What is Enterprise Mobility?
Enterprise mobility is a term that describes a shift in business practices allowing employees to conduct business out of the office by using mobile devices and cloud services to perform daily business tasks. With the vast majority of the general population already smartphone and tablet owners, the shift to conducting business on the go, anywhere, any time via mobile apps is kicking into high gear!
Advantages of Enterprise Mobility
Mobilizing the ERP or other business management solution of an organization has the power to completely change the way business is done. Improvements in employee efficiency, increased speed in executive decision-making and better tracking of projects and tasks are just a few of the obvious benefits.
More advantages include:
- Increased productivity as employees can input and send data anywhere, any time
- Increased speed of information shared by employees
- Reduction of paperwork traditionally created by employees on inspection and construction sites– data becomes more accurate and accessible
- Easy and quick access to sales force data when on the road
- Faster access to important information for better decision-making (essential for owners, executives and managers)
- Real-time data recording to improve quality and reduce errors
- Improved customer service and response times, which leads to increased customer satisfaction
- More accurate billing and record keeping
- Higher job completion rates
- Competitive Advantage
Online vs. Offline Apps for Enterprise Mobility
Mobile business applications for both ERP & CRM come in two forms: Online or Offline.
Online applications utilize a set of software programs deployed on a mobile device that connects to an enterprise system through Internet connectivity. This app depends 100% on the availability of the Internet, in order to send and receive real-time data to and from the main database.
Offline applications involve a set of software programs deployed on a mobile device without the need for Internet connectivity. Storing real-time data is possible with an offline app as once there Internet connectivity returns, that data will automatically be sent to the main database.
Is Enterprise Mobilty really worth it?
ABSOLUTELY!
Most business executives are initially hesitant and unconvinced about adopting a mobile business application for their enterprise but it is important to realize that this shift in business practices is, in fact, the next step forward. With the new capabilities of the Acumatica Cloud ERP App and the SugarCRM integrations, mobility truly is kicking into high gear and those who attempt to ignore it will be left behind.
In summary, Klear Systems sees the current market climate as follows:
- Customers expect better and faster service.
- Executives expect less errors and increased productivity.
- Employees expect mobility with BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) policy.
