Enterprise Mobility Solutions: Enterprise operations on the move

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Introduction

Is your business ready to be mobile?

Mobile devices, applications and services are dramatically reshaping enterprises' revenue models, strategies and wa

of employees' interactions. Internet and mobile devices have greatly increased the accessibility of application which

makes enterprises more mobile. Mostly all the enterprises believe that mobility brings tremendous growth and

benefits to an organization, though still some are uncertain of how to leverage the Mobility.

Mobility; a thought process for the enterprises

Mobility offers new possibilities to businesses, but the path to mobility is full of significant challenges. The first

challenge is to develop an enterprise mobility strategy. Companies must understand how mobile technologies impac

their business models. Businesses should identify a set of strategies to implement which can overall impact the

productivity and performance of the business. To bring mobility, the businesses need to craft solutions that cover

different domains. It is a whole thought process where the businesses have to start thinking about all the

organizational functions from the different view which is followed by a suitable strategy and its implementation.



Why to deploy mobility applications?

Typically enterprises yield for mobile applications either for sales force automation or for productivity measurements

However, with the advent of smartphones and tablets, there are many more areas which enterprises try to address o

planning to address. Though, there are still some organizations skeptical for the worth of the enterprise mobility,

many of the businesses have already got the mobility applications deployed. Let us have a look at the result of a

survey that shows the variety of apps deployed by a few number of organizations.

Strategic Direction

Already deployed Plan to deploy in24 months

No plans to deploy

E-mail and PIM access

Access to corporate database

Intranet/employee Web-facing portal

Stand-alone corporate instant messaging

Stand-alone Web conferencing

Dispatch/work order management

Enterprise social networking

ERP/inventory and financial management

Unified communications

Sales force automation

89%

36%

34%

27%

22%

22%

18%

17%

13%

14%

6%

30%

25%

19%

25%

17%

18%

19%

34%

21%

5%

34%

41%

54%

53%

61%

65%

64%

53%

65%

Tthough most of the enterprises have accepted the value preposition of mobility, many corporate adoption of mobilitremained unsystematic and unplanned.

With the growth of mobile applications, most of the companies are deploying mobility in different fashions, using

various mobile technologies which address a set of requirements of employees and the organizations. But there are

also few challenges the businesses have to meet selecting a correct IT partner. The enterprise mobility challenges

businesses meet with are;

What do we need to think about before getting started?

Creating a robust architectureDeveloping device agnostic applications covering a wide range of mobile operating systems

Developing intelligent and interactive applications

Data synchronization with enterprise systems

Securing corporate information

Justifying mobile investments



Till the day, the concept of enterprise mobility has not been

taken coherently because the mobile technologies have

remained primarily limited to a voice only mobile or a person

digital assistant. Also, the applications were limited and themobiles were used in isolation. But now, the demand of

market has created the need where the technology managers

have to get apps developed overseeing the scope of enterpris

mobility and different arrays of technologies. The enterprises

with the implementation of mobility in the business are of

course expecting enhanced productivity and higher return on

investment. The main concerns which must be addressed

while designing mobile strategies are; security issues and

productivity hike.

Principles to lay a firm foundation for Enterprise Mobility:

Think Mobile:

Select to create device agnostic apps:

Consider your requirements and create:

Train the users:

To establish mobility in the enterprise, it is very vital to create a mindset accordingly. Deploying mobile

applications needs distinguished thinking of business processes being mobilized.

On the early phase only, plan how to future-proof your strategy which could give amazing results on any OS.

Ensure the users for whom the application is going to be built. Having a preliminary road map for the types of

future mobile application requirements and the scale of deployment to match different user profiles will allow

you to identify the most potential strategy.

You have to think about training the end users on the functionality part of the application. Only the ability of the

application would not work if the users have not understood the workflow, hence this may lead to the loss of

productivity.

Device agnosticism is the main characteristic any organization should concentrate. Building a long-term and

sustainable mobile application capability requires applications to be agnostic of the different OSs supported, o

the platform on which apps are developed and of the back-end systems they utilize. In the long run OS specific

solutions would not work as good as the agnostic solutions can. Also, the apps should have flexibility to be

ported on various platforms at the time of needs.



iPhone Mobile App Development

Android Mobile App Development

Blackberry Mobile App Development

Windows Mobile

Symbian OS

Development of iPhone custom made apps for the most popular and powerful communicative device –

the iPhone, combines the power of internet with its noticeable multi touch facility and some

extra-ordinary features.

