Mobility Intelligence: Where Business Intelligence Meets the Mobile Enterprise

Business Intelligence (BI) has become a strategic enabler within organisations seeking to gain competitive advantage from more informed decision making. There is a solutions where BI meets mobility, which is called Mobility Intelligence, from b2msolutions.

Moving Business in a Smarter Direction: How mobility Solutions are helping businesses meet customer demands for better service

Mobile communications have transformed consumer’s lives, but have they left some businesses behind? This paper will explore this in more detail by looking at growing expectations and pressures on business to consider new ways of working.

CWR Mobile CRM: Organization Trial Success Criteria

Planning for a CWR Mobile CRM Organization Trial, this report provides a quick summary of key items that you may want to add to your task list to ensure you don’t have any surprises during the evaluation, pilot or proof of concept.

CWR Mobile CRM: Technical Overview

CWR Mobile CRM is designed natively on Microsoft Dynamics CRM WebServices. CWR Mobile CRM uses Dynamic Application Reconfiguration to update mobile clients, on-the-fly, whenever a user synchronizes their device with the server.

Mobilizing Your CRM: Exploring the Benefits and Considerations

Customer Relationship Management is a business strategy for putting customers at the center of your business. To gain a competitive edge, companies need to ensure their mobile employees have instant, convenient access to customer and corporate data.

CWR Mobile: Trial Walkthrough Guide

To help visualize productivity, there are several sections of the program that you can take a look at how CWR Mobile CRM enables field marketing and sales workers access to all of their Accounts and Opportunities.

Fundamentals of Enterprise Systems

Regardless of the size of an organization, business processes are becoming more and more complex. As a result, thousands of applications designed to address specific business processes have flooded the market.

Extended Enterprise Management: Product Overview

This reports identifies Manhattan Associates’ Extended Enterprise Management (EEM) suite of solutions  that provide extended execution, event management, and visibility capabilities across a company’s global supply chain.

Synchronizing the Distribution with Mobility

This white paper focuses on how mobility can improve the efficiency of business processes across the supply chain. Through mobility, computing power is moved from a stationery desktop computer to mobile computers.

Choosing the right RF Technology to Automate Your Business

This report looks at how to choose the right RFID technology for your identification, location, tracking and payment applications. RFID has different ‘flavours’ such as low frequency, high frequency and ultra high frequency that help organisations.

Getting Started With UHF RFID Solutions: The Technology, Applications and Benefits

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a champion at providing real-time inventory, supply chain and asset management visibility, all with little or no human intervention. This report identifies how RFID can improve your business processes.

Policy Management Module: Granular Management of Wireless Bandwidth, Security and Mobile Productivity

Administering a mobile environment is challenging, and involves issues beyond those encountered in a wired network. To deal with circumstances of a mobile deployment, the Mobility XE module provides control over application, device and network use.

Wireless Network Quality of Service

Most wireless deployments rely on cellular data networks for connectivity, which have bandwidth constraints. The quality of service (QoS) capability which is part of the Mobility XE Policy Management module allows administrators to prioritize use of the wireless network.

Comparing Mobile VPN Technologies

Traditional approaches for encrypting data in transit such as IPSec and SSL are intended for wired networks with high‐speed and reliable connections. With a mobile wireless WAN, data transmission speeds are slower and connections are less reliable.

Leveraging New Mobility Technology in the Field

In the past 12 months alone, new technologies and devices have rapidly gained in popularity and overtaken the #1spot. With the state of flux unlikely to change anytime soon, building a sustainable mobile CRM strategy is a universal challenge.

Guide to Wireless Communication

This report provides a guide to Wireless Data Communication. The areas covered are Wireless Personal Area Network, Wireless Local Area Network and Wireless Wide Area Network.

Buying a Rugged Handheld Mobile Computer – What You Need to Know

Buying a handheld rugged mobile computer for your workforce is going to be a costly and strategic investment. This report explains the different factors you should consider when purchasing a handheld mobile computer.

