For quite some time we’ve had a cool feature in the Android app that we call Tap To Share. It’s brain dead simple to do; but almost impossible to demo or project on screen…. Until now…. Recently one of our favorite pieces of software called Reflector 2 added support for screen casting Android devices to yourContinue reading “Showing Off NFC Sharing Finally..”
Author Archives: Matt Milella
Forcing a Client Cache Update in BI Mobile HD
The Oracle BI Mobile HD app (iOS only) caches JavaScript and CSS files locally. It does this the first time you connect wit a new server connection and can seen in the app during the connection process. The Oracle BI Presentation Server uses a mechanism to ensure that Oracle BI Mobile HD app isContinue reading “Forcing a Client Cache Update in BI Mobile HD”
New iOS Update Available
You may have already noticed but there is a new version of our iOS app available on the Apple App Store. This update includes a bunch of bug fixes and a number of new features including: iOS 8 Support. Immersive Mode. Changes and improvements including Show/Hide options for the Prompts bar, the Page bar, andContinue reading “New iOS Update Available”
5 More Things I Would Rather do on a Mobile Phone
This is a follow up to a previous blog I did on the same topic. Though I am writing this post on my laptop, it turns many things are just better on the mobile phone. So here are 5 more things… Travel The airline apps and hotel apps have made a ton of progress inContinue reading “5 More Things I Would Rather do on a Mobile Phone”
Turns Out It’s Been Done Before
I stumbled on this while looking up some old docs and thought it would be great post. Really this is a lesson learned. Almost 2 years ago we set out to do a project with some big data on mobile. We were feeling really smart, and started with a large data set from twitter aboutContinue reading “Turns Out It’s Been Done Before”
I’m Sorry, Big Data – Size Does Not Matter…
OK this is going to be one of my soapbox posts, so consider yourself warned. I have been doing a fair amount of reading on big data, visualizations, and analytics in general and I have come to a clear conclusion. “The value of data should not be measured in bytes, it should be measured basedContinue reading “I’m Sorry, Big Data – Size Does Not Matter…”
Guerrilla marketing at OOW 14
In cased you missed It we had some cool stuff to show at Oracle Open World this year and we had some fun with self promoting it. We will write a blog or 2 recapping our efforts, but for now I wanted to share our guerrilla marketing efforts that we sent in the form ofContinue reading “Guerrilla marketing at OOW 14”
Smashing Bugs…
OK even with all this Oracle Open World stuff going on the team has been busy smashing bugs in our current Android App. If you have not noticed an update yet from the Google Play Store you should have it soon. This contains 100% bug fixes and address a date issue that we think wasContinue reading “Smashing Bugs…”
3 Things You Probably Did Not Know About our Android App
Our Android App is pretty new for us, but in mobile terms is has been out for a long time (8 months or so). With that I thought I would share 3 cool features that I bet you did not know about our app. 1 – You can ‘Tap to Share’ reports and connections. OurContinue reading “3 Things You Probably Did Not Know About our Android App”
Just some bugs…
You may have noticed an iOS update for our BI Mobile app yesterday. Nothing to really worry about, just some bug fixes. Pretty isolated stuff that most of our users won’t hit these bugs, but we felt it was important enough so ‘smash’ them right away, and not wait for our next feature release. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/oracle-business-intelligence/id534035015?mt=8
