Apple and IBM last week kicked off their five-month-old partnership with an “impressive” 10-pack of focused mobile business apps catering to sectors ranging from financial to law enforcement.

“The three that I’ve seen were pretty impressive,” said Van Baker, an analyst at Gartner. “They’re very complex, with some drawing from three, four or more separate data sources.”

Apple and IBM, partners from 1991 through 2005 — they had a falling out a decade ago when Apple switched its Macs to Intel processors — rejoined forces in July to meld Apple’s iPhone and iPad with IBM’s big data and analytics capabilities.

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