Technology Trends Forecast – Rugged Mobile Computing and Data Capture

This report from Spirit provides a guide and practical advice on how organisations can utilise and fully benefit from data capture solutions. The areas covered are from barcode scanners, camera and image applications to wireless computing.

Mobility Briefing – Corporate Manslaughter

The new Corporate Manslaughter Bill has raised the stakes considerably in the consideration management must give to the safety and wellbeing of their workers. This report covers the areas how mobility can address these different areas.

Mobility Briefing – Agile Deployment

For many organisations, the ability to respond quickly to market conditions and customer needs is central to success. This applies to mobility technology, where being able to develop solutions very quickly can deliver huge competitive advantage.

Mobility Briefing – DIY vs. Managed Solutions

Many enterprise mobility solutions deployed in the UK have been completed with the involvement of a specialist organisation, coming in as managed solutions. This report shows how organisations like to apply the DIY approach to enterprise mobility.

Managed Mobile Solutions: The Challenges and Opportunities

Deploying a mobile solution brings with it a variety of challenges which need careful consideration. One of these challenges is the management of mobile assets used by remote fieldworkers, who is dependent on the device to do their job.

Mapping Technical and Operational Challenges of Mobile Computing Deployments

Enterprises are continuing their transformation to highly fluid and distributed organizations where decisions are being made at the point of interaction. As a result, organizations are using mobile computing and wireless communications solutions.

Is Your Voice Solution Engineered for Change?

Warehouses are a dynamic place where best-in-class enterprises refine business processes in order to improve the competitive cost advantage. An increasing number have deployed voice technology and reaped the cost and customer service rewards.

The Three Biggest Mistakes in Deploying Voice Technology: How to Avoid Them, Guarantee Success and Maximize ROI

Voice technology has the potential to deliver substantial cost savings and quality improvements in warehousing operations. Now a mainstream best practice, voice-directed operations are gaining wide acceptance.

Optimizing Worker Performance: Voice-Directed Operations in the Warehouse

Enterprises using voice technology reap financial rewards through higher workforce performance. This paper explains why voice technology is suited to optimizing what warehouse workers do and what voice solutions need in order to maximize ROI.

How To Manage the Long Term Cost of Voice Picking: Voice With No Strings Attached

Voice picking has evolved from an experimental technology to an industry best practice. The wave of adoption is growing, fuelled by many documented cases of double-digit productivity increases and near-zero error rates.

Dispelling Myths About Voice in the Warehouse: Maximizing Choice and Control

Voice solutions appear to do the same thing: workers using computers and headsets are directed by task prompts. This white paper takes a look at the four components of all voice solutions and presents facts that assist in decision making.

Voice in the Warehouse: Does the Recognizer Matter?

Too many companies have wasted time and money on failed implementations of voice technology in the warehouse. Voice is now a mainstream solution for improving pick accuracy and worker productivity. Hundreds of companies have deployed it successfully.

Security White Paper – Mobile Document Access for the Enterprise

This shows how WICKSoft Mobile Documents™ approaches the issue of security from three distinct levels. The first is the data-transfer level, the second is at the application level, and the third is at the handheld level.

Bar Coding ROI in Mail Order Fulfilment and Distribution Centres

This paper shows how advanced bar code technologies can create sustainable advantages by providing the accurate information required for modern business practices. It summarizes the benefits of bar coding and demonstrates how to improve productivity.

(R)evolution of the Market for Voice Solutions I Europe

Voice recognition solutions have changed the way operators work in distribution centres. Voice directed picking has proven that it can help companies achieve significant improvements in terms of accuracy and productivity.

ClickSoftware’s Mobility Suite and the Sybase mobility solutions

The purpose of this paper is to identify the components of a typical mobile enterprise solution, and to define the role each of them provides the user. We will focus on the unique roles and differences between a server-side enterprise application, a client-side mobile application, mobile business frameworks (MBF) and mobile nfrastructure frameworks (MIF). We [...]

