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.

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.

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.

Enterprise Mobility in the Telecommunications Industry

Mobile technology initiatives deliver benefits in improved customer service and productivity for telecommunication companies. These organizations have learned mobile virtual private network is the key to achieving best practices in their deployments.

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.

It’s Not the Map That’s Important, It’s What You Do With It…

Investment in new technology and the introduction of improved working methods have defined the Utilities’ world for many years. Investments in office automation have replaced paper-based and heavily data dependent back office functions.

Vegetation Management and the Challenge of ESQCR

Power companies have always had the duty of maintaining a safe distance between any overhead line and trees. This report explains how The Vegetation Management solution manages the end-to-end workflow or utility organisations.

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.

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.

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

Rating: 3/5 Reviews

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.

Unlocking Hidden Cost in the Distribution Center

In this research report from Intermec Technologies current views on distribution center trends and challenges from senior supply chain and distribution center managers within UK, France, Germany and North America are examined.

Keeping the Water Flowing at South East Water Demands the Best Performing Rugged Notebook – Getac V200

South East Water technicians are using the Getac V200 fully rugged convertible notebook – with its in-built 3G communications – to feed information to the Control Room.

Handheld device gives engineers the power to deliver out in the field

Western Power Distribution engineers are using the fully rugged Getac PS236 which has developed a strong reputation for reliability and toughness out in the field. It offers connectivity and processing power that is second to none.

Npower Case Study

npower’s existing estate of hand held devices were no longer made by the manufacturer, and their support was also being discontinued. Ryzex wrapped the supply of up to 1300 Psion iKon and Opticon devices into a comprehensive service agreement.

Khalda Petroleum reduces communications cost and drives productivity with MOTOTRBO

Khalda had problems with network coverage of their analogue radios and call quality meant that teams often had to use their mobile phones. Therefore decided to select communications specialist Systel Telecom to deploy Motorola’s MOTOTRBO solution.

GeoField Helps the Flow at Bristol Water

Running on rugged industry standard Tablet PCs and fully integrated with Bristol Water’s own Smallworld Enterprise GIS, the GeoField application places a complete set of mapping and infrastructure data directly into the hands of its field crews.

Improved Productivity and Customer Service Makes

Sigma Seven’s Field Quotes solution Estimators working in the field carried paper-based maps and files relating to their allocated jobs. ScottishPower approached Sigma Seven to implement an integrated map-based solution to meet these challenges.

Scottish Water adopts Sigma Seven’s field mapping and data management solution, GeoField

Sigma Seven’s field mapping and data management solution, GeoField, provides Scottish Water’s mobile workforce with a complete set of mapping, operational and infrastructure data to enable them to perform accurate and effective field work.

South West Water extends TaskMaster deployment

South West Water first selected TBS Enterprise Mobility to address facility and craft worker management.  An initial mobility solution incorporating TBS TaskMaster and SynchroWeb was used by team leaders to receive, review, and dispatch jobs.

Boosting service engineers’ productivity

BT has provided Anglian with a comprehensive field force automation (FFA) solution comprising a centrally hosted job allocation and control application, feeding information to handheld mobile computers.

Orion Energy

Orion Energy Moves Light Years Ahead with Microsoft Dynamics and CWR Mobile CRM. CWR Mobile CRM provides Orion’s mobile sales force immediate access to account and contact data as well as information on potential opportunities.

Windstream Communications

To efficiently serve its dispersed customers, Windstream Communications installation and service fleet relies on a mobile deployment, with applications delivered over the Mobility XE mobile VPN from NetMotion Wireless.

Fortune 500 Telecommunications Company

Microsoft Systems Management Server handles patches and upgrades. By persisting connections through inevitable coverage gaps, Mobility XE allows management tasks to complete without interruption, as reliably as on a wired network.

Sellafield Ltd Fire and Rescue ‘Extinguishes’ Paperwork from Asset Management Process

One of the 3 obsolete systems to be replaced is a system that the Sellafield Ltd’s Fire and Rescue (F&R) Service use to maintain a list of extinguishers and fire points around the Sellafield Site and LLWR sites.

Spirit gives a metred response to United Utilities

Many different field applications rely upon automated data collection for fast and accurate information such as capturing data from utility meters. United Utilities have replaced its outdated hand held devices with Dolphin 7900 mobile devices.

PH Jones gains extra Spirit from the MC35!

Specialist advice can make all the difference to an application, as PH Jones discovered recently when it needed to enable its field engineers to capture data electronically. The company turned to the Motorola MC35 Enterprise Digital Assistant.

A Spirit of integration for Nalco

With ever-increasing numbers of remote and field workers in the UK, mobile computing devices are becoming more and more important. To boost efficiency, Nalco recently decided to upgrade its mobile devices to the Motorola MC50.

Elliott Loohire enjoys a Spirit of efficiency

Elliott Loohire owes much of its success to an outstanding IT team that uses the latest technology to deliver further improvements in its operational capabilities. They streamlined their administration procedures by introducing the Dolphin 7900.

Spirit helps E.ON to enhance its metering service

Each year, millions of gas and electricity meters are read in the UK. This work needs to be carried out rapidly, accurately and reliably. E.O.N’s Metering Services division is upgrading its data capture devices to the Dolphin 9500 mobile computers.

Spirit ‘wastes’ no time in helping Biffa

Organisations with large vehicle fleets and field workers often rely on mobile computing solutions to enable them to capture data quickly and effectively. Biffa Waste Services, decided to upgrade to the M3 Sky which provides a real time service.