For developing Android mobile applications based on popular Google’s Android platform we need to

take full advantage of the design, compatibility and flexible features of Android OS. An innovative nex

generation application can be designed and developed with Android with ease and speedily.

Blackberry apps development results in powerful new mobile apps and offers a lot of new innovative

features. Also, there is a lot of flexibility in Blackberry app development in different platforms that are

Java, MDS, and J2ME.

Windows Mobile is amongst one of the most famous mobile OS for smartphones and hand-helddevices. It is a feature packed OS containing all popular windows apps like Windows Media player,

Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook, and Internet Explorer, which are effectively used across the glob

Symbian Mobile OS platform combines the greatest benefits of cost-effectiveness, rapid

innovativeness and useful to create reliable fun apps. It utilizes numerous programming languages

like Java, C++, .NET, OPL, and Symbian SDK.

According to current analysis, business users will eventually see speedier data transfer andincreased bandwidth for new and innovative business oriented services. The enhancements made

to such networks will lead to more wireless access to corporate systems, interactive databases, and

web based apps from a variety of devices.

Mobile application development market is booming continuously but at the same time the competition between the

mobile development companies is getting tougher.

Mobile application development for custom made applications builds a strong development area for added

functionality and improved performance of smartphones.

In today's mobile world the most popular smartphones are iPhone, Blackberry, Android and Windows, that possesse

different strengths that suits individual business and personal needs.

Mobile Application Development



Enterprise Mobility Trends

In the technology World, mobile devices are getting more advanced and sophisticated due to their multiple

functionalities for both corporate and consumer users.

Mobile solutions permit enterprises to manage their overall business operations on the move. Moreover, enterprise

mobility is such a young concept that many new technologies are approaching to grow and revive it in the industry. I

definitely involves extensive progress in the way companies run their day to day business activities.

The areas of Enterprise Mobility that seems to be at the front position of users discussions are –

Mobile Payments:People are talking a lot about the Mobile payment technology and its

future in the business world. NFC or Near Field Communication

technology is the most talked about mobile payment latest technology

nowadays amongst people. It allows a person to use his/her mobile device

as their wallets. With NFC, users just have to open the application in a

mobile phone and show it in front of a scanner built for it; and the

payment is done. They now don’t have to carry credit cards, or cash, or

cheques in their purse. But this technology will still take couple of years to

be implemented totally as the infrastructure needed for it is still not

fulfilled thoroughly. It will take time for the stores to adopt the scanners

required by it to allow payments to go through.

One another mobile payment method is introduced by PayPal by which two Android based mobile users can pa

each other by simply tapping their NFC supported mobile phones together.

With the rise of tablets, the enterprise mobility market is also reaching new heights. The sales ratio of tablets

whether it’s iPad or Android tablets or anything else; is increasing continuously in last two years. Moreover, th

total sale recorded in the year 2011 has already been crossed the total amount sold in year 2010. Tablets are

definitely new most talked about item in Enterprise mobility and many new innovative ways to use it more

effectively are yet to come.

Tablet Evolution:

Location Based Services:One of the best ways to personalize mobile device services is the service based on the location information.

Location Based Services helps to transform geographical customized information to the mobile device. With a

access of location based services on the mobile device by a mobile worker, he/she can find the business cente

required at a certain point of time.

Another traditional trend that major business owners are following is MIM [Mobile Instant Messaging] with a purpos

of attracting maximum consumers. Much other advancement has been done which can be beneficial for enterprises

their day to day activities like Mobile E-mail ability, Mobile Video, Mobile Search, etc.

Mobile Social Networking is growing widely with increased number of network traffic. Social networking sites are usas portals, transit hubs, and also as cloud storage for large amount of messaging, video files, photos, games andcommerce.

In the future, richer mobile commerce capabilities are expected with the inventions of new technologies or concepts



The new emerging mobile applications in the industry will change th

way people do business with their employees, partners and

consumers. It is beneficial for most companies and businesses as it

provides infinite number of solutions with an only limitation of your

imagination edge.

Enterprise Mobility can help the business to progress in its efficiencyto optimize the logistics procedures, better maintenance of client’s

long term relationships, and supply chain management.