Multiple Tipping Points Are Creating Mobile Mayhem for IT

The devices you can’t see or don’t know about are the ones that can hurt you the most. Having a greater vision of your entire IT environment is crucial to managing and securing your business data. Extending your vision to include other issues that may affect IT is the topic of this paper—we will explore [...]

Why Enabling your Mobile Workforce may Actually Make You More Secure…

This report identifies the current security risks for data at rest, data in motion and data in use and will offer a basic blueprint/ check list of how to mitigate that risk. This report is available now.  Further details http://www.enterprisemobilitynetwork.com/mobile-security/

Enterprise Mobility Management 2012

Enterprise mobility has come of age and measurable business value accrues for organziations that manage thier mobile infrastructure as secure, complaint, and performance-optimized as all other IT assets.

Unlocking the Power of Mobile Device Management

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Mobile Enterprise discuss the latest MDM tools available, with real-world advice on how enterprise business managers can best put these into practice.

6 Tips To Mobilise Your Existing ERP

Magic Software underline the practical considerations for mobilising ERP applications and how to utilize a platform’s features to enhance the user experience.

What To Look For In Solutions For Mobile Device Management

Research in Motion explore the choices companies have in choosing an MDM solution. They examine the attributes and functions IT administrators should be concerned about.

Mobile Applications: Build vs. Buy

Mobile Enterprise explore what enterprises should consider when deciding whether to build or buy the mobile applications that their workforce will be using in the field.

Mobile Lifecycle Management: Security, MDM and Mobile Peace of Mind

Mobile Enterprise use real-world mobile security scenarios to explore different mobile security management solutions, in order to help enterprises determine which is best for them.

CIO’s Guide to Mobility Lifecycle Management: Managing the Mobility Mix to Embrace BYOD

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Cass Information Systems explore how to balance employee satisfaction and freedom of choice against business needs for controlling mobile costs, proactive monitoring, and employee accountability.

Mobile Middleware Strategies

Netcentric Strategies explore the role of mobile middleware, a solution that has emerged to meet the demands of mobile enterprise application platforms (MEAPs).

Two Roads to Mobile Workforce Management: Choosing Between On-Premise and Cloud Solutions

UBM Techweb offer eight critical considerations for companies turning to workforce management applications, when deciding between cloud-based and on-premises solutions.

Secure Mobile Applications

GOOD provide an overview of the changing landscape of mobile technologies and discuss key mobile device challenges faced by enterprise and government organizations.

Enterprise Mobility Report: Unwiring the Enterprises

[x]cube dwell on the current state of enterprise mobility and provide insights on the benefits, drivers, ROI and challenges to the deployment of mobile enterprise apps.and provide insights on the benefits, drivers, ROI and challenges to the deployment of mobile enterprise apps.

Enterprise Mobile Apps: Empower your Business Functions

[x]cube look at key business functions in organisations and illuminate major areas in which mobile devices and applications can be leveraged.

eBook: Mobile App Management: Enterprise Mobility in the post BlackBerry Era

AppCentral explore how Mobile App Management can secure and manage mobile apps, make them easier to distribute and harness their power and productivity.

Keep your business moving forward: The future of communications – how will it change the way you work tomorrow?

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In this report, Vodafone Global Enterprise urge organizations to “Keep moving forward” suggesting this idea is fundamental to doing business in an interconnected, integrated global community. Communications technology is playing a key role in that process, providing a platform through which we interact and interconnect with the world in a way never before possible.

5 Things You Need to Know to Empower Today’s Mobile Workforce

Blackberry address how organizations need to take into account the way workers use their mobile devices, the ever-changing rules and regulations related to safeguarding corporate information and data privacy, growing mobile security threats and how all of this can potentially expose an organization to risk if the proper solutions are not used.

Mobile Device TCO Models for Line of Business Solutions

In this report VDC research summarises where we are with rugged and non-rugged devices for line of business.

