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Four more iOS apps for IT

03.03.2011
Last week I took a look at three products for iThings (my catch-all term for s, iPod Touchs, and s) that IT would find useful (see ]. OK, maybe the last one, the wasn't strictly "useful", so as a penance this week I have, for your delectation, four more iOS apps that I think you'll want. If you have any to add to the list, let me know. You can also check out my picks as a .

First up, , published by MeLLmo, is an amazing tool for creating and viewing interactive data presentations on iThings. Although this app looks amazing on the iPhone and iPod Touch, it's gorgeous on the iPad because of the screen real estate.

You upload your data to the RoamBi site (Excel, CSV, Google Spreadsheets, Crystal Reports, Salesforce CRM, SAP BusinessObjects, IBM Cognos, and Reporting Services are all supported) and select which view you want to use (there are several choices including Cardex, a card file view; Superlist, for tabular data; and PieView). Next you can add customizations and finally, publish.

When you open the (free) app on your iThing and provide your account details (the basic personal account is free), your latest RoamBi visualizations will be automatically downloaded. (With the multiuser Pro and Enterprise subscriptions new versions of your visualizations are pushed to you in real time.)

What will amaze you about RoamBi is just how slick the visualizations are. You can make selections, drill down, take screen shots and share them via e-mail and create events. RoamBi gets a rating of 5 out of 5 (I like this app so much, I'd give it a 6 out of 5 if I could).

Next, I have Nuance's free , an app that will perform speech to text translation on your iThing without training, which is pretty remarkable.