, but it cannot be shared with someone on a desktop or laptop. Roambi does provide something to be viewed, but it is based a narrow, iPhone view which can only be used for certain reports.

Roambi currently only works on iOS devices. There are plans for Android and Windows Mobile versions, however those are not yet available.

Excellent User Experience

Integration into existing BI environments

Leverages the capabilities an iPad provides to the user

Customizing the GUI

Support of other mobile operation systems

Providing write back capabilities

Very intuitive user interface that exploits the touch capabilities of tablets and smartphones very well.

Offline capability - extremely helpful for sales people that can not always be online.

Integration with existing BI solutions - almost all of our clients have already a BI Infrastructure. Roambi integrates very well.

Availability on Android and Windows Platforms would be good.

Support for even larger data models.

Template-driven, meaning it's fast to deploy and therefore it costs far less than traditional BI tools to roll out

Offline capabilities far outperform standard BI tools that have been pushed to mobile devices

Publishing capabilities of Roambi Flow are amazing: think of never printing a sales report, board pack, finance report, power point etc and being able to embed data into that report or presentation. Our customers find this feature invaluable

Android

Mobile/Offline access

Ease of use

Implementation speed

Only Apple platform

No desktop solution

Easy to set up

With little training, you can create reports

Visually very attracting

The pre defined templates create a lot of limitations on reporting solutions

One template cannot be connected to other in a single report, requiring users to refer to different reports for information

Quick and precise synchronization of information between the front end and back end: I have extensively updated offline excel templates with information and upon uploading to Roambi I could see that no information had been lost and the synchronization process itself is quite speedy and precise.

Plenty of options to customize representation of data on the front end: I have played around with lots of available options to represent raw data in an attractive and easy to read manner. There is always an option available to suit my needs irrespective of the dimensions or the dept of data that I am trying to represent.

Well designed and implemented app for idevices: The app itself is very well designed and of a very high aesthetic value. I am especially impressed with the performance of the app.

Easy to learn and use: The whole Roambi layout (esp. Roambi Lite), back end templates and front end apps are very easy to learn and use. There are no complicated steps and the representation or layout you want can always be achieved with some tinkering.

The system that performs the rendering of data to the front-end can be improved to intelligently read the back end data template or at least the layout. Inserting new rows/columns of data completely messes up the rendering on the front end and the process of re-selecting information to ensure proper rendering is a very tedious one.

Also, Roambi should have the capability to analyse information in formats other than excel such as word, ppts and/or pdfs. I found the lack of this capability a major hurdle because each time I had to export information into excel to render into a template.

Mobilization of reports; after all it primarily remains a mobile reporting solution.

Previous investments in reporting solutions remain valued. Roambi acts as an additional layer on top of your existing infrastructure, leveraging existing reports in a first phase. Then, you can start collecting data for new reports you might design.

The added interactivity and intuitivity drives people to use the reports more frequently and more efficiently. Now, when common business questions need answers, Roambi is usually able to provide answers in seconds.

Maintaining the Flow documents created with Roambi (magazines and presentations) requires more effort. While automating traditional reports works without problems, publications from Flow are a bigger task.

Not yet available on devices other than iOS. However, Android is due to be released this year; this is one of the most expected innovations.

Very easy to set up data and visualize it through the iPad

Powerful visualizations and ability to customize the way information is interacted with and displayed

Made it easy for non-developers to understand data trends

Not enough customization (compared to QlikView)

The application needs a more flexible user interface

Data layers to drill down through limited to six