PepsiAmericas – Intermec Puts the Fizz in Pepsi

PepsiAmericas CEE selected Intermec CN3 to make it easier for its sales team to take and place orders.

Dairy Farmers of Ontario Boosts Milk Allocation with New Mobile Computers

Needing accurate and timely data input, Dairy Farmers of Ontario turns to Intermec to implement compact, commercial-grade pen-based mobile computers with signature capture. DFO utilizes Intermec’s service agreement for better service and reliability.

Dollar General Grows by 400 Stores Per Year with Wireless Warehouses

Dollar general grows by 400 stores per year with wireless warehouses and intermec wireless computers.

Pepperidge Farm Discovers the Intermec Commitment to Quality

Pepperidge Farm uses Intermec Implementation Services and products to upgrade their 15-year-old mobile computing equipment at its 78 bakery distribution depots scattered throughout the US, with an aggressive rollout schedule.

Arthur Schuman, Inc. Holds the Lead in Cheese Distribution with ADC

Straining under severe growth pressures, Arthur Schuman manages its high volume of inventory with new Microsoft Business Solution financial and manufacturing systems with data collection-based inventory management and order fulfillment modules.

Paramount Farms Speeds Load Processing Time by 60 Percent with Intermec RFID

Paramount Farms improves productivity and efficiency of processing nearly a half billion pounds of nuts during a six week harvest season by implementing a small, but efficient RFID system to reduce load processing time and the need to rent trailers.

Ace Beverage Goes Mobile and Wireless to Eliminate Distributor Overtime

To increase sales, Ace Beverage refines its abilities to track order information, build loads on time, and manage driver and loading crew overtime with Intermec mobile pen tablets and wireless data system to communicate in real-time throughout the day.

HDNL Adopts Intermec CN3 Technology to Improve Productivity and Efficiency

HDNL chose Intermec CN3 – the small, rugged handheld computer – for controlling business processes

Canadian Dry Storage Improves Efficiency, Reduces Labor Costs with Intermec Mobile Computers

When Canadian Dry Storage (CDS) moved into its new state-of-the-art facility, it needed to optimize space and improve efficiency. To do so, it deployed a new warehouse management solution (WMS) from Intermec and partner INTERAN Wireless.

Mission Foods Boosts Asset Control, Increases Inventory Traceability with RFID Technology

Mission Foods, headquartered in Irving, Texas and parent company Gruma S.A.B. de C.V., a Mexican corporation had no viable means for asset control and were looking for an increase in inventory traceability.

Washington Fruit & Produce: Efficiency – Field To Fork

Washington Fruit & Produce Co. grows and ships premium apples, pears and cherries from Washington and Oregon, however they had no clear pallet tagging/inventory management system.

LoBue Citrus: Ripening Produce Traceability

LoBue Citrus had a manual produce traceability system which meant employees spent time on physical inventories while other high-priority tasks existed they needed to replace the manual system with an automated food traceability system.

JustEnough Mobile Market Surveys

JustEnough Software and InDeed Offer 5 Strategies to Help Companies Expand Their Presence and Find Additional Profit Sources in Emerging Markets

JustEnough – Cervejas de Mozambique

JustEnough Mobile Solutions provides Cervejas de Mozambique with strategic Mobile Sales Force Automation

JustEnough – Castle Brewing

JustEnough Mobile Solutions provides Castle Brewing Namibia with strategic mobile sales capabilities

JustEnough – Vector Sales Solutions

JustEnough Mobile provides Vector Sales Solutions mobile field-marketing and in-store-activation solutions

JustEnough – Cadbury Mobile Sales

JustEnough Mobile Solutions provides advanced sales management and strategic mobile sales capability for Kraft Foods / Cadbury’s mobile sales and trade marketing workforce.

Voice picking nets Belron 20% productivity increase

One of Belron’s core values is to strive for excellence in everything they do to delight customers, and maximise operating efficiency. That kind of thinking drove the decision to implement Voxware voice technology in the Laddaw distribution centre, the largest European distribution centre operated by the Belron Group.