Enterprise Mobility Benefits

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Mobile solutions help to improve responsiveness to the business customers

It helps to improve the worker productivity by giving mobile apps access to the workers

It acts as a great support for different purposes of business

New Mobile technologies help employees to balance their personal and professional life

Reduction in staff maintenance and acquisition costs

Some common benefits that can be obtained by implementing Enterprise Mobility solutions includes –

It helps the business to achieve the targeted ROI

Provides assistance to business to make immediate decisions

Provides instant customer facts and figures that lead to instant customer service by enabling ERP

Efficient customer services help to strengthen the relationship with clients

Improvement in the overall performance reflecting productivity and outcome of the business

Also, with the help of new mobile applications the information is available on the move which in return helps busines

owners or managers to take speedy and better decisions. This way business can respond to threats quickly and also

opportunities can be grasped at the right time.

Some Business to Consumer [B2C] owners, nowadays sell their products or services directly through the mobile

device. By providing the ability to work from anywhere, helps small businesses to lower down the rate of humanresources required.

The main reasons that are pushing more and more businesses to make investments in mobility solutions are –



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The path towards enterprise mobility is full of challenges. The workers of the enterpris

are bringing mobility into their work place at a very high rate. The concept of mobility

taking a strong hold because it provides workers an edge, enables them to accomplish

more, and allows them to deliver better services. All these benefits are acquired

because mobility provides quick and better information to workers.

In the coming years, there will be even greater demand for extending lines of businessapplications to the mobile devices as more and more powerful mobile devices and

higher speed networks will come to market. Moreover, the cloud and the mobile are

going to be the most happening fields. The union of both these fields will result in

focusing more on Enterprise Mobility with an objective of leveraging the cloud for

Scalability and cost management.

How enterprise mobility is moving ahead

By developing and following a strategic approach to mobile services, enterprises will be better on their way towards

the discovery of all new efficiencies, new opportunities, new forms of work, and new ways of interacting with client's

Maximum businesses will adopt mobile applications in the near future to better interact with their employees,

business partners and consumers. It will also help to react and take actions speedily to market changes. It is expecte

that mobility arena will continue to grow maximum within healthcare, banking, and retail organizations as it will help

to increase their mobile offerings.

The Enterprise Mobility Solutions offered by Softweb Solutions covers multiple industries and domains. Our

interactive solutions will open up the opportunities across Business-to-Employee, Business-to-Business and

Business-to Consumer segments.

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Applications with more camera and image facility

Real time Video Conference anytime anywhere

More powerful integration between back-end information systems and the mobile devices

Better and speedy mobile commerce abilities for consumers and the businesses

Combined collaboration apps with mobile conferencing and data share

Some new functionalities in the mobile applications of which businesses can take advantage in future are –



Softweb Solutions is committed to forming a common

architecture to support mobility service products and to

drive end-to-end integrated mobility solutions. The success

of your mobility solutions depends totally on selecting the

right partner, right processes and right technologies. We

work with you to develop innovative, effective and

interactive mobile solutions using right technologies in a

right way.

We understand that executives and employees need real time data for making important decisions on the move. We

help mobile users to communicate with partners or stakeholders, observe real time data to analyze performance, and

then make decisions by our innovative mobile solutions.

The key areas focused by our solutions across different industries and domains are as follows –

Key Areas Activities

Mobile Strategy FormulationDeveloping a business case, Defining architecture , and Building aproof of total concept

Designing wireless network solution using technologies like CDMA1xRTT, GPRS, CDPD, WiFi 802.11x; Availability and performancecriteria; Evaluation of different products and defining security policy

Evaluating and implementing mobile device management solutions formultiple device support with different OS for s/w development, assetmanagement, backup, and security

Developing and deploying high quality mobile apps, integration withenterprise systems

Transaction and data integrity maintenance, optimizing informationexchange based on bandwidth and connection reliability

Making availability of ERP, CRM, and SCM solutions on a mobileplatform

Mobile Infrastructure Design

Mobile Device Management

Mobile Application Development

Mobile Data Synchronizing

Enterprise Intranet on the Move

Softweb Solutions partners with enterprises to deliver acomprehensive solution that approaches mobility from multiplviewpoints.

Setting up the mobile application can be a complicated procesand if it is not implemented correctly, it may prove useless. Wi

our mobility and wireless services – enterprise mobility for widdomains of organizations enables the staff to stay in continuoucommunication and get quick access to necessary informationalarms and services requests to deliver improved and effectiveresults.

Finding the right partner

Contact our representative or e-mail us at

to know more about us and how we deliver

mobility solutions to the organizations across t

world.

You can also visit our corporate website –

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