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Thanks to a plethora of mobile apps, like the 10 featured here, business people can perform a variety of business intelligence tasks on their smartphones and tablets.

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One of the hottest trends in business intelligence today is embedding analytics capabilities into transactional applications.

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One of the hottest trends in business intelligence today is embedding analytics capabilities into transactional applications.

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