Just Enough and Kraft Foods South Africa

Kraft Foods South Africa is a dynamic, diverse and growing business unit of its parent company, Kraft Foods. It offers a wide range of product in the following categories: chocolate, candy, gum, biscuits, coffee and grocery. The head office is located in Johannesburg, with manufacturing plants throughout the country and in surrounding nations such as [...]

Mobile sales ordering processing solution

Now, all R K W Foods sales representatives are equipped with a reliable and easy to use PDA showing RKW Foods stock levels, prices, customer details, customer order history and account balances as well as special offers and promotions.

KNDL Case Study

KNDL used hand held devices from multiple manufacturers in their warehouses some of which had been discontinued by the manufacturer. Ryzex has supplied new hardware for KNDL’s expanding distribution centres including forklift mounted computers.

DIA’s International Warehouses Speak in Unison

Anxious to standardise those processes that represent added value for the company, DIA, a subsidiary of the Carrefour group, is optimising its picking tasks with Zetes’ 3iV Crystal voice solution across 3 continents (Europe, Asia and Latin America).

Voice: Cutting Costs, Not Trees

Burlington Drug Company ships pharmaceuticals and convenience store goods to over 1,000 locations spread over eight states. Burlington Drug saw Voxware 3 voice software as a mean of improving the picking process.

Eskimo Cold Storage satisfies customers with new computer system

Eskimo Cold Storage built an in-house program designed to manage their inventory and provide customers high quality service. However, their application was not accurate. Datex provided them with real-time data and inventory solution.

Coca-Cola HBC Italy optimises daily delivery processes with Zebra mobile printers

The objective was to streamline and make more accurate the check-in process. The solution, Zebra RW 420 mobile printers, combined with a handheld terminal (PDA) and a route pad for housing both devices – making transportation easier.

TSC is pick of the crop for leading UK fruit farm

Thomas Thomson (Blairgowie) Ltd carries out mobile technology refresh and implements new fruit picking system. With Psion devices workers use the mobile computers to clock in and out and record piecework which has improved productivity in the field.

Streamlining time and attendance-at the touch of a fingertip

The company must track time and attendance for 109 employees located throughout five facilities in four states. They chose WaspTime time and attendance solution. Now, employees clock in and out by placing their finger on the screen of the time clock.

SPAR

With the large volume of orders, it created difficulties for the paper-based picking system used by SPAR as DCs were constantly faced with re-work, stock shortages and miss-picks. They implemented a new  speech recognition system for picking.

Menzies Distribution Improves Efficiency with Sandpiper and Datalogic

Menzies had been running a legacy narrowband wireless system that had served its purpose over 10 years but had gone end of life. Sandpiper recommended the Datalogic Viper-Net, a rugged handheld terminal that suited the demands of their warehouses.

Sandpiper goes the extra mile to meet Lane Group’s Specific Mobile IT requirements

In response to the needs of the home delivery sector, Lane Group developed the Mobile Management System. This system controls and monitors deliveries to home consumers using Intermec’s 760 rugged mobile computers with integrated barcode scanners.

Performance Food Group: Results that speak for themselves

Performance Food Group wanted to improve customer service levels and manage quality control costs. With Voxware 3 software, the solution enables large organisations to manage voice operations across many distribution centres from a single location.

Brown-Forman Australia: Reduced Costs and Improved Productivity

When Brown-Forman’s 70 account managers visited outlets, they were challenged to manually take orders and update customer information. They found a solution that would automate the field sales process that integrates with their existing ERP system.

Microlise and Vanboxtel help streamline Distifresh’s fresh food logistics operations in Holland

With such a complex supply chain Distrifresh wanted to get as much detailed information about every stage of their supply chain from the back office order system right through to the delivery point to ensure their operations are running as efficiently as possible so they can provide their customers with a premium service.